Less furiously, I wonder if it is that Dems (or maybe just I) tend to belive in an aspirational America that continues to self-perfect as a government, while baa and other Republicans have some other model in mind - perhaps a minimum set of principles that are acceptable to the majority, and who then are left to self-perfect themselves within that framework. (I realize these don't describe non-intersecting sets, but it gets at what I mean tonally).
I think I just find it shocking when people as thoughtful as baa don't find the Bush Administration's civil liberties assertions shocking (particularly given the wildly trivial threat that is used to justify them).
That might explain the new Republican outreach slogan in African-American communities: "It's not like we're still making you be slaves."
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 12- 2-04 12:45 PM
Less furiously, I wonder if it is that Dems (or maybe just I) tend to belive in an aspirational America that continues to self-perfect as a government, while baa and other Republicans have some other model in mind - perhaps a minimum set of principles that are acceptable to the majority, and who then are left to self-perfect themselves within that framework. (I realize these don't describe non-intersecting sets, but it gets at what I mean tonally).
I think I just find it shocking when people as thoughtful as baa don't find the Bush Administration's civil liberties assertions shocking (particularly given the wildly trivial threat that is used to justify them).
Posted by SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 12- 2-04 12:51 PM
Total Bullshit. Flawed thinking intended to increase the odds of boinking.
Here it is straight.
We give our terrorists tenure.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=16081
Posted by abc123 | Link to this comment | 12- 2-04 5:01 PM
abc, remember when you used to be funny?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 12- 2-04 5:03 PM
"boinking"?
Posted by Michael | Link to this comment | 12- 2-04 7:24 PM