The GOP’s imperial rebirth: How Dick Cheney’s twisted worldview became the guiding light

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The Republican Party’s imperial rebirth: How Dick Cheney’s twisted worldview became the guiding light of the GOP

For a fleeting moment, it seemed like the nightmares of the Bush administration might be behind us. Not anymore...

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

One of the more disturbing quotes of recent days (and that’s saying something) is this one:

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Rep. Jim Jordan on whether he backs Corker's Iran bill: "I want to talk to Tom Cotton. He's the guy who has the best insight."

12:16 PM - 22 Apr 2015
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Obviously, the idea that any insight can be gleaned from the freshman senator — who famously made the Republican caucus look like a bunch of bumbling fools when they signed on to his embarrassing letter to Iran — is the disturbing part of that comment. When I described Cotton as “a leading light on the right in foreign policy and national security,” back in February, I thought I was making a little joke. But this man, who has been in the Senate for about three months, really has become the go-to expert on all things related to foreign boogeymen.

But as Ed Kilgore noted in an interesting article last week, this is about more than just Tom Cotton. It is part of an overall GOP turn backwards on national security, which was signaled pretty clearly in the 2014 midterms.

Kilgore writes:

I didn’t write about this a whole lot in my own book on the 2014 midterms, but did discuss it: towards the end of that cycle Republican Senate candidates—led by Scott Brown, who ran a surprisingly strong race in NH—really started demagoguing about terrorists pouring into the country via “porous” borders or in response to the general surrender-money [sic] tendencies of the Obama administration. And since the elections, I think we are all aware that Republican pols and rank-and-file alike are increasingly more likely to favor a re-invasion of Iraq or a military confrontation with Iran.

This has made one of the big developments of the previous couple of years—the emergence of a bipartisan coalition in Congress aimed at curtailing Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) surveillance programs at NSA and elsewhere—very, very fragile.

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1. Appears you have nailed it.

The Neo Cons in the State Department have been amping up their Grandiose Empire Building for the last 6 or 7 years. Cases in point,Ukraine,now Bosnia,Mid East all under the tutelage of the Neo-Cons moled in by Bush and Cheney. Appointments to Governmental Agencies do have consequences,and the evidence is in what is and has happened through out the world. When you have someone who tells the EU to f---off,what do you expect.