All Hans On [Baby] Dick !

Cynthia !

Wasn’t Hans von Spakovsky one of the successful parasitic ‘embeds’ that Turd Blossom left behind…? 8-(

Well done, Cynthia, and thanks for refocusing on what matters.

Dood… What’s shaking…? ;-)

What’s shaking…?

Chile … still ! *g*

It’s really not clear to me why anyone would read “The National Review”. The publication is a shrine to the ultimate achievement of American “conservatism”, which is that the various screed authors, loons, fanatics, and operators working at the high-level in their weird little universe have managed to somehow eloquently divorce themselves from reality, common sense, and universal human values while holding their breaths in a hard intellectual vacuum.

The publication is hardly breaking the sound barrier as far as subscriptions, go, either. Probably all of the publication’s bank accounts ultimately root themselves in Richard Scaife’s personal backyard orchard.

Heartily agree.

Same reason Winston Churchill had an astrologer.

For Christ’s sake, the publication serves as a host organism for the flesh-eating parasite identified as “Jonah Goldberg”. This guy “von Spakovsky” (his name sounds like a character out of “Raiders of the Lost Ark” or any other film with NAZI kitsch elements) is probably a step up for the “Review”.

Lawrence, still subbing for KO, is about to have DOJ stalwart Rivkin on denouncing Lizzie’s smear job…!

I place greater faith in astrologers than I do in “TNR”. I also have a kinder outlook towards astrologers so please don’t insult them with such a comparison.

Yeah, I would have liked a link, as I’m now interested enough to wade through the sewer of the NR archives. Thanks a lot.
I’m sorry, I know you shouldn’t judge people based on looks, but does that guy’s picture just scream “kid fucker”, or what?
Every time one of these shoulda-been-run-out-of-town-on-a-rail Bush-era scumbags pop back up, I find myself wishing Pres. Obama actually was a dictator, or at least had some nuts. Jail is where these pukes belong.

I worry about Holder. It seems like he wants to do the right things, but politics has trumped the rule of law.

Cynthia, I wrote the other day that I think what they’re trying to do here, the Cheneys and their ilk, is to make the rule of law less applicable to everyone and to turn it into a pejorative term like “liberal” or to denigrate it like they did with the term “government” starting with Reagan’s reign.

Chris Hayes sitting in for Rachel!!

And saying everyone needs to cool it. Rotsa ruck on that.

*heh* The firestorm commences in earnest…! ;-)

Btw, I’ve posted a new diary…!

The privleged class is exempt from the rule of law (the rich and powerful). The power of law is used to hold down the poor and keep them in their place (add the middle class). That has not changed only become a more provocative challenge. Where is Robin Hood and Lady Miriam when you need them?

I love this comment. Thank you. It’s a candid piece of first things first, like the rule of law and independence. Thank you Cynthia. The power of truth and good writing. Just wow..

No offense intended to astrologers. The point is, Churchill did not believe in astrology but he knew Hitler did, and ergo he employed one as well to help him understand what was going on in Hitler’s mind. If you don’t know what is going on in the brain of the antagonist, be it brain-rot or not, it is to your disadvantage. Ergo, the value of reading what the worst of the opposition writes.

CT That diary was easy to understand. “Reconcilliation” and “reintegration” means you are taking orders from Karzai the USA puppet:

“… Speaking at a Harvard forum, Holbrooke said there were “two different kinds of engagement: reintegration and reconciliation.”

Repeating the unsuccessfull Vietnam pacification program in the Muddle East. It flies in the face of logic that a culture would de Taliban themselves when they have shown they would rather dies for Allah than change what their Mullahs instruct them. Another decade of wasted resources and people. Both nice post here and there.

Its Marian, and I wonder what Ken Lay would have to say.

I wish I could give this the hearty laugh it deserves. They are so absurd that it is hard to take them seriously. But these people are succeeding. This is just another step further in fanning the hysteria that the country is infiltrated with Socialist/Muslim (Take your pick) — ENEMIES.

Whip the ignorant and terrified far enough and there will be violence.

Let’s please be thinking of how to counter all this. Obama is paralyzed. At the least vigorously demand of the media they challenge the lies and spin rather than giving their insanity equivalence with the normal.

Ken Lay was the patsy (somebody gets thrown under the bus when a scandal is exposed) Libby comes to mind…the Bankster mostly skate like the torturers who violated US and International laws as well as military codes of conduct.

