Republicanism Sinking In
Friday, January 20, 2006 12:01 a.m.
I don't think Democrats understand that the Alito hearings were, for them, not a defeat but an actual disaster. The snarly tone the senators took with a man most Americans could look at and think, "He's like me," and the charges they made--You oppose women and minorities, you only like corporations and not the little guy--went nowhere. Once those charges would have taken flight, would have launched, found their target and knocked down any incoming Republican. Not any more. It's over.
Eleven years ago the Democrats lost control of Congress. Then they lost the presidency. But just as important, maybe more enduringly important, they lost their monopoly on the means of information in America. They lost control of the pipeline. Or rather there are now many pipelines, and many ways to use the information they carry. The other day, Dana Milbank, an important reporter for the Washington Post, the most important newspaper in the capital, wrote a piece deriding Judge Alito. Once such a piece would have been important. Men in the White House would have fretted over its implications. But within hours of filing, Mr. Milbank found h
PSYCHOHISTORY TODAY
Friday, January 20, 2006
- AS REPUBLICANISM SINKS IN ….
“…(I)t’s deceptions and peculiar madness”.
The words of Stephen R. Dujak in “Alito Needs To Shed His CAP”, guest article in the Daily Princetonian, commenting on the style, tone and tactics of the right-wing political group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), to which Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito belonged in ’72. An agreement between Dem. Kennedy and Repub Specter, apparently, kept Stephen Dujak from being called as witness in the recent Senate Judiciary Hearings, and prevented these extremely derogatory comments from being aired.
My claim, based on psychosemiotic connections between sign-uses, is that Dujak is accurately confronting and describing (“putting text to…”) the deep, pre-verbal, all-pervasive shock in confronting a particular way of being. It turned out that while the CAP group and its publication PROSPECT did, indeed, latch onto some points about the University’s sharp turn toward “liberalism” after the 60’s now accepted as commonplace: ROTC on campus; excluding women from traditional men’s clubs; funding homosexual activity; keeping Princeton on the White side – like that. A sample from “Defense of Elitism”: “People nowadays just don’t seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they are black and Hispanic; the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children.” And this was back in early 70’s, when it was fun! There is a lot of future riding here that gets played out in the deal cut at the hearings of Supreme Court Nominee Alito. America was not allowed to see, and deconstruct, the peculiar madness and deception driving Republicanism.
What kept the witness from testifying? An out and out conjunction of opposites, in Carl Jung’s sense: both sides of a contradiction become true. The New York Times, Nation and other publications rail against CAP/Alito as “EXTREMIST”. Rich Lowry, speaking for the National Review Online (the owner of which, Wm. Rusher, took over publication of Prospect in the mid-80’s, when Alito is using membership in CAP as reference for admittance to Reaganesque second term inner circle) is ho humming that, really, its positions not only became mainstream, they got GW Bush elected, twice, so what are we hearing from Liberals? – bitching and whining. In other words (subtext of neocon NR editors): the “Liberals” of old Princeton, are still pressing their left-wing agenda on America, and if you were too much of a fool to see it, then, you can get a good look at what it is, now in the face of (show pic of the piece de revulsion de jour: Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, BTK killer, Michael Jordan, .. whoever wins “Most hated/loved photo” award slated into the news cycle. So, of course, if the Democrats are always slated to be speaking up for one of them, as has proven to be no problem for the neocons to arerange (“roots connected beneath the earth”- “Scooter” Libby), of course they will always be coming off second-best, in people’s minds.
It’s like U.S.News quoted one “White House and Leadership adviser as saying, in regard to Howard Dean’s position of pulling out of Iraq, “It is really uncanny the Democrats’ ability to turn victory into defeat. Politically speaking, Dean’s comments are going to help jog awake more Americans and remind them of which party wants to protect them – and which one is just plain sissified and weak.” Maureen Dowd hit the Dems with the same “sissy” charge also, in Sunday’s 1.15.06 NY Times. The Republican the way of being matches “The Sopranos”, the TV series modeled on the GodFather films in which the business of the family is to provide protection. Its producer, Jeff Bewkes, also with Sex and the City to his credit, is now CEO of Time Warner. They know what American’s want. The game calls for providing not only protection -- security services – but also (this didn’t use to be so blatantly obvious) the enemy from which you need protecting. This is the CIA first inciting Muslim jihad against the Soviets, creating Bin Laden’s Al Queda, then protecting us by selling Bush a “slam dunk” case for neocon war on Iraq for Israel. Not many appreciate this. A daily/weekly diet of sex, rape, kidnapped, tortured, murdered women and children – some miraculously rescued, thank God – is supplied by CNN and FOX to make it fun. All work and no play makes Jack (Abram)off a dull boy.
