Ok they tell me dailykos is not twitter. Hell i can't keep up with all these talking machines... The reason I call the Republicans asking the kind of intelligent questions they ( and others) have been asking as of late is why do they only do this when it is a Democratic presidential administration? I first remember them in Clinton's use of force to re-instate Aristide in Haiti. The Republican never had a problem with either Papa or Baby Doc Duvalier but to them Aristide was threatening. I had never seem republicans have any doubts about a foreign intervention before. Cut to the Balkans. When Clinton finally abandoned the false equivilence and recognized Serbian fascism as the most developed and most dangerous, he was accused of trying to distract the public from the Lewinsky scandal. The Bush intervention in Iraq violated every one of the conservatives supposed core values. Conservatives re supposed to understand the danger of unintended consequences. Prior to WWII conservatives were rightly leery of policing the world and Liberals were internationalists. Many are arguing that the Right social populist movement could merge with a left/libertarian/populism on some issues. Somehow we must get our brothers and sitters on the Right to see the web between Big Government , which theyhate, and Big Business, which we hate. If these Republican leaders do not be careful they might get a bipartisan revulsion at what it cost us in dollars alone to be World hegemony