As if we didn't need to be told, but bless those independant souls at The Guardian for reminding us of The President Who Cried Wolf....

Ever since the White House started to seemingly backtrack on its prior zealous insistence on warrantless surveillance--announcing that the FISA court now oversaw the NSA program, agreeing to turn over some documents to the Congress (see the preceding post), I've been wondering what the odds are that they really are backtracking, as opposed to simply playing another shell game.

If my respect for Alberto Gonzales wasn't already at the very bottom of the scale, it would have gone down when I read this latest piece of Gonzalez nonsense.

Let's get this straight. It was the US where the bulk of the intellectual establishment suppressed its doubts about the war for the sake of uncritical post-9/11 patriotism. It was the US where public opinion recorded 80 per cent approval for the invasion of Iraq. And it was American journalism that was steamrollered by the patriotic card - and, in the case of The New York Times, belatedly repented.

The Headline in Bloomberg:

U.S. Economy: Growth Quickens, Propelled by Spending

From the transcript of NPR's interview of President Bush, conducted by Juan WIlliams today, January 29 (emphasis added):

There's going to be a Reclaiming America for Christ Conference in Fort Lauderdale on March 2-3, 2007.  Know who's going to be a speaker?  Barry Black, Chaplain for the U.S. Senate.  Now why does that bother me?

And you can play, too, just like one out of every 92 households in the country did during 2006.

These members of Team Hate are the new conservative mouthpieces for a power structure that's selling us into a murky, dead world where people can no longer love, where God is money, where the earth is a commodity to be destroyed for profit, where people are but digits in a money machine, where the ideals of a Christian society are mocked so that greed is now its favored value, where the good Samaritan is a piteous fool and violence against our fellow creatures is celebrated in the name of Christ.

We have become a culture that is fed hate, that has grown to crave hate, a hate-addicted culture that, like any psychotic entity, can destroy itself absent treatment at the hands of those who still retain their ability to love and to forgive.

The argument here is that the new conservative hate culture in America is leading us resolutely and irretrievably to the Fourth Reich. And Team Hate provides the mouth-pieces that spew its dangerous propaganda.

Oh, I can already hear Wal-Mart groaning. A bill getting ready to sail will prohibit importation of things made in "sweatshops"....

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