History: reversed, rewritten, and dumped down the memory hole
While the neo-fascists have fallen back on Clinton hatred in advance of the election (hey, it's all they've got, all right?), no one is talking about what a complete 180 they've done when it comes to the use of military force and respect for the office of POTUS.
"The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack [on Iraq] is itself a powerful argument for impeachment. After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons."
That wasn't a cut-and-run Democrat talking about Bush. It was GOP majority leader Dick Armey talking about Bill Clinton. And whether it was Iraq, Kosovo, or Somalia, right-wing voices were united: America became involved under false pretenses, the president lied us into it, and there were no tangible gains to be made by acting.
"Perceptions that the American president is less interested in the global consequences than in taking any action that will enable him to hold onto power [are] a further demonstration that he has dangerously compromised himself in conducting the nation's affairs, and should be impeached."
That was the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. But the piece assembles a whole mess o' quotes, all of them pushing the same line: stop the fighting, impeach the president. It's a testament to the right-wing spin machine and an indictment of our hapless press, and it's costing the nation dearly.
"The suspicion some people have about the president's motives in this attack [on Iraq] is itself a powerful argument for impeachment. After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons."
That wasn't a cut-and-run Democrat talking about Bush. It was GOP majority leader Dick Armey talking about Bill Clinton. And whether it was Iraq, Kosovo, or Somalia, right-wing voices were united: America became involved under false pretenses, the president lied us into it, and there were no tangible gains to be made by acting.
"Perceptions that the American president is less interested in the global consequences than in taking any action that will enable him to hold onto power [are] a further demonstration that he has dangerously compromised himself in conducting the nation's affairs, and should be impeached."
That was the Wall Street Journal's editorial page. But the piece assembles a whole mess o' quotes, all of them pushing the same line: stop the fighting, impeach the president. It's a testament to the right-wing spin machine and an indictment of our hapless press, and it's costing the nation dearly.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 6:43 AM
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