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About that draft...
As Liza notes, there's renewed conversation about the draft - no, thank YOU, Charlie Rangel.
So here's a few ideas. Ann Coulter and Michelle Maglalang Malkin, Tucker Carlson, Rich Lowry, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity are merely the low-hanging fruit, the kind that wouldn't even make it through basic training.
How about the College republicans?
I'm thinking specifically of that bunch up at Columbia - the ones that have enough free time on their hands to invite the Minutemen to address them. Howzabout you get your flabby asses out of the shopping malls and into some cammies, eh, fellas?
But there are more local options to refresh the killing fields. There's the NYU Federalist Society. The interns over at the Manhattan Institute. The full staff of Natonal Review over on 216 Lex.
So. Out of the cocktail bars, and into the mess halls. Your country needs you.
You're a very sick man.
This is about as tasteless as the Joe Lieberman "Republican Whore" thing.
All Republicans=Bad, Dishonest. All Democrats=Good, Honest (except for one in Louisiana). We get it.
The big issues are that we're in a war with radical Islam. Unions have bought all our legislators, and New York City and New York State faces fiscal deficits. I believe that Glenn Beck (excellent special if you saw it), and the Manhattan Institute (E. J. McMahon is just below God) and, yes, the Republican Party (far from perfect, admittedly) can fight these issues far better than the Democrats.
While the Democrats won big, I believe it was a victory for the moderate Democrats. Both parties need to move to the center.
(I can't defend Ann Coulter, though. Just ignore her!)
We are at war with radical Islam
Then what are we doing in Iraq? I agree that we SHOULD be at war with a particular group of Muslim extremists (al-Qaeda...the people who actually attacked us) but instead we invaded one of the few secular Muslim nations where radical Islam had almost no hold whatsoever. Sure, Saddam Hussein was a dictator, but so is the king of Saudi Arabia. In fact, invading Saudi Arabia would not only be fighting a dictatorship, but really would be fighting radical Islam (remember that the dominant sect in Saudi Arabia is the very sect that spawned al-Qaeda). Not that I advocate doing so, but it would fit your portrayal of what we are doing far better than our war of lies with no exit strategy and no benefit to anyone but Halliburton and Exxon.
In what way can extremist Republicans fight radical Islam better than Democrats? Clinton cared more about fighting al-Qaeda than Bush ever has! He nearly got bin Laden and he actually prevented terrorist attacks. Bush just ignores his intelligence agencies over and over getting himself deeper and deeper into failure. He's doing it with Iran now.
I wouldn't say all Republicans are useless, lying, cowardly scumbags...but these days most sure seem to be and what is very clear is that under Bush's leadership they have failed American in just about every possible way. Republicans = deficits + failure + culture of corruption.
Um, why?
I agree that Ann Coulter is tasteless, but she did pose for that photo - that's her. So it's, I'd argue, very much in the national interest to get those with a demonstrated hunger for violence to a place where that can be channeled into the common good. Since that description includes mainly republicans, clearly, the nation would be doing them a service.
The big issue is not a putative wwar with radical Islam. The big issue is that we face an agile, multi-nodal terrorist organization that isn't amenable to the tools available to the defense ddepartment. But even if it were, and the track record so far leads one to doubt that assertion, clearly, those who support the war approach should be called upon to fight it.
So yeah, draft Glenn Beck, the Columbia republicans and the interns of the Manhattan Institute. A couple of firefights should clarify their minds, I think. I'd advocate for drafting Limbaugh as well, but he's clearly a danger to himself and others.
As to all the rest, Spitzer will clean up the Pataki deficits, like Clinton cleaned up the Bush deficits, and Edwards will clean up the newest Bush deficits. Democrats are just better at this governing stuff.
(Unions have bought all our
(Unions have bought all our legislators)
Not true! That is pure right wing propoganda. You must listen to too much rush limbaugh or bill o'reilly. If the unions had so much pull, Gephardt would be president right now. Also, how are republicans best suited to *fight* fiscal defecits when they've been the ones creating these defecits. We had the defecit under control back when Clinton was president. And perhaps we will again. When Clinton is president.