February 13, 2006


All 9/11 all the time

So, now that a few republicans have condemned the 1600 Crew for their lacksdasical response to Katrina, watch for them to be roundly condemned as "liberals" by the doctrinaire cultists of the Bunnypants League. But wait, it gets better...here's the Unka Karl strategery for winning in the 2006 midterms:

Bush adviser Karl Rove has already laid out the central political message of the 2006 midterms: that the Republicans have a "post-9/11 world view and many Demo- crats have a pre-9/11 world view," as he said last month at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee.
And what is the "post 9/11 world view" you might ask?
  1. Deficits to eternity
  2. Ignoring the poor in favor of the rich
  3. Making sure that defense contractors get all the money they need, while the military gets a 2.2% pay raise
  4. Slash veterans benefits, even as service men and women put their lives on the line in Iraq and that other place
  5. Violate or ignore the Constitution and federal law, and then lie about it

Basically, their post 9/11 worldview of the world is just a fucking disaster. Just hope that there isn't a real disaster or any kind, because the post 9/11 1600 Crew is not ready, willing or able to deal with it.

By the way, I just wanted to point out that you can have a post 12/7 worldview, and it's going to do about as much good as the one that the 1600 Crew has. The difference? Well, in the war that followed that we had a competant President, a strategy for victory and a Congress that was not just a rubber-stamp for FDR. So there's always that.
posted by Jo Fish on 02.13.06 at 06:04 PM





Comments:

Post 9/11 eh? What's out there now, really? A few repu congresscritters squawking about protecting the nation, but not doing anything other than playing CYA? A scandal-a-day administration? It's not like small things brough the 'Ministry of Homeland Security' to so prominent a position. NYC was a target on a number of occasions and this preznit was warned by Clinton and then his own staff until he gave them the heave-ho, and then told specifically that NYC was a likely target, via planes, of a terrorist attack. As far as I can tell, Katrina showed up the same old, same old, 'but we didn't know'... As if. Didn't bother, more like. He's still just reading My pet goat sorta thinking, 'Wha' happen'?

 posted by: Nina on 02.13.06 at 10:30 PM [permalink]

Jo, I think you forgot: 1) cut the budgets of first responders, 2) turn governmental disaster-relief positions into cushy sinecures, 3) spend intellegence resources harassing vegans, 4) don't think about Osama bin Laden too much.

posted by: Thud on 02.14.06 at 07:16 AM [permalink]

Sometimes I just shake my 3 heads at the incompetence of these guys. They coulda used 9-11 to unite the country.

What's the national debt now? Double what it was 5 years ago? What's the national deficit now? $500 billion more than it was 6 years ago?

And now the latest, Cheney shoots from the hip, acting on false intelligence and is trying to claim it was the victim's fault. Sounds like Iraq but isn't.

 posted by: Svejk on 02.14.06 at 09:59 PM [permalink]

You see that the beloved party pulled Hackett from the race joe? So much for the band of brothers... makes me want to get ill.

 posted by: PC on 02.14.06 at 10:10 PM [permalink]


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