THE WHEELS IN THE NEWS CYCLE START TO SPIN
>DRUDGE Exclusive: Teddy's Last Gasp On Alito...
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>Minority Leader Reid Apologizes to GOP
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 19, 2006; 10:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday apologized to 33 Republican senators singled out for ethics criticism in a report from his office titled "Republican Abuse of Power."
"The document released by my office yesterday went too far and I want to convey to you my personal regrets," Reid said in a letter.
"I am writing to apologize for the tone of this document and the decision to single out individual senators for criticism in it."
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>Mayor apologizes for linking God to Katrina as punishment for Repubes sins
>Drudge: “ROVE’s BACK: SAYS DEMS DEEPLY WRONG ON TERROR BUT NOT UNPATRIOTIC (decent of him; trying to neutralize the charges of betraying the trust of America his party have got coming)
Rove Says Democrats Wrong on War on Terror
Jan 20 1:35 PM US/Eastern
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By RON FOURNIER
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON
Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November and said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" in questioning Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
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>Abramoff's dad bashes George Clooney's 'glib and ridiculous attack' in Golden Globes speech
THE LETTER
Frank Abramoff letter to George Clooney (PDF)
Erica Solvig
The Desert Sun
January 19, 2006 January 19, 2006
The Rancho Mirage father of controversial Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is responding to actor George Clooney for what he’s describing as a “glib and ridiculous attack” on his son.
Frank Abramoff, in a letter addressed to Clooney and sent to The Desert Sun this morning, said he was watching the Golden Globes Monday night when Clooney, during his acceptance speech for best supporting actor, thanked Jack Abramoff “just because” and made a comment about the lobbyist’s name.
“Who would name their kid Jack with the last words ‘off’ at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up,” Clooney said during the internationally televised awards show.
In the letter, Frank Abramoff furiously defends the name, saying his son is named after Frank’s father. In the two-page letter, he calls Clooney’s acts a “lapse in lucidity” and an “obscene query.”
In a telephone interview with The Desert Sun this morning, Frank Abramoff said
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Note: “Ridiculous” is the word Laura Bush is quoted as using to brush aside Hillary Clinton’s “Plantation White House” comment
IRAN
Sen. Clinton calls for sanctions against Iran
'New vision and leadership' needed for U.S. policy in Mideast
Ross Liemer
Princetonian Staff Writer
Photo by Katherine Anderson
(Expand Photo)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) delivers an address Jan. 18 in Richardson Auditorium. Her speech was part of the formal announcement of the Wilson School's new S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies.
Editor's note: An updated version of this article is available here.
Repeatedly referring to a need for "new vision and leadership" in U.S. policy toward the Middle East, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) called Wednesday for United Nations sanctions against Iran and further global advances in women's rights, and urged optimism for a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
"We cannot and should not — must not — permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton said in a speech before a capacity crowd in Richardson Auditorium. (See full text.) "In order to prevent that from occurring, we must have more support vigorously and publicly expressed by China and Russia, and we must move as quickly as feasible for sanctions in the United Nations."
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This appears to be a shift of neocon war mongers away from Bush and the repubes to Hillary Dems. Hedging their bets – either way, the Catholic-Jewish downstate NY cabal thrives. THIS IS THE SHAPE OF MANIPULATED DEMOCRACY MATERIALIZING BEFORE OUR EYES.
>Also wedged in:
Italian Minister: World Must Confront Iran
Jan 20 2:58 PM US/Eastern
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By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
ROME
Iran's nuclear program is testing the resolve of the international community, and the world needs a unified approach to the escalating diplomatic standoff, Italy's foreign minister said Friday.
"The international community must have a defined, very precise, very united strategy," Gianfranco Fini told The Associated Press.
Iran is facing possible referral to the U.N. Security Council for its refusal to give up its uranium enrichment program. The council has the power to impose economic and political sanctions.
