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18361 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >-Chip "Capon Rising" Berlet You're self-identifying as a castrated chicken? This may not be the best advertisement for your position! This is not the early 1980s, when right-wing power was young, the ideology sounded fresh, their forces were united, and Reagan commanded considerable public affection. Now the right is very familiar, tired, divided, and Bush is far from liked. So I don't get what you think is relevant from the early 1980s. Could you elaborate? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 07:41:26 PDT 2005

18362 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris worries about HRC -- rank: 1000

New York Post - June 21, 2005 HILLARY RISING Dick Morris THE most recent Fox News survey substantiates the truth of Abraham Lincoln's observation that you can fool some of the people all of the time: Sen. Hillary Clinton's popularity is at an all-time high, having moved up dramatically in the past seven weeks. She now is seen favorably by 52 percent of the electorate and unfavorably by only 37 percent. In the 4 1/2 years since she left the White House, her favorability rating had never before ri ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 07:36:50 PDT 2005

18363 [lbo-talk] Dean drives Reps nuts! -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> The Boston Globe reports, DNC chair Howard Dean was in Boston last night for a fundraiser and fired back at Vice President Cheney saying, "I don't care if Dick Cheney likes my mother or not; we are going to fight back Š I think it's great that Dick Cheney went after me." Dean spoke to 300 Democrats at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and raised $250,000 at the event. Republicans protested outside with signs that read ''Dean Is ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 07:31:14 PDT 2005

18364 [lbo-talk] state of the insurgency -- rank: 1000

Christian Science Monitor - June 21, 2005 US strategy in Iraq: Is it working? Major sweeps show results in western Iraq. But insurgents keep adapting and attacking. By Dan Murphy | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor The US military strategy in Iraq has been consistent for months now: Use aggressive military operations to disrupt the flow of foreign fighters entering the country and the insurgent support lines that run along the Euphrates River west to the Syrian border. Simultaneously ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 21 07:17:05 PDT 2005

18365 [lbo-talk] Re: Surpassing the Gulag in Scale -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >That said, >Gitmo merits vigorous (yet reasoned) dissent. "I love liberals when they try to think constructively." - A. Cockburn

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 14:40:22 PDT 2005

18366 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Right-wing appointees to the federal bench will help narrow the >boundaries of political opportunities for the left for the next 20-30 >years. > >Conservative Christian evangelicals are the largest single voting bloc >in the Republican Party. > >A dualistic version of apocalyptic millennialism has become a paradigm >for many people in our society, from secular neoconservatives to the >Christian Right to Patriot movement xenophobes. You could have ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 12:15:36 PDT 2005

18367 [lbo-talk] Bush: on way to lame-duckness? -- rank: 1000

[pronounced a "magnum opus must-read" by The Note, the Ed Hyman of politics] New York Times - June 20, 2005 Bush's Road Gets Rougher By RICHARD W. STEVENSON WASHINGTON, June 19 - Five months after President Bush was sworn in for another four years, his political authority appears to be ebbing, both within his own party, where members of Congress are increasingly if sporadically going their own way, and among Democrats, who have discovered that they pay little or no price for defying hi ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 11:57:01 PDT 2005

18368 [lbo-talk] Hersh -- rank: 1000

I didn't get down to the Marxist Literary Group's annual chatfest in time to hear Seymour Hersh's presentation on Thursday night, but highlights recounted to me include: * the country is being run by 8 or 9 people, in complete isolation from the rest of the gov * there's no grand plan in Iraq - the gang of 8 or 9 really believes its own propaganda about democratization - he contrasted this with Kissinger, who, though perfectly willing to kill thousands, would have had some kind of grand oil deal ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 11:41:32 PDT 2005

18369 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Tom Walker wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote, > >>Yeah, I'd noticed that and was trying to figure out what in meant. >>It's not just that the antiwar "movement" hasn't been a factor, >>it's virtually disappeared even as public opinion was turning in >>its favor. Why? > > >What you're noticing is the different between a "movement" and a movement. Could you elaborate on that? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 11:15:22 PDT 2005

18370 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Oh, sure. Your right. There is and will be a loss of political >momentum for the Bush coalition, but I don't think it is the >"flameout" of the poltical right. The term flameout comes from jets >losing thrusting power in the engine. I just think they will circle >for awhile while a new navigation course based on coalition >compromise gets devised. You may be right - I'd never want to underestimate their staying power. But...things have been going t ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 10:29:05 PDT 2005

18371 [lbo-talk] so much for the LAT's wikitorial -- rank: 1000

<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-wiki-splash,0,1349109.htmlstory> Where is the Wikitorial? Unfortunately, we have had to remove this feature, at least temporarily, because a few readers were flooding the site with inappropriate material. Thanks and apologies to the thousands of people who logged on in the right spirit.

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Date:	Mon Jun 20 09:26:54 PDT 2005

18372 [lbo-talk] A One-Track Mind -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: > Heh, and the Leninists here haven't tried to defend Lenin whenever >I have posted it ;-) Five times, really Michael. You've got more than one track in your mind, but you play this one too often. Doug

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Date:	Sun Jun 19 20:49:51 PDT 2005

18373 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >>Wow, that's pretty amazing. Public opinion really seems to be >>turning, and with this sort of leadership, it could accelerate. Is >>Bush promoting the flameout of right-wing politics? > >The fact that public opinion is turning against the war is good >news, but folks should note the fact that the antiwar "movement" has >not been a factor in this switch in public opinion. Yeah, I'd noticed that and was trying to ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 18 07:32:45 PDT 2005

18374 [lbo-talk] James Weinstein dead -- rank: 1000

Chicago Tribune - June 17, 2005 JAMES WEINSTEIN, 79 Leftist adopted Chicago as home, started In These Times magazine Advertisement By Stephen Franklin Tribune staff reporter In the 1970s James Weinstein had a dream for a socialist magazine unlike any other in the country, a magazine that would speak to average people. But he wasn't sure where to launch it. New York was too tainted by the old and the New Left. And California was too California. So, he came to Chicago, a place where he had no root ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 18 07:26:44 PDT 2005

18375 [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >It's not a flameout of right-wing politics, just an internal power struggle. > >But is it good for the Left? > >Yes. Sorry for the previous empty msg - it got away on me. But Chip, it's not just the internal power struggle. Public opinion is increasingly hostile to Bush on Iraq, Social Security, and the "social issues" like the Schiavo and stem cell affairs. And, besides, internal power struggles can reflect a loss of political momentum, no? Doug

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