Author: TGeraghty

Cross-posted at MyDD

Right-wing theorists have a strategy for dealing with the impending conservative crack-up, from Iraq to the economy – blame it all on the Bush administration:

The neocons develop an exit strategy — a political one

President George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the “neocons” who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their own — a political one: Blame the Administration.

Their neo-Wilsonian theory is correct, they insist, but the execution was botched by a Bush team that has turned out to be incompetent, crony-filled, corrupt, unimaginative and weak over a wide range of issues.

We cannot let them get away with this.

Cross-posted at European Tribune

There is a very important diary over at Daily Kos that may be of interest to BooTribbers (also see the diaries of KlatooBaradaNikto here and here):

The goal IS to reduce the standard of living by Pellice.

The Washington Post ran a very revealing online chat yesterday with one of their business columnists, Steven Pearlstein. He was quite open that what the “economy” [business leaders, I guess] needed now is a working class with a reduced standard of living that will compete with third world labor.

He was using the Delphi, and the automotive industries’ debacles, as his example.  The answer to all the problems is to knock back the workers’ wages below “middle class” standards, and reduce their benefits, particularly health care.

To all comers who brought up the facts that Delphi managers had deliberately underfunded pensions, had stolen funds from the company, had managed it poorly, and, finally, had awarded themselves bonuses even as they demanded that workers take wage cuts, Pearlstein responded:  But that doesn’t matter.  The basic truth is that the workers, all workers, must work for less pay so that their companies will still be competitive with overseas labor.

Sound familiar? More on the flip.

Cross-posted at European Tribune Germany is not the only big country having elections this fall....