[Peace-discuss] curiouser and ives

[John W.]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, E.Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag> wrote:



>  well i meant curiouser and curiouser...
>
> But can you guess the author of these words?
>
>
> Differences between Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas are of degree, not kind.
> Moreover, 2009-10 establishment Republicans sought only to modify the
> government’s agenda while showing eagerness to join the Democrats in new
> grand schemes, if only they were allowed to.”  Well, this resonated with me
> because I plaintively say, “Why do you Republicans continue to accept their
> premise on everything and then deal with it on the margins?  ...Why do we
> accept the premise that there must be a stimulus package?  Why do they set
> the agenda?”  This piece is partially the answer: They’re all part of the
> ruling class.  The Republicans want to be even more accepted in the ruling
> class.  They want to be even more powerful.  They want to be considered part
> of it.  They want to be in the clique…
>
> ... Now, here we have people like Trent Lott, everybody’s assumed is a
> conservative all along, now being threatened by the arrival of a Tea Party
> caucus, ah, ah, ah, ah, “‘We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples. As
> soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.’  But Lott said he’s not
> expecting a tea-party sweep. ‘I still have faith in the visceral judgment of
> the American people.’”
>
>  So all of you looking at the Tea Party thinking it’s the Republican
> Party’s salvation, the Republican members of the ruling class are just as
> threatened by the Tea Party as the Democrats are.  Because the Tea Party is
> outsiders; the Tea Party is not in the big clique; the Tea Party does not
> want to be in the big clique.  The Tea Party wants to wrest power away from
> the big clique.
>
> and the author?
>
> Rush Limbaugh?  What?
>

Uhhhh....the "awful" Frank Rich?  Or maybe Jim Hightower?
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