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Attack of the Neocon Water Carriers

Newsflash!  Rush Limbaugh reveals he is still a real conservative.  He was only pretending to be a neocon.  Turns out that Rush was just lying to his audience.  He was "carrying the water" for the G.O.P. these past five years for the good of America.

Speaking of liars, Rush Limbaugh has finally come clean after the elections and admitted he has been lying to his listeners for years by defending as "conservative" actions by Republicans that Rush himself knew were anything but.

I feel liberated, and I'm going to tell you as plainly as I can why.  I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried.  Now, you might say, "Well, why have you been doing it?"  Because the stakes are high.  Even though the Republican Party let us down, to me they represent a far better future for my beliefs and therefore the country's than the Democrat Party and liberalism does.

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There have been a bunch of things going on in Congress, some of this legislation coming out of there that I have just cringed at, and it has been difficult coming in here, trying to make the case for it when the people who are supposedly in favor of it can't even make the case themselves -- and to have to come in here and try to do their jobs.  I'm a radio guy!  I understand what this program has become in America and I understand the leadership position it has.  I was doing what I thought best...."

What a relief!  Rush was just a water carrier!  I was beginning to think Rush was actually a true believer, Jack-Booted, Big-Government neocon.  Turns out that Rush was still a small-government conservative all along, though he defended every big government, anti-liberty measure that came down the pike.

This explains how Rush could dismiss the Abu Ghraib torture, murder, and sexual humiliation as equivalent to fraternity hazing pranks.  Rush did not actually believe that nonsense.  He was simply pursuing an ingenious long-term plan to preserve true conservative values by temporarily carrying Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld's neocon water.  Such a long-suffering patriot!  Such a good actor!  He gave a true Oscar performance.  It must have been so very difficult for Rush to "get into character" as a Big Government neocon before each show.  I can picture him pacing back and forth, shaking out his hands, taking deep breaths, talking to himself, "OK Rush, you can do this, you can do this...you're a radio guy!  That is what you do!" as he turns frantically to ask an assistant "what's my motivation?"  No wonder Rush was popping so many pills.  Such pressure.  Such performance anxiety.

Neocon Rats Jumping Ship!

Video of Cheney on ABC News

As reported on Rawstory.com by Mike Sheehan and David Edwards on November 3, 2006, the arch-neocons behind the throne are starting to turn on the Bush administration:

Vice President Dick Cheney appeared tonight in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, in which he appeared perplexed when told of new neocon criticism of the Iraq war and the Bush administration. 

Stephanopoulos told Cheney of criticisms from key neoconservatives Richard Perle, Ken Adelman and others that had just appeared in a new Vanity Fair article released that afternoon, in which they said, among other things, that "they would not have supported the invasion if they knew how incompetent the administration would be in handling it."

This comes as no surprise.  The neocons, originating as former Trotskyites who then defected from the Democratic Party during the Cold War, have no permanent allegiance to the Republican Party, as I noted back in March, 2006 here, and as Congressman Ron Paul warned Congress back in 2003.  Rep. Paul explained very thoroughly how neocons are not conservatives at all, how they loath libertarians and thus also loath all constitutionalists and have utterly no respect for the Constitution of the Founders.  But Congress did not listen, and was truly neo-conned.   

The neocons now realize that the Bush administration is going down in Iraq, with Bush blissfully standing at the helm, like a demented Mr. Magoo, "staying the course" though the rudder has long since sheered off.   

But the neocons are not going down with the ship.  Those crafty rats are now jumping off, blaming the incompetence of the Bush administration rather than the stupidity of their own crazy ideas.  Anyone with even a rudimentary knowledge of military history who was not blinded by a will-to-power ideology would have known that invading Iraq would lead to a guerilla war of resistance against foreign occupiers and then to a civil war.  But then perhaps that was what the insidious neocons wanted all along, to further some dark, Machiavellian long-term strategy.  Either that, or they are monumentally stupid.  In any case, the neo-crazies are obviously at least smart and sane enough to know when it is time to jump off a sinking stinker and swim for dear life.   

The real question is when will conservatives wake up from the neocon wormtongue trance and become real conservatives again, who actually give a damn about the Constitution and limited government?  Likely not until they are completely out of power.  Then perhaps they will rediscover the virtues of those checks and balances, those limits on federal power, and that dusty old Bill of Rights.  And perhaps, just maybe, they will realize that the Constitution is not just some damn piece of paper, even though we live in a "post-911 world."  I hope.

Stewart Rhodes

John Yoo: Neocon Treason and Plot

John Yoo and the Neocon Treason and Plot -- A Freedom-Lover's Version of the Guy Fawkes Poem

Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Remember, remember the 29th of September
Military Commissions Act, assault on the Bill of Rights by a vile lot;
I see no reason why the Neocon Treason
Should ever be forgot.

John Yoo, John Yoo,
'Tis his intent
To give us a King and a Parliament.
By stroke of a pen or by rubber stamp, his Leader will throw
you into a camp.
Complicit judges and Congress in tow
Our Constitution to overthrow.

John Yoo, John Yoo,
He goes to bed,
With visions of crushing children’s testicles in his head.
Enemy combatants all around,
Grab them, bag them, board them till they drown.

You’re an enemy combatant!
I’m an enemy combatant!
We're all enemy combatants if his Leader says so;
We the People are We the Enemy don’t you know!

But this is land of the free, home of the brave
Not land of the scared, home of the slaves;
Weimar Germany, Russia, or China this is not
We won’t forsake the Republic our forefathers wrought.

We remember their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Where once the embattled farmers stood;
and fired the shot heard round the world.
The same defiance burns in us till our last breath
Their battle cry still echoes
Give us Liberty or Give us Death!

Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, We have no King!
Hip hip Hoorah!
Hip hip Hoorah!

A stale MRE to feed ol' Yoo,
Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the shrubbery too.
A session of water boarding to rinse it down,
A lit cigarette to burn them.
Put their nuts in a vice,
Don’t make us ask twice!
Confess! Confess! Tell us their crimes,
What they knew, when they knew, and why;
But before we find out the reason,
We will give them what they deny us
A jury trial for their high Treason.

© 2006 E. Stewart Rhodes

About the Poem

This poem is loosely based on the Guy Fawkes poem.  But whereas the original poem was about a man who plotted to blow up Parliament, this poem it is about a man, and his neocon co-conspirators, who are plotting to destroy our Constitutional Republic.  This is my second version of such a poem.  You can read the first version here.  This second one is closer in style to the original.

Bush and Neocons: President is King

re:  "Bush shuns Patriot Act requirement  In addendum to law, he says oversight rules are not binding"   The Boston Globe,  3/24/06 

With Bush's approval ratings hovering around 35% and Republican candidates running from him as quickly as they can, the neocons, who pull this lame duck's strings, are conducting a constitutional scorched earth policy.  This policy is driven by the neocons' perverse fetish for unlimited unitary executive power, even if it means handing over such unlimited power to a Democrat in 2008 (Heil Hillary! anyone?).

Why would the neocons do that?  Because neocon loyalty is not to party or even ideas or principles.  They loyalty is to power.  The neocon dream legacy is to fully destroy the Founders' Constitution and to insert the Fuhrer Principle into the American system of government.  Period.

Government Supremacists

Neocons:  The National Security New Dealers

Dana Milbank's recent article "A War of Words:  'Declare' vs. 'Make' and Its Allies" correctly points out how John Yoo and the rest of the neo-conservative cabal, masquerading as originalists, are engaged in a thinly veiled rewriting of our Constitution to turn Congress into a mere debating society and, at most, a rubber stamp.

But like most such commentators and like all of the post 9/11 federal court decisions, Milbank ignores the full scope of the pending destruction of our liberty by acting as if the only constitutional principle that is in danger is the separation of powers.  From the Padilla and Hamdi cases (U.S. citizens declared enemy combatants) right down to the NSA spying controversy, the mainstream political and legal talking heads only debate whether Congress needs to give its approval before the president can act in these ways, and then whether Congress has given that approval.