Big Brother Bush-Molly Ivins

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.alternet.org/story/30175/

-snip- "The Testy Kid wants to do what he wants to do when he wants to do it because he is the president, and he considers that sufficient justification for whatever he wants. He even finds lawyers like John Yoo, who tell him that whatever he wants to do is legal.

The creepy part is the overlap. Damned if they aren't still here, after all these years, the old Nixon hands -- Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the whole gang whose yearning for authoritarian government rose like a stink over the Nixon years. Imperial executive. Bring back those special White House guard uniforms. Cheney, like some malignancy that cannot be killed off, back at the same old stand, pushing the same old crap. Of course, they tell us we have to be spied on for our own safety, so they can catch the terrorists who threaten us all. Thirty-five years ago, they nabbed a film star named Jean Seberg and a bunch of people running a free breakfast program for poor kids in Chicago. This time, they're onto the Quakers. We are not safer."

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[electropop]

1. I can name one dangerous Quaker:

Richard Nixon. Though not as dangerous as his 'protege' W, he was fairly scary.

[yknot]

2. Molly rocks

The scary part is that these guys have had a long time to stew and ponder what went wrong last go 'round, and they're not going to simply disappear when their time is up.

[Beelzebud]

3. Gotta love Ivins. She tells it like it is.