European powers have drafted a resolution
Italy: one of the coalition of the willing . Wonder if John Bolton has anything to do with this orchestration?
ALSO ON IRAN:
Iran Moving Currency As Pre-Emptive Move
Jan 20 1:12 PM US/Eastern
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By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran
Iran is moving its foreign currency reserves out of European banks as a pre-emptive measure against any possible U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, the Central Bank Governor said Friday.
Ebrahim Sheibani told reporters that Iran has started transferring the foreign currency reserves from European banks to an undisclosed location, the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency reported.
"We transfer the foreign exchange reserves to wherever we deem fit," Sheibani was quoted by ISNA as saying. "We have begun transferring. We are doing that."
Sheibani would not say how much money was involved and it was not immediately clear whether
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NEW BIN LADEN TAPE
> U.S. Rejects Any 'Truce' With Bin Laden
Email this Story
Jan 20, 8:10 AM (ET)
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
(AP) Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 file photo in Afghanistan....
Full Image
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rejecting a suggestion by Osama bin Laden of a negotiated truce in the war on terror, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was only one way to deal with terrorists. "I think you have to destroy them," Cheney said.
The vague offer of a truce - coupled with a threat of another attack on the U.S. - was made in an audiotape released by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera. It brought new attention to the al-Qaida leader after a yearlong lull in his public statements.
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Drudge: “BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN” TOP MOVIE IN AMERICA”.
…and deservedly so, says NYTimes Frank Rich, new years column.
FROM the Wall Street Journal;
PEGGY NOONAN
Not a Bad Time to Take Stock
Thoughts on the decline of the liberal media monopoly and the future of the GOP.is thinking analyzed and dismissed on the Internet; National Review Online called him a "policy bimbo…”
Subtext: “We control the media so completely now we can be blatant about it, and bounce smearing guffaws off each other’s right-wing stupidities.”
****/
>Drudge: Mother Locks Mentally Disturbed Daughter in Bathroom for 30 Years
I don't think Democrats understand that the Alito hearings were, for them, not a defeat but an actual disaster. The snarly tone the senators took with a man most Americans could look at and think, "He's like me," and the charges they made--You oppose women and minorities, you only like corporations and not the little guy--went nowhere. Once those charges would have taken flight, would have launched, found their target and knocked down any incoming Republican. Not any more. It's over.
Eleven years ago the Democrats lost control of Congress. Then they lost the presidency. But just as important, maybe more enduringly important, they lost their monopoly on the means of information in America. They lost control of the pipeline. Or rather there are now many pipelines, and many ways to use the information they carry. The other day, Dana Milbank, an important reporter for the Washington Post, the most important newspaper in the capital, wrote a piece deriding Judge Alito. Once such a piece would have been important. Men in the White House would have fretted over its implications. But within hours of filing, Mr. Milbank found h
PSYCHOHISTORY TODAY
Friday, January 20, 2006
- AS REPUBLICANISM SINKS IN ….
“…(I)t’s deceptions and peculiar madness”.
The words of Stephen R. Dujak in “Alito Needs To Shed His CAP”, guest article in the Daily Princetonian, commenting on the style, tone and tactics of the right-wing political group Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), to which Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito belonged in ’72. An agreement between Dem. Kennedy and Repub Specter, apparently, kept Stephen Dujak from being called as witness in the recent Senate Judiciary Hearings, and prevented these extremely derogatory comments from being aired.
My claim, based on psychosemiotic connections between sign-uses, is that Dujak is accurately confronting and describing (“putting text to…”) the deep, pre-verbal, all-pervasive shock in confronting a particular way of being. It turned out that while the CAP group and its publication PROSPECT did, indeed, latch onto some points about the University’s sharp turn toward “liberalism” after the 60’s now accepted as commonplace: ROTC on campus; excluding women from traditional men’s clubs; funding homosexual activity; keeping Princeton on the White side – like that. A sample from “Defense of Elitism”: “People nowadays just don’t seem to know their place. Everywhere one turns blacks and Hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they are black and Hispanic; the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children.” And this was back in early 70’s, when it was fun! There is a lot of future riding here that gets played out in the deal cut at the hearings of Supreme Court Nominee Alito. America was not allowed to see, and deconstruct, the peculiar madness and deception driving Republicanism.
