Brent Budowsky: Neoconservatism Is Dead

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9000

Neoconservatism Is Dead
by Brent Budowsky | Jul 27 2007 - 5:51pm


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George Bush, Dick Cheney, and their fellow neoconservatives know better than Reagan about negotiating with enemies. They know better than Eisenhower about military industrial complexes. They know better than Ford about seeking diplomatic agreements to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction. They know better than Nixon about achieving breakthroughs with our major adversaries.

They are very good about hurling insults to attack their domestic enemies and very bad about supporting wounded troops, disabled veterans and homeless heroes.

Neoconservatives are very special people, in their own eyes. When things go wrong they become the party of perjury and pardons, the party of abuse of power and abuse of executive privilege to cover up their failures and crimes.

Neoconservatives champion the politics of fear, desperately seeking to frighten the people to justify their attacks on freedoms guaranteed by statute and constitution.

Neoconservatives embody the politics of profiteering, masterminding and organizing the most corrupt occupation in world history, staffed by ideological partisans, rewarding their campaign contributors, mismanaging tens of billions of lost and stolen dollars, under the imperial arrogance of a proconsul awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom.

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Neoconservatism is dumb, discredited, and dead.

While they cover up their dirty laundry, and plan their next wars, and hire their criminal attorneys, and lobby for their pardons, the clock is ticking, the day is coming, when a a grateful nation will celebrate their removal from the high councils of government, once and for all.
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[C_U_L8R]

1. It won't believe it until we see the corpse

these neo-jerks just run for cover
to come out and spread their slime another day.
Been going on for decades.
Sure would like to be rid of them once and for all.
As in neo-gone.

[Demeter]

5. And All the Neocons Reduced to Mere Cons

Life sentences, preferably, although any significant length of time would tend to make a neocon unfit for further service in world domination.

[pocoloco]

2. If things get really bad they may lay low for a while but they are not

going to disappear.

Here is a little bit of the info that is available, and it's not good!

http://evatt.labor.net.au/publications/papers/112.html

[billyoc]

3. Unfortunately Neo-Liberalism is alive and well. n/t

[aquart]

4. No, not till they've been tortured and hanged.

And even then I want to see the body in the coffin, nail it myself, and bury it under tons of bloody earth. Then set a guard with a wooden stake for when it rears its evil head again.

[Lint Head]

6. Neoconservatism doesn't matter when you have

fascism running a country. The only ideology that is presently relevant is corporate fascism. Unless we stand up against this evil our country is lost. End corporate rights now!:dem:

[beltanefauve]

7. Randi Rhodes

had Brent Budowsky on her show last night. He was articulate, knowledgeable and personable as well. But, as in this article, he also appeared to me to be overly optimistic. The present-day Neocons are recycled Watergate and Iran-Contra crooks, for chrissakes! I'll believe the "death" of Neoconservatism when I see it. For now, I remain cynical, fully expecting these guys to rise from the ashes, if there even are any, and morph into something equally sinister or worse.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

[ninkasi]

8. Let it be so!

n/t

[tom_paine]

9. Horseshit! As if something that has been with us since the beginning of human history

was going to vanish overnight.

It has called itself many things throughout history, but it almost always claims itself as supremely patriotic, no matter what form it incarnates in any given age.

Ultimately, it is the lethal union of Social Dominators (thoe who score highest on the scale, like Hitler, Stalin and Cheney) and the Authortarian Followers with their weak & compartmentalized minds, their ability to wash themeselves clean of guilt as if they had no conscience, and their pocketful of rationalizations.

That will NEVER go away, and if it ceases calling itself Neoconservatism, as it has slithered out of the Communist label or the Fascist label before, it will sonn be back calling itself something else.