Why You Should Vote for Newt
By Mona
At Human Events he vacuously shrieks cogently explains that Bush and torture opponents have a “suicidal inability to come to grips with evil,” and he also exhibits his historical acumen:
Today’s Men and Women of Munich
Today, we have the Men and Women of Munich. Just as before, these are elites who are afraid to face evil, afraid to recognize what our enemies are doing, and afraid to put partisanship aside and put America first so we can join together to defeat those who would destroy us.
The Men and Women of Munich have just scored a victory in Congress. They passed a bill that they have been enthusiastically telling their leftwing allies is designed to end the war in Iraq by crippling the military’s ability to achieve victory.
We are now all agreed that today’s Bushistas/Republicans are parody-proof, are we not?
Comment by Hesiod —
March 31, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
Well…Newt’s editorial is dialed up to “11″ on the irony meter, isn’t it?
He’s using Hitler’s “Stabbed in the back” motif to invoke Munich!
Comment by Dave L —
March 31, 2007 @ 3:33 pm
So - at this point is Sam Brownback the ONLY Republican candidate not fighting for the 25% stay-in-Iraq-forever vote?
Comment by Thoreau —
March 31, 2007 @ 3:41 pm
Newt Gingrich wrote:
Wait a minute. Wait just a goddamn minute.
Remember when the conservatives complained that the media won’t report any of the good news from Iraq? Well, here’s some good news (say what you will about the inevitable outcome in Iraq, but a raid on a bomb factory can certainly be considered as a success), and Gingrich bitches that the media didn’t report the bad news about a suicide bomber?
Can we at least get a consensus on what sort of reporting is deemed treasonous by the right?
Comment by Thomas Ware —
March 31, 2007 @ 6:23 pm
Playing from a seventy-five year old playbook,Reichtag and all. A buck says our little tinpot will dissolve congress as obstructionist and declare martial law.
Comment by Thoreau —
March 31, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
A buck says our little tinpot will dissolve congress as obstructionist and declare martial law.
They’re far too savvy for this. The simple fact of the matter is that the IRS collects the money. Traditionally they’ve always distributed it among executive departments in accordance with orders from Congress, but the simple fact of the matter is that the executive branch holds on to the money. So if Congress gets too feisty they’ll go behind closed doors and point out that they don’t really need to obey Congress. Congress will recognize the need to maintain the illusion of relevance, so they’ll pass a budget. Bush will benefit from the illusion of Constitutional government, and Congress will benefit from the illusion of relevance.
We, of course, will get screwed.
Comment by Doug T —
April 2, 2007 @ 8:17 am
“They’re far too savvy for this.”
Yep–we won’t get an overt dictatorship, instead we’ll get an Augustus-style subversion of the existing governmental structure, with formal and overt adherence to all the forms of government providing a thin mask for the authoritarian realities underneath.