Hands are being wrung everywhere; can nothing be done to stop the crazy right wing?
Can we do anything about confusing the teaching of evolution with the religiously inspired `intelligent design’? Can anything be done about the administration’s labeling of anyone not in agreement with its Iraq War policy as traitors? Is there hope in slowing our rush to reform the world in our image?
Of course there are things to be done to throw a monkey wrench into the vast right wing conspiracy. First and foremost, pop open a Bud and relax.
As post New Deal excesses in the sixties doomed the left, as rightist madness in Europe ended with a decades long discrediting of Fascism, as the obvious failures of Communism led to the implosion of the Soviet Union, as the take no prisoners actions of Joe McCarthy led inevitably to the end of the right in America in the 1950s, so it will be that the new Right will shoot itself in the foot in our time. In fact the first shots have already been fired.
The terribly sad Terri Schiavo affair awakened common sense in huge numbers of very conservative Evangelical Christians and undermined the credibility of President Bush and fallen House Majority Leader Tom DeLay with a wide swath of the right wing base.
The effort by zealots to discredit the science of Charles Darwin and to require that Creationism or its latest religiously inspired act all costumed in lab coats, Intelligent Design, which had most scientists everywhere going bonkers is now in full retreat in the face of the throw the bums out results of the Dover, PA School Board election. I can’t believe that the good common sense folks in the heart of the Heartland of Kansas are going to be far behind their brethren in Dover.
On that point, in today’s Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer skewered his Intelligent Design buddies. Charles, as many of you know, is farther right than Atilla on most subjects, but even he cannot deny his own scientific education. The following link will allow you to enjoy one of the most direct assaults on moronic design I’ve ever seen. Way to go, Chuck!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701304.html?referrer=emailarticle
Yesterday, one of the true heavyweights from the national defense wing of the Democratic Party, Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania, threw a wicked huge gob of crap into the right wing war machine fan by declaring the Iraq War a failure. As expected, the President and his draft dodging chicken hawk supporters went bananas, but, no longer surprisingly, the people haven’t budged from their course to find the war ill considered.
Oh, and then there was that attack on Social Security by the President. You remember that one, don’t you? Even the Pres acknowledged that he wasn’t trying to make it solvent but rather to privatize it. What happened to that bit of legerdemain? This is a sad one because we really do have to address the problems of long term funding of the program, but the obvious effort to kill the program cost Mr. Bush all of his election capital and the rest of us what was really needed.
Well it’s coming up on noon in the National Capital Area and Wild Bill hears the call of the lager in the fridge. So ya’all just kick back and relax; the neocons, libertarians and Evangelicals are all marching in different directions and fighting among themselves. It won’t be long now.
Whew, that was close; another few years and every street in the Country would have been renamed in honor of Ronald Reagan and we moderates couldn’t have found our way to the polling booths.
Blog on!
Wild Bill
