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2005-10-28 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by .com 2005-10-28 15:33|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 VDH nailed that one square on. GW is extremely disappointing this term. He is playing the lame duck role to its fullest.

He was never good the first term communicating to the public and he won't change this term. I just hope at least 1 person in his inner circle reads and heeds this article.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-10-28 16:09|| 2005-10-28 16:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Sam, it may seem so. Communicating to public, or the PR part of the administration seems to be somewhat defficient. But then, there may be some factors that do influence that side of things.

In contrast to mad moolahs, GW does not annouce what he plans to do. Beside them, there is another enemy camp, MSM. They may screw things haplessly if they got some bearings what's in store.

There is another consideration... GW administration may be trying to entrench some form of legacy doctrine, so that even if the politically the administration would change to--god forbid--donkeys, there would be enough constrictions and precedents in place that would not offer much room to maneuver and reverse the course. Once again, in such a case there would be no need to go public, rather the opposite.

GW has been always a poker player. Thus I don't see any reason to be concerned much, as he is not stepping out of his standard modus operandi. Perhaps, the WH PR should generate enough platitudes to feed the public, rather than be mostly muted. Perhaps. It may have, OTOH, very limited impact and be a waste of resources and time, while the effort may be better utilized elsewhere. I don't have enough info to presume anything in that regard.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-10-28 17:30|| 2005-10-28 17:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's see, the administration is preparing for a war with Iran, and like every government on the planet is terrified of avian flu. I doubt they are particularly unnerved by the small stuff.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-28 17:44|| 2005-10-28 17:44|| Front Page Top

#4 the PR part of the administration seems to be somewhat defficient.

Give Sobieski the understatement of the year award.

Politics is as much an inspiring entertainment as it is poker. What's being talked about here is not so much PR as leadership. Bush showed it after 9/11 but after moving on to Iraq he lost it. He cannot have been said to have won in 2004 nearly so much as Kerry lost. A fighter pilot, not a platoon leader. He doesn't understand how much others would do for him if only he would lead them to do it. Bush doesn't understand the stage nearly as well as Clinton. If only they had each other's strengths.

Posted by Cliper Wholuck9868 2005-10-28 17:53|| 2005-10-28 17:53|| Front Page Top

#5 My view of the events of the last month or two rather sticks in my craw, but that's because being honest with yourself often does.

In that time, the MSM brought the frenzy of the moronic Plame Affair, the faux story of FEMA failures regards Hurricane Katrina, and other equally politically trivial paper cuts, to a frantic boil, pandering all of these minor (politically) issues to the same level as the incredibly banal Abu Ghraib which they portrayed as some broad-brush indictment of the entire US Military.

And, to my utter surprise and dismay, the Bush admin floundered. They actually fell for the MSM game and became not only distracted, but blunted and ineffectual. The slew of OpEd articles saying the Pubs were in deep shit, against any rational analysis, became self-fulfilling. To say that I found it outrageous is probably unnecessary.

But it certainly brought home to me one fact: Rove is the key, if not essential, strategist his legend describes. Bush has stones and guts and the will, but without his team, and particularly Rove, focused and functioning on all cylinders, his administration's agenda grinds to a halt.

I think VDH hit some very important points. I do believe the answer to the Dhimmifuckdonks' scorched earth approach is total defiance, damn the torpedoes, and full speed ahead. If he stays in the current stalemate for long, and that means getting Rove & Co back on-track, it will become amber and his time as the man who leads us out of the defensive and to the offensive will be over and done.

Those of you who missed it, should take a peek at the Peggy Noonan piece I posted yesterday. It doesn't matter one whit if you like it, there's truth in there. It is the first opinion piece I've seen which adequately describes the "I've got mine" attitude that leads to the Dhimmifuckdonk attitude, to the asstard Gowadia in Hawaii selling B-2 tech, to the acceptance of the coming dhimmitude we see in academia, etc.

It boggles, IMHO, but there it is. We have to get pissed and do what needs to be done. The Minutemen are an excellent example of that basic American trait - self-reliance. I fully expect the "malaise" (which I violently reject, myself) to become something very dark, very unhealthy for those dhimmis-in-waiting, and very necessary: Watering the Tree of Liberty with the blood of those who seek to drag us down with them into oblivion.

Just my take.

Posted by .com 2005-10-28 18:05|| 2005-10-28 18:05|| Front Page Top

#6 I was waiting for someone to mention the Noonan piece. I suppose that we've all been feeling like Peggy. That's what keeps bringing us back to Rantburg, right?

