The Most Damaging Attacks Come From the Left
Hope is Fading Fast
This is why there is no credible or real opposition from the Republican Party or from the conservative movement as a whole:
It’s been easily a decade since Freshjive did something to truly get collective panties in a bunch. But this new “Hope Is Fading Fast” shirt is sure to have some folks up in arms. The real question is, would you wear it?
Basically, the “Freshjive” people have these grievances against the Obama Administration:
consolidates a multi-tiered “state always wins” system of “justice” continues to assert a radical version of the “state secrets” privelidge nominates a pesticide pushing lobbyist to a top agriculture post, breaking once again his campaign promise not to hire lobbyists nominates Bush’s final spokesliar, Dana Perino, to the Broadcasting Board of Governors breaks his promise to close Guantanamo prison within a year, even as people long known to be innocent still languish there- not to mention an expasion of that other “Guantanamo” at Bagram Air Base protects torturers from accountability and contemplates a massive escalation in Afghanistan
Now, contrast that with something from Larry Johnson’s “No Quarter:”
1.Select government reports to the contrary, the massive failings within the financial regulatory structure with specific emphasis on FINRA and the SEC.
2. Goldman Sachs CEO Llloyd Blankfein’s confession just this week that Goldman had engaged in activities that were clearly wrong and led to the economic crisis.
3.I have no doubt that many within our nation believe the Obama administration fundamentally believes in the principle of redistributing wealth via a number of programs. This emphasis on redistribution in one direction while simultaneously bailing out financial institutions leaves a very large percentage of those in the middle and on both sides of the aisle feeling totally disenfranchised. Not only do these people feel disenfranchised, but they feel that the government is not being honest with them regarding its motivations.
Now, ask yourself this.
Who nailed it?
The attack from the left absolutely nails the Obama Administration. The attack from the “center,” which is where I’ll put the above, whiffs and misses.
Oh, from the right? From the right, you ask?
Barack Obama and his liberal allies do not even pretend to care that these are anything other than show trials that will end in the deaths of the defendants. It needs to be said—very clearly and plainly—that the reason the Administration decided to avoid the proper forum of a military tribunal for these terrorists is a warped, bitter desire carry out yet another partisan attack against the successful work of their predecessors. And in a sad way, it makes sense.
If the radical leftists in the White House cannot use this circus to publicly invalidate the eight years of successful tactics and strategies developed during the post-9/11 Bush years, then they cannot easily return to the 9/10, head-in-the-sand, terrorism-is-a-law-enforcement-problem mentality that is their comfort zone.
No. No, that does not nail it like the attack from Freshjive does. If anything, that makes people want to run out and vote for President Obama, and it isn’t even election day yet. It is much more effective to go with the rule of law than against it, and it is much more effective to go with the idea that a broad international footprint with an overstretched military that is costing us billions works against us rather than for us. And, of course, we already know that the more effective way to fight terrorism is with law enforcement techniques, not with putting several hundred thousand U.S. troops halfway around the globe.
So far, there are more credible attacks coming from the left than from the center or the right. Sometimes, you just have to play to your base. Like it or not, it did work pretty well for President Bush to play to his base, and to keep them as happy as he could for as long as he did. Despite empirical evidence to the contrary, they still carry water for him.
