This was not a good week for those in the media who insist on looking at every issue using the exhausted left vs. right framing. First, Barney Frank and Ron Paul took to HuffPost, making the case that substantial cuts in the bloated defense budget must be a central part of the deficit reduction debate currently raging in Washington. Then David Boies and Ted Olson, who fought it out in Bush v. Gore, discussed their joint battle to make gay marriage legal during a compelling session at the Aspen Ideas Festival. Finally -- and most surprisingly -- Ann Coulter, following the path already trod by George Will and the Cato Institute, warned that the war in Afghanistan "isn't likely to turn out well" and criticized today's GOP for making "permanent war" one of the "irreducible requirements of Republicanism." The sell-by date on "right vs. left" has definitely expired.
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Democrats are just as guilty of the same tactics when the Republicans are in power.
I suggest that, in fact, the Republicans have decided that they can take a temporary hit on War if they can get rid of that damned inconvenient President. Sure, it hits them in their kidneys that Obama's weak spot is a righteous "war", but a weak spot is a weak spot, and a blow to the the other guys kidneys is a winner in politics.
Not that I don't agree with either of them (Paul or Coulter), but this isn't simple hypocrisy, which can be justified, it's an outright lie. Still, there is no perjury in politics; good luck to them, if they win this game they can only do it because we chose to lose.
From her, I don't want nice. I want consistency!
All synaptic functions were momentarily halted upon the realization that she actually said something that didn't cause me to launch a hole in my ceiling with my head.
I often wonder just how divided we really are if you were to take the media, liberal or otherwise, out of the equation. Our society, in this country especially, is addicted to brief soundbytes without the attention span for anything more than a hysterical headline and the media has become our dealer. It's a symbiotic match made in Hell.
There is no expiration date on objective reality.