[PEN-L:6231] Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Max Sawicky wrote:

>Greetings to all you born-again Republicans, relieved we don't have more
>Bernie Sanders' and fewer Pat Buchanans, lest the air war vote have been
>decided in favor of the Clinton Administration.
>
>Actually, if I had a vote I might have voted nay as well, in protest over
>Clinton's conduct of this operation, as some of the 26 Democrats might have.
>But there should be little doubt that most Republicans voted nay because
>they are the party that officially doesn't give a shit.  Naiman must be
>smoking loco weed to characterize this as some kind of victory for the left,
>not least because the chief audience for his work on trade is the same
>liberals-in-quotes he is excoriating for being soft on the IMF and "Empire."

Lemme get this straight, Max. The Dems are now the party of the IMF and
imperial war. The Republicans are full of folks who, for the wrong reasons,
want to throw a monkey wrench into the imperial financial and military
machine. But finding any good in this is a symptom of having smoked "loco
weed."

Further...Clinton's trying to revive the all-but-dead Social Security
"reform"; he committed money for the deployment of Star Wars (something
Reagan and Bush never did); he put an end to welfare as an entitlement;
he's presided over the gutting of the Endangered Species Act and the
clear-cutting of national forests (something again that Reagan and Bush
never dared); he signed the hideous crime bill and the Defense of Marriage
Act and bragged about it; and he's probably killed more people (figuring in
the Iraqi sanctions) than Reagan or Bush did. And, miraculously, he's
managed to silence liberal opposition to any of this, whether we're talking
about the enviro establishment or, I'm sorry to say, the Economic Policy
Institute.

Try some loco weed, Max - it might be revealing!

Doug

PS: Speaking of Clinton administration pigginess, I highly recommend the
hard-to-find documentary Waco: Rules of Engagement <http://www.waco93.com>.
It shows how the ATF and FBI, led by Janet Reno, massacred the Branch
Davidians and then lied about it. Chuck Schumer, whom liberal New Yorkers
cheered when he defeated Al D'Amato last November, comes off as a totally
evil asshole.