Sidney Blumenthal: Bush & Rove WANT Proposals TO FAIL!

Standards go up in smoke
A desperate Bush is cynically deploying the totemic issues of gay marriage and flag-burning to rally his weary troops.
Sidney Blumenthal

President Bush's regression to his "back to basics" culture war is not intended to enact the proposals he advocates. On the contrary, he and his senior political adviser, Karl Rove, "the "architect", as Bush calls him, really want them to fail.

Indeed, Bush knows that the two constitutional amendments he pushes - the family protection amendment banning gay marriage and the flag desecration amendment making flag-burning a federal crime - will not pass through the complicated process requiring approval by both houses of the Congress and three-quarters of the state legislatures.

Even Republicans supporting the anti-gay marriage amendment acknowledge it stands no chance of passing through Congress. The flag-burning amendment has been fruitlessly proposed every decade for more than 30 years. But in Bush's and Rove's calculations, the amendments may serve as inflammatory causes to rally the Republican rightwing base, dispirited, divided and disillusioned amid Bush's general political collapse.

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Bush and Rove, however, are not concerned with the broad public: they are targeting their discontented and demobilising base on the eve of midterm elections in which Republicans may lose control of the House of Representatives and perhaps, in a worst-case scenario, even the Senate.

more at:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/sidney_blumenthal/2006/06/bush_turns_islamist_to_save_th.html

ANY of the wingnut causes: abortion, installing a theocracy, burning pagans & fags at the stake or whatever. These are wonderful causes with which to keep the vast Illiterati all fired up while they pursue their true agenda of repealing the New Deal & turning the world into a playground for international capitalism. Jeez, they've owned the entire government since 2002, and still haven't made a serious assault on abortion, instead just opting for enough action at the fringes to keep the boobs thinking that something is happening. Ditto flag burning. If they ever actually enact any of their draconian bullshit, they automatically lose it as an incendiary device.

Nothing to work out or plan, like that nasty deficit problem, health care solutions, or an Iraq exit strategy. Everything they come up with is a big YOU ARE FORBIDDEN sign for people who can't live without those thrilling taboos.

From your link:




Reminiscent of a post I just read from a fundie ("We are going to force the homos back into the closet where they belong") Booshbot just yesterday:




As written on this thread:
http://discussions.pbs.org/viewtopic.pbs?t=56258&postdays=0&postorder=asc&topic_view=&start=0

And for they have to be believed beyond their <30% true believer base.

table.
Is there anyone so far buried in their cave that they don't recognize the inescapable fact that the pukes would be insane to actually win on any of these issues?

Like the parable about the aggressive young lawyer who was summarily fired from his father's firm. He had come on board with the express notion of cleaning up all the old "leftover" cases that had troubled the firm for thirty years.
His father, explaining why he had to terminate his crestfallen progeny, informed him that those dragged-out, seemingly unsolvable cases had bought the family mansion, the house in the Hamptons and sent the young upstart through law school. The boy was just not smart enough to be a lawyer.

As a rule, we people are not really interested in solving problems, just in phucking around with them, and in the case of those vile creatures in the government, such a victory will carry an automatic defeat.

that this is utter tripe.

for crumbs..how pathetic if it weren't so lethal.

Edit! typos~