August 16, 2006
MAYBE THEY SHOULD JUST HAVE THE NEXT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION AT ROSWELL:
Groundhog Day (James K. Galbraith, August 16, 2006], The Nation)
Let's see... It's August. Bush is in Crawford on a "working vacation." His polls are in the tank. Congress is in revolt. The economy is going soft. The next elections don't look good. Cheney is off in Wyoming, or wherever he goes. It's 2001. No, it's 2006.In The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx reports that "Hegel writes somewhere" that the great events of history tend to occur twice, first as tragedy and then as farce. [...]
From all official statements so far, we are led to believe that August 10 was a highly developed, far-advanced conspiracy, under surveillance for some time, which could have been put into action within just a few days. And perhaps 8/10 really was the biggest thing since 9/11. But then again, perhaps it wasn't. We don't know yet.
Always smart for them to cite Marx just in case there's a straggler in the room who's taking them seriously. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 16, 2006 10:08 PM
Well, not just Marx, but the one quotation from Marx used so much that it's become a cliche. I mean, sheesh, try a little originality with your moonbattery Nation folks.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at August 16, 2006 10:46 PMPerhaps Ned Lamont is the biggest thing in electoral politics since Bill Clinton. Then again, perhaps not. But I don't think we'll have to wait very long to know.
Who read The Nation these days? Anybody outside of a few blocks in NYC?
Posted by: ratbert at August 17, 2006 10:40 AMAw bleep, I missed the "The Nation" part and read the whole post.
This "no evidence" thing is really taking off from the anti-Bush people. Keith Olberman talked yesterday repeatedly about the "purported" plot. Andrew Sullivan is openly dismissing it.
I don't get it. Why would the British government expose itself in this way, plastic bags with posessions, closing Heathrow? It would mean the fall of the government if there is nothing to this.
Posted by: Bob at August 17, 2006 11:55 AM
Marx was obviously talking about the difference between early 21st-century Marxists and early 20th-century Marxists.
Posted by: Joseph Hertzlinger at August 17, 2006 1:29 PMIt's amusing that Marx's most famous quote is a funny (because true) rebuttal of the whole notion of historical progress.
Posted by: Mike Earl at August 17, 2006 1:38 PM