The Eve of Destruction: Bush will stop at nothing until everybody and everything is ruined forever!

Village Voice ^ | January 18th, 2005 2:37 PM | Rick Perlstein

[KwasiOwusu]

"The Eve of Destruction: Bush will stop at nothing until everybody and everything is ruined forever!"



Try this:

"The Eve of Destruction: Bush will stop at nothing until The RATS, the DUMmies and the loony left is ruined forever!"

Ahh.. that's much better. :)

[Reactionary]

And so the transformation begins: Bush is no longer a moron, but an evil genius the likes of which the world has never seen.

Those brainy liberals are sure trying to make sense of things these days.

[mbynack]

W. Bush could blunder into nominating someone as attorney general so obviously implicated in the most legally questionable and morally indefensible practices...

This scared me. I thought Janet Reno was coming back.

[Lazamataz]

I love watching these people completely spin out!

If I was in a room with this author, I would agree with everything he wrote, add "...and its completely hopeless." and push a rope towards him.

[Ignatz]

Keeping embarrassing facts on file about confederates is the best way to grip them into loyalty like a vise.

How odd to find, in this article, a reference to the 900 FBI files that the Clintons had/have!

[Arrowhead1952]

Now the testicles of the U.S. are the billions of dollars of American currency held in reserve by countries that do not necessarily wish us well, like China

Note to Rick Perlstein - You can thank Slick Willie for that, you idiot. Now, go crawl back into your cave or hole and take your meds.

[najida]

Well ain't he Mr. Crankypants! Geez, ya don't know whether to laugh or cry at this mess of words. (I plan on laughing though ;) )

[Billthedrill]

Welcome to the little fantasy world of Rick Perlstein. Yes, he has regressed. It comes of hanging around with too many people who agree with you - pretty soon the silliest assumptions turn into received wisdom.

One of the better ones - the piece is too full of them to comment on at length - is the idea that moving a portion of social security investment into the stock market is going to position those wascally Wepublicans politically to make any criticism of the KKKorporations infeasible - "you're attacking your retirement fund" we shall scream when somebody decides to, say, regulate the length of fuzz on Teddy bears.

In point of fact that's exactly what's going on anyway, and the unions will be the first to tell you that. Rick seems to be soft-pedaling this privatization's voluntary nature, as well one might when building a case for monolithic Republican fascist Rovian conspiracy. Inconvenient facts.

[kcvl]

[joe fonebone]

ahhbaadeeeb....ahhbaadeeb......ahhba that's all, folks........looney tunes

[nmh]

This is too funny:

"Look at it this way. You've heard of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, the one that produces those anguished news reports every four years about all the countries American schoolchildren lag behind in basic skills. But according to the TIMSS, if Minnesota were a country, it would have the second-best science scores and the seventh best in math. By No Child Left Behind's statutorily required benchmarks of "Adequate Yearly Progress," however, only 42 percent of Minnesota fourth-graders were proficient in math. And NCLB's test targets increase every year. So by one estimate, in 2014, some 80 percent of the schools in Minnesota's world-class education system will be rated "failures."

You would think, then again liberals don't "think", that they be concerned and want HIGHER standards to be competitive, but no, their idea of a "world class education system" is to be a "failure" by the "International Mathematics and Science Study". Obviously this person is a "failure".
Lastly, of course this isn't happening in YOUR public school! LOL!

[verity]

The Village Idiot in the Village Voice.

[nmh]

I stopped reading this after the education blurb.

Liberals are insane!

[dighton]

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This column is also available on audiocassette.

[rocksblues]

Every time I try to read one of these liberal rants I only make it to the first lie/distortion, after that it's all

BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH,BLAH!

[dead]

Taking someone with skeletons in his closet close to your breast is just like Tony's embrace of the apparently upstanding suburban New Jersey sporting goods dealer with the secret gambling addiction, specifically to have someone to pick clean when the necessity arose.

In addition to not understanding America at this point in our history, Perlstein doesn’t comprehend The Sopranos very well either.

Tony did not seek out the sporting goods dealer. They were childhood friends, and Tony specifically and repeatedly tried to warn him away from the gambling he couldn’t afford. He eventually snuck behind Tony’s back and got himself into all that trouble. At that point, Tony picked his store clean.

The message of the whole storyline was that, for Tony, business always trumped any personal relationship (that and it gave Tony a little personal validation in that he wasn’t as stupid as the supposedly upstanding member of the community – an ongoing theme in the show.) It had absolutely nothing to do with Tony wanting to have somebody with a skeleton in his closet indebted to him.

Perlstein doesn’t comprehend fiction any better than reality.

[Inwoodian]

"That's just how the Bushies do things. Every action is calculated...to change the world."

This is mighty ambitious for a frat-boy, pampered nincompoop. Really, the Left has to make up their minds. Is Bush a total idiot who only got what he has from his father's name and connections? Or, is Bush an evil genius trying to take over the world?
The person who wrote this article is an absolute hysteric. People like this,however, are useful to show the craven mindset at the fringes of the Anti-American Left.

[Cicero]

I couldn't manage to read through it, but the real purpose of an article like this is probably not to bash Bush--since there isn't a spark of real creative propaganda in it--but to establish the author's credentials as a right-thinking leftist who hates Bush with a passion.

If this guy was a former conservative, then I see this article as a political move, a declaration that he is herewith joining the Hordes of the Braindead.

He is like a lemming asking permission to rejoin the pack, and demonstrating his willingness to jump over cliffs with them.

[beachn4fun]

LOL.....

"Villiage Voice" and "Village Idiot"

kinda goes together, huh?

[TigersEye]

Keeping embarrassing facts on file about confederates is the best way to grip them into loyalty like a vise.

No better way to do that than obtaining FBI files. Screw the law.