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“It's now apparent that the biggest sham in American politics is Barack Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo and, more generally, to dismantle the Bush/Cheney approach to detaining accused Terrorists.”
“The real power dynamic in this country has little to do with the cable-generated 'right v. left' drama and much more to do with 'outsider/insider' divisions.”
“Other than the fact that Obama's race intensifies the hatred in some precincts, nothing that the Right is doing now is new. This is who they are and what they do -- and that's been true for many years, for decades.”
“One of the nation's most Churchillian and courageous warriors, Norman Podhoretz, is now devoting himself to the complaint that most American Jews are liberals rather than neoconservatives.”
“To Serious people, the substance of the [ detention] policy is irrelevant. What matters is that anyone who opposes it is a radical, partisan, shrill extremist.”
“[This is] how emedded [sic] in our political culture is the right of government officials to break the law: "Government lawbreaking" is not even recognized as a concept that makes sense.”
“There are few powers more anathema to our system of government than the power to imprison people in the absence of proof that they committed a crime.”
“Whether to continue our massive National Security State and general imperial behavior (unsustainable in any event) is at least as important a question in the debate over Afghanistan as specific questions raised by the war itself.”
“We need far more transparency when it comes to the conduct and statements of influential people in Washington, not less.”
“Few things are more repellent than watching the contemporary Right in America invoke the principles of the Founders -- in general -- to justify their warped and lawless authoritarianism.”
“As always, everyone in Washington seems to agree that if only the Leftist crazies would stay quiet and give up on their radical ideology, everything would go smoothly. And, in a sense, they're right.”
“The Obama/Emanuel approach not only produces awful policy but is also self-destructive politically.”
“Trusting the politically powerful is the establishment religion and carrying forth their message is the prime function of establishment journalists.”
“Huckabee knows that the Republican base lives in its own alternative, insular reality and any unpleasant or negative facts can be waved away not by refuting them, but by attributing them to the work of 'the liberal media.'”
“This is how things always work. The industry interests which own and control our government always get their way. When is the last time they didn't?”
