None of This Is Happening By Coincidence.

Leopolds Ghost

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Wed Oct-04-06 06:48 PM
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None of This Is Happening By Coincidence.

Edited on Wed Oct-04-06 06:51 PM by Leopolds Ghost

Let's not be naive, nor paranoid and conspiracy-obsessed, but realistic.

Washingon gossip has long speculated that Karl Rove and/or Tom DeLay wanted to keep Foley around in order to entrap and blackmail Congressional staffers and use this highly tainted individual as leverage to mine dirty little secrets known by Congressional staffers and the media elite. Stuff like "the list".

Stuff like George Allen's past -- an unrelated example of dirty secrets kept buried until "someone" decided the time was right. As someone on DU remarked when I insisted that the alleged "other shoe" of Abu Ghraib photos would never drop because the info was destroyed, "this is Washington. I don't know if you're familiar with how DC works but such info is never destroyed. It is hidden away in a desk drawer to be used as insurance."

Foley was insurance for DeLay and Rove against Repubs -- to keep them in line. But also potentially democrats. EVEN NOW we hear on AAR how Dems don't want to speak out too soon for fear that "someone" (read: Rove, or Foley) has information on Dems. The pages Foley consorted with -- some were gay and went on to become staffers, as political blogs noted two or more years ago, citing the rumor mill.

Think about that: according to years-old rumors, Foley was operating a Casting Couch for conflicted, blackmailable future party operatives.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2313002

(Was Foley a Honey-pot used by Rove - or DeLay?)

DeLay desperately wanted him to remain in office. And now DeLay's gone, suddenly the Republican half of "the list" spoken about for years -- the one Karl Rove's used to dig up dirt -- comes to light. Someone is trying to bring down the system of blackmail and patronage from within its rotten core -- Foley, who none of those staffers can now ever fess up to sleeping with, when THEY were pages, as was discussed in the blogosphere two years ago. But now DeLay's gone, the dirt-mining system is defunct and Foley has become a liability for the House leadership, easily exploited by junior Republicans, especially closeted gay staffers who are intimately familiar with the rumors about Foley and share Andrew Sullivan's beliefs about their party. The reason Foley lasted this long was fear -- fear of what DeLay and Rove knew. Remember, DeLay may have been propping up Foley for that very reason.

Dems are STILL afraid to say too much for fear they might be implicated in a scandal that was set up by DeLay and Rove from the get-go primarily to target gay Republican Hill staffers and keep them in line.

David Brock and Andrew Sullivan, two gay ex-Republicans, have spoken about this years ago.

So you see the effectiveness of withholding on Karl Rove's part. As long as he keeps the info he has on Dems out of the ensuing scandals which, in Rove's world, are a dime a dozen and easy to overcome, he has the Dems on tenterhooks.

If info comes out about Dems despite their pulling punches, or Rove's assumptions prove wrong and the scandal begins to actually hurt Repubs at the ballot box (unlike in 2000 and 2004) or if Dems break the resultant "Balance of Terror" then all bets are off.

Remember how emasculated Repubs were in the media and amongst Dems when Rove seemed ready to be indicted? How Dem leaders who would not breathe an "angry-sounding" word in public stood up and cheered at the very prospect? Blackmail is being used -- and the less comes out about Dems, the more afraid they are of the other shoe Rove may or may not have in his posession thanks to dirt-diggers like DeLay and honeypots/flytraps for future Congressional staffers like Foley.

Then we come to Woodward. You tell me: A year ago the man was smarmily sanctifying the Bush regime, now he is uttering frankly on-the-nose platitudes about how evil and incompetent they are on CNN and 60 Minutes, looking like Max Weinberg doing his "deliberately insincere" routine on Conan O'Brien.

He doesn't even have to lie: I'm sure he's hid his contempt for Bush the whole time, just like every OTHER soldier in the media-intelligence complex who get their marching orders from unseen CEOs that have vast interest in the security industry and ample connections to intelligence services. And turn on a dime to do their bidding.

The Media-Intelligence Complex, whose interest is in creating a Security State exclusively benefiting and preserving government services that benefit the upper-middle class, think we are stupid and easy to manipulate.

And will turn against Bush only when and if THEIR hand-picked "deans of the Washington press corps" and "new economy spokespeople" -- all of whom are fully co-opted into the power structure, if not directly employed by the security-globalization-intelligence crowd -- say so.

Remember, these people are not devils. They are upper-middle class vanguardists, neoliberals to Bush's neocons. They believe in Meritocracy -- that educated global elite, people like themselves, are destined to rule and any attempt to upset that system hurts everybody. They wish Everyone could be privileged like them, but will settle for 20% as proof that American-style capitalism is the greatest the world has ever known, if only 20% of people in every country have a higher standard of living than anyone has ever had in history, then that makes it all worthwhile -- even if, as Fareed Zakaria put it, democracy was just an inessential component to the political, media and social environment they are constructing.