Posted on 11/11/2002 12:05:41 PM PST by Dallas
Way back in the 1950's when I first tasted politics and journalism, Republicans briefly controlled the White House and Congress. With the exception of Joseph McCarthy and his vicious ilk, they were a reasonable lot, presided over by that giant war hero, Dwight Eisenhower, who was conservative by temperament and moderate in the use of power.
That brand of Republican is gone. And for the first time in the memory of anyone alive, the entire federal government — the Congress, the Executive, the Judiciary — is united behind a right-wing agenda for which George W. Bush believes he now has a mandate.
That mandate includes the power of the state to force pregnant women to give up control over their own lives.
It includes using the taxing power to transfer wealth from working people to the rich.
It includes giving corporations a free hand to eviscerate the environment and control the regulatory agencies meant to hold them accountable.
And it includes secrecy on a scale you cannot imagine. Above all, it means judges with a political agenda appointed for life. If you liked the Supreme Court that put George W. Bush in the White House, you will swoon over what's coming.
And if you like God in government, get ready for the Rapture. These folks don't even mind you referring to the GOP as the party of God. Why else would the new House Majority Leader say that the Almighty is using him to promote 'a Biblical worldview' in American politics?
So it is a heady time in Washington — a heady time for piety, profits, and military power, all joined at the hip by ideology and money.
Don't forget the money. It came pouring into this election, to both parties, from corporate America and others who expect the payback. Republicans outraised democrats by $184 million dollars. And came up with the big prize — monopoly control of the American government, and the power of the state to turn their ideology into the law of the land. Quite a bargain at any price.
That's it for this week.
For NOW, I'm Bill Moyers.
For NOW, I'm Bill Moyers.
Glad to see he's admitting he's a shill for the National Organization of Witches.
Glad to see he's admitting he's a shill for the National Organization of Witches. Dammit you beat me to it! -
So I'll have to run with:
For NOW, I'm Bill Moyers - For now, I don't care !
No one cares if these blowhards talk, we're just sick to death of having to pay for it with our tax dollars. Bye-bye to the biased one-sided PBS liberal diatribes.
Not so much a coincedence, but MCarthy was the mentor to Bobby Kennedy. During the McCarthy hearings, the councelor was young Bobby, even better when McCarthy died, no republicans showed up to his funeral, and among the very very few people who did go, were the kennedy's. Bobby always claimed that McCarthy was one of the most important people he had ever met and who influenced him greatly. One more thing, whole bit about our government being infiltrated by communists, was true. The major general of the KGB has repeatedly said that McCarthy was right on the facts, but he didn't have the right guys, some of the people he nailed were guilty, others were innocent, he was right to have an investingion though.
Half of all Americans, see most cases of abortion, as the senseless killing of unborn human life. There have been roughly 40 million abortions since the 1973 USSC decision of Roe v Wade, that legalized abortion on demand. 95% of all abortions are based on social reasons and have nothing at all, to do with incest, rape or the life and health of the mother. If a woman has sex and gets pregnant, she should take responsilbility for her actions and have the decency to see her pregnancy fullfilled.
Conservative Republicans support tax cuts and tax reform and have never promoted the idea of any transfer of wealth from working people to the rich. In reality, throughout the 1960`s and 1970`s, Democrats built a tax system that transfered the hard earnings of middle and upper class working Americans, to the poor. In doing so, they created a social welfare system that was built on entitlement programs. In 1950, the average American family paid 5% in taxes to the federal government. Today that figure is 20% to 30% and in some cases much higher.
President Bush has every right to see his judicial nominees approved by the Senate. If he chooses conservatives judges, so be it. For many years liberal judges were appointed by Democrat presidents, from FDR to Clinton and not one of those Supreme Court nominees was rejected.
Bill Moyers remains the liberal socialist he has always been. Except now, in his old age, Moyers is turning into a meanspirited old fart.
Power of the state to sanction murder of innocent life for the convenience of all.
A nation using its taxing power to take from one to give to another regardless of merit.
Judges appointed for life with a political agenda that agrees with his.
Leaders with the religion of earth first at the expense of humans.
Leaders devoid and openly distainful of piety. Wickedness and evilness are two antonyms for piety in my Thesaurus.
A nation scornful of the notion of profits. Hey, it worked for the old Soviet Union and Cuba today.
A nation that ignores its military all the while imagining evil doesn't exist in the world.
Is that the brand of politician you so crave Bill?
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