The Right's Two Estates

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Thursday January 05, 2012 · 4:06 AM PST

2012/01/05 · 04:06

In French Revolutionary terms, the split in Iowa demonstrates the clear division in the Republican party between the 1st and 2nd Estates. The First Estate being the established power structure, in this case the wealthy corporate interests that benefit from de-regulation and targeted tax incentives and subsidies they are positioned to lobby for. Not much headway can be made with this group.

The 2nd estate is the Church, not the faithful or the religious themselves, but specifically the church.

And this is a distinction we need to exploit.

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Sunday September 19, 2010 · 5:19 AM PDT

2010/09/19 · 05:19

This won't be a long entry, all that you need is in Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

Once again, facts have a liberal bias.

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Friday May 07, 2010 · 4:07 AM PDT

2010/05/07 · 04:07

http://www.clrsearch.com/...
http://quickfacts.census.gov/...

Above are the crime stats for Maricopa county Arizona in 2009, with census data below it. This is the home of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. And it seems pretty impressive how far below the National and State Averages he is on most offenses, except one.

Murder.

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Monday August 04, 2008 · 8:55 AM PDT

2008/08/04 · 08:55

If you aren't living in a cave, you are aware that a man who worked at Fort Detrick and who was apparently the prime suspect in the Anthrax attacks seven years ago killed himself, which likely closes the case.

Olberman had an interesting take on in, although he went off the rails a bit with the conspiracy theory part.

http://www.youtube.com/...

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Thursday August 16, 2007 · 4:39 PM PDT

2007/08/16 · 16:39

Ben Franklin once said "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb, contesting the vote."

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Monday February 19, 2007 · 6:55 PM PST

2007/02/19 · 18:55

Many of the comparisons I've heard between Vietnam and Iraq are a reach. Entire books could be written about the differences. And perhaps the man best suited to write the book examining that topic would be the Former Secretary of Defense for nearly the majority of the Vietnam War, Robert McNamara. Unfortunately he has refused to comment on Iraq directly as he is unwilling to question a sitting Secretary of Defense. However, if we look to a book McNamara's wrote in 1996 "In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam:" we find 11 lessons he learned from the Vietnam War.

As you read these, remember these were not written by a critic of the Iraq war second-guessing the administrations with the luxury of hindsight. Quite the opposite. These lessons were written not about Iraq, but a war that ended over 30 years ago. Words written four years before Bush came into office and five years before September 11th.

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Tuesday October 31, 2006 · 3:44 PM PST

2006/10/31 · 15:44

A lot of people seem to be freaking out over the John Kerry statement, and that is good. That was the point of the statement, and the intent behind the wording. This wasn't knee jerk reaction, this was taking one out of the Republican playbook. Because you see boys and girls, politics isn't like reality. That is why the right are so good at it. Their tactics work in zero sum worlds.
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Afternoon Press Conferences: Or how to get Ney out of the news cycle.

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Friday September 15, 2006 · 11:12 AM PDT

2006/09/15 · 11:12

Remember last week when the bad news came out about Pakistan giving the Taliban a free pass, and then suddenly the president shows up in the middle of the afternoon for a press conference about moving prisoners from those secret CIA prisons to Gitmo?

And then Ney pleds guilty and the president magically appears for a press conference on a rainy Washington Afternoon in the Rose Garden...

We need to start cataloging the Rove tricks Read More

Roving the 9/11 Docudrama.

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Sunday September 10, 2006 · 8:20 AM PDT

2006/09/10 · 08:20

On September 8, 2004 CBS's broadcast a story regarding George W. Bush's military record. Within hours of this broadcast the authenticity of these documents was called into question. Twelve days later, CBS News President Andrew Heyward said, "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret."

From that point forward in the presidential debates, all attacks on Bush's military history, and most attacks on him specifically from CBS and most of the mainstream media lost their teeth, regardless of the accuracy of the report, as the media was viewed as unquestionably biaed.

So what does that have to do with the 9/11 Docu-travesty about to be aired? Everything. Read More

Enough Defense, time to go on the Offense.

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Friday September 08, 2006 · 9:45 AM PDT

2006/09/08 · 09:45

As Ronald Reagan once said, "There you go again."

I dream of a day when we will stop falling into the Rove traps. We have been handed evidence that this administration is allowing the Taliban to regroup in Pakistan and rather than attack, we just let it go and stay on the defensive, trying to prove a negative about Clinton or playing right into the Presidents framing of the debate on Guantanimo. The president is just sitting there! He's like a bunny, and we've got these claws, and he keeps shaking his poofy tail and we keep getting distracted. Read More

Don't let them re-frame the debate

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Thursday September 07, 2006 · 4:10 AM PDT

2006/09/07 · 04:10

Yesterday when I woke up and went to my friendly neighborhood blogs, I saw this story. I shook my head and said to myself "This is outrageous, and on national news. When this hits the media cycle, and people see he's not even trying to get Osama and letting the Taliban have a safe haven..."

But then Rove hit the reset button on the national debate. Read More

Neo-Conservative? Neo-Imperialist? Or worse?

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 6:46 PM PDT

2006/07/25 · 18:46

Sometimes I try to figure out what the hell is going through Rush Limbaugh's mind.

See, the people on the right aren't dumb, and they aren't religious zealots. Ralph Reed is a fucking genius, and the lord knows he doesn't know the lord, and still was head of the Christian Coalition at 28. Bill Kristol isn't an idiot, even if what he proposes is idiotic. Dick Cheaney showed during the debates that he knows his shit.

Yet in light of all of these obvious failures, they press on unfettered, still calling for more invasions. Is it stubborness, or as I suspect something more sinister? That the intellectuals are thinking longer term... Read More

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The Right's Two Estates

We'll stop blaming GWB when you stop blaming Carter

Juking the numbers in Maricopa County

Thoughts on Ivins and Anthrax

The Modern 2nd Amendment

McNamara and Iraq

Politics is not Reality

Afternoon Press Conferences: Or how to get Ney out of the news cycle.

Roving the 9/11 Docudrama.

Enough Defense, time to go on the Offense.

Don't let them re-frame the debate

Neo-Conservative? Neo-Imperialist? Or worse?