Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane

amazon.com ^ | 2.23.04 | Mia T, John Podhoretz

[Mia T]

Bush Country:
How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
Over the past three years, liberals have been far from shy in expressing their distaste for George W. Bush. Now conservative commentator Podhoretz (Hell of a Ride) offers up a thorough defense of the president as well as a scathing attack on his most vocal detractors. Podhoretz takes a series of the more popular attacks on the president--"what he calls "crazy liberal ideas"--"and debunks them one by one. These include "Bush is a moron," "Bush is a fanatic," "Bush is Hitler" and "Bush is a liar," charges he cites as being made by some leading liberal writers: Paul Krugman, Michael Lind, Maureen Dowd and Todd Gitlin, among others. Podhoretz claims that the president is, in fact, an intelligent, savvy, principled and honest leader, who responded to the September 11 tragedy with inspiring courage and determination. Bush's presidency will be remembered as "one of the most consequential... in the nation's history." Podhoretz even claims that Bush is "the best presidential speaker" since Franklin Roosevelt. Moreover, he says, the intensity of the Bush-bashing cannot be attributed to "mere partisan rancor," but is the result of Bush's defiant and infuriating success as president. Podhoretz's book is polemical, written for a specific niche: conservative political junkies who relish cutthroat partisan politics. Considered in this light, the book is well done: provocative, witty, in-your-face and honest.
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From Booklist
In this riposte to Bush bashers, New York Post columnist Podhoretz takes two tacks: ridiculing the denigrators of Dubya and extolling him as a great president. Naturally, the author's red-meat sections will entertain aggrieved Bush supporters, as Podhoretz runs with journalists' or politicians' quotations to the effect that Bush is stupid, illiterate, a ventriloquist's dummy for the oil industry, too religious, out to destroy the welfare state, and a lying liar who tells lies, to paraphrase a certain apoplectic comedian. These and other accusations Podhoretz slams under chapter headings as "crazy liberal ideas" and, for good measure, questions Bush critics' logic or even mental condition. Interest in political pugilism lasts only so long, however, as every library that has weeded last month's it-book knows. Yet the spotlight on Podhoretz may linger because, when drawing breath between punches, he dwells on reasons Bush, from the technical viewpoint, has prevailed on most matters in which he has invested presidential prestige. That accent on the mechanics of Bush's strategy slightly widens Podhoretz's immediately obvious readership. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

Review
"If you want to understand America, read Alexis de Tocqueville---then read John Podhoretz, who not only is one of the most perceptive journalists in today's America, but who's very funny, too. In Bush Country, Podhoretz brilliantly harpoons those pompous twits---the 'enlightened' ones, many of them journalists---'who consider themselves the most intelligent people in America.' They may, but no one else will after reading this thoughtful and provocative book."
---Bernard Goldberg, author of Bias and Arrogance: Rescuing America from the Media Elite

"Warning: If you like your politics mealymouthed---stay away! John Podhoretz has written a tough, shrewd, don't-give-an-inch defense of George W. Bush that should give the president's critics heartburn, or maybe a heart attack."
---David Frum, author of The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush


About the Author
John Podhoretz is a columnist for the New York Post, where he has been both the editorial page editor and television critic. He is also a political commentator for the Fox News Channel, a media fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a consultant on NBC's The West Wing. A cofounder of the Weekly Standard, Podhoretz has worked at U.S. News & World Report, Time, and The Washington Times, and served as a speechwriter for President Reagan. His first book, Hell of a Ride, was a scathing portrait of the first Bush presidency. He lives with his wife, Ayala, in New York City.


Book Description
In this rousing, persuasive, and hugely entertaining book, John Podhoretz says that George W. Bush has earned a place in the pantheon of great American chief executives---and shows in one amazing detail after another how Bush's success has driven some of his critics into a pathological frenzy.

Podhoretz is the first to acknowledge that the odds were stacked against Dubya, the inexperienced Texas governor who took up residence in the White House lacking an electoral majority, dogged by widely publicized verbal mishaps, and widely viewed by the American elite as a lightweight.

