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4/25/2005

This week at PoliAnna

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Justice DeLay’d, again: The trouble with Tom

The charges against Delay betray the wholesale prostitution of the legislative branch of the United States government, as well as ruthless politics camouflaged behind poll calibrated conservative populist and religious rhetoric. More than selling books, the Hammer and Company broke laws to collect money, spread influence, and dole out political goods in ways that spit in the face of the public good and line the pockets of themselves and their supporters. These tactics also violate house ethics rules and the law. Within the new Rovian political calculus of divide and conquer, DeLay & Co. may well stand a 50/50 chance of riding this thing out by holding the Hammer up as a noble conservative under attack from Godless liberal detractors. Read On!

Debunker: More on Bolton: Nuke the U.N., cont’d.

Right wing commentary creates the impression that John Bolton is the perfect man to clean up the corrupt and ineffective United Nations. You say tomato, we say rotten tomato. More sensible voices argue that he is in fact a dangerous ideologue, with a disregard for international institutions and for the facts, and he has a bad temper to boot. No wonder W loves him. Read on!

Debunker: The filibuster.

Frist and his paymasters talk up the Armageddon Option.  Following hot on the heels of the Schiavoist conference “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith” (featuring a Tom DeLay video appearance) comes “Justice Sunday: Stopping the filibuster against people of faith,” a telecast designed to beam directly into churches across America, and with a scheduled guest star of Senator Bill Frist. It seems like such a clever plan: get voters while they’re in church and tell them that Democrats (presumably G odless commies) are fighting “against people of faith” (and, presumably, Jesus himself). Read on!

Debunker: Social Security.

Privateers’ Golden Oldies: trust fund & minorities.  If a trillion dollars falls in the forest, does it make a sound? Apparently – it’s the sound of a handful of Privateers who just can’t stop repeating the same old crusty myths. Read on!

Debunker: Miscellaneous.

Freedom means protest; Wal-Mart sucks; and God and love. If democracy and liberty mean that David Horowitz and Ann Coulter have to get hit by pies every now and then, we’ll take ours with extra cream. Read on!

Debunker: The estate tax, the energy bill, and the bankruptcy bill. What do they all have in common?  Read on!

Debunker: Project Minuteman.

Blame the foreign laborers department. At the beginning of April, Operation Minuteman, a group of armed vigilantes, began their patrol of a 20 mile stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border to prevent illegal immigration. This xenophobic, jingoistic, and illegal group is naturally being hailed by the right as heroic and patriotic. And why not, they encompass three favorite right wing themes, anti-government rhetoric, blaming our problems on foreigners, and guns. Read on!

And check out our Wing Nuts section for some of the zanier quotes from the right and far right. Just what kind of man does young evangelist Doug Giles think women really want these days? (Hint: not “metrosexuals"!)

— ezra
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