GOP memo touts NEW TERROR ATTACK

by **manxkat** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 5:45 pm

<a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml" target="top">GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline</a> By DOUG THOMPSON Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue Nov 10, 2005, 06:19 A confidential memo circulating among senior Republican leaders suggests that a new attack by terrorists on U.S. soil could reverse the sagging fortunes of President George W. Bush as well as the GOP and "restore his image as a leader of the American people." The closely-guarded memo lays out a list of scenarios to bring the Republican party back from the political brink, including a devastating attack by terrorists that could “validate” the President’s war on terror and allow Bush to “unite the country” in a “time of national shock and sorrow.” The memo says such a reversal in the President's fortunes could keep the party from losing control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections. GOP insiders who have seen the memo admit it’s a risky strategy and point out that such scenarios are “blue sky thinking” that often occurs in political planning sessions. <a href="http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7639.shtml" target="top">continue here</a> + + + So it's BLUE SKY THINKING to have another terrorist attack in the USA? Kinda says it all right there.

by **marykmusic** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:26 pm

Can't do it too soon, though, or the euphoria will wear out before election time next year. Next summer or early fall is probably just right. Now, how to stay in office that long... --MaryK

by **banned** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:29 pm

OK, so you hire two guys to protect your house but someone breaks in anyway and steals everything you own and beats your sainted old granny up. (9/11) So you listen to the two guys' Master Plan to make sure it doesn't happen again: they build a big wall around your house, install sensors, frisk your friends on entry, strip search visiting Jehovah's Witnesses, mine the driveway, etc. (USAPatootieAct, Department of Heimatsekuritat, strip searching children and Al Gore at airports, GitmoGulag, Iraqmire, many zillions of dollars). Then someone breaks in again, steals everything you own, and THIS time sends sainted granny home to Jaysus. So this makes the two bodyguards heroes and vindicates the things they did to protect your house and granny, right? No. Not right. At least, that's not the logic I grew up with. Perhaps in the Murka where Mickey D's is considered "food", Jennifer Aniston an "actress" and Harriet Miers a "Supreme Court nominee", however, that "old fashioned" logic has been replaced by Bizarro logic, in which if you entrust someone a second time to protect you and they fail again only bigger and better, this means you should give them even MORE money to come up with ANOTHER plan to keep you safe. Alas, granny is gone, and the dog accidentally bought it on the mined driveway, so it's just you now sitting there waiting for the team of Abbott & Costello, Security Consultants, to fuck up again and get YOU killed. Meanwhile of course you now have no rights at all, when you show up at your house you are blindfolded, dragged into a dark locked bombproof room and held there with nothing but Beanie Weenies and piss-warm Gatorade till it's time to go to work tomorrow, all for your own protection, you know, while A & C enjoy your home theater, lap pool, and gourmet kitchen. Jiminy H. Christ. If the Murkan sheeple fall for THAT one, you know what they say about being fooled twice.

by **nomo** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:35 pm

"If the Murkan sheeple fall for THAT one, you know what they say about being fooled twice." "Won't get fooled again!"

by **Bismillah** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:41 pm

I'm not American, so can someone tell me: How reliable is Capitol Hill Blue? I mean, this is shocking if true, but no use to anyone unless he can back it up with evidence.

by **nomo** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 6:53 pm

They're not a "real" news outlet, whatever the hell that means these days anyway, and admittedly they come across as over the top, if not satirical at times, but every once a while their reports are corroborated by other media. They're working the DC rumor mill, just keep that in the back of your mind. On the other hand, I don't find this all that shocking, considering the current gang in the White House. I'm just amazed they could entertain such fantasies when after Katrina, they should know that the American public's confidence in the government has taken a sharp dive. If the other shoe were indeed to drop, and the response would be similar to Katrina, I don't see how that would help the GOP in any way.

