What Maddow is too nice to say
In her august 17th show, Maddow talked about the NNSA, which recently recovered 14 pounds of Highly Enriched Uranium (Read their announcement). She talked about how the hardest part about making a nuclear bomb is getting enough nuclear material. She talked about how the NNSA, which specializes in making it so people don't get this stuff, is one of the parts of government that the Republicans want to cut. She even talked about how this is an agency that doesn't buy lots of guns, submarines, or attack drones, so the military industrial complex wasn't spending a lot of money to lobby to protect this part of the government as opposed to other programs and organizations.
What she didn't say is that maybe, just maybe, the people who got a big boost from 9/11, who wrap themselves in the flag and scream about terrorism as an excuse to take away any freedom and demand any sacrifice and assert the needs of national security any time they want to take us to war... maybe these people WANT someone to make a bomb and use it on us? She wouldn't say that, because it's not nice. The mainstream liberal MO is to assume that the Republicans have our best interests in mind as a nation, they just might have a different idea about how to go about securing those interests. Saying that it would be good for a "tough of terrorism" republican if a rougue nation of a terrorist group were able to use one, or even threatened to get one, would be considered hyperbolic by her "middle of the road" detractors. But I'll say it.
The GOP doesn't care if there is an agency that protects Americans from the smoking gun of a mushroom cloud. They want it. They crave it. They will cut programs that protect national security, they will prevent perfectly respectable people from being appointed to head vital government organizations, and they will prevent spending on even the 9/11 commission's recommendations, because they would rather the money go into wars that Osama Bin Laden wanted, a war that is inspiring people (who lose family members through collateral damage or are wrongfully imprisoned) to become a part of a violent jihad.
They run on a platform of how the government doesn't work, how it should be made small enough that it can be dragged to the bathroom and drowned in the tub. And when elected, they start making sure that government doesn't work. The more it doesn't work, they reason, the more they can say that government is the problem, not a solution. If they can get enough corporate investors and News Corp backing, they can convince people that nothing is unusual about this and Democrats are actually to blame. And when they cut social programs, people are too busy trying to stay afloat to research claims or even care.
So of course they want to cut the NNSA, along with the EPA, the CPA, and anything the government does to protect people because there is no company that can make money doing it (unless we pay them to). They want mushroom clouds. They want to become millionaires as consultants for the companies that get billion dollar contracts making weapons systems, or that no longer get regulated from government agencies, or whatever. They want America to be nothing more than a name, a flag, and a place where products are consumed and from which tanks are shipped.
The Republican party hates America.
What she didn't say is that maybe, just maybe, the people who got a big boost from 9/11, who wrap themselves in the flag and scream about terrorism as an excuse to take away any freedom and demand any sacrifice and assert the needs of national security any time they want to take us to war... maybe these people WANT someone to make a bomb and use it on us? She wouldn't say that, because it's not nice. The mainstream liberal MO is to assume that the Republicans have our best interests in mind as a nation, they just might have a different idea about how to go about securing those interests. Saying that it would be good for a "tough of terrorism" republican if a rougue nation of a terrorist group were able to use one, or even threatened to get one, would be considered hyperbolic by her "middle of the road" detractors. But I'll say it.
The GOP doesn't care if there is an agency that protects Americans from the smoking gun of a mushroom cloud. They want it. They crave it. They will cut programs that protect national security, they will prevent perfectly respectable people from being appointed to head vital government organizations, and they will prevent spending on even the 9/11 commission's recommendations, because they would rather the money go into wars that Osama Bin Laden wanted, a war that is inspiring people (who lose family members through collateral damage or are wrongfully imprisoned) to become a part of a violent jihad.
They run on a platform of how the government doesn't work, how it should be made small enough that it can be dragged to the bathroom and drowned in the tub. And when elected, they start making sure that government doesn't work. The more it doesn't work, they reason, the more they can say that government is the problem, not a solution. If they can get enough corporate investors and News Corp backing, they can convince people that nothing is unusual about this and Democrats are actually to blame. And when they cut social programs, people are too busy trying to stay afloat to research claims or even care.
So of course they want to cut the NNSA, along with the EPA, the CPA, and anything the government does to protect people because there is no company that can make money doing it (unless we pay them to). They want mushroom clouds. They want to become millionaires as consultants for the companies that get billion dollar contracts making weapons systems, or that no longer get regulated from government agencies, or whatever. They want America to be nothing more than a name, a flag, and a place where products are consumed and from which tanks are shipped.
The Republican party hates America.