Fair enough, “know your enemy”, etc.

Von Spakovsky knows how to write? Who knew? You look at the present political scene and it abounds with second and third raters. But it is interesting that even a fifth rater like von Spakovsky still can suck on the teat of wingnut welfare and continue to make a very comfortable living doing so.

That said, there are no white hats here. Von Spakovsky is a malicious, know nothing nutcase. Holder whatever the occasional halfway reasonable remarks is a solid corporatist. He may leave before Obama’s term expires but I don’t see him rocking any boats on his way out. He may turn out to be a Justice version of Colin Powell. He had some qualms but was too loyal a footsoldier to object.

Hey, Cynthia. I certainly agree with the second part of your post. I hope Holder gets it together and tells Rahm to f— off.

About the first part – well, why am I not surprised at demonizing someone by pointing out he clerked for a Ninth Circuit judge? I’m old enough to remember when the Ninth and the California S.Ct. and Justice Rose Bird were the early victims of conservative demonizing “liberal” judges. I assume this is just more of the same. And, of course, NR readers all know that Justice Ginsburg is a flaming liberal. /s

Von Spaz doesn’t know how to write, he just knows how to lie like a sonofabitch.

Hans, who’s a specialist in voter suppression strategies, was recently appointed to the Electoral Board of Fairfax County, Va by the local Republican party. This dark blue inner suburb of DC with 1 million people does not need this fascist as an appointed official, especially one in a position to enact his wingnut theories for disenfranchising absentee voters.

What do you expect from Von Spakovsky, a creep who’s spent his career pushing voter suppression schemes and fighting civil rights tooth and nail? Finally after the long dark night of Bush-era civil rights atrocities we have some great people and great litigators like Sam Bagenstos back on the DOJ team. It galls the right wing, but elections have consequences.

bigbrother@18: Believe me, I’m no stranger to who’s keeping whom down here.

What I’m suggesting is that the right, the people who decided that government had to be made to look ineffective at every turn until it became a punchline to right wing jokes, is now trying to get the common man, working people, the people who have been voting against their class interests since voting began but even more so since Nixon and Reagan, trying to get those people to accept the assertion that only citizens of the US deserve or are entitled to constitutional protections.

Cheney/Bush’s idea from jump, that the president could revoke the citizenship of anyone at will by designating them an enemy combatant, like Jose Padilla or whoever they were going to decide was next, was just a piece of their blueprint. Once you get people to accept that fantasy, get Americans who already don’t know what’s in the constitution to believe that one man, one incredibly privileged man who actually gloated about hitting a trifecta after 9/11, that one man can then strip Americans of their citizenship at his whim, designate them as enemy combatants, remove them to gitmo or some other black site, and then disappear them.

Don’t laugh and don’t think it can’t happen here. Read Sinclair Lewis, read Milton Mayer “They Thought They Were Free”, hell, just read Yoo’s memo, Bybee’s memo, Gonzo’s memo, and then stop for a minute and try finding out which mechanisms of totalitarianism put in place by the previous administration are still on the books. Obama has not done one single thing to make Americans safer from a fascist state when the GOP gets back into power.

And remember that since no one was impeached for their misdeeds and no one has been investigated or prosecuted under Obama, the same cast of characters will be coming back. Not only will they be coming back but they;’ll be coming back with a vengeance. They have the American people believing that there has been a lack of transparency and a lack of bipartisanship so when they take over either of the houses of congress, look for the same old shit from their previous reign, like microphones being turned off, votes held open for hours until the GOP has their number, no rooms for subcommittee hearings lead by minority members, etc., etc.

The US is, in theory, moribund. Our government no longer works and no one outside of Washington believes it can be fixed unless you consider Maddow and Olbermann who seem to think we can pull a Peter Pan and think really hard to get Tinkerbell back to life.

And we won’t even talk about the disgrace of Matthews following Biden to Israel to witness the slap in the face Biden got from Israel in the form of new settlements being promoted. But our billions will continue to flow to that rogue nation, like we gave billions back in the late 80s as Likud stole more and more land from the Palestinians. Sam Power is part of this administration and we don’t hear one fucking word about the genocide being carried out against the Palestinians. The Palestinians have one of the highest birthrates in the world. What better way to make sure they don’t increase their race than to kill women and children totally out of proportion to the numbers of Israelis who die. Or keeping pregnant woemn on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby waiting at checkpoints until it’s too late.

We’ve lost our moral compass in this country.