Scot Woods: PoliticsRambilngs about the War, the upcoming elections and political philosophy.Where is the music- March 17, 2005 Today, William Rivers Pitt of "Truthout" battles with a moment of despair looking back at yesterday's awful anti-democratic day and says, "The Darkness drops again... So...to recap:Neocon warlord Paul Wolfowitz will head the World Bank;The White House illegally puts out fake news reports, and the Justice Department does nothing;Another $81 billion of your money and mine is to be poured onto the Iraqi sand;The GOP majority in Congress is preparing to trash 200 years of Senate tradition in.http://blogs.salon.com/0001888/categories/politics/2005/03/17.html#a266 It didn't have to be this way- March 11, 2005 Juan Cole wrote Wednesday about the awful track record of Paul Wolfowitz on Iraq. He uses Wolfowitz' own words (wherein Paul dismissed the need for large numbers of post-invasion troops in Iraq) most effectively against him. Here is Cole's concluding paragraph: I was with General Anthony Zinni at the Camden Conference a couple of weeks ago, and someone asked him if there would ever have been a relatively successful guerrilla war if his plan, of putting several hundred thousand...http://www.juancole.com/2005/03/awful-crap-from-wolfowitz-i-was.html My Hometown Dems!- March 8, 2005 I see that the Saginaw County (Mich.) Democrats now have their own blog. As a native son, I still have a soft spot for the area, although it has made so many bad choices for so long. One of the problems is that so many of the area's "Democrats" are simply refurbished Republicans who realized that they couldn't get elected with an (R) after their name. The term, I think, is DINO -- "Democrats In Name Only." Incidentally, the "blog" is really nothing more than a newsletter (Sorry boys, I can't...http://blogs.salon.com/0004414/ My letter to Salon.com- March 8, 2005 382005 Dear Salon editors: We're all a little gassed after the electoral marathon which was the American presidential election (can't we cut these things in half). In reading Salon's coverage, I hate to say it, but that fatigue shows. I detect a rising tide of distractedness and irrelevance lately in the topics chosen and the material presented. I think the publication needs to take a hard look at the meta-trends it thinks are going on and dedicate its reporting resources there. You've sort of..http://blogs.salon.com/0001888/categories/politics/2005/03/08.html#a260 |