[PEN-L:6234] Re: Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

While you are at it, don't forget Clinton's encouragement of the re-emergence of
Japanese militarism, the selling of arms to Taiwan, and authorized the Asia TMD
(Theatre Missile Defense) system, sparking a new arms race.  The Dems has been
accused as being the party of war, but they do live up to the reputation.
Someone on this list fondly called Max a progressive Social Democrat.  NATO is
full of those types, but at least they wear their badges openly.

Henry

Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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.