Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Sidney Blumenthal: The Strange Death of Republican America: Chronicles of a Collapsing Party

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:52:46 +0000

And she was caught up in the “confidentiality” trap. Sy Hersch discovered her and Reid’s collusion in giving Bush all that money to begin to stir things up in Iran. And she knew about waterboarding and never objected? Was that a safety measure for BushCo, compromise the Dem leadership?

Okay… if not impeachment, SB is right about commissioning investigations into so much of the corruption and unAmerican activities of our government, re torture, black sites, privacy invasion, no habaes corpus, corporate cronyism.

I wonder if the red staters turning purple have so much “buyer’s guilt” … though they get Bush as a destroyer … they are psychologically enmeshed with his regime by leaving him there two terms and don’t want to weather accountability exploration. Or is it just low-info narcissism and/or cynicism that replaces proactivity with a VACUUM?

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:38:24 +0000

Well, Nancy Pelosi said quite a while ago that we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg, so presumably she knows about a lot that’s much worse than what we know, if you can even imagine such a thing.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:29:30 +0000

Oops - “here’s the money quote” was supposed to come before the quote. Forgot to preview again, sorry all.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:28:16 +0000

Ah, memories!
I was in Boston, then too - religiously bought the Real Paper after the bustup…
I was such a purist.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:27:26 +0000

(Thanks, Hugh … I felt embarrassed I was talking too much at the end there.)

I always had the creepy feeling that re the Iraq War especially and maybe Katrina there was an inclination on the part of Dems (and this is pretty dark if it is true) to give Bush the rope to hang himself. How that has back-fired on all of us and the price tag is heartbreaking. Passive aggressive grid-lock. If that was the case at times … it was foolhardy.

But who knows? When I see the REALITY-DEFYING right wing reps on CSPan in House and Senate waving the metaphorical flag with their resonant psuedo patriotic rhetoric, I shake my head and wonder how I could stand listening to such unabashed progandic grand-standing for even a day.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:26:28 +0000

She had the opportunity to purchase the property and refused it… ultimately cost the City of Wasilla (so far) $2,100,000 when they lost every legal decision to (the ultimate buyer). The case is now headed to the Alaska Supreme Court may [sic] the City of Wasilla could lose another $5,000,000 or more if the Lundgren prevails regarding a change of the date of taking. All of this litigation arose as a result of Palin appointing a Republican croney as the City of Wasilla Attorney whose only judgement was BAD JUDGEMENT. Lundgren even offered to GIFT them the land neceessary to build th sports complex and the City of Wasilla turned that offer down choosing to continue the litigation.

Here’s the money quote:
This just gets better [worse] and better! /s

By: Craig Unger

Craig Unger — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:24:55 +0000

As for the Real Paper and Phoenix, they were rivals and there was sort of war of the weeklies(a Joan Micklin Silver movie came out of it called Between the Lines). Both Sidney and I started on what was originally called Boston After Dark. After a rival semi-underground paper(sea level, we called them) called The Phoenix sprung up as a competitor, Boston After Dark bought it, and took its name. But the staff of the old Phoenix refused to just go out quietly and continued to publish under the name The Real Paper.

Sidney and I both started out at Boston AFter Dark and moved to the Phoenix….

By: newtonusr

newtonusr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:19:15 +0000

She is perfect for the job.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:17:22 +0000

Ouch! Arrogant and incompetent, Palin truly is a modern day Republican.

By: Kelpie

Kelpie — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:16:23 +0000

Yeah and sorry for my abuse of your name *Sidney Dx