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Of course, if you are alert to the blog-o-sphere, the top three stories right now are Filibusters, Galloway, and Newsweek.

So what does this tell us about our current political culture, and about culture at large? The common denominator in all three of these stories is a very simple one: over-zealous Repulbican power brokers. I don't say that to be politically divisive; but rather, the AntiCentenarian is fingering the facts: The filibusters case is the only instance of Democrats stepping forward for reasons of empowerment or political gain; the other two are instances of Republicans pushing buttons.

[ Coleman is the Republican representative who called the meetings for Oil-For-Food and ended up getting personally scathed by the eloquence, thoughtfulness, and insight that his star witness / accused British MP Galloway brought. Apparently, Coleman only read 48% of the documents from swindled funds; because Galloway pointed out that the other 52% was US controlled, Administration blind-eyed, and personally overseen at times by Coleman. ]

[ McClellan is the Republican speakerbox for the Administration's deflection tactic of pinning the blame of Arab deaths on Newsweek's reporting. Newsweek should be ashamed, indeed, for their cowardice in the face of the Administration, but little else was really their fault. In fact, it is becoming more and more evident that the riots were caused by a very small minority of manipulative extremists, who rose to power using versions of the Newsweek report to inflame and impassion the masses. This, of course, is a page right out of the Conservative play-book: very influential extremists using material to easily manipulate ridiculous, dangerous furor. ]

So it becomes clear, with a principled application of Ocham and his incisive razor:
It's about building, maintaining, forcing, deflecting, and manipulating everything for the interests of Republican [read: conservative - in the context of current Republicanism, Conservativism is the dominant force] power, at the cost of all else. Most notably, at the cost of any kind of reasonable perception of the actual world we live in.

It also should be noted that two of these three stories have garnered far less than adequate coverage and analysis on ye olde Maine Streame Media. Predicatbly, of course, but it should be noted that it is reasonable to assume that only a handful of Americans are even aware of these events in any way that is informative.