Torture and Blow-Up Donkey Hot-Air Balloons

Peter Koelliker | May 14, 2009 2:29 AM | Reply
"Torture", for the newly minted 'Democrat Socialist Party' is a gift that keeps on giving. The issue is eagerly embraced by the press and blown up into full-blown media frenzy any time anybody mentions it. No chance of anything of consequence happening to anybody. Too many willing fingers were found in that particular pie.
It's now descended to the level of pure propaganda. Whenever the Democrat hot-air balloon looses altitude, the Dems just drop a little ballast in the sacks marked "torture" and the blow-up donkey soars again.
It works every time - at least, for those who only talk to each other on college campuses and on New York and Hollywood sound stages - but, believe me, the general public is royally sick of it. For them it's more of the same of what they've been hearing for the past eight years: Bush sucks, Cheney sucks, America sucks, Palin sucks, Americans suck, the military sucks; and now: torture sucks; Bush/criminal; Cheney/criminal; America/criminal; global warming; SUV's/criminal; Republicans/criminal -- 'Democrat Socialist Party'/good.
I dare say if the issue were put to a popular vote right now - (alleged) torturers vs. (Dem) accusers – the torturers (as they are currently defined) would win hands down.