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Edited on Thu Apr-27-06 09:03 PM by Peace Patriot
Blumenthal's article.
1. That Rove being put in charge of Congressional elections was "the Bush White House"'s "startle reflex" to its endangerment. Rove was demoted, and the reason is either, a) that he is about to be indicted in Treasongate, or b) he is ratting out others in the WH on Treasongate to avoid his own indictment. Rove is on the way out, of necessity--due to crimes committed by the junta. Putting him in charge of the '06 campaigns was just Bush-Cheney's final insult to the real rank and file Republican Party, and to the country.
2. "In 2004, Rove galvanized 'the base' ...through ruthless divide-and-conquer and slash-and-burn tactics." Prove it. Show me the ballots. Tell me how they were counted. Show me the new voter registration data. This is Rove's and Cheney's line, that they "galvanized the base." I think it is untrue. And I think the evidence that it is untrue is much more compelling that the evidence that it is true. In truth, there is NO evidence that it is true--zero, zilch data, showing that Bush's "base" was "galvanized." (For instance, the Dems blew the Repubs away in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40. How is that a "galvanization" of Bush's base?)
3. "...with Bush winning the election...". Prove it. Show me the ballots. Tell me how they were counted. As with Bush "galvanizing" the base, the evidence that Bush didn't win is much more compelling than the evidence that he did, and the whole issue is steeped in the egregious non-transparency of the election system, achieved by Bushite voting machine companies during the 2002-2004 period, with the installation of new electronic voting technology run on "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code with virtually no audit/recount controls--a transformation of our election system wrought by the $4 billion boondoggle called the "Help America Vote Act" --a bill that was pushed through by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney.
4. "Rove's elaborate design for Republican rule during the second term has collapsed under the strain of his grandiosity." No, it has not collapsed of grandiosity. First of all, it is not yet clear that it has collapsed. Fascist powers and policies are still in place, perhaps the most insidious of them being the plague Diebold/ES&S voting machines in virtually every state--highly insecure, unreliable and hackable voting machines and central tabulators, controlled by corporations with close ties to the Republican Party and extreme rightwing causes, and, furthermore, newly devised, entrenched corruption in the election theft industry that involves both Democratic and Republican election officials and legislators. (Not easy to get rid.) The word "collapses" also implies that Roves' design for Republican rule had significant support to begin with. I don't think it ever did. I think Americans do suffer from the illusion of support for Bush--created by the war profiteering corporate news monopolies, rigged elections, and silent, ineffective Democratic leaders--but if you have followed both the issue and approval polls over the last 2-3 years, what you find is overwhelming disapproval among Americans, way up in the 60% to 70% range, on every major Bush policy, foreign and domestic. What is "collapsing" is the illusion--for which I credit the internet, and also the goodness, the basic desire for peace and justice, and the general, widespread progressive values of the American people, who have stalwartly resisted the 24/7 warmongering and fearmongering to which they have been subjected. Rove is a liar. So are Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the whole gang of criminals that have seized control of our government. THAT is why this illusion of support for them is collapsing. It was based on a "house of cards" of lies and deceit--INCLUDING the deceit of rigged elections and control of the lapdog press. "Grandiosity" may have something to do with it--in the sense that they have overreached on fascist control, and have caused revulsion even in the military and intelligence communities, and among other very establishment-type Americans. But Americans have never supported ANY of the Bush program.
I have never bought the notion that Rove is a "genius" or is even talented. It doesn't take a lot of talent to write press releases for foregone conclusions. What the Bush junta is about is foregone conclusions--the total manipulation of all the mechanisms of power, and then management of the newsstream to create a feasible narrative for their rigged game--whether it's war, or deregulation, or "winning" an election. When you examine what people like Rove and Cheney said about the election, for instance--items like their "invisible" get out the vote campaign--it's just laughable. I think that is the sole reason that they ran the anti-gay marriage initiatives in several key states--not to win votes, but to have something to say afterwards, about why they "won."
In any case, I have great impatience with these political philosophers, who go on in these generalities regarding Bush/Cheney/Rove's actions or policies, successes or failures, without looking at the actual mechanisms of power--such as the voting system itself--which they have quite deliberately and consciously re-made to their purpose.
These criminals are power-mongers, and what we, the people, need to do is power-monger them right back, restore transparency and public control of our election system, and throw them out. Power is the issue. Not vagaries like Rove's "grandiosity."
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