perfidy

Arthur Silber over at "Light of Reason" has some very tart words for the Pars-dent. Touching on partial-birth abortions and Iraq, Arthur offers this money quote:

Leave aside for the moment your views on the partial birth abortion bill, and focus on the following instead. By his endless "dance of death" with the U.N. (and that phrase might be all too accurate, in terms of the cost in American lives the longer these delays go on), Bush alienates the pro-war conservatives and moderates, and even the pro-war liberals. By his support of the partial birth ban, Bush alienates the social moderates and liberals -- as he also does by his support for measures such as the "faith-based initiative."

So exactly what constituencies does that leave him? Well, let's see...oh, I know: anti-war social conservatives.

Yeah, lots of those. Good luck, George. You'll need it.

By the way-- the newly-passed Senate "partial-birth abortion" bill does not include an exemption for cases where the mother's life is at risk.
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Who is very pissed off in this article :

We Americans can expect neither gratitude, understanding nor support from the baroque regimes of France, Germany and their fellow travelers. Chancellor Schroeder? Bill Clinton without the moral fiber. President Chirac? The mouth of de Gaulle, the soul of Petain, and the morals of a pimp. Humanitarian Belgium? Yeah, just ask the Congolese. The European anti-war movement? Necrophiliacs licking the corpse of Josef Stalin.

Europeans will always be willing to weep over the dead. The United States must take a stand for the living. In Iraq. And beyond.

Mr. Peters is ordinarily much less vitriolic, but the whole article is a good read, as well as most of his other work. Check out the USS Clueless' Essential library for two conveniently accessible examples.

I think I will adopt his description of Chirac as my personal motto. It goes along with my "Are we not men, we are Devo" kind of worldview.

First post! w00t! 

[wik] Note from the Ministry. Note that at this early stage, MC P-Saurus had not yet learned to use bold type to distinguish the post title from the body. Note also the pathetic reference to 733t h4x0rz. Happily, his skills developed rapidly, though he had to abandon the two cents moniker from shame. This message from the Minister of Minor Perfidy: Thank you for your cooperation

[alsø wik] this first post was on the earliest incarnation of the blog, founded by Johno and given the moderately clever name, "Johnny Two-Cents." In a few months, there came another first post when the whole operation was aggressively re-branded as The Ministry of Minor Perfidy. 

[alsø alsø wik] At this early stage, neophyte blogger Johno referred to himself as Pythagosaurus.