Today in escalation news
The dominant political story of the day is the Bush-McCain plan for escalation in Iraq. So without further ado, here’s some local (and a bit of national) news on the subject.
Tell your representative to oppose escalation.
Working Family’s party has set up a form where you can contact your representative to tell them to oppose the Bush-McCain escalation plan. Click here to go to that form.
The City Paper’s anti-escalation editorial.
Mary Anna Towler has written a strong editorial opposing the Bush-McCain plan. It’s mostly a collection of quotes from reporters covering Iraq, but she does a good job with it. Here’s a sample:
“For a gray-haired journalist whose career included 18 months covering the Vietnam War for the Washington Post,” wrote Robert Kaiser in Sunday’s Post, “it is a source of amazement to realize that my country has done this again. We twice took a huge risk in the hope that we could predict and dominate events in a nation whose history we did not know, whose language few of us spoke, whose rivalries we didn’t understand, whose expectations for life, politics and economics were all foreign to many Americans.”
John W. McCain — the patron saint of escalation
One of the most embarrassing things about the pro-war lap dogs who make up the national media is their collective crush on John McCain; I’d rather screen Titanic with teen-age members of the Leonardo DiCaprio fan club than watch reporters discuss what a “maverick” John McCain is. The sad truth is that he’s not all that different from George Bush. Here’s hoping the Republicans nominate someone who isn’t a blowhard warmonger in 2008, even if that makes their nominee more likely to win. I’m not sure I can take six months of watching Tim Russert and Wolf Blitzer giggle like school girls over John McCain’s “straight talk”.
Okay, sorry for that outburst. Here’s the new MoveOn ad about John McCain’s plan to escalate the conflict in Iraq:
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Honestly, I think McCain is too old to get the nomination. He will be 73 in ‘08, and although Ronald Reagan was old when he won the nomination, McCain never starred in “The Cattle Queen of Montana” which disqualifies him from age electibility immunity. Ultimately, I think the Repubs will “giggle like school girls” when Giuliani comes out and says “9/11″ 87 times per speech.
I don’t think Rudy has much chance. He’s too socially liberal and the press will have a field day with the Kerik stuff (as they should).
I think we’ll get McCain, Romney, or Huckabee
Thanks for the link!
If Ruddy is nominated, we can count on a wacko Third Party candidate for sure. He is not that popular in New York, and I can’t believe the righties would support him. I know Catholics who vote on abortion wouldn’t. In my opinion, it would be ‘48 all over again and Strom would be rolling over in his grave. With who, is anyone’s guess.