Without Missing A Beat
by digby
I wrote something the other day about the right’s retirement of hypocrisy and intellectual violence (which Bob Cesca expands on today ) at the end of which I said:
…failing to truly grok just how pernicious this right wing rejection of hypocrisy really is and how much power it gives them is a foolish mistake.
I think we’re about to get schooled. Again. The torture loving right is dusting off its completely hypocritical “government is full of jack-booted thugs” playbook — and it’s going to drive us all completely crazy.
COULTER: Sounds like there’s gonna be a lot more Waco raids, Elian Gonzalez snatchings. I don’t know, I don’t know. I mean, I think this — I think Obama is a frightening candidate. We’ll see.
GRANT: I want to play a portion of Barack Obama’s speech last night, which I think is the most bizarre aspect of his program. Listen to this.
OBAMA : We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
GRANT: Ann, what do you make of that?
COULTER: Sounds like there’s gonna be a lot more Waco raids, Elian Gonzalez snatchings. I don’t know, I don’t know. I mean, I think this — I think Obama is a frightening candidate. We’ll see.
After all the years of supporting everything from torture and domestic spying to turning the office of president into an elected monarchy, you’re not going to believe what “civil libertarians” these people are suddenly going to be. I wouldn’t count on being able to work together on anything that you would expect to last beyond a Democratic presidency, however. To these people, civil liberties are a partisan cudgel and nothing more.
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