Do not make the mistake of thinking that because my conclusion is the same as another person's that my reasoning is the same
Notice that I've been anti-Bush regime around here.
NOT anti-Republican (except the extremist)
NOT pro-Democrat
From a historical viewpoint, I see things much as Zenpundit does:
Except I'm not quote as hard on the Democratic party, and not quite as disappointed in the Republican party.
Posted by P6 at October 1, 2003 12:02 PM | Trackback URL: http://www.prometheus6.org/mt/mt-tb.cgi/1803What was it in the Karate Kid? If you stand in the middle, you get it from both sides.
Unless you're above it all. Which, of course, I'm not.
Republican extremists must be checked first because thay are the most dangerous. Then we start talking about the Democratic shortcomings. You know, those guys that that the Black vote for granted?
I ain't happy with either group, really. But I have a good sense of priorities.
as for the dems not being as dangerous as the repubs, i would tend to agree with the equivocation "not yet, anyway". i mean, it's not from lack of trying. the D party receives a lot of very, very ugly corporate funding from companies that you and i would be pulling a Hayduke on if we weren't so, uh, level-headed. ;) but at this juncture i think you're right, the biggest issues being things like abortion rights and the environment. to tell you the truth, under similar stresses, i wonder if a D admin would have pulled something exactly like the patriot act. but maybe i'm just being overly cynical.
You want the truth, I think the neocons have just committed a "crime of opportunity".
My neocon nightmare is "Parable of the Sower" and "Parable of the Talents" by Octavia Butler.
My leftist nightmare is "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut.
Prom,
Thanks for the plug.
Both parties have extremists but I'm doubting that the oft-suspected Karl Rove is the culprit or one of the big name neocons simply because they watched Watergate and Iran-Contra firsthand.
My personal guess is that " senior official" as described by Novak really was meant as " assistant or deputy secretary " or even an assistant to one of these officials.Basically, a short-sighted, stupid, inside baseball power play by a partisan appointee in a bureaucracy - probably at DoD or the CIA itself.
Just a guess of course.