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Edited on Mon Feb-20-06 02:19 AM by realpolitik
Only bigger. Way bigger.
This, were it a top to bottom conspiracy (which it might be at the extreme) then there would
be several times bigger than the plumbers merry pranks.
I did not think back then, that the real power could ever be the Rat-Fucker squad heritage-but these times require a lot more Segretti/Atwater than even Segretti or Atwater would do.
And indeed, the bastard grand-children of Kissinger and Mitchell are still fat and happy on the job, either shooting people or talking about known unknowns.
But this administration needs a lot of Rovian love. I submit that all significant domestic non energy policy is cleared through Rove. The remainder of domestic policy are those freebie talking points Karl let's Bush babble on about. Baseball Steroids, Chimera, Mars, that sort of thing. When Rove goes down, the executive branch as an element of domestic policy will stop. Period. Stop.
On the State Dept side... there is no state department, only Zool. Foreign policy is like a car with four drivers-- DoD, Veep, Condi and Karen taking bad cop stupid cop to a whole new level.
In practice this is just the kind of foreign policy you'd get if the administration were the submissive to half a dozen Doms -- Military suppliers and contractors in Khaki and Cami -- MegaService like Halliburton/KBR -- the energy daytraders, and Fund Managers, the Drugmakers and the religious freaks.
Donald Rumsfeldt swaggers in front of our so called military policy like the 'beast Rabban' from Dune.
It is a mennipean satire -- Zeus strangely cast as a befuddled dilettante, like a sadistic, sociopathic Chauncey Gardner. As Mike Malloy puts it, "a giggling killer."
Now, to this heady blend, add a quart of Nixon on the sauce, and the beginnings of what looks like a cross between dodge ball, and Russian roulette amongst the hep.
There are some awfully strong personalities on this list above, and fair number of marginal team playing sorts. Fitzgerald may be sitting on a paper that would end the Twenty First Century as we've known it.
And it is only February, and I feel even my own party talking soft revolution. The old guard Democratic Party has positioned itself to be indistinguishable from the goofballs mentioned above. Progressives should now swing hard for the fence.
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