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so wait---after being wholly aligned with the crudest imaginable form of neoliberal economic ideology for year after year--you remember, right? that quaint horseshit about markets being rational, enlightened self-interest raising all boats blah blah blah--the dreamworld that landed us in a systemic crisis--now conservatives are trying to argue that because obama operates within constraints and so is moving toward what he talked about more quickly in some areas, more slowly in others, and sometimes has to reverse course---that somehow conservatives had a handle on reality?
that's hilarious.
so the gitmo tribunals are in place but they're also being made over into something more than kangaroo courts--so therefore, in the blinkered little world of what remains of the right, bush administration policy in this area is vindicated?
because the bush administration's wiretap policies have not been entirely abandoned, those policies are vindicated?
i suppose by this same logic, the right can say that because the administration limited the release of images which show the extent of the bush people's use of torture as an arm of policy that therefore the bush people's use of torture is vindicated.
these arguments are so stupid that it's hard to know where anyone not a far right ideologue can find the energy to waste their time on them.
maybe this is what the karl rove school has come to--a kind of victory through stupidity that happens in some alternate universe that makes if seem coherent to still be on the right---if a statement floats out there in the media-aether and is so stupid that no-one outside the right takes it seriously, then the right wins. hooray!
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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