The Whiners

Commentary By Ron Beasley

The Republicans came to power - failed on a monumental scale - were justly defeated and now they have no new ideas so they whine.  Sarah Palin whines because the media reported her ignorant and incoherent ramblings.  Sarah Palin complains because after she used her family as props for the 2008 presidential election the media reports that her life looks like a trailer park reality show.  But that's not hard to take.

Under the Cheney administration the neocon/Zionists had their way and the results were a disaster.  And now they are whining.  Matt Yglesias does a good job of explaining why it is necessary to "bash" the neocons.  They are crazy and dangerous because they still have a voice in spite of the fact the shouldn't.

It’s actually true that neocon bashing is a bit on the tiresome side. That said, I think it really has to be understood as a vital social necessity. Adherents of a deranged and sociopoathic “neocon” conception of America’s role in the world continue to be tremendously influential in our society. They have columns at The Washington Post and dominate the foreign policy coverage on Fox News. They have The Weekly Standard and Commentary and a healthy slice of The New Republic. And most important, as best as anyone can tell their ideas remain utterly dominant in the Republican Party. Their intra-party critics like Colin Powell, rather than winning intra-party arguments seem to be simply drifting out of the GOP coalition.

This is a dangerous situation. In the United States, the opposition party is always one ill-timed recession or political scandal from taking power. So a set of ideas that dominates one such party is something you need to keep a watchful eye on, no matter how marginalized that party may seem at any particular moment.

The neocons are discredited time after time but they just keep coming back and the results are increasingly catastrophic.  Their target du jour, as Steve reported below , is Iran.  If we don't bash them they will come back for sure.  If we do bash them perhaps we have a chance.