Thursday, March 16, 2006

What does one do with this? It is one explanation as to why the folks at Insight are 'worried' about impeachment. But is it also the NY Times policing the left? OK that's far enough?

Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush's Base

The proposal this week by Senator Russell D. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, to censure Mr. Bush over his domestic eavesdropping program cheered the left. But it also dovetailed with conservatives' plans to harness such attacks to their own ends.

With the Republican base demoralized by continued growth in government spending, undiminished violence in Iraq and intramural disputes over immigration, some conservative leaders had already begun rallying their supporters with speculation about a Democratic rebuke to the president even before Mr. Feingold made his proposal.
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2 comments:

post festum said...

Here's the thing: Stories in the Wash. Post and NY Times that have been essentially saying this same thing the last two days are entirely lacking in sourcing. Says who? A majority of those surveyed (46%) support the idea of censure, with 10% undecided. These stories strike me as little more than a stenographic report of what some Republican PR group said over the phone or over dinner when the reporter called and asked for an opinion about all this censure/impeachment talk. Jesus - journalism is dead.

But what I don't get is the contradictions within the capitalist class right now. Lots of signs from things posted here suggest that a strong faction within is increasingly willing to jettison the Bush crew, seeing as they have served their purpose and now are becoming radioactive. So why are the gold standards for the corporate class still willing to carrying Bush's water in such an obvious way?

Thursday, 16 March, 2006
post tot discrimina rerum said...

Interesting question. Giant budget deficits put upward pressure on interest rates> (for some reason the "period" button on this computer doesn"t work)> With oil prices at this level< this risks the stagflation of the latter Carter years> that"s one side of the equation> but to your question< why do the times and post cater to the abandoned corporate whore? i guess i have to stick to my original explanation: the "liberal" media drawing a line and saying no farther> one of the times editorials today basically showed this> it follows up on yesterday"s piece by claiming that the censure motion just steals momentum from calls to investigate both iraq war intelligence and the NSA wiretapping> the subtext is still the abandonning of bush because his incompetence threatens the economy>

Friday, 17 March, 2006

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