But to the delight of his friends and the teeth-gnashing frustration of liberals, George W. Bush has proven himself an immensely effective president. Throughout his three years in the White House, as Podhoretz explains, Dubya has outsmarted, out-maneuvered, out-articulated, and outshone adversaries and critics. Steeled by the tragedy of September 11, the new president took a nation more obsessed with reality television than with the reality of international terrorism and girded it for the long struggle that lay ahead. He has presided over two major military campaigns to stunning success, initiated tax cuts whose dimensions have awed critics and fans alike, and brought his party into the twenty-first century. He has been resourceful, disciplined, and independent-minded---so much so that he was able to reject his own father's governing style as president to find his own voice and his own place in history.

Bush hasn't hoarded his political capital, but has used it in bold and unexpected ways. Instead of bowing to conventional wisdom and carving out a centrist position, he has remained true to his ideological roots. Instead of deferring to established Beltway thinking, he has done what he thinks is best for America and the world. As Bush has grown more presidential, the criticisms of him have grown more intense---and, in Podhoretz's view, crazier and crazier. In a series of short chapters, Podhoretz takes a rhetorical scalpel to eight of the wildest caricatures of Bush and leaves them in hilarious shreds.

In a season of broadsides being fired from both sides of the aisle, here is a book that distinguishes itself by the force of its arguments and the ringing clarity of its thought. Impassioned, insightful, and convincing, Bush Country is an analysis of a presidency gone right and a celebration of a man who has already earned his place in history.

 

Q ERTY9

BUSH: "I will not wait on events, while dangers gather."

 

President's Remarks view

This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations. (Applause.) We will confront them with focus and clarity and courage...

Sending Americans into battle is the most profound decision a President can make. The technologies of war have changed; the risks and suffering of war have not. For the brave Americans who bear the risk, no victory is free from sorrow. This nation fights reluctantly, because we know the cost and we dread the days of mourning that always come.

We seek peace. We strive for peace. And sometimes peace must be defended. A future lived at the mercy of terrible threats is no peace at all. If war is forced upon us, we will fight in a just cause and by just means -- sparing, in every way we can, the innocent. And if war is forced upon us, we will fight with the full force and might of the United States military -- and we will prevail. (Applause.)

State of the Union Address by President George W. Bush

hillary talks:ON TERROR
(reinstalling the clintons in the White House has one advantage over suicide)

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missus clinton's REAL virtual office update
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fiendsofhillary.blogspot.com
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fiendsofhillary.org
fraudsofhillary.com

[RetiredArmy]

Jeeeezzzzzuuuuussss. How long did it take to type in all those keywords?????

[Mia T]

one insane liberal_ping

 

hillary talks:
On White House Intimidation

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hillary talks:
L'Etat, c'est moi! (Iowa parsed)

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[Southack]

Presidency of George W. Bush -- the first 37 months

 

Banned Partial Birth Abortion

Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy

Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty

Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court

Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.

Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules that would have shut down every home business in America.

Killed the U.S. - CCCP ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses

Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first ten ABM silos in Alaska and California so that America has a defense against North Korean nukes

 

Pushed through THREE raises for our military.

Increased Defense Dept funding which had deteriorated during the previous 8 years

 

President Bush's Grand Strategy

Stopped foreign aid that would be used to fund abortions.

Supported and upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals

Signed E.O. reversing Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act

Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit

Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers

Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right

Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e. the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty)

Signed the 2004 Omnibus Budget 1/26/2004 that now MANDATES that gun buyers' background check information be fully and permanently destroyed within 24 hours of the completion of the check, no matter what.

Disarmed Libya of its Chemical, Nuclear, and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed

Won an agreement that U.S. Navy sailors may now freely board thousands of commercial ships in international waters to search for weapons of mass destruction under a landmark pact between the United States and Liberia, the world's No. 2 shipping registry (signed Feb 11, 2004).

Successfully executed 2 wars: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom

 

Executed a WAR ON TERROR by getting world-wide cooperation to track funds/terrorists (has cut off much of the terrorist's funding and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network)

 

Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.

Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia

Initiated comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE was critical.

Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the Presidency

Reorganized bureaucracy...after 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency: the Department of Homeland Security.

Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.

Improving govt. efficiency with .8 million jobs put up for bid...weakening unions and cutting undeserved pay raises. Wants merit based promotions/raises only.

Orchestrated Republican control of the White House, the House AND the Senate.

Killed the liberal ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress.

GWB signed an executive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision (re: union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes)

Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession.

Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.

Signed 2 income tax cuts ---- 1 of which was the largest Dollar value tax cut in world history

Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains

In process of eliminating IRS marriage penalty.

Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people

Signed into law the No Child Left Behind legislation delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations)

Reorganized the INS in an attempt to safeguard the borders and ports of America and to eliminate bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability.

Signed trade promotion authority

Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men and women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa

Passed Medicare Reform (authorized $39.5 Billion per year for preventive medicine such as drugs and doctor visits as well as included a ten year Privatization option)

Urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits

Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims

Submitted comprehensive Energy Plan--awaits Congressional action (works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.)

Endorses and promotes The Responsibility Era ("In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else -- to one in which every single American understands that he or she are responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself. " -----this quote was too good to leave out)

Started the USA Freedom Corps

Initiated review of all federal agencies with a goal to eliminate federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of federal gov while increasing private sector jobs.

Part of coalition (Russia, Israel, EU, Palestine, USA) for Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace"

Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become The League of Nations ( in other words, completely irrelevant)

Nominated strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.

Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary clean-up of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.

As part of the national forests clean-up, the President restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges) and removed the need for an EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.

Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.

President Bush signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal Aliens
S. 1685, the Basic Pilot Extension Act of 2003, was signed by President Bush on December 3, 2003.
It extends for five years the workplace employment eligibility authorization pilot programs created in 1996. It expands the pilot programs from the original five states to all 50 states.

President Bush signing a federal ban on Partial Birth Abortion

U.S. Forces In Baghdad

[Defender2]

Thanks for the article, Mia T:-) I don't consider them liberals anymore. I consider them as part of our enemies.

[Brian Allen]

I thank G-d for you, Mia T!

For your genius.

For your talent.

And that you are on my side.

And on the side of my America!

Blessings -- Brian

BTTT!

[Redbob]

"Podhoretz even claims that Bush is "the best presidential speaker" since Franklin Roosevelt."

And immediately loses all credibility.
Much as I like Dubya, I'll freely admit he's not in the same class, rhetoric-wise, as Ronald Reagan.

Not that there's much to be ashamed of there; very very few are.

[MeekOneGOP]

bttt for later.
Thanks, Mud !

[The Raven]

>>Ordered Attorney-General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that ... the 2nd Amendment .. supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, NOT a leftist-imagined *collective* right

I forgot about that one....

[Mudboy Slim]

De nada...a new Mia T creation is always worthy of a heads up...MUD

[NoLongerLurking]

I don't consider them liberals anymore. I consider them as part of our enemies.

Enemies????

Having different ideas about what will help make and keep this country great does not make one an "enemy." The enemy is the people who flew airplanes into the WTC and Pentagon. Enemies are people who do what they can to see this great nation crumble and fail.

You may not like Democrats and their ideas about politics and government. That does not make them evil or the enemies of America. Calling them such will do nothing to further political debate in this country. It stifles it. It encourages people to just make broad statements and generalizations about people different from them, and that does nothing for this country.

Liberals and democrats have the same overall goals as we do. They want America to prosper and be strong. We just disagree and how that will happen and what must be done for it to happen. They are not our enemies, they are are brethren. They are our brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. Again, they are NOT our enemies.

[BobS]

You are deluded. Facts show democrats don't care about our national security. They are not to be trusted with power.

[NoLongerLurking]

No. Democrats care about national security. From what I have experienced the average Democrat cares about national security just as much as the average Republican. They just have different ideas on how it is achieved. Just like with every other political issue. Different ideas does not make one wrong in any argument.

[BobS]

Excuse me then. VOTING democrats do not care about this country staying alive.

[jla]

Much as I like Dubya, I'll freely admit he's not in the same class, rhetoric-wise, as Ronald Reagan... Not that there's much to be ashamed of there; very very few are.

Can't argue with a thing you've stated here, Redbob.
President Bush does very well, like RR, when he's spontaneous, miscues and all. Real America doesn't mind Dubya mispronouncing words or committing other 'grammar crimes', heck we all do it all the time.
That's what makes him honest in the eyes of the so many. He isn't spit-shined & buffed like the run-of-the-mill politician.
And most importantly, Dubya, like RR, is humble before the Creator. If either ever lied, they knew it wouldn't go unnoticed.
And I think this intrinsic honesty shows thru to many people.

Presidents Reagan & Geo. W. Bush leave no doubt as to their devotion to God.
Liberals, true liberals, never have, and never will, understand this.
But they will always scorn & ridicule it.

