Neocons
Posted at 2:30pm on Jun. 19, 2008 Congratulations Godfather
The New Democratic takeover crashes on
By Neil Stevens
Today, on the day of another Neocon Democratic victory, I must congratulate Godfather Jerome Armstrong. He and his new Democratic leadership clique have accomplished so much for Neocons recently, that he must be so proud of these accomplishments of the Howard Dean era of the Democratic party:
- Continuing war funding
- Agreeing on Telecom FISA immunity
- Thwarting Presidential and Vice Presidential impeachment
Yes, there is that as-yet failure to nominate Hillary Clinton, but it's quite a record. And yet, the great Vis Numar does not rest on his laurels, oh no. He's pressing on and continuing to set the Neocon agenda within the Gate-Crashed Democratic Party:
Congressional Dems should adopt the position [of promoting drilling for oil in America's coastal waters], include some safeguards, and alongside billions in funding for finding alternative fuel solutions, make it part of a long-term solution.... [T]he ideological purity position of there being an environmental/aesthetic argument against it is exactly the position the Republicans want us to adopt.
Armstrong, Moulitsas, and Dean have done so well in reshaping the Democratic party into one not merely able to follow Republican orders in Congress as a pliable minority, but to take the lead and implement the core pieces of the moderate Neocon agenda as the majority. All those centrist Democrats that the Netroots were told to get elected are truly paying off in crushing the radical left's say in the Democratic agenda. Winning over moderate Republicans must come before ideological purity, no matter how many Republican positions are adopted.
So for today I salute you, Vis Numar, as the triumphant enemy of my enemy.
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Posted at 9:59am on Mar. 12, 2008 The Folly Of Fallon
Why do we care that he's leaving CentCom again?
By haystack
This article in Esquire magazine is apparently a big deal for our anti-war ("I love losing") crowd. In it we find a "Thomas Barnett" who fancies himself a stick buddy of Admiral Fallon (the soon to be no longer Commander of Central Command). Barnett also allows his piece to imply that it was Fallon who has been serving all this time as Secretary of State instead of Condoleeza Rice...and he shows us once again how really cool you can be if you throw around a few F-bombs and drop the "neocon" slam here and there, interspersed between lots of nuance and innuendo that furthers a preconceived political agenda.
What outstanding reporting we are graced with once again by one who continues searching for new and ever-more creative ways to convince us we must stop fighting enemies who would see us and our allies dead; give them what they want and they'll go away...or somesuch nonsense. These people need to stop working so hard...they might pop a blood vessel if they don't calm down.
I really can't exert the required energy to review Barnett's piece here (an op-ed in the form of a "news and biographical" article); there's just no point in trying to argue with folks willing to align themselves with underlings by propping them up into a "thing" they are not - Fallon was an Admiral, Bush is still Commander in Chief, and Gates is still (well, "was") Fallon's direct boss. Whooptydoo...
I'm more interested in what's NOT being said during all this hub bub about a military guy that did a job, for 12 months, and is now being rotated out. I thought we were SUPPOSED to be doing rotations to keep "our guys" fresh. Please, war-haters, put your memory caps on and recall the hype about a Navy guy taking over CentCom...how it was to be a new beginning...a change in how Bush was to manage the war (and prepare for the peace) and that maybe...JUST maybe, Fallon actually FAILED at one or more of his assigned objectives. Heck-Petraeus has done far better with his assignment than Fallon...just because the Admiral thinks war with Iran might be ill-advised, do we really have to make this retirement business into something that it's not?
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