{"id":69555,"date":"2007-12-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/washington-face-a-sa-bataille-dangleterre\/"},"modified":"2007-12-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T00:00:00","slug":"washington-face-a-sa-bataille-dangleterre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2007\/12\/31\/washington-face-a-sa-bataille-dangleterre\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington face \u00e0 sa \u201cBataille d&rsquo;Angleterre\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Au contraire du rassurant quoique furieux ron-ron pr\u00e9-\u00e9lectoral de <em>America the Beautiful<\/em> qui tendrait \u00e0 nous faire croire que tout est normal dans le meilleur des Nouveaux Mondes, la formation au cur de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em> washingtonien d&rsquo;un groupe bipartisan d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale, hors des partis, est un signe puissant du d\u00e9sarroi r\u00e9gnant au sein de cet <em>establishment<\/em>. Qu&rsquo;on envisage une candidature ind\u00e9pendante (3\u00e8me candidat) s\u00e9rieuse pour une \u00e9lection pr\u00e9sidentielle US est d\u00e9j\u00e0 un signe de trouble politique; qu&rsquo;on envisage une candidature ind\u00e9pendante dite d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale au sein m\u00eame de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em> est un signe d&rsquo;un tr\u00e8s puissant d\u00e9sarroi politique, et dans tous les cas une situation politique sans pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent. (Les candidats ind\u00e9pendants, m\u00eame issus de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em> comme Theodore Roosevelt en 1912 rompant avec les r\u00e9publicains pour devenir candidat progressiste, ont toujours \u00e9volu\u00e9 hors des structures de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tL&rsquo;initiative est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e par David S. Broder dans sa chronique du <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/12\/29\/AR2007122901476_pf.html\" class=\"gen\">30 d\u00e9cembre 2007<\/a> du Washington <em>Post<\/em>. Il s&rsquo;agirait d&rsquo;\u00e9tudier les conditions d&rsquo;une relance d&rsquo;un <em>leadership<\/em> et du syst\u00e8me politique \u00e0 Washington sur l&rsquo;id\u00e9e d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale (<em>bipartisanship<\/em>), hors des structures des deux partis; on envisagerait le lancement et le soutien d&rsquo;une candidature hors-parti, bipartisane, pourtant issue de l&rsquo;<em>establishment<\/em>. L&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8se avanc\u00e9e est une candidature \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence du maire de New York, d\u00e9mocrate devenu r\u00e9publicain puis ayant quitt\u00e9 le parti r\u00e9publicain, Michael R. Bloomberg (dont on sait qu&rsquo;il envisage depuis longtemps, pour son compte, une candidature ind\u00e9pendante). Il y aurait alors un co-listier de tendance d\u00e9mocrate, comme l&rsquo;ancien s\u00e9nateur Gary Hart par exemple. Le groupe attendrait les deux ou trois premiers mois des primaires (jusqu&rsquo;en mars-avril 2008) pour se prononcer, selon les orientations de la campagne, et notamment la confirmation du caract\u00e8re actuel de la situation politique plong\u00e9e dans une atmosph\u00e8re de concurrence acharn\u00e9e et st\u00e9rile entre les deux partis. (De ce point de vue, rien ne semble <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uselections08\/story\/0,,2233632,00.html\" class=\"gen\">s&rsquo;arranger<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tBroder annonce la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union du groupe pour le 7 janvier 2008:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a government of national unity to end the gridlock in Washington.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00ab<em>Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to go beyond tokenism in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>Boren, who will host the meeting at the university, where he is president, said: It is not a gathering to urge any one person to run for president or to say there necessarily ought to be an independent option. But if we don&rsquo;t see a refocusing of the campaign on a bipartisan approach, I would feel I would want to encourage an independent candidacy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\t\u00bb<em>The list of acceptances suggests that the group could muster the financial and political firepower to make the threat of such a candidacy