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Re: Collective unconscious in the 105th Congress
Give me a BREAK!
Thomas Sowell is right: conservatives argue in terms of right and
wrong. Liberals couch theirs as good v. evil. They have to because
their arguments are intellectually null and void.
B.
Ron Force <rforce@uidaho.edu> wrote:
>
> Excerpts from Russel Baker's column today in the New York Times:
>
> Hellbent" is the word for Republicans at this eerie moment, and what
> they are hellbent on is the destruction of President Clinton.
>
> This passion does not present them in an ennobling light despite
efforts
> to portray themselves as the Lord's righteous army wielding its
> terrible, swift sword (Republican majorities in the Congress) to stamp
> out immorality and mendacity.
>
> It is never easy to feel comfortable with politicians who claim to
hold
> the high moral ground, as the Republicans now do. Few spectacles are
> more grotesque. A politician holding the high moral ground is like a
hog
> in a bathtub.
>
> Yet this is the situation in which Republicans find themselves in
their
> desperation to cleanse the Republic of a President they portray as
> abominable and loathsome, and quite possibly Satanic.
>
> The single-minded partisan intensity of their campaign for impeachment
> has the smell of fanaticism on it, and possibly a touch of madness...
>
> ...What we are seeing, as Geneva Overholser notes in The Washington
> Post, is the death of the political middle. Extremists are in charge.
> They are always plentiful in Congress, but they rarely rule.
>
> When Lyndon Johnson was majority leader he used to call them "the red
> hots." They were dominantly liberals then, and had no muscle. Now they
> are conservatives for whom accommodation and compromise amount to
> betrayal of faith.
>
> For six years they have tried to persuade the public to get rid of Mr.
> Clinton for general vileness. Maddened by the public's refusal to see
> the light, they have talked themselves into a frothing lather. They
are
> hellbent on putting a stake through his heart, and public sentiment be
> damned...
>
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> Ron Force rforce@uidaho.edu
> Dean of Library Services (208) 885-6534
> University of Idaho Moscow 83844-2350
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