Endangered Species
I've found the only living Republican who hasn't shed an ounce of integrity. His name is Paul Craig Roberts:
The Iraqi war has three beneficiaries: (1) al Qaeda, (2) Iran and (3) US war industries and Bush-Cheney cronies who receive no-bid contracts. Everyone else is a loser.
Amen brother.
Who exactly is Paul Craig Roberts? He was only Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. I wonder if economists are more impervious to bullshit since they are rational thinkers and are not strictly politicians. Remember Paul O'Neill? He was fired because he valued a little thing we like to call reality.
UPDATE: I found the perfect picture to accompany this post via Daily Pepper and Scrutiny Hooligans. Yeah, it's real.
Roberts has been a critic of BushCo from the start. You also might want to look into Clyde Prestowitz, another old Reaganite who took a carpet beater to the Bush administration in his book Rogue Nation.
Posted by: The Green Knight | September 27, 2005 at 07:41 AM
I'm afraid we can't label PC Roberts as a republican for a while now. He started his reverse Christopher Hitchens mutation long ago...more kind of Epiphany,when you are repubs and lucky enough to wake up.
Posted by: Big Dave | September 27, 2005 at 07:55 AM
Bush Co will easily discredit his criticism in one phrase...Flip-Flopper!
This country doesn't like critical thinkers.
They like drunken morons with monkey smirks.
Posted by: gary | September 27, 2005 at 08:30 AM
Well, they are the pigs from Animal Farm! At least a few people are coming to their senses. They must be the Republibrats of old who are fiscal conservatives, not religious freaks.
Posted by: catherine | September 27, 2005 at 09:57 AM
Check this for the latest in Grand Old Pork's ideas on how to finance the Katrina rebuilding. www.grumpyom.com/archives/2005/09/the_bush_govern.html
Posted by: GRUMPY OLD MAN | September 27, 2005 at 10:23 AM
Paul Craig Roberts is an amazing thinker. Check out Counter Punch and scan his previous posts---great stuff. Thank god he's in Berkeley to off set that fascist Yoo, who's been given a professorship at Bolt Hall.
Posted by: m | September 27, 2005 at 03:20 PM
There are a couple Republicans who are beginning to snap out of it. I have one overtly Republican friend. After I emailed him something Bush said, he wrote back: "Please tell me it's 2008 already and that I voted for Kerry!" I saved the email - it's the stuff of blackmail.
Posted by: Blogenfreude | September 28, 2005 at 06:56 AM
Great post, blogging it. Wanted to let you know that I had assumed that this photo was actually of the Paul Craig Roberts.
Tracking it back to Ang's Weird Ideas, I found an update. The man pictured is not Roberts, and may not even be a Republican.
You didn't say it was Roberts, but that was the impression. Too bad, it's a great photo.
Posted by: Heidi | September 29, 2005 at 05:49 AM