Bolton & Delay - the REAL battles

[housewolf]

Thanks to Steve Clemons, The Washington Note


Chris Nelson writes in the 18 April Nelson Report:

BOLTON BATTLE...the real fight

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If this was even 5 years ago, he'd be toast.

We are at the point now where the Republican Leadership refuses to allow the possibility of a loss on anything, regardless of the merits. This renders "debate" meaningless, since nothing said actually matters, so truth is irrelevant.

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The sad, sorry Bolton/DeLay spectacles are about total war, the kill-the-prisoners exercise of power that national US politics has become since the 2000 election. If it were merely about power, it wouldn't be so terrifying. . . .is about something far more dangerous to the Republic than mere political power. What we are seeing is a fight for the political soul of the nation. .... But this time it's totally and completely a fight about God. . .specifically, whether God is going to rule in the United States.

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Tom Delay manifestly believes this , and it sounds like any number of Senate Republicans either agree, or lack the imagination or moral courage to disagree. . .why else would some endorse threats against Republican-appointed judges who dare to interpret the law in secular terms? This is what the Bolton fight is really about: you can't dump him, because that lets the Democrats win on both the facts and principle. . .fatal notions to a desire to pack the courts with religious and secular policy extremists.

Why else would there be the constant drumbeat of attacks on the "liberal media", except to undermine public trust in the Constitutionally provided mediator between the politicians and the people?

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this crowd has figured out how to undermine the very rule of law in the United States. Listen to what DeLay is arguing...

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Connect the dots. There's still time.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000481.html

[peacetalksforall]

1. It's the SACKING of the U.S. It's the SACKING of the Constitutuion and

the Bill of Rights. It's the reign of arrogance, theft and lies. It's the sacking of bi-partisanship. It's the sellout to the corporations, military brass, banking, and the dear old reverends and their followers-swallowers. With a lot of Democrat help.

[Toots]

2. And WAR....endless WAR

I wonder what I would find if I looked up the word Fascism?