William Rivers Pitt (the admittedly/decidedly partisan editor of TruthOut) thinks that conservatives are down to the last trick in their bag:
… One might indeed think that the Republican Party was thrilled at the prospect of nine commercial airliners blowing up over the Atlantic Ocean, given the broad-spectrum reaction by the GOP to the news. In truth, however, they are scrambling to manufacture the one element that has served them over these past five years: fear. They cannot stand on their record; their rhetoric has grown bone-thin, and so they are pulling that hoary old club out of the bag one more time.
It used to be effective. Whenever the GOP sought to frighten the populace into voting against their own best interests over these last years, the Democrats all too often would curl up into a ball and go along for the ride. This appears to be changing. A concerted assault by the Democrats on the record of this administration and its congressional Republican cohorts has been put forth. Notes are being sounded that have been sorely lacking. “If the Republican Party thinks that this is going to be a good political issue for them, they’re mistaken,” said Senator Charles Schumer of the thwarted bomb plot. “We are going to answer them immediately.” …
Let’s hope so. I guess Lamont was fairly strong out of the gate on this topic (after a few days off that were, let’s face it, well deserved), but I still don’t see any kind of quorum willing to state the obvious, much less express umbrage at the conservatives’ implications. We’re not safer and anyone who would use those terrorists to distort our elections is practicing the grubbiest kind of democracy. Who’s going to say it in the mainstream media?
Fear Itself
William Rivers Pitt (the admittedly/decidedly partisan editor of TruthOut) thinks that conservatives are down to the last trick in their bag:
Let’s hope so. I guess Lamont was fairly strong out of the gate on this topic (after a few days off that were, let’s face it, well deserved), but I still don’t see any kind of quorum willing to state the obvious, much less express umbrage at the conservatives’ implications. We’re not safer and anyone who would use those terrorists to distort our elections is practicing the grubbiest kind of democracy. Who’s going to say it in the mainstream media?
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