The design tools keep on getting more accessible and easier to use. The means of production keep getting more accessible and easier to use. It's now about as hard to design a digital signal processing ASIC today as it was to design a discrete circuit 25 years ago. I don't have as much time to read the 'Burg as I used to, but I imagine that the Blue Heron story* was posted here. Blue Heron can synthesize DNA base pairs for $2 a pair. Some asshole in Saudi tried to get them to synthesize a killer virus. Why they haven't been overrun by federal agents, I don't know, but their website is still up if you want to find out more.

Unlike Noonan, I don't think that the elites have in some way sold out or cut their own deals. I just think that they are fools. They simply have been too long divorced from reality: wars, famine, plague. They have begun to think that it's really the end of history and that they can go on playing these silly little games until Sol burns out, I suppose. The laws of life are iron clad. Weakness will be exploited by an opportunist. Sexual selection (which is what politics is, really) is always trumped in the end by natural selection. Stasis will be overcome by change. It's programmed into our DNA at so many levels, I suspect that when we really do begin to unravel the code in our genes, we will be dumbstruck by how deeply coded those laws are. Our elites are weak. They will be destroyed. The problem for the rest of us is to find the opportunities in all of the coming chaos so we can protect ourselves and our loved ones.

* I read the Blue Heron story originally somewhere else. Strategy Page has this annoying habit of not citing its sources.

Posted by 11A5S 2005-10-28 19:03|| 2005-10-28 19:03|| Front Page Top

#7 I needed the VDH post to get my mind right. The elites are always the first to sell out. Higher levels of mediocrity. "Dhimmies-in waiting," beautiful; England's intellectual elite-the frenzied Guardian. The elites found opportunity in Nazi Germany. In the end they or their civilization will be destroyed. And those with the kernel of timeless truth will survive no matter how few their numbers. #6 Thanks for the brilliant post. Mostly VDH drives home how much we are in a historical flux, change that is monumental and not in any reflected in the popular culture.

Posted by Bardo 2005-10-28 20:44|| 2005-10-28 20:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I first attacked GWB's counter-terror credentials on Sept. 17,2001. He has long been a write-off, just like his self-appointed, dime-store, farmer-"prophet": VDH. As if he is undeflated, America's gas-bag #1 continues to wrap Bush folly in classicist jargon. VDH: Bush blew it. The only Aristotle that that quarter-wit has heard of, is a waitor back in Dallas. Get back to your farm you slavish ass-kisser.

Anti-Religious note: if the light from some visible stars was generated 3-10,000,000,000 light years ago, then how can the universe be only a few thousand Bush-Falwell years? "God" was s a creation of a warped mind, and is a figment of depraved imagination. I only go to church to steal from the collection plate.

Posted by Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-10-28 20:47|| 2005-10-28 20:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Haven't you killed yourself, yet?

You deserve banning. You offer nothing except your excess bile and the delusion that you are relevant and substantial - demonstrably false, as has been pointed out numerous times. Stew in your hate, privately. People here are honestly discussing, advocating, lamenting - the panoply of reactions to life's events.

You? You offer zip.

Mods, give it a hand.

Impale yourself, asshole.

Posted by .com 2005-10-28 20:55|| 2005-10-28 20:55|| Front Page Top

#10 VtMI, Smegma repository, that you are; so faith in a loving God pushes a few of your hot buttons, huh? Tough toenails, sand-bitch. Tell yer buds not to run, they'll only die tired. [can vapor become tired? sure would like to validate that!]

Posted by asymmetrical triangulation 2005-10-28 22:06|| 2005-10-28 22:06|| Front Page Top

#11 A pity, Vlad....Several months ago, I listened yo you.

Now you have become irrelevant. Quell Domage.

Posted by Bobby 2005-10-28 22:59|| 2005-10-28 22:59|| Front Page Top

#12 Mier's withdrawal is just one temporeal defeat amongst a legacy full of successes - the withdrawal only allows Dubya to make sure he nominates a Conservative or Centrist of unquestioned [Rightist]credentials. I don't see any LT victory for the Left or for Hillary iff Dubya names a de facto Conservative-Rightist in her place - the DemoLefties STILL have got nothing and no one for either 2006 or 2008. This brouhaha amounts to nothing more than the Left getting the Right to justify the Left, as the Lefties all but officially xpect the GOP-Conservatives to pretend Jefferson-Jackson = Marx and Stalin, AND ALWAYS DID!?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-10-28 23:06|| 2005-10-28 23:06|| Front Page Top

#13 .com, I'll ask that you reconsider irrigating our Tree of Liberty with such aenemic sustenance. Stunting might just as easily result from such horrible malnutrition.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-28 23:41|| 2005-10-28 23:41|| Front Page Top

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