Wag-the-Dog Protection - Krugman NYT

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/22/opinion/22krugman.html?hp

ok people...lets be prepared for the bait and switch to national security...this time it looks like iran will be the drum beat to war, this should be so fucking obvious to any person with half a brain...we should start to hammer boyking with the lack of real homeland security in this country before they can frame the debate and wipe us out again a la 2002

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The campaign against Social Security is going so badly that longtime critics of President Bush, accustomed to seeing their efforts to point out flaws in administration initiatives brushed aside, are pinching themselves. But they shouldn't relax: if the past is any guide, the Bush administration will soon change the subject back to national security.

The political landscape today reminds me of the spring of 2002, after the big revelations of corporate fraud. Then as now, the administration was on the defensive, and Democrats expected to do well in midterm elections.

Then, suddenly, it was all Iraq, all the time, and Harken Energy and Halliburton vanished from the headlines.

I don't know which foreign threat the administration will start playing up this time, but Bush critics should be prepared for the shift. They must curb their natural inclination to focus almost exclusively on domestic issues, and challenge the administration on national security policy, too.

this party will NEVER regain majorities in either house of congress. Anyone who doesn't see an IWR (Iran War Resolution) coming up next year is a blind fool.

will any dems have the courage to say no?

The Bush Boys have been burned by the lack of WMDs.

Best not to make that mistake twice.

ah...the pesky facts and evidence, won't get them this time...ugh?!

The deed is done then. Major Republican Philosophy. They are never held accountable anyway. It's the Arrogance Stupid

goodbye.
Invading Iran will start a 3rd World War and it will be the world against the US.
So if the Democrats want to even have a chance at regaining power, they had better step up to the plate. NOW!

Krugman must be talking about the old DLC Dems. I don't think Dean's DNC is going to be so mute about the dangers of expanding the war to Iran, Syria, Pakistan, et al.

We're all toast if the Party leadership falls in line again.

"We're all toast if the Party leadership falls in line again."

AMEN to that brother...i'm going to start writing to my dem reps and to the DNC too...we just CANNOT be taken flat-footed by this again, the dems might not be able to recover from a second political-ambush, not to speak of the country at large either.

He's the last, best hope.

"Iran invasion" (or "Operation Manly Men", or whatever asinine name the admin. comes up with this time.)

World War III. World War III. (Thanks to the poster above who said it would start WWIII.)

"So, my wingnut friend, are you gonna support President Bush's World War III--or are you just a sniveling wuss who's afraid of a few bombs and big guns?"

i like it...from here on out, thats what i'll refer to itin conversations with some RW co-workers.

peace

The wingnuts brush aside any fear that their baby wingnuts will get drafted... they think the Pretzeldent will carve out a special exception for the children of his faithful followers (ha! fat chance!) But if they start thinking (realizing) that Bush's WWIII might just endanger their OWN flabby asses, then maybe they'll back off on some of their "bomb the ragheads" bullshit.