What kept the witness from testifying? An out and out conjunction of opposites, in Carl Jung’s sense: both sides of a contradiction become true. The New York Times, Nation and other publications rail against CAP/Alito as “EXTREMIST”. Rich Lowry, speaking for the National Review Online (the owner of which, Wm. Rusher, took over publication of Prospect in the mid-80’s, when Alito is using membership in CAP as reference for admittance to Reaganesque second term inner circle) is ho humming that, really, its positions not only became mainstream, they got GW Bush elected, twice, so what are we hearing from Liberals? – bitching and whining. In other words (subtext of neocon NR editors): the “Liberals” of old Princeton, are still pressing their left-wing agenda on America, and if you were too much of a fool to see it, then, you can get a good look at what it is, now in the face of (show pic of the piece de revulsion de jour: Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, BTK killer, Michael Jordan, .. whoever wins “Most hated/loved photo” award slated into the news cycle. So, of course, if the Democrats are always slated to be speaking up for one of them, as has proven to be no problem for the neocons to arerange (“roots connected beneath the earth”- “Scooter” Libby), of course they will always be coming off second-best, in people’s minds.
It’s like U.S.News quoted one “White House and Leadership adviser as saying, in regard to Howard Dean’s position of pulling out of Iraq, “It is really uncanny the Democrats’ ability to turn victory into defeat. Politically speaking, Dean’s comments are going to help jog awake more Americans and remind them of which party wants to protect them – and which one is just plain sissified and weak.” Maureen Dowd hit the Dems with the same “sissy” charge also, in Sunday’s 1.15.06 NY Times. The Republican the way of being matches “The Sopranos”, the TV series modeled on the GodFather films in which the business of the family is to provide protection. Its producer, Jeff Bewkes, also with Sex and the City to his credit, is now CEO of Time Warner. They know what American’s want. The game calls for providing not only protection -- security services – but also (this didn’t use to be so blatantly obvious) the enemy from which you need protecting. This is the CIA first inciting Muslim jihad against the Soviets, creating Bin Laden’s Al Queda, then protecting us by selling Bush a “slam dunk” case for neocon war on Iraq for Israel. Not many appreciate this. A daily/weekly diet of sex, rape, kidnapped, tortured, murdered women and children – some miraculously rescued, thank God – is supplied by CNN and FOX to make it fun. All work and no play makes Jack (Abram)off a dull boy.
THE WHEELS IN THE NEWS CYCLE START TO SPIN
>DRUDGE Exclusive: Teddy's Last Gasp On Alito...
****
>Minority Leader Reid Apologizes to GOP
The Associated Press
Thursday, January 19, 2006; 10:25 PM
WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid on Thursday apologized to 33 Republican senators singled out for ethics criticism in a report from his office titled "Republican Abuse of Power."
"The document released by my office yesterday went too far and I want to convey to you my personal regrets," Reid said in a letter.
"I am writing to apologize for the tone of this document and the decision to single out individual senators for criticism in it."
****
>Mayor apologizes for linking God to Katrina as punishment for Repubes sins
>Drudge: “ROVE’s BACK: SAYS DEMS DEEPLY WRONG ON TERROR BUT NOT UNPATRIOTIC (decent of him; trying to neutralize the charges of betraying the trust of America his party have got coming)
Rove Says Democrats Wrong on War on Terror
Jan 20 1:35 PM US/Eastern
Email this story
By RON FOURNIER
AP Political Writer
WASHINGTON
Embattled White House adviser Karl Rove vowed Friday to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue in November and said Democratic senators looked "mean-spirited and small-minded" in questioning Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito.
****/
>Abramoff's dad bashes George Clooney's 'glib and ridiculous attack' in Golden Globes speech
THE LETTER
Frank Abramoff letter to George Clooney (PDF)
Erica Solvig
The Desert Sun
January 19, 2006 January 19, 2006
The Rancho Mirage father of controversial Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is responding to actor George Clooney for what he’s describing as a “glib and ridiculous attack” on his son.
Frank Abramoff, in a letter addressed to Clooney and sent to The Desert Sun this morning, said he was watching the Golden Globes Monday night when Clooney, during his acceptance speech for best supporting actor, thanked Jack Abramoff “just because” and made a comment about the lobbyist’s name.
“Who would name their kid Jack with the last words ‘off’ at the end of your last name? No wonder that guy is screwed up,” Clooney said during the internationally televised awards show.
