Not Pandering Folks - Brilliance
Just when GOPers and Bush look like they've really stepped in it, watch out, the fox is in the hen house.
Tom Delay ain't stupid. Bush is, but not Tom. Tom knows the implications of passing a bill at midnight to federalize the Terri Shiavo case. He knows they will likely lose (they did), and he knows the GOP congress will be roundly criticized by everyone, from both sides.
But the fox knows some other things too.
Tom knows that fundies live for a good persecution. They love the "Us versus Them" dialectic and need a fix every now and then. Think gay marriage, gays in the military, intelligent design, and the Ten Commandments judge.
He also knows that this week marks the second year anniversary in Iraq (thanks Link). The media this week should be looking and the positives and negatives of major issue in American.
Finally, Delay realizes the President is in a corner concerning his SS proposals, er, the one he has not proposed yet, and needs some cover.
So Tom kills three birds with one Teri Schiavo stone.
Fundies get a persecution complex fix.
Iraq gets pushed completely off the news.
SS comes in a distant third behind March Madness giving the president some much needed breathing room.
He's done all this with very little political fallout for himself (he's ready done, Bush, we think he's an idiot already, or the GOP). The guy is brilliant. And the media, as usual, swallows it hook, line, and sinker. The country is distracted, once again.
And dare you criticize Delay for pandering, he'll look you straight in the eye and say, "well, brother, you just don't believe in the culture of life."
There is ample evidence that the GOP has sold its soul to the Christian Right to gain power. But Delay doesn't hesitate to use them either, when the opportunity arises.
Machiavelli would be proud.
