Comments and Clarification

Lambert at Correntewire makes the analogy of a Republican disinformation meme to a virus, similar to the analogies Orcinus makes.

Halting the Meirs nomination? Indictments of Libby and perhaps even eventually Cheney? Surely the progressive immune response of the body politic against the viral criminal cabal in the White House.

Almost right.

Again, watch the emergent uber-meme. It was in reality the paleocons and the theocons that nailed Meirs. They want a Jihad. Joe Wilson was a Republican just like Patrick Fitzgerald. This isn't a progressive patriotic wave rising up against the repressors here.

This is other factions of the Company struggling for Party control. Read what comes out in the NYT: ...Still, even some Republicans were suggesting that the Bush presidency could set back, rather than advance, the Republican Party as it seeks its goal. They- the Republicans are fighting over the prize in 2008, and they fear the hegemony if Cheney or a Cheneyburton lackey takes the Presidency again.

Bobo's contempt of the Democrats over this is yet another smokescreen designed to raise the ire of the rank and file. A different meme altogether. It's only made worse by the complacency of the Democrats who think Reid is practicing Ju-jitsu when he's really just dodging mud. Remember who Reid's main campaign contributors are? Casinos and banks.

The Democrats are really interested in not offending anybody, because they're owned by everybody with an interest in Washington cash flow.

Yeah, you can fight a killer virus with drugs. But without an immune response, you're just buying time. The Company has no interest in developing a therapy that might help you develop an immune response to these ideas. They're making too much money the way things are.

Lambert gives this response: "I’m not sure I see a lot of evidence and reasoning behind your notion of The Company."

I'm not talking black helicopters here. Well, in some parts of the world I am talking black helicopters, but they're also shooting at each other whenever there's a buck to be made off it. Cheneyburton is only a tentacle, not the pinnacle of the beast.

It's not a single entity. It's more like the notion of an emergent conspiracy. The Carlyle Group, for example, is a branch of the Company with extremely divergent individual interests. It was founded by both Poppy Bush and Soros, among others including the Saudi Royal House.

And it's just one facet of the bundle of ruling interests that make up what I loosely and imprecisely term the Company.

No monolith: except that they all seem to have the Pinky and the Brain fetish.