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CrimeSofties or JimHuggers?: Has the GOP and its conservative pundits revealed a fundamental flaw? We're referring to the old conservative political stance of "Getting Tough On Crime". With all of the FOX News Network shameless O'Keefe-hugging, it would appear that FOX and their Conservative ilk are getting "Soft on Crime"? By promoting Mr. O'Keefe and his allegedly illegal break-in (not to mention possible conspiracy by involvement with his whole gang and others...) of Senator Mary Landrieu's Office in a Federal Building, aren't they giving themselves the appearance of aligning with the "crime-dog"? Conservative criminals consorting with known felons? Gee, who'd thunk it?
True, true...Federal property is the "people's property"? But isn't that also true in Red China? Has the Right gone (apparently) Red in embracing an activist demagogue that espouses lame, trite, trivial defenses about public property being his property? Wait? Didn't Timothy McVeigh feel the same about the Alfred P. Murrah building?
Oh, and what about the Nixonian association with the Watergate break-in? We don't recall too many politicos hugging poor old Milhous about that time. Nope, not too many. Didn't he resign in shame and leave the political limelight forever after that break-in and the attempted wiretaps? Shouldn't Roger, Rupert, Sean, Bill-O and the rest be doing the same? That or running for political cover before the political fallout?
Our point is that O'Keefe and his alleged-gang being guilty or no, there's no avoiding the negative connotation. We were slightly amazed that Keith O and his staff did not pull up (gleefully...it would have been OK...) the negative references to being Soft-On-Crime, Hugging Criminals and Conspirators, Sopranos references, Nixon references and more. Yes, we know, the McVeigh reference is nauseatingly over-the-top. But, most of these conservatives (some - not all, we love Joe Scarborough), like the proverbial dog, return to their own vomit.
But, lest we forget, seems that our government is getting actionable intelligence out of the Detroit Christmas Attack terror suspect without resorting to waterboarding, torture nor military tribunals? So, apparently there's no need to overturn the Geneva Convention nor bring this poor chump to a military tribunal. How do we know? Because our senior editor's hometown is Detroit, and he's spitting mad over the whole sordid affair - as well as the "any-means-necessary" hypocritical Bushie conservative approach. They didn't have to waterboard Abdulmutullab, did they? Neither do they have to go around casting rose petals at the feet of O'Keefe. Nauseating.
So what is being kept out of our sight? What is the bigger picture? Why all of the political posturing and gainsaying over one two-bit break-in and illegal attempted wiretap by a cheap (alleged) criminal and his "Apple Dumpling" Gang? What is the big deal? Or is it some kind of cover up and/or whitewash? We're waiting...
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FOM: O’Keefe Toxic for the GOP? – MSNBC Countdown Tues, 2/2/2010http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#35209054 and http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#35208524
Updated/Revised: Friday, February 5, 2010
With the constant flood (or should we say "surge"...) of bad economic news, layoffs, billion-dollar losses, it appears that the entire earth is suffering. Or should we rename the planet? How about renaming Earth "Layoff" and hang up a "Positions Wanted" sign? Pouring loads of cash into this economic and financial rathole does not appear to be working. Why is this? Well, we believe that an economy is based on business and finance and production and consumption. But an ailing business sector just can't support the other three table legs of our economy. Is it time to move off world? There are indeed, active projects even businesses that are headed in that direction. Just do a search for "Space Business" on the Wikipedia or some other source. Obviously, its not enough. WE need to be active in the space-based Business NOW. We should have had an operating L5 station years ago. Just look up the work of the late great Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill. We admit ourselves, that we were a long time coming to this conclusion. Why do we focus so heavily on Earth-based activities, especially when we are routinely flying the skies (except for the occasional air disaster like yesterday's crash of Flight 1549). Note: We couldn't believe it, Wikipedia already has an active page on the event. Which demonstrates that there are hazards to flight and more so for space-flight. And our media just won't shy away from that.
Which might be part of the problem. Look at the attention Space Shuttle disasters have (naturally) received. (Notice we used the word received and shied away from the grammatically incorrect, if not awkward, word "gotten". We have even observed the august news commentator Keith Olbermann using the word "gotten" on MSNBC's Countdown. But seriously Keith, we love you, in the philosophical sense of the word). Which takes us to our soon-to-be President-Elect Barack Obama. We're hoping for some for visionary and forceful - even thought-provoking - action and legislation and movement from his soon-to-be excellency. We do love (again, in the philosophical sense...why are we on this word kick?) and admire the man and sincerely hope that he does take in the right direction and fend off the economic ruin that appears to be awaiting us here on Planet "Layoff".
Ye Cats, what a dilemma this man has begat himself!
Has the Jafo's "I Don't Recall" scorecard sign for AG-AG now become a list of perjury charges against him?
Can the AG-AG deftly evade the perceived perjury charges and get out of Leahy's line of fire? Or will he continue to duck, dive and dodge the questions being fired at him? Will he risk his personal freedom and libby or scooter out of this mess with a single or combined list of perjury convictions? That is to say, perjury convictions before Congress!
That we think, is the key math question. How many years of incarceration must the AG-AG be threatened with before he sings like a canary about to be dropped into a pit of red hot magma by Dr. Evil (as played by Patrick Leahy)? Don't get us confused, we don't think of the honorable Senator from Vermont in that way.
And where is his support from the law enforcement community? Has anyone offered themselves up to defend the AG-AG? Is it a risk anybody is willing to take, he might ask as he mops off the flop-sweat with a dirty napkin?
(Suggestion: How about the firm of Duck, Dive and Dodge?)
Sigh...wake up and smell the skatole.
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