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By Jihan Huq at 3:32PM

Mar 10, 2010

Conservatives Split On "Keep America Safe" Video

liz The new video that was recently released by Keep America Safe has been met with nothing but controversy. Perhaps what was most controversial was how the ad questions the patriotism of Justice Department lawyers and Attorney General Eric Holder.

Many from the right have overtly criticized Liz Cheney for her tactics used in the video, including members of the Federalist Society and even her former law Professor Richard Epstein. “There’s something truly bizarre about this,” Epstein said.“Liz Cheney is a former student of mine — I don’t know what moves her on this thing."

The Brooking Institute's Benjamine Wittes issued a joint letter last Sunday criticizing the video and even went further calling it a “shameful series of attacks” which were "unjust to the individuals in question and destructive of any attempt to build lasting mechanisms for counterterrorism adjudications.” The letter mentioned how John Adams once defended British soldiers after the Boston Massacre. I guess perhaps this would mean that the Cheneys would question John Adams' patriotism?

The Tea-Leaves Read: "Neocons"

Ron Paul discusses the partisan, neocon nature of theTea Party movement on Jack Hunter's "Southern Avenger" show:

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By Brian Beyer at 7:30AM

Jan 7, 2010

To All Neocons and Obama, Too

Blowback is here to stay.

Al-Qaeda said the suicide bombing at a US base in Afghanistan that killed seven CIA agents was "revenge" for the deaths of militants in US drone strikes in Pakistan, the US monitoring group SITE said on Thursday.

Notice how they didn't cite the Constitution and our freedoms as a reason for attacking us.

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By Brian Beyer at 1:27PM

Dec 21, 2009

The Neocons Are Losing Ground

Justin Raimondo of Antiwar.com writes about the recent encouraging developments of the "tea party movement." Most of the tea-party-goers are becoming increasingly non-interventionist:

[The teaparty movement is] on the cusp of learning the great lesson that conservatives of the cold war era failed to absorb: that the idea of maintaining a global military presence, including an empire of bases and an interlocking network of overseas military and financial "interests," rules out the limited-government agenda they so passionately embrace.

Raimondo even mentions Ron Paul, C4L and YAL.

The neocons hate Ron Paul, because he is the symbol of everything they have always opposed: liberty, populism, and, most of all, the Old Right, the pre-Buckley pro-free market "isolationist" movement that opposed the New Deal and Roosevelt’s wartime dictatorship. Paul’s supporters, organized in the Campaign for Liberty – and their very active youth section, Young Americans for Liberty – are the most well-organized and consciously ideological strain of the tea party movement. They also have the advantage of seniority: many of them were going to tea parties – yearly "Tax Day" demonstrations – long before it was cool.

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By Bonnie Kristian at 9:51AM

Nov 20, 2009

Would Our Government Really Start a War to Try to Stimulate the Economy?

Yes, yes it absolutely would.

Military Keynesianism is not a bugbear made up by libertarians -- in fact, it is widely hailed as a good idea by the likes of Bill Kristol and Reagan advisor/Harvard professor Martin Feldstein. Chalmers Johnson, the author of the Ron Paul-recommended book Blowback, writes on the subject:

This is military Keynesianism — the determination to maintain a permanent war economy and to treat military output as an ordinary economic product, even though it makes no contribution to either production or consumption. This ideology goes back to the first years of the cold war.

It's a very clever plan, for "Militarism is the one great glamorous public-works project upon which a variety of elements in the community can be brought into agreement." Conservatives who would never support welfare spending on the poor will happily countenance pouring billions -- even trillions -- into militarism. The left may object a little at first, but the right spokesman will bring them into line. And hey, it will stimulate the economy to boot! (Wrong)

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By Andrew Smith at 6:38AM

Jul 26, 2009

Revenge of the Plumber

Angry Joe

Ok, anybody remember this guy? His name is Joe, Joe the plumber. He's really not a plumber. He's the guy that McCain and Palin used in the 2008 election to represent the American taxpayers. The guy that asked Obama some hard questions about what he was doing with taxpayers dollars. Well, he's back and he has some interesting things to say about McPalin and the rest of the Neoconservatives in the Republican Party.

Wurzelbacher said he had voted for McCain but without enthusiasm. "In the end, I had to choose the lesser of two evils.
"Does the Republican Party represent anything I stand for right now? Absolutely not," he said. "Right now the Republican Party doesn't even know what it stands for."

While using this guy was a cheap political move on the part of McCain and Palin, I hope perhaps now this man's words could be used for a different movement and a different politician. Maybe the R3volution? Maybe Ron Paul? Only time will tell.

Here's the link.