January 15, 2006

No Wonder Democrats Can't Muster Opposition to Orwellian Tyranny of BushCo

Much has been written about the Democratic party's inability to mount an effective and coherent opposition to the Republican Juggernaut.  The usual explanation is that Democrats are spineless, as if that explains the ease in which legitimate issues raised by a few courageous democrats (Conyers, Murtha etc.) are routinely countered by Rove's political disinformation machine and attack dogs.

But Ray McGovern's recent article, Men Intoxicated with Power and Courtiers Who Serve Them offers another possibility.  In all likelihood Rove and an ideologically inbred gang of neo-con "crazies" have been accessing the private communications of their political opponents since shortly after seizing power in 2000 (and their spying is not limited to reputedly invertebrate democrats but included Colin Powell and the UN). 

Imagine the huge advantage unfettered NSA wiretaps provide in preemptively countering, squelching and marginalizing any hint of opposition.

Stray Thoughts from Don Alejandro
who suspects that Tony Blair has also been spying on his opposition