Is It Finally,.. At Long Last,.....Feeding Frenzy?

[Parisle]

---- I notice that lots of folks are speculating about whether or not Bill Clinton was acting spontaneously, or with a plan,.. when he turned suddenly on Chris Wallace AND on Fox News, and fried the little RW snot's ears with a dose of reality. I think it was both,.. but mostly with a plan. ABC,..Disney,..Fox,..... Clinton is smarter than most, and he granted the interview. He knew what was coming, and he was ready.

---- Yeah,... that was cool,... but talk about "timing," eh? Clinton's one-sided drubbing of Wallace coincided with the release of the 16-agency NIE report purporting that mideast terrorism was more of a growing threat NOW, than when Bush confronted it five years ago,.. And right on cue, the assemblage of retired generals hits the airwaves with their ringing (and highly detailed) denunciation of the Rumsfeld military, the war plan, and the original segueway into Iraq. And those generals didn't pull any punches, either, eh? (Truth be told, the worry here is that the administration will simply dump Rumsfeld and "appear" to be doing the right thing.)

---- Wes Clark was paying attention, huh? "Dereliction of duty," was practically the next phrase to be heard on his "campaign" speaking tour. But are the rest of the democrats paying attention? Frankly, this is where the republicans normally beat the democrats. A little good news and positive press,.... and the democrats go into their sanctimonious and disconnected end-zone dance. The republicans go do their homework.

---- The expression, "dereliction of duty," has been heard at least twice in the last two weeks,... once from Pat Buchanan, and once from Paul Craig Roberts,.. conservative icons ranging from the barbarous to the genteel. But democrats have to make sure these comments stay in the mix. Richard Clarke's book, too. The many intelligence community whistle-blowers who have stepped up at some point,.... all their statements need to be revisited and reviewed. The total "case" against the Bush administration's run-up to war on Iraq is rapidly becoming a sizable volumn of inter-related chapters spanning the last five years. Somebody needs to keep that body of information together,.. rather than assume this whole deal is going to revolve around party politics of the moment. It isn't.

---- If "feeding frenzy" time has truly come 'round for the Bush White House, then it will be (A) due to the overwhelming preponderance of evidence which has gradually made its way to the surface over the years, and (B) after a concerted effort to weave all this information together and connect the dots,... finally,... and produce a sound and legalistic case against the administration. It will not happen as the result of opportunistic rhetoric or party posturing by democrats,.. and it is unlikely to be helped along by a dozen different democrats making their self-servingly disparate observations on the issue. "Dereliction of duty" has a nice ring to it. Shall we just go with that?

[Skittles]

1. they went way too far with that propaganda trash on ABC

I think that was the last straw for Clinton

[Goat or Panic]

2. Something has to happen soon.

Bush world is driving me crazy. Thanks for your helpful breakdown.

[EST]

3. Incompetence and malfeasance were two of the terms I heard

during the hearing, today, as the retired brass was relating the stern truth. Dereliction of duty describes the whole maladministration.

The interesting bit about this entire publiclown circus and it's impending doom is that no one will be able to claim credit for its demise, although, no doubt, many will.

The mass of damning evidence and the mapping of the web of deceit did not simply evolve, expanding on its own. The concerted screams and righteous anger from a relatively small group of outraged bloggers, work a day patriots and an accompanying mob of concerned, frightened and equally outraged but rudderless citizenry, demanding to be heard and refusing to shut up are finally paying off.

I would not call it a feeding frenzy, exactly, but no matter what the take of the brainless talking hairdos in their endless twittering and searching for tabloid melodrama in every serious national picture, the continuing public massaging of the truth and manging on the reality will be all to the good.

On average, any publicity, now that the scabs are being picked off our national wounds, is good for liberal reality and bad for the great deceivers.

[Parisle]

4. Not Yet,...... But Soon, Perhaps...

----- No, I agree,.... it isn't yet the political and media "feeding frenzy" as envisioned by Larry Sabato in his book of the same title. But it's drawing closer. When retired generals,... some newly-retired,.. take it upon themselves to sit down and set the record straight in this manner, then it is more than an everyday occurance, and it is frankly very inspiring. Hopefully it will lead to further statements by those possessing inside knowledge of administration deceit. I wish those same generals had weighed in on the question of a possible impending attack on Iran,... because that seems to be a real potential at the moment...

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Damn, EST!

"The mass of damning evidence and the mapping of the web of deceit did not simply evolve, expanding on its own. The concerted screams and righteous anger from a relatively small group of outraged bloggers, work a day patriots and an accompanying mob of concerned, frightened and equally outraged but rudderless citizenry, demanding to be heard and refusing to shut up are finally paying off."

OUTSTANDING!!!! :applause:

[EST]

6. Well...thankee!