Liberals Hiit Back at the Right
The affaire le Tom DeLay is getting messier by the day. It is quite obvious to any disinterested by stander that the senate majority leader was being framed by the Democrats for reasons that have little to do with ideology or even the law. It is pay back time as far as the Democrats are concerned. It is of little consequence that Ronnie Earle has indicted 4 times as many fellow democrats as he has republicans. Tom Delay has not done anything that democrats have not done and to indict Tom for breaking the law isto put it mildly smacks of political vendetta. The Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC) like any other Political Fund Raising outfit has raised money from corporates and perhaps even funded some state republican elections. The bad news for Ronnie Earle is that this charge will not hold in court and therefore the liberal democrat that he is, Ronnie Earle is actually fishing in troubled waters. Earle has a history of such targetted procecution and he has usually failed to secure a conviction. So his motive for framing Tom DeLay lie elsewhere.
The real problem that the Republicans face is not Tom DeLay but Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader. It is certain that he was privy to some inside information. Otherwise how else can he explain the sale of stocks just before the Company went into bankruptcy. Karl Rove is in a soup over accusations that he made public the name of Valerie Plame, the alledged CIA agent. All this is only proof thar the Republicns have hit sleaze interval.
American Right is now on the Retreat. Bush ran on a classic right wing political platform which includedc. tax cuts, family values, American Way of Life, cleverly courted the religious right, the gun lobby and sundry other right wing hobby horses. Today the Right Coalition that Bush inherited from Ronald Reagan is lying in tatters. More than the Liberals attacking the Right a civil war has broken out amont the various constituents of the Right Coalition.
Traditionally Right Wing in the USA has been opposed to Big Governemnt. A fear of big government inherited fro the days of Edmund Burke has always been a part of the ideological package of the Right. Bush has only added to the responsibilities of Giovernment.
Conservatives do not approve of an interventionist Federal Government especially on the contentious issue of states rights.
Fiscal conservatives are aghast at the rampaging Federal Defecit. and the American Right has traditionally been Isolationist. The War in Iraq and the huge expenditute in money and lives is being resented by the traditional right.
Who can say that William Buckley is a Liberal. Even he has come out against the Iraq War.
It is pay back time, folks.