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Is this the future of the gop?
Jan. 23rd, 2009 12:13 amIs this the future of the GOP? Defending and supporting torture, fighting to keep open the international disgrace known as Gitmo, writing "conscience" clauses into regulations that let people remove birth control devices from women without their consent and refuse to put them back, crazy stupidity like this freakbot not-actually-president theory, and hating on queers? Because that's what the party seems to be deciding to agree on. Are you guys really going to need a McGovern experience to smarten up?
Oh, by the way, Mr. Bush's NSA appears to have been spying on damn near everyone, like anyone with a brain connected to reality could've told you they'd do when told to go spy on everyone.
Here, have a big, nasty dose of political media fail.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elfs describes in detail how the inauguration-cost lie came to be. They continue to lie about the fact that strong majorities of Americans oppose torture in any situation, want Gitmo closed, oppose pardons for administration officials involved in any such crimes, and - by smaller numbers - even want active investigations into these crimes. Callous disregard for truth continues, at every level, as the political media works tirelessly to present the case that all of the Bush administration's power grabs - torture, extrajudicial "justice" systems, internment, extraordinary rendition, and so on - must be preserved while pretending to condemn them, and condemning as leftist anyone who thinks the press should report when government officials lie to their face.
Fortunately, so far, Mr. Obama has surprised me by ignoring most of this and issuing a series of important executive orders. It is still my position and will continue to be my position that the crimes of the previous administration - and just as importantly, many members of Congress, including the Democratic leadership - be investigated and charges brought at all levels as appropriate. I mean, in many cases, it should be quite simple; we have confessions of... no, that's the wrong word. We have boasts of clearly and blatantly illegal torture. The GOP ran on it, and apparently plans to continue running on it, and we know that various Democratic leaders in Congress were complicit. Despite all this, Mr. Obama has so far not been inclined to take action. I hope this will change.
Also, pleasantly, the stupidly unconstitutional Child Online Protection Act is dead. It's a late-1990s relic I fought at the time and which was never really enforced thanks to immediate legal action against it, but it's still good to see it gone.
Oh, this isn't political, but I want to toss is out there as a PSA: there was a huge credit card data breach several days ago. Be careful checking your credit card statements.
( The latest stupid political quiz )
Oh, by the way, Mr. Bush's NSA appears to have been spying on damn near everyone, like anyone with a brain connected to reality could've told you they'd do when told to go spy on everyone.
Here, have a big, nasty dose of political media fail.
elfs describes in detail how the inauguration-cost lie came to be. They continue to lie about the fact that strong majorities of Americans oppose torture in any situation, want Gitmo closed, oppose pardons for administration officials involved in any such crimes, and - by smaller numbers - even want active investigations into these crimes. Callous disregard for truth continues, at every level, as the political media works tirelessly to present the case that all of the Bush administration's power grabs - torture, extrajudicial "justice" systems, internment, extraordinary rendition, and so on - must be preserved while pretending to condemn them, and condemning as leftist anyone who thinks the press should report when government officials lie to their face.Fortunately, so far, Mr. Obama has surprised me by ignoring most of this and issuing a series of important executive orders. It is still my position and will continue to be my position that the crimes of the previous administration - and just as importantly, many members of Congress, including the Democratic leadership - be investigated and charges brought at all levels as appropriate. I mean, in many cases, it should be quite simple; we have confessions of... no, that's the wrong word. We have boasts of clearly and blatantly illegal torture. The GOP ran on it, and apparently plans to continue running on it, and we know that various Democratic leaders in Congress were complicit. Despite all this, Mr. Obama has so far not been inclined to take action. I hope this will change.
Also, pleasantly, the stupidly unconstitutional Child Online Protection Act is dead. It's a late-1990s relic I fought at the time and which was never really enforced thanks to immediate legal action against it, but it's still good to see it gone.
Oh, this isn't political, but I want to toss is out there as a PSA: there was a huge credit card data breach several days ago. Be careful checking your credit card statements.
( The latest stupid political quiz )
