Sundaggregator (Bushco: 001)

Short refresher course: There is more at stake for Bushco in Iraq than Bushco's legacy in Iraq. I know this is obvious, but it needs reminding: this is about domestic power and, especially, the domestic power of information.

When you consider what we know about everything Bushco wishes we didn't know, and given that obsessive secrecy is, in Bushco, loyalty's number one bitch, imagine all the things we don't know (like for instance, the promises made between Bushco and its corporate sponsors). Consider: what will be revealed about the immoralities and criminalities of Bushco under a Democratic administration with a Democratic congress? How far will Bushco (and the Pigs who want to succeed Bushco) go to remain in power if for no other reason than to keep its secrets?

It's all or nothing. All they got is war. War fever - we haven't seen it yet. It's coming.

This weekend, in my state, albeit that red shithouse of the Eastern Shore, Pigs and Prez gathered to coordinate strategy and propaganda. I'm guessing reducing tensions with Iran was never debated. I'm willing to bet that NOT calling us traitors who hate America was never considered.

Iraq was never about Iraq and never about Democracy and never about oil. When His Codpiece smirked his way across the aircraft carrier and declared mission accomplished the mission they thought they'd finished was a generation of Pignican rule, and on that signal all the greedy spiders of Pig corruption were released. We have no idea - no idea - of the scale and scope and depth of the what's been loosed.

If the original goal was permanent power, the current goal is root survival. Failure, so they say, is not an option. Think what they'll do, how far they'll go, to survive. We only think we've seen ugly.

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Oh - all those plans about governance in Iraq after conquering Iraq that weren't made the first time? Is anyone in Bushco planning on how to govern in Iraq on the laughable chance the surge works?

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Still hates the Clintons. Still crotchedy with his imagined influence. Still an ass.

She's, um, running for President. Petraeus was going to get confirmed. There were broader issues that needed addressing. If pushing the broader issues are part of running for President, that's called politics, oh Elder Fart of Washington Politics.

What an fatuous ass.

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HRC 24-7.

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The state of Conservative commercial discourse? Pathetic.

If particularly vicious Wolcottian smackdowns are issued, I'll pass along.

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Swopa on the Libby trial.  Whiskey Fire on loyalty oaths. Tennessee Guerrilla Women on Rich on Hillary. Sadly, No! on Our Lady of the Concentration Camps. Austin Cline, posting at The General, on Democracy and treason.

Coetzee reviews Mailer. Don't know if I'll read Castle in the Forest or not, but I can certainly wait for the paperback. Chabon reviews McCarthy.

Bud Parr at Metaxu (cross posted at Chekhov's Mistress) on Against the Day and Against the Day reviews. It's one book away in my pile.

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Aiiee! Fag music! Aiiee!

Actually, this is probably the only time in the history of mankind that Elton John and Bob Mould are on the same list.

And Frank Sinatra's gay?  He did it his way.

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Guardian has a review of a new history of Punk. Amazon says that Babylon's Burning is not yet published in America, though it lists the release date as 1/10/07.

Well, while waiting, don't forget Our Band Could Be Your Life, which covers the 80s through bios of the seminal bands. Like this one: