There’s a brand of humor where the joke is so so awful that a chuckle issues out because it’s just so deeply disturbing. We see a certain contingent of us decrying the violence of video games, never connecting to the real life video game these guys like Rove and Kristol are playing. You can’t help imagining them snickering and sneering at us and high fiving eachother at our inability to keep up, as they sit around the board game with highalls and big cigars, twiddling us. Someone with penetrating wit has come up with the guffawingly accurate moniker, “The Mansion Family.” Imagine custom fit orange jump suits for their retirement: press enter.

Isn’t it obvious?  The GOP brain trust, led by Rove, Cheney, et al, sit down together and decide on a strategy of attack they will use.  They then send it out to all the minions and everyone uses the same line again and again, on the talk shows, in the interviews, on the Sunday news shows, again and again.  No matter WHAT anyone else says, the minions hammer the line they’ve been given by the Rove/Cheney trust.  This week it’s “The victory by Lamont is a victory for the terrorists”.

It’s a lie. It’s propaganda.  But if it gets repeated enough times, as Goebbels said, it becomes the “truth”.  Just like the “Liberal Media” “John Kerry Flip-Flops” and “Bill Clinton committed perjury”.

It doesn’t matter what anyone says.  Just, like a Roman Legion, keep your shields up, keep swinging your weapons until you prevail.

Hillary Clinton called it the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” years ago—and here we have them aiming it right at Ned Lamont.  This time it’s Cristol and Cheney.  Next, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly will pick it up.  And it will always be the same.

The repetition of the speeches of Kristol and Cheney have become so familiar that they now sound like robots with conditionned reflexes repeating,  “We want more power, we want more war”.  No matter what takes place that is the constant refrain.  They are out of touch with reality.
That is why they are becoming irrevelant like that little chatterbox Ken Mehlman.

Felicity Smith says:

“Every American TV viewer at the moment Kristol and his ilk, the ubiquitous cable cabal of flim-flam artists, utters their first word should immediately reach for his clicker.  Their reason to be is not to inform us, but to sell us something - just like their Madison Ave. counterparts.  The latter might sell you a pill that will ultimately kill you, while the former’s intention is to sell you a lie which may ultimately kill our country.”

I just thought it worth repeating.

Lindquist writes:

“...which becomes obvious out of Kristol’s and other Neocons proposals documented in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)...”

PNAC isn’t the beginning of the plot.

The Israeli “Clean Break” paper (1996) is the beginning. The “Clean Break” plan was decided too difficult for Israel to accomplish on its own.

So the neocons created PNAC to force the American government to do it FOR Israel, with added bullshit about how SWELL this was going to be for the interests of the USA — and only incidentally good for Israel (heh-heh!).

The plan, stripped of BS, is simply this:

The USA destroys itself fighting a series of suicidal wars to aggrandize and enlarge Israel.

It’s proceeding right on schedule to the next item: IRAN.

So why did we get into Iraq in the first place? Why didn’t we use those resources to wipe out the Al Qaeda threat when we had the sympathy and support of the whole world?

Because—which becomes obvious out of Kristol’s and other Neocons proposals documented in the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)—their Machiavellian strategy was/is to use Al Qaeda as a foil to pursue perpetual political power in the USA, and then the world.

The tactic is to convince the people in a republic that they need a strong executive (prince) to protect them while they undermine the power of the people in the republic.

It’s taught both in Political Science 101 and Medieval History 111 in the section on Machiavelli.

The Neocons with the guidance of one their ghurus, Leo Strauss, decided that government MUST be controlled by an elite. It’s too dangerous to leave it in the hands of the people after what happened in Germany with the initial election of Hitler.

And now with GW calling for the spread of democracy in the Middle East ... this is gonna get real interesting real quick.

But then GW always was the cheerleader ...

What I question is why it’s more shocking that someone on Fox News would be saying this, then the fact that our Vice President is the one who seems to originally have stated this.

Look’s like it’s time for another pie. This time, make it a cow pie.

Every American TV viewer at the moment Kristol and his ilk, the ubiquitous cable cabal of flim-flam artists, utters their first word should immediately reach for his clicker.  Their reason to be is not to inform us, but to sell us something - just like their Madison Ave. counterparts.  The latter might sell you a pill that will ultimately kill you, while the former’s intention is to sell you a lie which may ultimately kill our country.

Speaking of Dick on the warpath…
How do they keep Cheney alive?
See: http://ao1a.cf.huffingtonpost.com/