Republicans brush off level-headed testimony, but wingnut Bolton they may believe
Yet, as seems the norm today, the press is attaching more weight to the words of a single extremist than to the mountain of careful evidence amassed by some of the most sober and level-headed people elected to Congress.
“Even the well-known conservative X has a problem with Y” is the general structure of the argument. As if somehow the gold standard for what is reasonable and factual is not whether a statement is factually true or an argument is logical and reasonable. A right winger also has to agree, the more extreme the better, or there is no reason to accept it.
This really has to stop.
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“All that area from which the Gore family comes was solid Democrat and progressive under Roosevelt for several decades. So they just didn’t become Republicans because they all wanted to be bankers. They became Republicans because they didn’t like black people, and they thought the Democrats were pushing integration too fast. And that’s how the great split came about, to the shame of the whole country.”
~~Gore Vidal, Interview with Paul Jay, July 5, 2009.
At Daily Kos on this date in 2003—War opposition still increasing:
Yet another poll is showing increased opposition to Bush’s new war in Iraq. The USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll has opposition at 43 percent, up from 38 percent Jan 10-12. Actual support from the invasion is at 52 percent.
Of course, those numbers could move over to the “support” column if either the US or UK present evidence of Iraqi non-compliance. As of yet, all we’re hearing is the same “trust us, we have evidence” bullshit, while all CIA leads to the weapons inspectors have come up empty.
There may also be movement in the polls following the president’s SOTU address, though it will be interesting to watch how long any such “bounce” will last. And it will also be interesting how the markets react, not just the Wednesday after the speech, but two weeks out. Bush may claim to ignore polls, but it’ll be increasingly difficult to ignore his Wall Street supporters. War jitters alone continue to pound the market today.
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