We remember an episode of COPS some year ago when a perp was hiding beneath an overturned kiddie pool. When the police lifted the pool, the perp didn’t move. We remember having the feeling he must have been thinking, “I’m invisible, I’m invisible. Please God make me be invisible.”
It looks like Republican House Majority Whip, Tom Delay, and his co-conspirators at the National Republican Congressional Committee are trying a similar tactic.
(BTW, it didn’t work for the perp on COPS either.)
The Rolling Stones need to modiy their hit "Start me Up" to "Cover Up" for the GOP theme song.
If you cover up
If you cover up I’ll never stop
If you cover up
If you cover up I’ll never stop
I’ve been running hot
You got me ticking gonna blow my top
If you cover up
If you cover up I’ll never stop
You make a grown man cry
Spread out the oil, the gasoline
I walk smooth, ride in a mean, mean machine
cover up
If you cover up
Kick on the starter give it all you got, you got, you got
I can’t compete with the riders in the other heats
If you rough it up
If you like it you can cover up, cover up
Don’t make a grown man cry
My eyes dilate, my lips go green
My hands are greasy
She’s a mean, mean machine
cover up
If you cover up
Give it all you got
You got to never, never, never stop
Never, never
cover up
You make a grown man cry
Ride like the wind at double speed
I’ll take you places that you’ve never, never seen
cover up
Love the day when we will never stop, never stop
Never stop, never stop
Tough me up
Never stop, never stop, never stop
You, you, you make a grown man lie
You, you make a dead man stop
You, you make an investigation go
Jonathan Gurwitz, of the San Antonie Express-New, (in the Wichita Eagle, March 23) recently said that Bush was right after all, in the spreading of democracy in the middle east. Charles Krauthammer said he believed that the “Bush Doctrine” is also now spreading democracy throughout the Middle East, (“Three Cheers for the Bush Doctrine” Time, March 14, 2005), one question that has to nag us all is: How can a leader of a nation that is leaning toward a one party police state spread democracy. Can President George “Dubya” Bush really spread democracy abroad while his party chokes it off here at home?
In the same issue of Time, “Fighting Words 101,” it reports that conservative students are filing bias complaints against professors who criticize Republican points of view or their icons. According to the article, legislators are now trying to pass laws, such as David Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Rights, which sounds like an attempt to protect freedom of speech. But it is actually intended as a tool for students who want to fight against the teachings of what they consider “liberal bias.”
This is not surprising. The Republican Party has complete control of all branches of government. They control most of the media, especially the pundits and spin doctors. Academia is one of the last liberal strongholds and the conservatives are determined to eliminate it. Buzz phrases such as “Lose touch with the community” are used to dissuade universities from having such speakers as Michael Moore, or hosting the “Vagina monologs.” The so called community excuse seems to imply that the community’s politics, which at this time is mostly conservative, have a right to insulate themselves from the minority viewpoints.
Conservative students are complaining about a lack of balance on the teaching staff at many universities. Of course no one is pushing for such “balance” on TV news. Our two party system leaves no room for a balance of political diversity in our house or senate. The Democrats, the party in decline, try to act more like Republicans to win over the center, while they continue to alienate the progressives, liberals and leftists. They keep loosing elections; yet keep on the same political track. At the same time, we are one of the last bourgeois democracies that restrict access of third parties in our elections.
So again the question is can a person who has stolen one election, and excluded input from all other political groupings, really promote democracy? The resistance in Iraq continues. The Wichita Eagle, March 9, 2005, reported “Syria backers outdo critics.” Maybe it isn’t working so well after all.
Hellbender #2
Yep, it is akin to "pax romana".
"The long period of ‘peace’ enforced on states in the Roman Empire."
If one had political views contrary to Caesar then peace is not what that person would experience.
A graveyard is peaceful, maybe even democratic if you define that as everyone being in the same condition. Maybe the idea is to starve and abuse us all so severely, a la Guantanemo, that we too weak, demoralized and confused to fight back. Well, it ain’t gonna work.
Here we go again – these folks just don’t give up, do they?
You know what would be cool? To copy these "erased" lists and mail a copy to every major newspaper, and every single member in Congress, including DeLay – just to gig ’em, let ’em know they’re not fooling anybody.
Yeah, yeah, I know, the msm doesn’t give a damn..but you never know when some enterprising reporter will get bored and decide to stir things up 🙂