- LOS ANGELES (columnleft.com)
-- The 'old far right' seemed a classic Wagnerian bunch that would never
really lead America.
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- We laughingly called them the Lunatic Fringe.
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- Today's all-powerful, born again 'NEOGOP' is in complete
control of the country, and a raging bunch of corporate pirates and self-hating
cultural weenies are quickly exploiting the Cheney-Halliburton Ignorocracy.
It's all being funded with your grandkids' social security money.
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- Forget Iraq. The Bush War on America has started.
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- Bush43.2 is a lot like the Inquisition, but with Hummers
and country music. The Neocons are quickly moving to take America back
-- back to somewhere between the 1950s and 32 AD, with a quick stop in
1930's Germany. Relax, it's the same folks who gave us the Dark Ages.
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- Modernity and enlightenment are as poisonous to our Evangelicals
as they are to the Taliban. There's really no limit to the mischief afoot
amid this orgy of zealots and fools.
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- Fundamentalists of all sorts love mixing 'God's Work'
with their own personal weirdness. Now every over-groomed organ grinding
cracker screwball that ever outed a Teletubbie is going to try to remake
public policy. Their childhood parenting problems will become our new 'social
order.'
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- Like it or not, we're to be a faithful nation of Kompassionate
Konservative Kristians. "Any questions, look it up in your Bible.
Where's the Bible you were issued? Let's see your papers! Do you have relatives
in the Blue States?"
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- Meanwhile, the Ultra-Patriots, flush with their new mandate,
have been busy. On the way out of town the Neocongress went rogue and screwed
the 9/11 widows.
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- House Committee Chairmen, Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.)
and F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.), led conservatives in a hard nosed
last-minute fight to block H.R.10, the bill to implement all the 9/11 Commission
recommendations, including shifting much of the U.S. intelligence community's
budget from DoD to a new national Intel Director. It's reported there was
quiet but strong opposition not only from Mr. Rumsfeld, but within the
White House itself. In the end, the much-needed intelligence changes and
the grieving families of 9/11 didn't matter.
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- Mr. Bush always fought any serious questioning of the
events leading up to 9/11, preferring to leave history unsure just who
was President in 2001. The defiant widows finally shamed him into reluctantly
allowing the 9/11 Commission, which his people then stonewalled in the
finest Nixonion tradition. When the Commission's scathing final report
became a best-seller, Candidate Bush cynically applauded the very women
he'd snubbed.
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- Let's all hope the bad guys don't hit us again while
those intelligence changes aren't made.
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- Above all else, Mr. Bush must appear to be not only blameless,
but deeply proud that we were totally unprepared. It's worked. He got re-elected.
Now that he is, all bets are off. Our Government will speak with one voice:
'Dicksmirk.'
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- Would any Republican have dared block the 9/11 bill if
Mr. Cheney had really wanted it passed?
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- You'd best keep an eye on Congress. They're at http://thomas.loc.gov/.
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- Even as they arrogantly dumped on the widows, they still
found time to stick a handy provision in H.R. 4818, their 3,000-page spending
bill, which quietly gives the House and Senate Appropriations chairs and
their aides access to IRS ``facilities and any tax returns or return information
contained therein.'' Nobody will admit to inserting it in the bill.
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- "Today the Red States, Tomorrow the World!"
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- What's going on here? Well, it's all about values. As
far as we can figure, the first Neocon value is Power. The second is Greed.
The third is Spite. The Sons of Nixon do love their revenge. In a way,
almost half of America is on their 'enemies list.'
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- Even Neo-Moderate Arlen Spector (R-Pa.) was denounced
for impure thoughts, and Uber-Candidate Patrick J. Buchanan is roaring
like old Mr. Churchill, telling us all to watch out for the crazy Neocons.
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- Enough! The thinking half of the USA is going to have
get back in the fight. It's not very fashionable to be a Liberal right
now, but we may be just about all that stands between the true promise
of America and a new fear-driven 'Darker Age' of calculated false piety
and petty hatred.
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- The solid half that wanted the other guy to win is going
to have to rise up and take back control of the United States Senate on
November 7, 2006, or a lot of what we love about America is going to disappear.
You have 713 days to start a revolution.
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- If the Republicans expand their Senate majority to 60
seats, the ball game is over.
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- Stay tuned. It'll be really cool to see just how the
Founding Fathers and their Constitution get us out of this one...
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- ************* Douglas O'Rourke is a writer in California
and can be reached via www.columnleft.com
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