Chuck Hagel<\/a>. On retrouve Hagel parmi les soutiens d’une possible candidature Bloomberg; certains le d\u00e9signent m\u00eame comme un possible co-listier de Bloomberg. C’est manifestement ce qui irrite Clemons.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tParlant d’abord du rassemblement qui se forme, avec r\u00e9union le 7 janvier, pour un soutien \u00e0 une possible candidature Bloomberg, Clemons \u00e9crit: \u00abBut the organizers of this meeting are deluding themselves if they think that getting Republicans and Democrats behind a non-specific agenda is the real challenge for the nation or is even worth all of this effort. Unprincipled, unfocused bipartisanship is bland, stale politics. And as Matt Stoller notes, bipartisanship too frequently is called on to anoint bad decisions to give both sides freedom from accountability.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tPour Clemons, la recherche de l’unit\u00e9 nationale (bipartisanship<\/em>) n’est pas en soi une panac\u00e9e. Cela peut m\u00eame \u00eatre une excuse. Il faut que cette recherche soit justifi\u00e9e par un projet politique, des ambitions, des buts, et non pas qu’elle soit utilis\u00e9e comme une feuille de vigne pos\u00e9e sur l’\u00e9chec du syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abI don’t believe that bipartisanship solves the challenges ahead. New policies might help restore some balance and the beginnings of a positive direction. But what is needed now are rebels.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI think Hagel is that kind of rebel, though he is disgusted with Washington and both parties (perhaps a good thing) and I think Michael Bloomberg is a hard core pragmatist. Neither of them is perfect, but they are a possible alternative to the less than compelling choices currently on the table.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbSome believe that Bloomberg’s tough manhandling of protesters in New York disqualify him. Many progressives who like Hagel’s leadership in trying to bring the Iraq War to an end fear his social conservatism.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbMy only fear is that Sam Nunn (who may be auditioning for the VP slot himself with Bloomberg), David Boren, former Defense Secretary William Cohen and others concocting this January fest next week are more about getting Dems and Republicans to pal around together not rebelling on the basis of policy that outrages them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe sad but real truth today is that the Bush administration came in to office in 2001 under suspect circumstances but roared and behaved as if it had won an 80% mandate. The Democrats folded and gave Bush all the room to run he wanted. There is mutual responsibility and complicity in the results we have today.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbI don’t want more bipartisanship for its own sake. I want dissident Republicans and dissident Democrats to make this government work in the way it is supposed to work and to deliver on the policies that the public expects.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tOn devra retenir la force des termes qui sont employ\u00e9s ici. Clemons loue Hagel parce qu’il est un rebelle. Il ne pense pas que l’unit\u00e9 nationale soit une panac\u00e9e mais que l’essentiel est bien une dissidence du syst\u00e8me, pour sauver le syst\u00e8me de ses travers, de ses perversions et de ses horreurs. Ce sont des termes, rebelle, dissidents, qu’on est plus habitu\u00e9 \u00e0 entendre chez ces commentateurs compl\u00e8tement hors du syst\u00e8me pour mieux le critiquer, un Raimundo, un Paul Craig Robert, que chez un Clemons qui reste une voix d’influence mod\u00e9r\u00e9e au sein de l’establishment<\/em> washingtonien. Les prises de position de Clemons, son appel \u00e0 la dissidence et \u00e0 la r\u00e9bellion (il est \u00e9vident que Clemons serait particuli\u00e8remet satisfait si Hagel se pr\u00e9sentait comme ind\u00e9pendant), constituent un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne remarquable de la tension et du caract\u00e8re d\u00e9stabilisant qui, aujourd’hui, sont en train d’impr\u00e9gner la situation aux USA, non plus seulement contre<\/strong> le syst\u00e8me mais m\u00eame et surtout \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur<\/strong> du syst\u00e8me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 2 janvier 2008 \u00e0 04H58<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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