Saturday, February 03, 2007

Kristol ODs on the Kool-Aid

By Libby Spencer

With equal apology to Yeats but none to Billy Boy:


I write it out in a verse--

Kristol and Kagan
And Crittenden and Bush
Now and in time to be,
Wherever Iraq is remembered,
Are changed, changed utterly:
And terrible ignoramuses are borne.

That Krazy Kristol has gone so far over the edge that I feel almost guilty posting about this latest tripe spilling off his keyboard. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. Maybe he has taken up permanent residence in Bush's bubble and only hears the same voices that haunt our president at night. Maybe he's lost his vision and can't see the handwriting on the wall. I can't think of a better explanation for this latest slander of the reality-based community:

Now, politicians are entitled to be concerned about their political survival. They're even entitled to make foolish and shortsighted political judgments -- for example, that voting for this resolution in February 2007 will help their electoral prospects if the Bush administration's foreign policy is in shambles in November 2008. Indeed, they're entitled to ignore the fact that voting for this resolution somewhat increases the chances of a shambolic outcome to Bush's foreign policy, and therefore may not be in their own interest.

You think he really doesn't understand that it's his bended knee support of the president's imbecilic strategies that will assure our country will be shuffling into 09 through the detritus of Bush's failed foreign policies and be faced with the daunting task of rescuing some vestige of our former international status as a world power from the debris?

And you really have to love Kristol's fearsome brandishing of his tinfoil covered cardboard sword:


In any case, Republican senators up for reelection in 2008 might remember this: The American political system has primaries as well as general elections. In 1978 and 1980, as Reagan conservatives took over the party from détente-establishment types, Reaganite challengers ousted incumbent GOP senators in New Jersey and New York. Surely there are victory-oriented Republicans who might step forward today in Nebraska, Virginia, Oregon, and Maine--and, if necessary, in Tennessee, Minnesota, and New Hampshire -- to seek to vindicate the honor, and brighten the future, of the party of Reagan.

Maybe Billy Boy's adoration of Bush has grown so deep that he also joins our president in eschewing newspapers and ignoring polls. How else to explain his failure to recognize the clear message of the electorate in '06? Victory and vindication via obedient allegiance to this president rest solely in the enfeebled minds of the Decider's self-blinded true believers like Kristol.

(Cross-posted at The Impolitic.)

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2 Comments:

  • What seems to me most ironic is not that there are speech-enabled primates like Kristol; erudite hominids that can simulate rational excuses for their atavistic impulses, but that they are as steadfast in avoiding personal risk as they are in glorifying the risks that the followers of the stone headed leaders they worship are compelled to take. Blood and implacable stone idols are magnets for the neocon mind.

    I can't think of one of these war lovers who has ever been in a war or had to endure the horrors war brings, can you?

    Actually I loathe that "neocon" term. They're not conservative and the neo part doesn't describe anything newer than the neolithic.

    By Blogger Capt. Fogg, at 10:23 AM  

  • The strongest war supporters are those who have not only never seen combat, they don't even know anyone who has. They live such a life of privlege, they can't even comprehend poverty, much less the conseqences of war mongering.

    I hate the neo-con label as well. It's too respectable. I've even developed an aversion to refering to them as the right. My new term is wrong wing.

    By Blogger Libby Spencer, at 11:09 AM  

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