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The Supreme Court has decided the corporate state bureaucracy trumps all American citizens. Telcoms and the state can't be touched because we can't identify the harm done by their domestic wiretapping and because of that we can't have access to the records showing what harm is being done and because we can't yet identify the harm... Hello, Joseph Heller, does that leave tooth marks on your tail? Is that what you meant by Catch 22? I recently had another letter printed in the Seattle Times, which I written before scotus decided to once more honor the Bush Doctrine over the constitution.

Meanwhile the New York Times prints a titillating story of hubris about McCain who has made too much of his alleged lack of lobbyist ties. Of course, like the comics are sure to note there couldn't have been any romance because it would have been a heterosexual relationship between adults. I can't think of a republican sex scandal doesn't involve homosexuality and/or statutory rape, can you? Now whispers of his ties with one of Russia's reputedly dodgy billionaires. Of course that begs the question, which billionaire in the world is not dodgy?

The right wing bobble-heads are now feigning indignation that McCain is being undercut by the liberals. I'd ask them, why now? It's too early to be effective for the general election. It's too late be effective for the nomination race -- and he is the biggest danger in the general election for the democrats of all the lightweights out there this year. However, it is a good time to start getting the drones started buzzing. There is another possibility that fits with the timing as well, but let's come back to that.

The far right wing is deeply disappointed, fractured, and feeling betrayed. There's the fiscal betrayal, with dubya breaking Reagan's all time American record for ballooning the deficit and national debt. There's the ideological betrayals, like David Kuo who became disillusioned at the same time it came out the administration was referring the the evangelicals as comical dupes. Affirmative action hasn't been rolled back like some hoped -- for that small but strategically important neo-con demographic, only a return to slavery and public lynchings would do that.

The different far right sects will be hard to reunite for another generation. So, is the sudden indignation an act? Or is it real, and a precursor for nominating someone else? McCain would have to be smeared as only the GOP machine is willing and able to do. Either way the scary liberals will be blamed, with the demon seed media personified in the New York Times receiving the blame for those who resent the ultimate disposition of McCain. McCain is kept as the candidate -- the NYT covered up the (make-believe) scandal to get him nominated, so we're stuck with him. Or, McCain is booted because the NYT led the way in demonizing him. Either way the conservative power-brokers and think tanks see a big win. I suspect they haven't made a conscious decision on which tack to take, as they now have the luxury of letting it play out a bit. We only have to forget one thing for their strategies to work. Judith Miller.