Loserman's Loose Lips

posted by The Vidiot @ 5:36 PM Permalink

UPDATE III: by The Sailor
Jeebus, they even admit it!

But Bush aides on Thursday fought the notion that they had exploited their knowledge of the coming British raid to hit Democrats, saying the trigger had been the defeat of Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut by an anti-war political novice.

"The comments were purely and simply a reaction" to Democratic voters who "removed a pro-defense Senator and sent the message that the party would not tolerate candidates with such views," said Snow.
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"Weeks before September 11th, this is going to play big," said another White House official, who also spoke on condition of not being named, adding that some Democratic candidates won't "look as appealing" under the circumstances.

Remember when Bushco said it would be wrong to politicize the WOT?

UPDATE II: by The Vidiot

Bush on the British Terror Plot

watch it and tell me he's NOT getting the words radioed into his ear.

g'head. I dare ya'

UPDATE: by The Sailor

Lieberman Seizes on Terror Arrests to Attack Rival

Senator Joseph I. Lieberman seized on the terror arrests in Britain today to attack his Democratic rival, Ned Lamont, saying that Mr. Lamont’s goals for ending the war in Iraq would constitute a “victory� for extremists, including those accused of plotting to blow up airliners traveling between Britain and the United States.

“If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who wanted to blow up these planes in this plot hatched in England,� Mr. Lieberman said at a campaign event at lunchtime in Waterbury, Conn. “It will strengthen them and they will strike again.�

How odd that that is exactly what Cheney and the White House said. What a coincidence.

ORIGINAL POST:
I've been mulling over Lieberman's "concession" speech (and I use that word "concession" lightly since he conceded nothing) and there are a few things that struck me, as well, you'll see.

First, let's examine the this bit:

People …and not just the Democrats are angry at the direction of this country - so am I. People are fed up with the petty partisanship and angry vitriol in Washington

Now, read that last line again. "People are fed up... with... partisanship... ." Interesting. And here's why.

Mr. Vidiot and I have had many a conversation (loud at times) regarding how the two parties are an illusion. He thinks they're more of an illusion and I have to agree with him these days. There is NO two-party system. There hasn't been for years. On the surface, it may appear that the two parties stand for different things, but dig a little deeper, and it's easy to see that the both support the military machine, they both support inequality, they both support big business, they both do a lot of things that are counter to what we THINK they should be doing with their time in office.

What Lieberman revealed in that one little line is that he thinks it's high time to stop the facade. That partisanship isn't working, that everyone working together is the way it should be. Now, when you take into consideration the underlying pursuits of both the parties, you can see that means, well, for all intents and purposes, a one-party system.

He later said:

Together. I am confident that we can find common ground and secure a better future… that and nonpartisanship is what politics should be about.

Nonpartisanship. That's exactly exposing the ugly truth that the stupid Lieberman has blurted out for all to see: there are no parties, there shouldn't be a perception that there is an opposition anymore. Just everyone working together, out in the open like they've been doing behind closed doors for decades. There's just no standing up to it. Let it wash over you like the sweet smell of almonds... when there's too much cyanide in the air.

Think I'm wrong? Give me one argument, one debate that they have, whether it be healthcare or the war, where the "debate" isn't focused on two false points and the real crux of the issue is discussed. Can you do that? I doubt it. They obfuscate the real issues with misguided debates on this or that, to mask the fact that, bottom line, the interests of the corporations and donors will be honored.

Aaaaack.

More on this later. Mr. Vidiot and I must go out and have a few drinks. Thinking like this makes me want to numb myself.

It's just so discouraging.