[Defender2]

I've watched the demoCommiecRATS in action for years!!!! They consistently side with our enemies!!!! I consider the demoCommiecRATS as part of our enemies!!!! If you do not like that, tough cookies!!!!

[Kaslin]

Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia

Which Billy Jeff had promised to be out by Christmas 1994

[Tempest]

Hey! What on earth are you doing posting something positive about President Bush on this website?!

I want something more whiny! Something about how you plan on staying home and admiting defeat to the Democrats because you're a true conservative!

Pfft!!! RINO!



< /sarcasm>

[jla]

VOTING democrats liberals do not care about this country staying alive.

I think you two just have a nomenclature snag here.

Bob, you seem to mistakenly group all Dems together, where NLL is pointing out the line of demarcatrion between a respectable Dem, (Zell MIller), and a liberal, (Teddy Kennedy).

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Bumps

[JulieRNR21]

President Bush belongs right up there with our greatest presidents!

[William Tell]

Southack praised Bush by writing: "Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit"

That really is a very impressive list.

And during Bush's second term you may well be able to write: "Signed TWELVE bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit." What a legacy that will be.

[dalebert]

bump

[PGalt]

Thanks. Terrific President. Outstanding Administration.

[William Tell]

NoLongerLurking said: "You may not like Democrats and their ideas about politics and government. That does not make them evil or the enemies of America."

So tell me then...

In light of the recent Ninth Circus ruling that I, as a Kalifornian, have no right to keep and bear arms, and given the laws which prohibit possession of unregistered ugly rifles, what do you recommend?

Since I refused to register my rifles and they are now located out of state, do I

1) allow myself to be disarmed by the Demoncrats in Kalifornia?

2) bring the rifles back and run the risk of having Attorney General Lockyer kill my family and burn down my house because I have violated a gun law, or

3) Give up the home my wife and I have built over a lifetime and move to Utah or Texas?

You may not consider Demoncrats to be your enemy. But I most assuredly do consider them to be my enemy and I very much consider them evil.

[Morgan's Raider]

Liberals and democrats have the same overall goals as we do. They want America to prosper and be strong. We just disagree and how that will happen and what must be done for it to happen.

Liberals and democrats in general have been on the wrong side of history for 40 years. What was once a noble political party has been hijacked by neobolsheviks who are hell-bent on selling this country down the road to socialism if not downright communism. To wit: some 55 democrat congressmen are directly associated with an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America.

These closet communists hide behind the moniker of the "Progressive" caucus, but there ain't a damn thing progressive about a diseased philosophy that was put forth in 1848 and has been an abject failure everywhere it has been tried.

The Constitution is an impediment to their sordid aims, as is the legislative process. Therefore, stacked courts with extreme left-wing judges making law from the bench is the only way for them to achieve their goals. Judges that will interpret, rather than rewrite the Constitution are anathema to them. Thus the unprecedented fascist actions of 45 or so democrat senators who are staging unprecedented filibusters blocking several of President Bush's judicial appointments.

If you think Marxism will make this a "better" country, I suggest you look at the former Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, the once-great nations of Europe that have succumbed to the spirit-stifling doctrine of socialism, and the numerous third-world toilets that wil never come out of their funk until they abandon the doctrine of Marx. Why do you think there are widespread attempts to leave these sewers and come here, while there is no overwhelming stampede of Americans trying to move to these socialist paradises (paradii)?

Our system may not be perfect, but it is the best the world has ever offered.

/rant

[WorkingClassFilth]

BUMP!

[MiniCooperChick]

I don't believe they want America to prosper and be strong. They want to create a socialist state which will strip prosperity from all but those in power (the liberal elite). They want to hand our sovereignty to the United Nations, thereby stripping away our strength.

No, FRiend, they are the enemy in my book. FReegards, MCC

[CyberAnt]

I think your assessment is unfair. Ronald Reagan was a skilled and studied ACTOR .. giving him a decided advantage over most speakers.

I love how President Bush speaks. Why ?? Because I never have any doubt about what he's saying, and I never have any doubt that the President believes everything he says. To me that is much more important than perfect speech. However, our President does have a comedian's timing, and his punch lines are usually very good zingers.

[CyberAnt]

Mark Steyn said recently, "the 'coalition of the willing' has effected more positive change in the last 10 months than the mutilateral establishment (UN) has in the last 10 years."

And .. while men are still dying in Iraq, no one is dying in NY highrizes, military complexes, US ships, or US embassies [Steyn paraphrase].

