House of Paine

beware the neo-progs

  now listen up 
u  old progs
theres a new  batch
         of progs  in town

"relabeled " neo liberals 

yup

  the global  lib-fuggers 
      has bagged
                  our label 

  
yup 

 thems done  snatched our manatoo 

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"What are the interests 
  of progressives
 vis-a-vis Iraq? "

"Containment is one 

Iraq is still poised on the brink of civil war
 held back from that near certain fate
 by the American occupation. 
If Iraq descends into civil war,
 the stability 
of the wider Persian Gulf region 
is at stake"

---- when the innocent asks 
          why care ? --------


"A destabilized Gulf 
would send a shock 
through the oil and gas markets
 just in time 
for the winter heating season.
 Gasoline and heating fuel prices 
would hit unthinkable levels,
 and send our already fragile economy 
into recession. "

------- it'll cost us big time
in the  wallet 

but dollars off pitches
ain't the best cover story
so 
for 
the hearts of  weepy prog -rubes 
this guy pulls out
this old weezer of a carny hook  -----------------


"At home, the hardest hit
 would be the poor, 
the working class, 
the elderly
 and the lesser-skilled
 among the middle class."


---------- so never forget
we progs like the iraq occ
besides 
cause lower oil prices 
help
our  poor orphans 
and jobless widows ---------

---but theres more in this
there's .....progress itself
where its neeed most 
 -----------


"Another interest 
is to establish a viable Iraqi state"


---why state build? 
again he throws the wallet shot first
a viable state means 
 we can get the frick out ---------

" Maintaining the status quo 
or containing the effects of a civil war
 require a level of American military engagement 
in Iraq that is distracting America
 from the larger problems we must tackle
 in the coming years
 not to mention inflating our federal deficit"

----- see that
   hits our credit rating 
     if not our wallets
     on the other hand 
the heart appeal .... --------


" imagine
    A viable Iraqi state 
with genuine rule of law,
 minority rights,
 representative political parties,
 a sustainable economy 
and universal participation 
in both political and economic life..."

-- boy don't that sound 
like a nice 
make over  surprise
fer them sand monkeys

empire for the benefit of the empired -------

 
but back to the beginning
why we can't bug out now  ... --------

" progress
over there
  is going to require 
a different kind of American engagement
no
 not no American engagement
as some suggest 
but 
a progressive engagement "

------- our iraq  occ
 morphed
into.....

  "a progressive engagement"...
     i love it 
     the labels  got .....
 
 its got ....

          pinker bell charm 

              don't u think? --------------

----- however
 at this point
 the fool soils his pants.......
with an obvious
careerist
  attack on his rival neo's
  the neo con's 
" festering away
there
  in   the white house "

thats not kool guy
 u is no longer  a neo lib 

u is a  new prog 

progs talk nuts and bolts
progress
 not high horse trash 
  
(obviously 

this pilot   pitch
still needs 
 some buffing and shaping ) 

but check out his final 
 prog morphed -occ  possum-bill-ity type  benefit ...------------


 
" to the extent 
that  we progressives 
can  gain control of policy 
 in Iraq,
 the need 
         for
       aggression
 against Iran or Syria will be 
                    ..........reduced"