[lbo-talk] poll: 45% of Americans have their heads hopelessly wedged up their asses

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 5 12:56:33 PDT 2005


Michael Pollak wrote:


>The real political potential in the NOLA disaster is not the
>immediate blame. It's the deeper blame, the way it indicts virtually
>everything Bush stands for, from Iraq to Global Warming, and
>everything the Republicans have stood for for the last 25 years,
>from screwing the poor to cutting down the government to defining
>"security" in such insanely military terms that we spend billions on
>star wars but nothing preparing for things that might actually
>happen. It indicts the whole idea of a society where government
>leaves you on your own to fend for yourself.
>
>That's not a case that gets made overnight.

No, but I'll be shocked if the Democrats make it.

Doug



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