In the letter, Frank Abramoff furiously defends the name, saying his son is named after Frank’s father. In the two-page letter, he calls Clooney’s acts a “lapse in lucidity” and an “obscene query.”
In a telephone interview with The Desert Sun this morning, Frank Abramoff said
*****/
Note: “Ridiculous” is the word Laura Bush is quoted as using to brush aside Hillary Clinton’s “Plantation White House” comment
IRAN
Sen. Clinton calls for sanctions against Iran
'New vision and leadership' needed for U.S. policy in Mideast
Ross Liemer
Princetonian Staff Writer
Photo by Katherine Anderson
(Expand Photo)
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) delivers an address Jan. 18 in Richardson Auditorium. Her speech was part of the formal announcement of the Wilson School's new S. Daniel Abraham Chair in Middle East Policy Studies.
Editor's note: An updated version of this article is available here.
Repeatedly referring to a need for "new vision and leadership" in U.S. policy toward the Middle East, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) called Wednesday for United Nations sanctions against Iran and further global advances in women's rights, and urged optimism for a peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
"We cannot and should not — must not — permit Iran to build or acquire nuclear weapons," Clinton said in a speech before a capacity crowd in Richardson Auditorium. (See full text.) "In order to prevent that from occurring, we must have more support vigorously and publicly expressed by China and Russia, and we must move as quickly as feasible for sanctions in the United Nations."
*****/
This appears to be a shift of neocon war mongers away from Bush and the repubes to Hillary Dems. Hedging their bets – either way, the Catholic-Jewish downstate NY cabal thrives. THIS IS THE SHAPE OF MANIPULATED DEMOCRACY MATERIALIZING BEFORE OUR EYES.
>Also wedged in:
Italian Minister: World Must Confront Iran
Jan 20 2:58 PM US/Eastern
Email this story
By VICTOR L. SIMPSON
Associated Press Writer
ROME
Iran's nuclear program is testing the resolve of the international community, and the world needs a unified approach to the escalating diplomatic standoff, Italy's foreign minister said Friday.
"The international community must have a defined, very precise, very united strategy," Gianfranco Fini told The Associated Press.
Iran is facing possible referral to the U.N. Security Council for its refusal to give up its uranium enrichment program. The council has the power to impose economic and political sanctions.
European powers have drafted a resolution
Italy: one of the coalition of the willing . Wonder if John Bolton has anything to do with this orchestration?
ALSO ON IRAN:
Iran Moving Currency As Pre-Emptive Move
Jan 20 1:12 PM US/Eastern
Email this story
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press Writer
TEHRAN, Iran
Iran is moving its foreign currency reserves out of European banks as a pre-emptive measure against any possible U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program, the Central Bank Governor said Friday.
Ebrahim Sheibani told reporters that Iran has started transferring the foreign currency reserves from European banks to an undisclosed location, the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency reported.
"We transfer the foreign exchange reserves to wherever we deem fit," Sheibani was quoted by ISNA as saying. "We have begun transferring. We are doing that."
Sheibani would not say how much money was involved and it was not immediately clear whether
*****
NEW BIN LADEN TAPE
> U.S. Rejects Any 'Truce' With Bin Laden
Email this Story
Jan 20, 8:10 AM (ET)
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
(AP) Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 file photo in Afghanistan....
Full Image
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rejecting a suggestion by Osama bin Laden of a negotiated truce in the war on terror, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was only one way to deal with terrorists. "I think you have to destroy them," Cheney said.
The vague offer of a truce - coupled with a threat of another attack on the U.S. - was made in an audiotape released by the Arab television network Al-Jazeera. It brought new attention to the al-Qaida leader after a yearlong lull in his public statements.
****/
Drudge: “BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN” TOP MOVIE IN AMERICA”.
…and deservedly so, says NYTimes Frank Rich, new years column.
FROM the Wall Street Journal;
PEGGY NOONAN
Not a Bad Time to Take Stock
Thoughts on the decline of the liberal media monopoly and the future of the GOP.is thinking analyzed and dismissed on the Internet; National Review Online called him a "policy bimbo…”
Subtext: “We control the media so completely now we can be blatant about it, and bounce smearing guffaws off each other’s right-wing stupidities.”
****/
>Drudge: Mother Locks Mentally Disturbed Daughter in Bathroom for 30 Years
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