real. Others who have indicated that they plan to attend the one-day session include William S. Cohen, a former Republican senator from Maine and defense secretary in the Clinton administration; Alan Dixon, a former Democratic senator from Illinois; Bob Graham, a former Democratic senator from Florida; Jim Leach, a former Republican congressman from Iowa; Susan Eisenhower, a political consultant and granddaughter of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower; David Abshire, president of the Center for the Study of the Presidency; and Edward Perkins, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLa chose est s\u00e9rieuse, cela ne fait aucun doute. Des noms comme Sam Nunn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedefensa.org\/article.php?art_id=4584\" class=\"gen\">Chuck Hagel<\/a>, David Boren, Gary Hart, William Cohen, David Abshire, le nom de Bloomberg lui-m\u00eame en t\u00e9moignent. La chose est d&rsquo;autant plus s\u00e9rieuse qu&rsquo;elle ne s&rsquo;adresse pas \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence GW Bush, avec les critiques habituelles qui vont avec, mais au monde politique washingtonien dans son ensemble, et concernant son avenir. La lettre de Boren, qui est l&rsquo;organisateur de la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9union, ne cache pas la gravit\u00e9 de la situation: \u00ab<em>our political system is, at the least, badly bent and many are concluding that it is broken at a time where America must lead boldly at home and abroad. Partisan polarization is preventing us from uniting to meet the challenges that we must face if we are to prevent further erosion in America&rsquo;s power of leadership and example.<\/em> [] <em>Today, we are a house divided. We believe that the next president must be able to call for a unity of effort by choosing the best talent available  without regard to political party  to help lead our nation.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tLe th\u00e8me de l&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale est r\u00e9current. Boren compare la situation de la direction US aujourd&rsquo;hui \u00e0 celle de Churchill pendant la Deuxi\u00e8me Guerre mondiale,  Churchill le conservateur qui fit effectivement appel aux \u00e9nergies nationales et forma un gouvernement d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale avec le <em>leader<\/em> travailliste Ernest Bevin. La comparaison est audacieuse et surtout dramatique. Elle donne une mesure du sentiment r\u00e9gnant \u00e0 Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\tSur la perspective d&rsquo;une candidature ind\u00e9pendante de Bloomberg, il faut r\u00e9server son jugement. En tout \u00e9tat de cause, elle n&rsquo;interdirait \u00e9videmment pas une <strong>autre<\/strong> candidature ind\u00e9pendante, une qui viendrait plut\u00f4t d&rsquo;un appel populaire (on pense in\u00e9vitablement \u00e0 Ron Paul s&rsquo;il d\u00e9cidait de quitter le parti r\u00e9publicain selon l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des \u00e9lections primaires, comme il l&rsquo;a laiss\u00e9 entendre dans une d\u00e9claration controvers\u00e9e au sein m\u00eame de son \u00e9quipe \u00e9lectorale). Ces diverses r\u00e9alit\u00e9s font penser que la perspective \u00e9lectorale US \u00e9volue plut\u00f4t, pour l&rsquo;instant, vers le d\u00e9sordre d&rsquo;\u00e9ventuelles candidatures multiples, une situation o\u00f9 la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la IV\u00e8me R\u00e9publique fran\u00e7aise ou \u00e0 l&rsquo;Italie en vitesse de croisi\u00e8re (ou \u00e0 la Belgique actuelle?!) est plus conforme que la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 l&rsquo;Angleterre churchillienne de la Bataille d&rsquo;Angleterre.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><p>\tMis en ligne le 31 d\u00e9cembre 2007 \u00e0 05H19<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Au contraire du rassurant quoique furieux ron-ron pr\u00e9-\u00e9lectoral de America the Beautiful qui tendrait \u00e0 nous faire croire que tout est normal dans le meilleur des Nouveaux Mondes, la formation au cur de l&rsquo;establishment washingtonien d&rsquo;un groupe bipartisan d&rsquo;unit\u00e9 nationale, hors des partis, est un signe puissant du d\u00e9sarroi r\u00e9gnant au sein de cet establishment.&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6683,5897,4141,4841,6813,7333],"class_list":["post-69555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-bloomberg","tag-candidat","tag-elections","tag-hagel","tag-independant","tag-nunn"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}