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Re: Collective unconscious in the 105th Congress
So does that make moderates good and wrong??
Sue
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> From: Briana LeClaire <mmsmom1@yahoo.com>
> To: Ron Force <rforce@uidaho.edu>; Vision2020 Listserver
<vision2020@moscow.com>
> Subject: Re: Collective unconscious in the 105th Congress
> Date: Friday, December 18, 1998 1:45 PM
>
> 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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