[Peace-discuss] curiouser and ives

[John W.]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:43 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:



> Ives come to think the author is a favor-Currier...
>
> (Come on, John. He gave you a bit of a hint...
>
> <
> http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071910/content/01125106.guest.html
> >.)



Ah, well.  The hint was too blatant.  I thought Wayne was subtler than that.

I couldn't help but notice this line from Rush's rant:  "Washington is
dominated politically and socially by Democrats, by the left.  The
Republicans also live there."  Huh?  What?

He's right about the ruling class thing, of course.  But NEWS FLASH:  In any
reasonably complex society on earth, in any time period you care to name,
there will ALWAYS be a ruling class.





> On 7/26/10 2:28 PM, John W. wrote:
>
>>
>> Uhhhh....the "awful" Frank Rich?  Or maybe Jim Hightower?
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, E.Wayne Johnson <ewj at pigs.ag
>>  <mailto: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?
>>
>
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