Chris Floyd: Cave Dwellers: More Democratic Deceit on War and Torture

[babylonsister]

Cave Dwellers: More Democratic Deceit on War and Torture
Monday, 10 December 2007
by Chris Floyd


The Washington Post reports that Congressional Democrats are preparing to sign off on a spending bill that will, once again, pour tens of billions of dollars into the ongoing war crime in Iraq. The exact figure is not yet known, because Bush's willing executioners among both parties have rigged up a complicated and deliberately deceitful process to shield the true nature of their craven kowtowing to the bloodstained, filth-encrusted White House autocrat.

(For more on the autocratic, lawless nature of the Bush Regime, see Jonathan Schwarz, Marcy Wheeler, and Scott Horton, and this as well.)

Here's how the scam will work. First, House Democrats will offer up an initial lowball figure — "only" $30 billion or so — and claim, falsely, that the funds are intended for the war in Afghanistan and other Pentagon projects, even though "all sides in the deal recognize could be shifted to fund the Iraq war," as the Post reports.

Then, the Democrat's so-called leader in the Senate, Harry "Shaky Knees" Reid, will "allow Republicans to increase that amount to avert a filibuster of the spending bill in the Senate." At that point, with the bill now swollen to, say, $70 billion or so for the Iraq war crime (and this is short-term, stop-gap spending, mind you), it will go back to the House, whose "leaders" will then accept the "compromise" reached in the Senate, and send the bill to the murderous, sadistic wretch in the Oval Office.

And that, boys and girls, is the way that the Potomac Empire operates: wilful deceit in the service of undeniable evil.



However, there could be one possible glitch in the plan. It seems that the Democrats have asked for $11 billion in domestic spending to be included in the deal. It is thought that some Republicans — and the White House — will balk at throwing any more coins at the rabble they rule with such cynicism and contempt. Yet even this begged sop represents a cave-in by the Democrats. The Post reports that Shaky Knees last month "signaled that the Democrats were willing to halve their initial request of $22 billion in additional domestic spending, setting 'boundaries for the current debate in which $11 billion serves as the new ceiling." In other words, Reid gave away half the game before the negotiations even started.

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http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view/3011/81/

[KoKo]

1. "Shaky Knees" Reid,,,,well, I'll give it to Chris Floyd for calling a Spade a Spade.

That's all I can say about this that wouldn't end up in a useless rant.

K&R..

[KoKo]

2. BTW...anyone who watched CNN this a.m. & saw Feinstein and Kyle

on Torture would find Floyd's piece mild in it wrath....:-( Kyle smirked and Feinstein feigned her usual "outrage" while never committing to doing anything. And...if you saw Rockefeller on the other shows ...as a Dem you'd hang your head in shame and run for cover or leave the US...that's how bad it was.

[G_j]

4. I'm glad I missed that, I can't watch anymore, just read..

it is so dispiriting.


:-(

[tom_paine]

3. K & R for what is becoming increasingly likely to be the unvarnished truth

I didn't want to believe it. I still don't.

Even now, I pray for a mirculous reverse that just isn't coming.

For just one of our Democratic Leadership (kudos to Kucinich, Dodd, Feingold, and the other handful of exceptions who actually try to represent the people that elected them) to stand up and say, "I care about the Constitution. This is wrong and it must stop. It is criminal and we are investigate and if we discover actionable felonies, then we will pursue criminal investigations and consider further actions."

For fuck's sake, they impeached Clinton over a BLOW JOB.

Meanwhile, all of the worst aspects of our nation grow cancerously.

I still don't want to believe it, and I hold out faint hope yet still. 2008. (we need a 'wan smile' smiley)

Could Edwards or anyone besides Clinton vs. 9/11ani (clearly those who have been chosen for us to compete in the Phony Imperial "Election") find their way to the nomination?

I wonder...we shall see. Clnton vs. 9/11ani is who has been chosen and I think Clinton vs 9/11ani is who it's going to be.

Not that I am advocating giving up, but it is interesting to see what kind of verisimilitude these new post-Bush-occupation Primaries adopt to sell the wares.

Maybe Floyd is wrong. Or maybe Floyd is partially or wholly right, as I am coming to sadly believe he is. Time will tell.

We still have time, at least a little.

[Cha]

5. Organized Crime.

In our government..and the beat goes on.

Are there any real people in Congress who see all this for what it is and would like to be able to do something about it?

Pete Stark? Before he got shut up by nancy. Ted Kennedy in the Senate?

[bonito]

6. That's exactly what it is!

Changing the laws to fit the crimes.

[Cha]

7. Hoping for a really

Huge Petard Hoisted in their future.

[99th_Monkey]

8. So let me get this straight. CIA agents are threatening to go to jail to disclose NIE

while our Democratic "opposition/anti-iraq-war" party is gonna buckle again to war criminals, to
throw another $Billions more at the the Bush's (ah, make that our increasingly bipartisan)
bloody criminal war in Iraq. ahhh gawd... where's my barf bag? :puke:

[Karenina]

9. . .

[Perry Logan]

10. You are playing into the media's hands. They want the left confused and divided.

[mmonk]

12. We are.

[natrat]

11. and the joke is on us