Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

Kristol's comments are so preposterous that, but for the gravity of disastrous neocon war policies he has helped promote, such as some 655,000 Iraqi deaths and counting in that conflict alone, he might qualify as a comic, albeit an offbeat one.  

Mitch McConnell could not "outmaneuver" a mentally retarded eel.  Did anyone ever reveal the current Senate vote count to Kristol and let him know that the Democratic one vote majority exists due to Iraq War super hawk Joe Lieberman caucusing as a Democrat?  What kind of discipline can the Democrats build around an Iraq War strategy given such numerical shortcomings?

No, Time would rather duck the major news than report it, as evidenced by its current cover story.  Ronald Reagan is pictured along with the comment that The Gipper is currently needed to bring the right back to a position of primacy.  

Oh yes, how we should long for those good old days!  The post-Reagan wreckage count revealed a tripling of the national debt under his watch.  His regime also shipped arms to Iran and used monies from the deal to funnel to the Contras.  

America armed both sides in the deadly Iran-Iraq War as certain arm chair blood zealots thrilled to both sides "killing each other off."

In Central America the body count under Reagan was 300,000.  

Reagan was terrified about Daniel Ortega's Nicaraguan Sandinistas invading Texas while his CIA prepared assassination manuals and distributed them in El Salvador.  His embargo in Nicaragua resulted in thousands of children dying due to inability to receive medical care as a result of the trade embargo Reagan imposed.  

The names of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were anything but verboten in those halcyon Republican days.  This was before the neocons decided it was time to demonize both figures for geopolitical purposes.  

Rumsfeld was on the scene in 1983 to lock in a weapons deal with Saddam while he was conducting genocide against the Kurds in his northern territories.  Reagan's regime also gave Saddam a helping hand with technological guidance from U.S. experts in the field of developing chemical weapons.

Yes, and Osama bin Laden was at that time a valued CIA asset.  His role was to help the Taliban in its effort to overthrow the Moscow allied government in Afghanistan.  After all, as Reagan always saw it, the chief concern had to be eliminating that "Evil Empire" in Moscow.  The Russians were what you would call prematurely anti-Taliban.  

Tell us, Republicans!  Was Reagan correct then about Saddam and bin Laden or is Bush wrong now?  If Bush is right now then what about the Great Communicator's activities then on the foreign affairs front?  Is this a significant enough point to shift focus away from the stain on Monica Lewinsky's dress?

Reagan also piled up a great track record on the domestic front.  Millions of Americans hit the poverty ranks, while some millionaires catapulted to the ranks of billionaires.  

Meanwhile Reagan intoned, "Get the government off of people's backs!"  At the same time crime rates increased, something that is supposed to be a liberal myth that just happened to be proven in this case.

Then again, give Reagan credit.  After all, Reagan might have bolted Lebanon when the going got tough but he then turned around and conquered a militarily aggressive Caribbean super power.  
What was that super power's name?  Oh, that would be tyrannical bully Grenada!  

Just think, Reagan stopped Nicaragua from assaulting America via Harlingen, Texas and repelled Grenada from attacking us by sea.  By land and sea the Great Communicator boldly ruled!

You see, it's so much easier to write nonsense about Reagan than give Kucinich his due.  After all, Kucinich spends his time talking about the issues.  

After all, it was none other than media giant Ted Koppel who expressed his disgust during that New Hampshire 2004 televised debate with Kucinich along with Al Sharpton and Carol Moseley Braun.  He expressed disgust that they were part of the Democratic presidential candidates' scene.  Ted decreed that they were not serious candidates.

Then again, Kucinich, Sharpton and Braun were proving to be problems.  They were the three candidates talking about the real issues.  No wonder Koppel was so eager to get rid of them!