Strategies of Smugness

And Uncompassionate Conservatism

Whatever the new Conservatives think they have in partnering up with the Tea-Party folks isn't going to cut it in November. They really define clueless in misreading the disgust with old line conservatism and don't have their pulse on the people at all- notwithstanding that one of the Republican leaders in Congress called the masses of people on the Mall organized by Dick Armey the size of 2 out of 3 of the last innagural crowds. The one it didn't come close to approximating was obviously the one that voted in this Administration.

The Conservatives are struggling to find their voice and think it might be somewhere in the cacaphony of the dangling Earl Gray. Wierd. How the mighty have fallen.

The tea-party people are the ones who brought you 'death panels' and phamaceutical lobbyist paid for mischaracterizations of the Health Care Bill. They were the ones spitting on our Congresspeople and thus our democracy. That's who the Conservative intellectuals like Billy Krystal want to align themselves with?

Dick Armey today talked about the 'inside/outside' grass roots strategy- like he invented it when it has been talked about in progressive circles forever. Then he railed against what he called the Unconstitutionality of TARP -- without identifying what about it is unconstitutional.
And he is a Constitutional Law Professor? oops, no, that would be our President.

If the campaign talking points are all only- government is too big, the deficit is too big, tarp is unconstitutional and we are afraid of our government- get Therapy. No Democrat then has anything to worry about in November.

First, the chant shouldn't be 'government is too big' it should be 'government can be better.' To quote someone who is looking more and more like the reincarnation of FDR lately Keith Olbermann, "Aren't you glad there's an FAA when you get on a plane?" Clearly the government does a lot of good things- it is the cooperative will of the people to advance the interests of the people in the ideological abstract. Some things they do better than others. Don't you want someone making sure people have food stamps or debit cards rather than die of starvation like they do in parts of Africa? Don't you want bridge inspectors, and food inspectors at the FDA to make sure food imported won't poison your family? Don't you want a social security check when you are too old and broken to compete with 30 year olds in work? Don't you want some base standards in education or do you think its fine that school kids get no books and get taught what they were taught in one room schoolhouses in appalachia in the 30s. Don't you want an NIH and a CDC? Don't you want an armed national defense? That of course you do because most of your party feeds off the defense contracts. Blood Money.

The Republican Party ran the deficits up with insane borrowing and war spending- they started the TARP initiatives- how dare they now try to use them as talking points to tank this administration. They let corrupt oil stanglehold our national interests. They killed off 4,000 soldiers in unnecessary and unjust wars and they bilked the taxpayers of BILLIONS of raided treasury -then what did Halliburton Cheney's company do? It relocated headquarters to Dubai or some middle eastern country hoping to avoid the liability and shelter taxes.

ARE THEY KIDDING?

If Conservatives, who are their own worst enemies hope to have a prayer of resurrecting their agenda they need to dump the old agendas and start with a fresh plan for what they want America to do-whining in mostly All white conferences about how the government is too big and they are the guardians of the constitution is not going to get you anywhere- because it's ridiculous. You are not the guardians of the constitution- you suspended it completely in the name of National Security to wage murderous unjust wars of "prevention" that were not provoked. You tapped phone lines and bribed phone companies to be complicit. You hacked and raided emails. You diverted email traffic to intermediary servers scanned by various intelligence agencies. You raped our privacy, you stole our treasury, you murdered our children and you want what- another four years to see if we forgot?

You should be afraid of the Government because some of you are war criminals.