JOSHUA FRANK: Senator Feinstein’s War Profiteering -- Enabling Bush

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By Joshua Frank -- World News Trust

It happens all the time. If the antiwar movement takes on the Democrats for their bitter shortcomings a few liberals are bound to criticize us for not hounding Bush instead. It doesn’t even have to be an election year to get the progressives fired up. They just don’t seem to get it. “How can you attack the Democrats when we have such a bullet-proof administration ruling the roost in Washington,” somebody recently emailed me, “Don’t you have something better to do than write this trash?!”

Well, not really. It’s too cold in upstate New York right now to do anything other than fume over the liberal villains in Washington. “Why do I write about the putrid Democratic Party?” I responded, “I’ll tell you, there’s a reason this Republican administration is so damn bullet proof -- nobody from the opposition party is taking aim and pulling the trigger.”

And that’s why the Dems are just as culpable in all that has transpired since Bush took office in 2000. They aren’t just a part of the problem -- the Democrats are the problem.

I mean, who is really all that surprised Bush and his boys wanted to conquer the Middle East, curtail civil liberties and rampage the environment? Not me. That’s just what unreasonable neo-cons do: they stomp out the little guy, kill off the weak and suffocate the voiceless. They only care about the girth of their wallets and the number of scalps they can tack above their mantles.

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[cali]

1. more predictable bullshit from frank

yeah, he gets some stuff right, but he's often off the mark and he even gets his facts wrong. Recently he claimed Boxer voted for the IRW. What a wanker. There's a lot to criticize about dems, but claiming that they're just as culpable as bushco is laughable on more levels than I have the energy to elaborate on right now.

[radio4progressives]

2. Actually, this one is factually based. I can't speak to other articles.

but this one he happens to have right.. it's been the press, but largely ignored by the cable and broadcast media.

[cali]

6. Yes, I know about Feinstein and her husband

That's not what I'm saying he gets wrong. It's stuff like:

"And that’s exactly why the Bush administration is so darn bullet-proof.  The Democratic leadership in Washington is just as crooked and just as callous." Waaay too broad a brush.

[radio4progressives]

10. true.. i agree with you... but then look at what's been happening..

and one can say it's kind of understandable, no?

[FrannyD]

3. I wouldn't miss Feinstein one bit

She is so embedded it is sickening. I'm skeptical of how she uses gun control to turn off so many moderate voters also. Way too convenient for my liking. The reality is though she will easily be re-elected.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. Neither would he

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"Senator" Dan Lungren - another vote to confirm Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo on SCOTUS - or the 9th Circuit

[BootinUp]

4. What makes this guy think

that Americans want more partisanship? Sure New Yorkers will love it, but we have their votes already.

[400Years]

5. reality

[Jane Austin]

7. Dems are just as culpable?

I don't think so.

[radio4progressives]

11. the Iraq War... DP Leaders are indeed Culpable.

surely, you do not deny that?

[cali]

12. Perhaps, to a degree.

First of all, what's the definition of a dem leader? Is Howard Dean one? Ted Kennedy? Pat Leahy? Robert Byrd? 22 dems Senators and Jeffords voted against the IWR. Some of their speeches are incredibly strong. The majority of dems in the House voted against it. So, sure, some dem leaders are culpable of gullibility or worse. Others aren't. You stated: "DP Leaders are indeed Culpable." That tars the entire party leadership- whatever that may be - with culpability that only belong to some.

[Jane Austin]

15. I don't deny that at all, but this is a PNAC, Neocon, Republican,

bush scheme from the gitgo.

Not all Democrats were fooled, either.

I also deny that Dems are "just as culpable."

[Coastie for Truth]

8. What Joshie don't know

Most of Blum's money comes from his holdings in EG&G - who is this mysterious EG&G?

Well I am probably a good bit older then you if you don't know who or what EGG is. The "E" is Harold "Doc" Edgerton, a much beloved Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT. "Doc" invented the ubiquitous strobe light that every consumer camera - digital, film, slr, point and shoot - has.

Did you know -

The Ford ESCAPE Hybrid SUV was designed using UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS development money -- and that the development team was the largest collection of Iraqi-American and Palestinian-American engineers in the US.

And I'm not even a blogger like Joshie

[MH1]

13. Are you lost? n/t

[blm]

14. The RW bought control of the broadcast media and left media attacks the

one party who stands in the way of total fascism.

[FrenchieCat]

16. Joshua Frank is lost....

and has decided to do hit pieces on the Democrats PRIOR to the 2006 election being well started.

Take away credibility from Democrats, have Democrats vote Green, Republican stick to their own kind and lose 2006...must be his goal!

[Adelante]

17. He might as well write for the Canadian Free Press

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