ROVE'S SCORCHED EARTH POLICY

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THIS IS SOME SCARY STUFF....THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THIS ADMINISTRATION IS SO FRIGHTFUL

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0608-03.htm

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1. thanks for posting n/t

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3. Welcome to Du

Here's more of this editorial that was published in June.

Published on Sunday, June 8, 2003 by the Los Angeles Times
Bush's Scorched-Earth Campaign
by Neal Gabler

AMAGANSETT, N.Y. — Every president for nearly a century has had political operatives in the White House to advise him on how his decisions would play with the public and tell him what the ramifications of policy would be on his reelection prospects. But few Americans are cynical enough to believe that this political gamesmanship is anything other than a means to an end, the end being to effectuate policy. Teddy Roosevelt had trusts to bust and Manifest Destiny to fulfill; FDR a Depression to tame; Richard Nixon a détente to achieve; Ronald Reagan a government to shrink and a Cold War to win; Bill Clinton social programs to save from the conservative hatchet.

And so it has always been — until now. From the moment of his disputed election in 2000, President Bush has been dramatically reversing the traditional relationship between politics and policy. In his administration, politics seem less a means to policy than policy is a means to politics. Its goal is not to further the conservative revolution as advertised. The presidency's real goal is to disable the Democratic opposition, once and for all.

This has become a presidential mission partly by default. Bush came to the presidency with no commanding ideology, no grand crusade. He was in league with conservatives, but he was no fire-breather. For him, conservatism seemed a convenience — the only path to the Republican nomination. One is hard-pressed to think of a single position Bush took during the 2000 campaign, save for his tax cuts, much less a full program.


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4. That is an excellent article. Thanks for posting it.