Dammit! Er, I mean, shucky-darn! I missed Justice Sunday II.

I really wanted to catch it to see what wisdom good Christian boys like Tom DeLay had to spread to the masses.

Alas, I am forced to read news stories that describe it secondhand, rather than watching it on my own. (Not my fault I missed it; the Cubs were playing.)

I'm sure this makes me an "America Hater" in the eyes of the far right, but....while Washington raises the alarm over the axis of evil and nuclear development programs, all dutifully reported by the media, there's a lot less attention paid to the possible reasons that the rest of the world (1) finds the US position hypocritical, and (2) thinks that developing nuclear weapons may be the only way they can feel safe from attack.

According to the blogosphere, the latest elected Repub is about to unleash legal armageddon.

On August 11th, 2005, George Bush Said:

I understand the anguish that some feel about the death that takes place

This, in response to Cindy Sheehan.

Or his handlers. Hell, who knows? I sent Chris an email asking to be removed from the "Advertise Liberally" network, because of the possibility of being involved in a PAC in a backhand kind of way. Text after the break.

If you look to the left of this, you will notice that the "Advertise Liberally" logo that was there has been removed. Here's why: I can't in good conscience be a member of an Ad network that is run by a political action comittee. It's just not in my nature.

Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, is one of the most powerful behind-the-scenes people in Washington.  The base of his power is the anti-tax movement--Grover came up with the idea of having politicians sign a pledge never ever ever to raise taxes for any reason if they want the financial and electoral support of his organization.  You can find copies of the pledge for federal and state officials at http://www.atr.org/pledge/index.html

And Norquist is only one of many right wingers who think we are being taxed to death.

I just found a news report detailing that Jack Abramoff's "lobbying" efforts in the territory of Guam resulted in an investigation against him in 2002, but--surprise--our illustrious president managed to get the investigator demoted and the whole investigation foundered.

We're living in a strange time in America.  Science is bad, faith is good; workers are bad, owners/management are good; jobs are disappearing, but unemployment is down; Iraqi and Afghani insurgents become more and more deadly, but only because they are losing so badly.

What strikes me is that for a populace to buy these views, there must be two things going on simultaneously: (1) People with power and control are lying through their teeth, and (2) the populace is too comfortable with fantasy to be able to see through obvious lies.

The political right, despite the fact that it undeniably holds sway at the moment, continues to play the deniability game in which unofficial spokespeople rant and rave to rouse the rabble, while the "official" political right elected officials generally disclaim all responsibility for this rabble-rousing, and even bemoan the lack of civility in modern politics. This allows them to attack Howard Dean, for example, and his comment about hating Republicans and what they stand for. All without repudiating what their rabble rousers said, of course.

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