[CyberAnt]

Yes they are .. because they plot the takeover of our country. All you have to do is read the memos written by Senate democrats and you will see how they have corrupted themselves and are willing to sell America down the river to finance their next election campaign. Sickening.

Liberalism is nothing more than a different word for SOCIALISM. Socialism is just another word for COMMUNISM. I don't want any part of it or them. If you don't think these things are the enemies of America, you are very deceived.

[Jaysun]

Liberals and democrats have the same overall goals as we do. They want America to prosper and be strong. We just disagree and how that will happen and what must be done for it to happen. They are not our enemies, they are are brethren. They are our brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. Again, they are NOT our enemies.

Are you talking about the people that use environmental nonsense to stifle business, who toppled a mocking statue of our President in Europe during a "protest", who wish to impose socialism on America (thereby destroying liberty and freedom), who wish to take our guns, who promote homosexuality while also trying to destroy Christianity, who...(the list could go on)..those people? They are indeed the enemies.

They're doing what the Soviets only dreamed of doing to America. Make no mistake, their goal is to bring America down (they believe that the world's ills are caused by America's success). There may be a few liberals who are simply brainsick or misinformed, but the overall goal remains the same: change America into something resembling Canada or Europe (a.k.a. destroy the greatest nation the world has ever seen). They're the enemy. To believe otherwise is delusional.

[Mia T]

ne•o•ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n.

neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to the terrorists, as it continues the traditional '60s neoliberal feint: (1) concern for social justice, (2) distain for bureaucracy, and (3) the championing of entrepreneurship for the great unwashed.

 

 

 

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

Mia T, June 9, 1999
THE ALIENS

The Democratic Party's Problem Transcends Its Anti-War Contingent2

hyperlinked images of shame
copyright Mia T 2003
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by Mia T, 4.6.03

 

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

 

Mia T, June 9, 1999
THE ALIENS

 

Al From is sounding the alarm. "Unless we convince Americans that Democrats are strong on national security," he warns his party, "Democrats will continue to lose elections."

Helloooo? That the Democrats have to be spoon-fed what should be axiomatic post-9/11 is, in and of itself, incontrovertible proof that From's advice is insufficient to solve their problem.

From's failure to fully lay out the nature of the Democrats' problem is not surprising: he is the guy who helped seal his party's fate. It was his Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) that institutionalized the proximate cause of the problem, clintonism, and legitimized its two eponymic provincial operators on the national stage. The "Third Way" and "triangulation" don't come from the same Latin root for no reason.

That "convince" is From's operative word underscores the Democrats' dilemma. Nine-eleven was transformative. It is no longer sufficient merely to convince. One must demonstrate, demonstrate convincingly, if you will… which means both in real time and historically.

When it comes to national security, Americans will no longer take any chances. Turning the turn of phrase back on itself, the era of the Placebo President is over. (Incidentally, the oft-quote out-of-context sentence fragment alluded to here transformed meaningless clinton triangulation into a meaningful if deceptive soundbite.)

Although From is loath to admit it -- the terror in his eyes belies his facile solution -- the Democratic party's problem transcends its anti-war contingent.

With a philosophy that relinquishes our national sovereignty -- and relinquishes it reflexively… and to the UN no less -- the Democratic party is, by definition, the party of national insecurity.

With policy ruled by pathologic self-interest -- witness the "Lieberman Paradigm," Kerry's "regime change" bon mot (gone bad), Edwards' and the clintons' brazen echoes thereof (or, alternatively, Pelosi's less strident wartime non-putdown putdown)… and, of course, the clincher -- eight years of the clintons' infantilism, grotesquerie and utter failure -- the Democratic party is, historically and in real time, the party of national insecurity.

The Democrats used to be able to wallpaper their national insecurity with dollars and demogoguery. But that was before 9/11.

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addendum 12.13.03:
Pathologic self-interest: Richard Miniter's C-SPAN interview, contained in hillary talks:ON TERROR, (below), is absolutely devastating for the clintons. Miniter presents the clintons' monumental failure to protect America in sickening detail.

Note in particular Madeleine Albright's shocking reason given at the time of the USS Cole attack why the clinton administration should not respond militarily. It tell us everything we need to know about the clintons. It tell us why clinton redux is an absolutely suicidal notion.

