Friday, August 24, 2007

Putting the 'Nut' in 'Nutroots'

I may well be the last New Deal Democrat in existence in these here United States. Never mind that I was born 15-and-a-half years after World War II ended.

I wish there were still a Works Progress Administration. It would be a lot cheaper and do a lot more good than our deeply stupid war in Iraq.


Heck, I believe that all of the displaced poor from the Gulf Coast and New Orleans -- instead of being shipped off to God-knows-where -- should have been placed in communities built on underused or vacant federal tracts closer to home, like former military bases. There, they could have had access to a full-range of social services, counseling, remedial education and job training.

Then, they could have been put to work rebuilding their destroyed communities. They could have been stakeholders in society, not drains upon it.

Not cheap, trying to reclaim those on the margins. But, once again, a hell of a lot cheaper than Iraq, and at least something -- no matter how humble -- would've been accomplished.

I just wanted you to know where I'm coming from because, frankly, when I read this from The Daily Kos, I'm goin' "What the ****???"

Carville is the Tucker Carlson of the Democratic Party
by Justina
Wed Aug 22, 2007 at 08:53:47 PM PDT

I just received the a fund raising e-mail from James Carville, who is asking for donations to the re-election campaign of Lousiana’s Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu. It reads in part:

I'm a Louisianian through-and-through. My hometown, Carville, population 1108, was named for my granddaddy. So when I write to you about our senior Senator from Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, I'm writing from my heart and soul.
What a surprise, I didn't think James Carville had a soul; I know he doesn't have his heart in Democratic politics.
Carville, who modestly claims on his web site to be "The man who has devised the most dramatic political victories of our generation" holds no official position in the Democratic Party but who is continually put forward by the "main stream" media as "a leading Democratic political analyst", has been one of the most destructive voices in the Democratic Party since his vicious attacks on Howard Dean and the Democratic National Committee after their success in the 2006 election.

Carville, a professional campaign consultant who regularly seems to speak for Hillary Clinton, and his firm of political consultants, has been involved in supporting some pretty reactionary anti-democrats in Latin American, including Manuel Rosales, the Bush supported, anti-Chavez candidate in the 2006 Venezuelan presidential campaign.

Fortunately, President Chavez trounced Rosales by an overwhelming 68% majority. One only hopes that both Hillary Clinton and Mary Landrieu will face similar fates in the Louisiana Democratic primary.

If there is a good progressive candidate who is considering taking on Landrieu, please come forward so I can send you a donation. I’ll send a photocopy to Mr. Carville referencing that I have never before contributed to a Louisiana politician, but his fund raising letter for Mary Landrieu inspired me to support any of her progressive Democratic opponent in the primary.
HUGO CHAVEZ'S Bestest Friend Forever went on to excoriate Carville for his choice of spouse, being that Mary Matalin is a "Republican shill."

Frankly, with Justina's fervent support for demagogic dictators like Chavez, I'm a bit surprised why she bothers with the democratic process at all. If she has a beef with the likes of Carville and Landrieu, why doesn't she raise a bien-pensant army of Venezuelans and expatriate American "progressives," come home and clean house? Maybe she can overthrow Bush-Cheney, end the war and establish the New Jerusalem while she's at it.

And then she can shut down any broadcast outlet that objects to her tactics.

You know, sometimes you just have to wonder about the Secular Puritan Left. Mainly, I wonder how it is these folks haven't been laughed into oblivion yet. That, or purged themselves into a million perfectly ideologically pure Democratic parties of one.

1 comment:

James H said...

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