by **Ted the dog** » Fri Nov 11, 2005 7:53 pm

"So this makes the two bodyguards heroes and vindicates the things they did to protect your house and granny, right? No. Not right." lol...yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking when I saw that article yesterday: a second 9/11 would be a GOOD thing for the GOP?! how?! That would just prove their critics correct! that would prove that all the restrictions and curtailing of civil liberties and bullshit rhetoric really was all just a scam! We really ARE no safer now than we were on 9/11!! But then, like you, I realized, "Oh wait, but we're not in the real world anymore.....we're in post 9/11 la-la land where everything is actually counter to the way it should be." Sadly, I could see this scenario playing out exactly like the article says. Whether the article is real or not, I could see members of the GOP drooling at the prospect for a second 9/11. A lot of Americans would be so terrified that they'd dive right in....AGAIN....and agree to what anyone in a position of authority was telling them....even though there's absolutely ZERO logic in that since those same people in authority were the ones that...actually I don't even need to finish that. Everyone here knows what that's about.

by **banned** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:24 am

...if there is another "terror" attack on US soil, EVERY SINGLE MEMBER of the executive and legislative branch should be shitcanned, recalled, impeached, or whatever can be legally done to remove them from office, then they should be tried for treason and dereliction of duty, convicted, and mass gallows should be set up on the Mall in DC and every last one of them should get the proverbial short drop and quick stop, on satellite teevee beamed to the ends of the galaxy. Above the gallows should be planes flying towing banners that say: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BETRAY THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Bastards. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:">

by **dbeach** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:38 am

terrist attack or not terrist attack Congress needs to be replaced.. It does speak VOLUMES about these pigs masquarading as politicians The bush agenda remains the same : Total 1984 police state with the elites on the top and the rest of us well name your fave scenario.. MAYBE they will get caught this time in the ACT!?? Bush did it! poppy o bush to be more specific..and he murdered my boyhood HERO JFK BK and JFK jr not to mention MLK Wellstone Heinz ect....

by **banned** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 1:46 am

Those bastards got the Burger King when I wasn't looking?

by **professorpan** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:02 am

I understand your justifiable anger, but a "mass gallows" sounds eerily like what the other side fantasizes about. I wouldn't want Robert Byrd, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, and Ted Kennedy led to the gallows. There are angels working in the system as well as devils. And if you herd elected representatives to the gallows for "betraying the trust of the American people" you might as well line up the deluded, divorced-from-reality people who are so busy watching reality tv they can't even bring themselves to vote. The solution isn't killing people -- it's waking people up. Killing people is what they do. But like everyone else, I worry about the pack of cornered, angry dogs in the White House. With ever delicious taste of sweet schadenfreude, there's the bitter taste of fear of what might be just around the corner.

by **rapt** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:11 am

O baby banned that 3:2_ had me rollin on the floor. Need to worik out a way to get you before the Senate on a good day when yr in top form. Blow em away.

by **rapt** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 2:19 am

Prof I been waiting a long time for people to wake up. Meanwhile the reptiles are active among the dead-asleep, sucking their blood and their souls. If you want to wait and give em more time go ahead and lie with the sleepy - I have more than enough evidence for execution now. Not speaking for banned of course.

by **banned** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 3:36 am

I believe I said they would be tried for treason and dereliction of duty. Since I didn't say that the judges in that trial would be large marsupials who hop around, one may presume that those few public servants who did NOT commit treason and dereliction of duty would not face the aforementioned short drop and quick stop. [EDITED: banned, I had to delete some passages here that I considered overstepped the posting regulations.] In any case, if it was good enough for the Nuremberg tribunal, it's good enough for me. SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS! Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 11/12/05 9:09 am

by **professorpan** » Sat Nov 12, 2005 4:18 am

Jeff's number one rule for posting: -- Beyond trolling and disruption, posts subject to deletion or locking will be those which 1. advocate violence -- And I agree with him -- advocating violence is a quick way to bring heat down on Jeff and anyone else who posts here. banned, you are advocating *killing people.* I'm especially sensitive to calls to kill people, being that it's Veteran's Day in the U.S. and all, and the Bush Cult is quite successfully killing people at a phenomenal pace. Killing people never the solution to any problem. It's their tactic. "Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals." --MLK

GOP memo touts NEW TERROR ATTACK

GOP memo touts NEW TERROR ATTACK

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What kind of logic is this?

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How reliable is Capitol Hill Blue?

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Well, here's how MY logic works...

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BK?

Gallows humor

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