History repeats itself--according to Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. Depending on one's ideological leanings, the reverse may be true, but it occurs to us that we've heard a lot of echoes of the worst of Bush's eight years during Obama's final weeks before Election Day.
In Libya, as in Iraq, we had a military intervention that was supposed to be quick and easy but ended up exposing Americans to terrorism. As Commentary's John Steele Gordon notes, some of Obama's critics are beginning to speculate about the possibility of impeaching the president over the Benghazi debacle, just as some of Bush's critics raised such an idea vis-à-vis Iraq.
Hurricane Katrina was by many accounts the beginning of the end of Bush's presidency. Now a similarly destructive storm has hit the Northeast, and the federal response looks inadequate.That's James Taranto - after I said Benghazi was nothing but Right-wing media hype - pointing out something else I've said many times:
I wish they'd go all the way, and stop pretending to wonder why people do drugs,…
Yes! yes!
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly what they have been doing!
Sure, Obama's a schmuck -- but the Republicans have gone nuts (just like the Democrats).
Iraq, Benghazi, Katrina, Sandy...it's hauling people out of the grave and attaching puppet strings to them; it's alligator tears watering the tombstones; it's patting yourself on the back for your righteousness while you throw the infant in the fire as an offering to your god...if they hadn't banned me I'd be shouting it on their blogs: you're just the same! just as bad!
And that is why I have taken to hating all their guts; I'm gonna love meeting them in hell -- something to look forward to since they seem impervious and untouchable in this life (eh, you have to take the solace you can get -- and this one is perhaps mine).
Yes! Thank you! Finally...I wish more people could see this. Thank you!
PW