With all the attention being paid to Alito, and the possibility of a filibuster, I haven't seen much on Kos about the Palestinian elections today. Let me be clear. In my opinion, Alito was confirmed on November 2nd, 2004.
If you think that you're going to "take this country back" by going to the polls on election day and casting your vote, then going back to work, you're kidding yourself. You may as well turn off the right wing echo chamber (er, by that I mean "the news") and stop frustrating yourself with the end of the great American experiment. It's going to take a great deal of time, money, and effort to wrest the control out of the hands of a determined minority who have had a taste of power.
Now, then, about that "spreading democracy" in the middle east...
Americans think there's some point to "establishing democracy" in the middle east. As a matter of fact, it's the after-the-fact justification for war in Iraq once it became clear that the WMD weren't "in and around Tikrit", and the "ties to al Qaida" were non-existent.
Why is it not common knowledge that "the Vulcans", who flew into Austin, TX every weekend to "educate" George W. Bush while he was governor to enable him to run for President are the same people who wrote to President Clinton in 1998 to urge him to invade Iraq, then?
Why does this same media that didn't bother to point out that the "whip count" that Bush called for in a nationally televised "press conference" that consisted of softballs lobbed by sycophants never materialized because he didn't have the votes to get it passed, no veto was needed, is now ignoring the Shi-ite victories in Iraq? (Oh, and why did Bush look like a drugged monkey at that press conference?)
Why is it that the same media that told us all that Bush wouldn't lie to us, that we really were in danger of "the smoking gun taking the form of a mushroom cloud over an American city", now seems incapable of making the connection between "establishing democracy" and the extremely visible victory of Hamas, today?
Does middle America believe that their son or daughter dying to establish Islamic theocracies dedicated to the demise of Israel is a good cause, much less constitutional? Does middle America believe that they understand the definition of "victory" in "the war on terra(tm) or the "central front in the war on terra(tm)" that is Iraq?
I sure as hell don't.
Will the Democrats realize that reality just keeps handing them incontrovertable facts to dispute the right wing rhetoric? WILL the Democrats learn to use bumper stickers, not novels, to dispute the vast right wing echo chamber?
stay tuned, but if they don't, we need to find someone who will.
Oh, and as long as Alito is the topic of the day, promise yourself one thing. ANYONE who votes for Alito's confirmation must be targetted for defeat. And I don't mean taking an hour off from work to cast your vote.
Thank you for letting me get that off my chest.