a view from John Le Carre....

[flowomo]

from the LA Times


COMMENTARY
If Le Carré Could Vote


By John le Carré, John le Carré is the author of "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold," "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" and many other novels.

(snip)
Maybe there's one good reason — just one — for reelecting George W. Bush, and that's to force him to live with the consequences of his appalling actions and answer for his own lies, rather than wish the job on a Democrat who would then get blamed for his predecessor's follies. (snip)

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-lecarre20oct20,1,3327698.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions

[phantom power]

1. I do hope that Kerry is prepared for GOP attempts to blame him for

the fallout of the last four years. It will happen, as surely as the sun rises in the east.

[teryang]

2. Brief and brilliant

...thanks very much, I saved this one. It's about the most effective attack on chimp word for word that I've read.

LeCarre is the master.

[chaumont58]

3. Bush can now crap from many different places on his body

La Carre has torn him several new assholes.

[Briar]

4. The problem is...

that 47 per cent of Americans planning to vote (as many as plan for vote for Kerry) love Bush:

"for his bullying unilateralism, his dismissal of international treaties, his reckless indifference to the aspirations of other nations and cultures, his contempt for institutions of world government, and above all for misusing the cause of anti-terrorism in order to unleash an illegal war — and now anarchy — upon a country that like too many others around the world was suffering under a hideous dictatorship but had no hand in the events of 9/11, no weapons of mass destruction and no record of terrorism except as an ally of the United States in a dirty war against Iran."

Yes he lied. But these fervent believers in the New Order believe the end justifies the means and that lying (and war mongering and torturing) to bring about a Born Again USA has God's blessing.

[indigobusiness]

5. oops

I started another thread on this before I saw this one. Sorry.

Well, I headed it differently, so maybe more will see it (if it isn't deleted).

[Raster]

6. KICK!

:kick:

[indepat]

7. My thoughts exactly: the Democrats can't fix what GWB has wrought

and, if elected, will be blamed for having failed to do so. Hopefully I'm wrong in thinking GWB and his neocon minions have mucked up this Republic in perpetuity, or at least for several generations and all the king's horses and all the king's men cannot put this Republic back together again, at least not for several generations IMHO.

[Wright Patman]

8. 'Industrial policy'

used to be bruited about as a concept back about 25 years ago when the heartland began to lose its traditional manufacturing base. It was derided as "protectionism" and "the return of Smoot-Hawley."

This was around the time Lee Iacocca was hawking Chrysler cars on TV and at the same time asking the federal government for loan guarantees.

Today, the free trade/globalism mindset is firmly in control of all levers of power in Washington, D.C., and so all we can do is try to adjust to the steadily declining standard of living for everyone but those at the very top and also hope that "peasants with pitchforks (or something higher caliber) " violence doesn't break out.

Or maybe some hope it does. I don't. At that point, I will definitely wish my grandfather had not moved here from Canada.

There is no turning back. Free trade is a religion. It is even more firmly entrenched in the policy circles of Washington, D.C., than is belief in the Rapture among * fundy followers.