Notwithstanding their cowardice, corruption, perfidy, and to borrow a phrase from Andrew Cuomo, their essential cluelessness, the clintons, according to Albright, made their decision not to go after the terrorists primarily for reasons of their own legacy and power. The clintons reasoned that inaction would MAXIMIZE THEIR CHANCES TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. No matter that that inaction would also maximize the terrorists' power, maximize America's danger.

For more than a half decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers.

Spying Isn't the Only Way to Learn About Nukes,
The New York Times, May 30, 1999
William J. Broad

Broad would have us believe we are watching "Being There" and not "The Manchurian Candidate." His argument is superficially appealing as most reasonable people would conclude that it requires the simplemindedness of a Chauncy Gardener (in "Being There") to reason that instructing China and a motley assortment of terrorist nations on how to beef up their atom bombs and how not to omit the "key steps" when building hydrogen bombs would somehow blunt and not stimulate their appetites for bigger and better bombs and a higher position in the power food chain.

But it is Broad's failure to fully connect the dots -- clinton's wholesale release of atomic secrets, decades of Chinese money sluicing into clinton's campaigns, clinton's pushing of the test ban treaty, clinton's concomitant sale of supercomputers, and clinton's noxious legacy -- that blows his argument to smithereens and reduces his piece to just another clinton apologia by The New York Times.

But even a Times apologia cannot save clinton from the gallows. Clinton can be both an absolute (albeit postmodern) moron and a traitor. The strict liability Gump-ism, "Treason is as treason does" applies.

The idea that an individual can be convicted of the crime of treason only if there is treasonous intent or *mens rea* runs contrary to the concept of strict liability crimes. That doctrine (Park v United States, (1974) 421 US 658,668) established the principle of 'strict liability' or 'liability without fault' in certain criminal cases, usually involving crimes which endanger the public welfare.

Calling his position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty "an historic milestone," (if he must say so himself) clinton believed that if he could get China to sign it, he would go down in history as the savior of mankind. This was 11 August 1995. (There would be an analogous treasonous miscalculation in the Mideast: clinton failed to shut down Muslim terrorism, then in its incipient stage and stoppable, because he reasoned that doing so would have wrecked his chances for the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, according to Richard Miniter, Madeleine Albright offered precisely the Nobel-Muslim factor as a primary reason for not treating the bombing of the USS Cole as an act of war.)

Mia T, 2.11.04
BUSH, THE CLINTONS + WMD PROLIFERATION:
The REAL "Imminent Threat"

 

 

It is precisely the clintons' bin-Laden-emboldening inaction to the attack on the USS Cole and the clintons' bin-Laden-emboldening token, ineffectual, August 1998 missile strikes of aspirin factories and empty tents that eliminate "bin-Laden-emboldenment avoidance" as the rationale for the latter decision and support "wag the dog," instead.

Taken together, feckless clinton inaction and feckless clinton action serve only to reinforce the almost universally held notion: the clinton calculus was, is, and always will be, solely self-serving.

In the case of the non-response to the attack on the Cole, an unambiguous act of war, the clinton rationale, according to no less than Madeleine Albright, was a clinton Nobel Peace Prize by Arab appeasement. i.e., a clinton Nobel Peace Prize by bin-Laden-emboldenment.

And in the case of the curiously-timed, ineffectual (and, therefore, bin-Laden-emboldening) token missile strikes, the clinton rationale was Lewinsky-recantation distraction -- clearly not bin-Laden-emboldenment avoidance. (This is not to say there wasn't a Nobel factor here, too. Obsolete intelligence, bolstered by the redundancy of a clinton tipoff, ensured that both bin Laden and the Mideast Muslim ego would escape unscathed.)

Mia T, "WAG THE DOG" revisited

 

 

WASHINGTON -- Two Norwegian public-relations executives and one member of the Norwegian Parliament say they were contacted by the White House to help campaign for President Clinton to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his work in trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East.

Clinton Lobbies for Nobel Prize: What a Punk
White House Lobbied For Clinton Nobel Peace Prize Updated
Friday, October 13, 2000
By Rita Cosby

 

 

 

There's been speculation in the last few months that Clinton was pursuing a Mideast peace accord in an effort to win the prize and secure his legacy as president.

AIDES PUSH CLINTON FOR THE NOBEL

 

 

 

At the time, clinton observed: "I made more progress in the Middle East than I did between Socks and Buddy." Retrospectively, it is clear that clinton's characterization was not correct.

Mia T, Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

 

 

 

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