Arab spring, literally and symbolically sprung!
How perfect is that?
Meanwhile, even in the wake of the official report on how political correctness likely aided in the Fort Hood massacre, it’s somehow unconscionable and dangerous — McCarthyism! Islamaphobia! — to ask for investigations into a group like the Muslim Brotherhood, who has gained access to the White House, and who has a state goal to undermine the miserable house of the US from within.
Up is down, black is white, Republican is conservative.
McCarthyism! this fits better here
If the Republican Party has decided to take its cues from establishment proponents of this reckless philosophy, if GOP leaders can no longer tell the difference between hostile anti-American operatives and benign political actors, then the Republican Party has become an obstacle to liberty and security, not a vehicle for their preservation. As is the case with crushing government debt and out-of-control government spending, it appears that the GOP is choosing to be part of the problem, rather than the solution, when it comes to the threat of Islamic supremacism. Certainly, that is a choice party leaders are entitled to make. But if it is the one they have made, why should conservatives concerned about liberty and security bother with the Republican Party?
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It’s clear that the driving force of our “leadership” is calculating whether or not a particular stance/action has a positive or negative political effect.
Which means that a lot more people are going to end up paying their cynical calculations.
Sounds more or less right to me Dale, provided we stipulate that said leadership never stops to consider the meaning of political effect in its fullest sense. And by never, I intend never.
Good point. Perhaps add “short term” before “political,” or substitute “electoral” for “political.”
The name of the game is PR management, first, last and always.
Other springs springing.
The very best of hands.