Journal smittyoneeach's Journal: Buuuuuuuuuushhhhhhhh... 14
Why does the evil spirit of the former POTUS continue to drag down the innocent, hard working, urbane, mindful current occupant of the Oval O?
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How many evil spirits did he conjure up?
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Pffft... Look to the people that hired him to do it.
What I do know is that when you laugh at people who complain about Bush. (As I do also.. he's in the past), you are laughing at yourself. The Wilson thing is no different. We are quite capable of electing people who can bring back the Gilded Age whenever the desire actually comes up. In other words, there is no policy that Wilson or Bush, or anybody else has done that can't be undone.. Helplessness is a learned condition.
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We are quite capable of electing people who can bring back the Gilded Age whenever the desire actually comes up.
That would be smitty's worst nightmare, right there. Don't suggest that people can actually vote on their own for legislative change in any but a (yet even more) conservative direction.
In other words, there is no policy that Wilson or Bush, or anybody else has done that can't be undone
They are working on preventing such an undoing from ever being possible. They have already come a long ways towards that, and their ultimate goal is finishing that off.
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The Wilson thing is no different.
Wilson is substantially different. There were no explicit Constitutional changes on Bush's watch. Furthermore, Bush/Obama are the climax of this Progressive cycle. To equate them is to say that the Fall harvest is the Spring planting. Sure, both are agricultural, but, as usual, I'm finding your analysis either incomplete or just a troll.
electing people who can bring back the Gilded Age
Haven't you been arguing that plutocrats are already pulli
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There were no explicit Constitutional changes on Bush's watch.
You seem to have already conveniently forgotten that the Bush Administration wrote the PATRIOT ACT - which he happily signed - which rather plainly assaults our 1st, 4th, 5th, and 6th amendment rights.
Furthermore, Bush/Obama are the climax
Are you finally starting to realize that the two are following basically the same political courses? Just because you love one and hate the other - for no reason other than the consonant after their names - doesn't mean they are actually different in action.
of this Progressive cycle
In so much as "Progressive" means "progressively
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There were no explicit Constitutional changes on Bush's watch.
That's right. Changing the constitution has a specific procedure, which at least Wilson and congress (remember them?) followed. Bush, and congress (damn, for some reason they keep popping up) just said screw your "right" to a speedy trial, or to be free of cruel and unusual punishment (not that there's anything particularly unusual about torture, that's been in wide practice for a while). And Habeas Corpus?... Oh wait that one's got a nice loopho
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Furthermore, it took a century and fellow fools like Bush to build on Wilson's lousy ideas.
As with BHO, we tend to overcredit Wilson.
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...fellow fools like Bush...
AND Reagan. He gave us a glimpse with the Lincoln Saving and Loan of what was to come. (Say hi to McCain for me, would ya?). I really doubt that Wilson had any more to do with the corporate anarchy we suffer today than any of the subsequent actors. A whole bunch of other carpetbaggers with just as much power were on the scene.
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