The revolution eats its own, as the old saying goes.
Senator Dianne Feinstein’s release of her CIA report was a masterful move of jiu-jitsu.
As a result, the party that expected to be jubilantly celebrating its greatest victory in living memory has turned on itself.
Consider the irony: Dick Cheney, the most unpopular public figure in the country, is the leading Republican in the news, snarling with vulgarity and arrogance that torture is fine with him and he’d do it all again.
Ever since 2008, every Republican but Congressman Ron Paul has tried desperately to shove poor George W. Bush and his disasters down the Memory Hole. So-called “conservative” media immediately erase or spike any mention of his disastrous wars and his Big Brother surveillance superstate. “It’s all Obama’s fault,” they prate.
And now John Boehner, tears flowing as usual, champions legislation that fully funds everything that voters thought they were rejecting just six weeks ago. He pleads with Democrats to support him because “obstinate” Tea Party types won’t.
The scorpions are in the bottle. Feinstein now turns against Obama. Speaker Boehner turns against the Republican base. And Mitch McConnell, in his first significant public act as Majority Leader in Waiting, endorses torture and applauds the Cheney Administration’s use and abuse of it.
The late Sam Francis was right: the Stupid Party will always be just that.
5:59 pm on December 11, 2014
