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I'm back. Been attending the World Conference on Disaster Management. As always, the "World Conference" is right across the street from me. They haven't had the good sense to move the thing to Tahiti.
I haven't had my nose in the new as much as usual, but as I dived back in, it all seemed surreality the same. Is it January or July? Do we still have great hopes that Democrats will be able to pierce the Cheney shroud of secrecy or stop the war?
Because the war is still on. The surge is still surging. Subpoenas have been issued, but what truths have been dragged into the light of day? What sunlight of justice has penetrated the deeply treasonous darkness of the executive offices?
Pretty much nothing. The Senate is still refusing to do anything about the war, other than supporting Georgie's increasingly disjointed and surreal prosecution of it. They voted to stop debate on a bi-partisan measure to mandate proper rest for troops between deployments.
Americans wouldn't have done that.
And yet, we're not so much talking about "Americans" as we are about the enemy of real Americans: movement conservatives. Because the vote was 56-41 in favor of closing debate (allowing the bill to go forward). And that's just four shy of the 60 votes needed. Really, if two could get peeled away from the 41 it might make all the difference.
Which brings us to the real question: are there 41 core anti-American votes in the Senate? If there are, they will be able to stop every important piece of legislation from now until Democrats wipe the floor with Repubs again in '08 (the way they did in '06). If not, we may see some movement.
What constituency is left for the Junta? There is the core 26% (and falling) who will march ahead of the chickenhawks cowering behind them. And then there's the rest of us.
And yet, minority right-wing opinion still dominates the Senate and the airwaves. Media opinions are at least two years behind where the population is now. Apparently, 300 million Americans can see reality better and quicker than 300-odd "elite" media pundits.
If there are two Senators who keep the Junta afloat at the magic 41-vote lock-down number, maybe our impeachment efforts can start there.
Just as a warm-up.
I haven't had my nose in the new as much as usual, but as I dived back in, it all seemed surreality the same. Is it January or July? Do we still have great hopes that Democrats will be able to pierce the Cheney shroud of secrecy or stop the war?
Because the war is still on. The surge is still surging. Subpoenas have been issued, but what truths have been dragged into the light of day? What sunlight of justice has penetrated the deeply treasonous darkness of the executive offices?
Pretty much nothing. The Senate is still refusing to do anything about the war, other than supporting Georgie's increasingly disjointed and surreal prosecution of it. They voted to stop debate on a bi-partisan measure to mandate proper rest for troops between deployments.
Americans wouldn't have done that.
And yet, we're not so much talking about "Americans" as we are about the enemy of real Americans: movement conservatives. Because the vote was 56-41 in favor of closing debate (allowing the bill to go forward). And that's just four shy of the 60 votes needed. Really, if two could get peeled away from the 41 it might make all the difference.
Which brings us to the real question: are there 41 core anti-American votes in the Senate? If there are, they will be able to stop every important piece of legislation from now until Democrats wipe the floor with Repubs again in '08 (the way they did in '06). If not, we may see some movement.
What constituency is left for the Junta? There is the core 26% (and falling) who will march ahead of the chickenhawks cowering behind them. And then there's the rest of us.
And yet, minority right-wing opinion still dominates the Senate and the airwaves. Media opinions are at least two years behind where the population is now. Apparently, 300 million Americans can see reality better and quicker than 300-odd "elite" media pundits.
If there are two Senators who keep the Junta afloat at the magic 41-vote lock-down number, maybe our impeachment efforts can start there.
Just as a warm-up.
posted by fiduciary at 8:50 AM
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