Bow, Peasants, to our Australian-Reptilian-Romanian Overlords!
Or not. Whatever. Crusader AXE of the Lost Causes subscribes to the electonic WSJ and has even been asked for his opinion, hopes, etc. in a couple of their columns dealing my particular part of the 21st Century Slave Trade known as work. I started getting it when I got a MBA, and it's been more hassle to cancel than not, and it gives me a newspaper I can look at on-line and my various bosses just think I'm dedicated or something...with the Murdoch purchase, I gotta wonder, since the idea of a Rightwingnut counter to the NY Times means they need to go find a bunch of people who can write about things other than money who are also whores. The Times is the paper of record not because of its editorial stance which is tepid left liberal, but because of the stuff it prints as journalism. The Journal has some excellent journalists, but their focus really is on columns of numbers and a limited amount of news about things that are important or interesting to their non-editorial page editors. Now, Rupert will tear down that wall, and one wonders if he's paying the Bancrofts in a mix of Confederate, Zimbabwaian and Biafran currencies if they think he'll maintain any sort of journalistic integrity. I am waiting for the "Topless Bond Traitor" pictures inside the front, above the fold.
But, without the WSJ and it's odd role in opinion, speaking to the converted and the deranged, insane and inbred of the far right and their wannabes, we wouldn't have this bit of sheer nuttiness to deal with. While there are a lot of interesting things going on here as noted by the great IOZ who's posting on this got me to read it, I gotta go with the dialectical irony in this one.
First of all, our former Romanian Secret Police/Agent Generalissimo whatever discusses his great debt to, well, Jimmy Carter: "On July 28, I celebrated 29 years since President Carter signed off on my request for political asylum, and I am still tremendously proud that the leader of the Free World granted me my freedom. During these years I have lived here under five presidents--some better than others--but I have always felt that I was living in paradise. My American citizenship has given me a feeling of pride, hope and security that is surpassed only by the joy of simply being alive. There are millions of other immigrants who are equally proud that they restarted their lives from scratch in order to be in this magnanimous country. I appeal to them to help keep our beloved America united and honorable. We may not be able to change the habits of our current political representatives, but we may be able to introduce healthy new blood into the U.S. Congress" ...
Given the whole Ceaucescu' human breeding vampire schtick this clown "Yoho" Pacepa has got going on,
I gotta wonder about the whole new blood thing. But he then goes on to praise the president that, with the possible exception of one of the empty top hats during the gilded age or Warren Harding is the least like Jimmy Carter -- George W. Bush. There are some superficial similarities. Carter was so competent he was in fact incompetent; Bush so incompetent that he has achieved perfect incompetence. Carter is a successful farmer; Bush was pretty unsuccessful at everything he has ever done that required effort. Carter was a top student at Annapolis and was one of Rickover's nuclear types; Bush was a C student in legacy programs. Carter was chased by a rabbit; Bush choked on a pretzel. But, Carter didn't run off and hide during Iran; Carter accepted that he had made mistakes; Carter canned a couple of people who worked for him who were problems; Carter faced up and scared the hell out of the energy companies so they were good for a while. Carter got Sadat and Begin to agree to something, and that was an incredible accomplishment. So, while Pacepa probably is on reasonable ground saying good things about Carter as leader of the free world, saying equally great things about Dubya shows at least a lack of critical thinking...
He is also confused historically. He believes that the Vietnam war was an example of successful Soviet 
propaganda, which is intriguing. But, more interesting is this assertion: "My father spent most of his life working for General Motors in Romania and had a picture of President Truman in our house in Bucharest. While "America" was a vague place somewhere thousands of miles away, he was her tangible symbol. For us, it was he who had helped save civilization from the Nazi barbarians, and it was he who helped restore our freedom after the war--if only for a brief while. We learned that America loved Truman, and we loved America. " Ok, America never loved Truman. They loved Roosevelt and frankly, the things that Roosevelt stood for are probably why most Democrats are still Democrats. But, Truman was a machine hack who had an independent vision, unquestioned integrity and an absolute willingness to go down fighting not because he was right but because he said so. Truman actually has some resemblance to Bush, except for the whole competence thing and the inability to act like a blithering idiot. Also, Harry was smart enough to not surround himself completely with sycophants and he never called himself the Decider. Frankly that's silly as a title -- the Buck Stops Here (an old Army thing he copied from a First Sergeant's desk in the First World War) implies decision making and the responsibility for the decision. Inherent in the responsibility for the decision is the responsibility for the results. Not exactly what we're hearing from these guys.
So, I'll wait a bit before I cancel my subscription to the Journal. Can't really see the show without a ticket. IOZ also points out the presence and possible involvement of our reptillian overlords. It actually helps a few things make some sense. And, the blood quaffing ties back to the Congressional blood and the whole Romanian thing, in kind of a Lion-King-Circle-of-Life on bad acid way, so I'm down with it. All power to the lizards!
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