Tin Foil or Aluminum, I do not know
I understand why Paul Wellstone had to be murdered. Somewhat out of league with the national Consensus formed by the useless Democratic Party, under the watchful eye of the recently deposed Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle… we had a man offering up actual opposition who was opening up a double digit lead in his Senate race, and that precedent could not stand. (Daschle is said to have been defeated because he offered up too much resistance, which means that it probably doesn’t matter one iota whether or not he is defeated.) The powers that could be could care less which of the two figures waiting in the wing, the tired aging traditional Liberal Walter Mondale and the young, image-moderate former centrist Democrat now Republican, and happy Bush-ditto, Norm Coleman, comes through.
But that doesn’t explain why in the world Mel Carnahan would have to be “disappeared”. If one is to believe that Wellstone was assassinated, one would also have to believe that Carnahan was killed as well, since he died in the same way. By all appearances, Mel Carnahan was a standard pol, and the fact is he was losing to John Ashcroft. The joke that “John Ashcroft lost to a dead guy” never struck me as funny, because he lost because of and not in spite of the fact that his opponent was dead.
Perhaps the string-pullers of the New World Order saw far enough ahead to where they would need him as Attorney General to bring a little… this to governance:
Let the eagle soar,
Like she’s never soared before.
From rocky coast to golden shore,
Let the mighty eagle soar.
Soar with healing in her wings,
As the land beneath her sings:
‘Only god, no other kings.’
This country’s far too young to die.
We’ve still got a lot of climbing to do,
And we can make it if we try.
Built by toils and struggles
God has led us through.
The coming replacement of Ashcroft with Mr. Gonzalez flummoxes me, perhaps exposing yet again the uselessness of the Democratic Party. You can not properly oppose the “Geneva Accords have been rendered Quaint” guy? Word on the street is that this is a bit of psycho-politics, where red-state Democrats smarting from Tom Daschle’s demise, must filibuster carefully… more word on the street is that Gonzalez is the more ‘moderate’ choice for Supreme Court, and the Religious Right are upset that he doesn’t take a tough enough stand on whatever and whatnot.
May God Help Us All… and Let the Eagle Soar, Like He’s Never Soared Before.