The War Party

The Republicans have backed themselves into a corner, ideologically. So far no one in the Merde Stream Media seems to have noticed.

They are reduced to two themes, which are blatantly paradoxical, in the world of logic. Too bad that that world has so few inhabitants these days. And yet they cannot back away from either of them without losing their base(s) and without repudiating their own ideological philosophy. Which as any thinking person can see after 8 years of unopposed (unless you count Congress, hahaha) rule by the War party, is a complete and utter failure on all levels.

The first theme is of course,  War. The second hearkens back to Bush Sr’s “read my lying lips” moment that cost him a second term….thank the Goddess. McCain cannot in any way shape or form even suggest increases. Even as the national debt soars towards ten trillion dollars

and the budget deficit FOR JULY tops $100 billion as the administration bails out failed (due to Republican policies) banks and mortgage lenders, which have caused an international credit crisis that is devaluing the dollar and making it much, much harder to pay off the money that we are borrowing from China, the Arab states, and Russia …..the current target of McCain’s macho posturing. The Pentagon is requesting a record budget of over $600 billion, in addition to the supplementals for Iraq….which are now up to what the entire Vietnam War cost. But we cannot raise taxes to actually PAY for the Republican policy of endless war…so we just print more money, which devalues the dollar, making it harder and harder to pay off the money ….that we are borrowing hand over fist from our ostensible global enemies, so we can wage war against them! What a scam!

In other words….the US of A is broke and beyond broke, broken. There is no money to pay for more war, no matter how much paper we print. And yet the Republican Party is married to war. Not just as a policy in Iraq, but as an ideology, and not just as an ideology, but as their main source of funding and support. As the concerns of the social conservatives fade in importance to Americans in the face of hard economic times, the Republicans at this point exist for one main reason. As the policy and political arm of the Military Industrial Complex. Without war, they have got nothing but wedge issues like abortion, gay marriage and various other forms of hate-based hot-button issues. Which, to their undoubted chagrin, are cooling off as the thinking people in America come down from their jingoism induced adoration of the GOP in the face of the complete and utter failure of every single policy and position they have stood for since Gingrich’s Contract on America. They have lost the latest battle in the culture wars. America, since Schiavo and Katrina, and in the stark light of recession and inflation, has rejected “Compassionate Conservatism.”

So here they stand, no money to pay for war, but no way they can raise taxes. If they stop the war drums they lose their entire reason for being, if they raise taxes to pay for their wars they are betraying the one thing their real base cares about….themselves and their pocketbooks.

And McCain wants even MORE war. According to the revisionist Republicans, Ronald Reagan defeated the evil Soviet Empire by spending them into oblivion….McCain apparently wants to do the same for America, spend it into oblivion….so that he can obtain the one thing that every Republican President needs more than anything else on earth. A new existential enemy to fight on behalf of their biggest, most important constituency, the aforementioned Military Industrial Complex.

The Republicans cannot exist without war, without the club of fear of an existential threat to terrify Americans into electing them….but they have already looted the treasury to the point where America is in danger of economic collapse. But they cannot raise taxes to pay for their wars. A pretty pickle that would change the political equation….if the corporate media (GE, a major war contractor owns NBC, for instance) did not have a stake in keeping the status quo chugging along this slippery slope.

The Republicans have screwed up everything that they have touched…except the bank accounts of the richest one percent of Americans. Is that enough to allow (with the help of the media) them to pull the wool over the eyes of the American people one more time in the upcoming election? Can they cover up the inherent contradictions of their bankrupt and destructive ideology for one more cycle? Or will enough voters have the temerity to look up from the details and drudgery of their rapidly dwindling “American Lifestyle” to recognize the Republican scam of taking tax dollars for war from the poor and middle class while giving tax breaks to the richest Americans and the MIC? All at the increasing risk of American economic collapse?

So that they can continue to kill, torture and threaten the rest of the world’s population for their own gain?

We are about to find out…..Hold on to your hats!