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at bottom, this is mostly an indication of the disintegration of the republicans around the disintegration of the neoliberal economic ideology around which the party refashioned itself since the reagan period first made this idiocy fashionable in the states amongst the rightwing set. unable to figure out how to square their obsolete worldview with a reality that will not conform to it, the republicans went all bartelby---"i'd prefer not to"--as if that is going to salvage them.
what's worse is that the bill itself was a patchwork, composed very very quickly because of the way the bush administration---also republican--chose to not deal with this as it was taking shape.
it is also a breakdown--from the right--of the bush administration's preferred governance from a state of emergency rhetoric.
tomorrow is october 1---let's hope that this does not issue into a declaration that democracy cannot be trusted to resolve problems like this and that a real state of emergency is being declared.
it's not outside the realm of possibility at this point.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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