[StoneWallJack]

Liberals are naturally funny!

[Mr. Rational]

The Onion has competition!

[infidel29]

...the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world.

...and the problem with this is...?

[Buck W.]

The Nation: The only magazine that can make Mother Jones appear mainstream.

[Nonstatist]

The most critical question has been whether American democracy, severely eroded but still breathing, would bring down the Republican machine, or whether the Republican machine--call it the budding one-party global empire--would bring down American democracy.

I disagree. I think the critical question is whether unhinged leftists rags like this can continue to wax hysterical ad infinitum, or will they eventually extinguish themselves from shear exhaustion ?

[CWOJackson]

Sounds like pat buchanan.

[Navy Patriot]

Liberals are naturally funny!

While commiting treason, it seems. A couple of one liners here:

the public, represented by opinion polls,

As happened in the Vietnam era

cowed until now,

democracy, after years of decline,

Schell has scored some good weed.

[Eddie01]

I'm proposing a new alert for articles like this.

The "Tacoma Narrows Bridge" alert.

The left is starting to violently twist so hard the inevitable structual failure and collapse into the dustbin of history is looking more certain by the day.

And what is this "Machine" bit. He must mean "Machine" as in War of the Worlds type machine no doubt. Relentless, merciless, uncaring, freedom stripping, jedi mind tricking machine.

LOL. Man these folks have a major projection issues (or is it strategy).

[atomicpossum]

The greatest single advantage the Republican Party has in the foreseeable future is that people like this are the competition.

[Graybeard58]

This is what I call a "word salad".

[jonrick46]

A sample sentence from the article: " Still others, like journalist Robert Kaplan, were touring the empire's far-flung garrisons, lionizing the "imperial grunts" and counseling that America's civil leaders should yield to military direction."

This writer is so caught up with his association with the American Republic to the Roman Empire that he must use esoteric descriptions to prove his point. We are portrayed as utilizing "garrisons" as if we were like some imperialistic empire that occupies countries like a modern day Roman Empire. The image of one "lionizing the imperial grunts" is a scornful portrait of our men and women sacrificing themselves for the good of freedom. When one begins making comparisons with the Roman Empire one thinks of our government under the rule of the Democrats. Whenever there is corruption on the level of the Roman State, we find the Democrats in power. As far as the process of "lionizing" people for purposes of propaganda, the Hollywood cult star system is one that the Democrats play to the hilt.

[The Old Hoosier]

The failed empire, in the shape of its failed war, has driven down the President's support to the point at which others, cowed until now, feel free to attack him.

You've got to love this. I mean, really, who HASN'T been attacking Bush??? Name the liberals who have been so scared, really! I've been hearing them bitch and moan for five years now as if everything Bush does is the worst thing ever done.

I don't see these people getting audited by the IRS, like in the Clinton years, or investigated by the FBI, like under Johnson. The worst they have to fear is maybe (gasp) the loss of some federal money, and I think we can all agree that Bush hasn't been nearly willing enough to pull that trigger.

Oh, they're so brave! Oh, they're so long-suffering! Those liberals, how admirable!!!

[Fledermaus]

For some time I have been suggesting here that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world.

Oh, like when liberal Democrats did for over 60 decades? Sore losers all.

[Liberty Valance]

Shhhh! Don't wake them. Livin' in the sixties is all they've got left.

[denydenydeny]

Not since the Soviet Union fell fourteen years ago have we witnessed a greater reversal of fortune

Not since Jonathan Schell totally failed to forsee the fall of the Soviet Union--he spent the 80s demanding that the West surrender to the Soviets to avoid an otherwise inevitable nuclear war--has any commentator been so totally wrong as this clown is here.

[AZ_Cowboy]

At this rate, the Napoleon XIV Record is going to get worn out.

[denydenydeny]

The failed empire, in the shape of its failed war, has driven down the President's support to the point at which others, cowed until now, feel free to attack him. The institutions of government and the economy, drawn like iron filings into the magnetic field of power, failed at first to check the Administration. But the public, represented by opinion polls, has stepped in, and the institutions are following.

It would have helped Schell's childish argument if the public didn't view the Democrats with even more hostility than they view the Administration.

[Vince Ferrer]

For some time I have been suggesting here that the aim of Republican strategy has been a Republican Party that permanently runs the United States and a United States that permanently runs the world.

"...and I have also been suggesting that George Bush is a Sith Lord, but even my friends tell me to leave that one out."

[Hardastarboard]

one-party global empire

The Dems controlled the government for 40 years, but that was OK? And of course, we've conveniently forgotten that.

I've forgotten. Who are we at war with now? Is it Oceania? It seems to change from month to month.

/obtuse "1984" reference mode