That is what good Washington politicians do. That’s called national leadership.
This brings to mind the old refrain… In the latest survey of historians, Harry S TRUMAN has now ascended to even greater heights in the pantheon of great American presidents. C-SPANs 2nd annual survey of Presidential scholars<http://www.c-span.org/PresidentialSurvey/presidential-leadership-survey.aspx>places Abraham Lincoln at the top of the class; George Washington, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Harry Truman round out their top 5. Truman was the father of the cold war and his claim to presidential stardom. Once recognizing the present and growing threat of Great Red Menace, he resolved to mobilize both the US government and the American people absolutely and irrevocably against the new enemy. At this dawn of the atomic age lie the seeds of the fear of nuclear energy and its handmaiden nuclear radiation. It all begins with Uncle Joe. To rule, Josef Stalin relied on mass terrorism, which in turn required mass murder. Truman needed to form a strategy to effectively impress this hard man. In a secret meeting in the Garden Room occurred the first military strategy session of the United Nations, because it was dedicated to its mission of exploding the world's first atomic weapon on a living population. It also forecast the entire strategy of the Cold War, which lasted forty-three years, cost American taxpayers five trillion dollars, and accomplished exactly nothing, as it was intended to do. There, Truman polled for advice from the various attendees. On of them; Senator Vandenberg, leader of the Republican loyal opposition, said (as quoted in American Heritage magazine, August 1977), "We have got to scare the hell out of "em." Later, it became necessary to mobilize the American people to support the cold war. Once again Truman dipped into the strategy tool bag remembering what Senator Vandenberg said: We have got to scare the hell out of "em." General Douglas MacArthur and President Truman never quite got along. MacArthur warned the American people of the now well established political tactic inspired by Vandenberg; promised disasters never seemed to materialize; they seem never to have been quite real. As quoted in American Ceaser, MacArthur lashed out at the large Pentagon budgets. 'Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear—kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor—with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded. Once again the echoes of Senator Vandenberg's famous comment, "We have to scare the hell out of 'em." Down through the ages, it had been the same tried and true tactic. When George W. Bush was elected he read the biography of great political world leaders to teach himself how to be president. One of his favorites was the recently publish best selling biography of Truman by David McCullough. One thing he learned from the old master was the well tested strategy: We have to scare the hell out of 'em. White House Information Group or WHIG was the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the public. The task force was set up in August 2002 by White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and chaired by Karl Rove to coordinate all the executive branch elements in the run-up to the war in Iraq. One example of the WHIG's functions and influence is the "escalation of rhetoric about the danger that Iraq posed to the U.S., including the introduction of the term 'mushroom cloud' Bush liked it. Thus was born the quote that will personify the Bush legacy: “America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.<http://thinkexist.com/quotation/america_must_not_ignore_the_threat_gathering/344054.html> ” The old metaphor was once again dusted off and the nuclear bogyman was marched out to stunt his stuff. We have to scare the hell out of 'em On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Several people have claimed that the NRC will do this, or do that, to stop > cold fusion. Or that the power companies will. Or the DoE. > > I think it is likely that one of these organizations will stop cold fusion, > at first. If they do not stop it, they will likely slow it down by demanding > more health and safety checks, which I think they should. > > But here is the key thing to remember: No political decision is permanent. > No political victory is permanent. Any decision made in Washington by the > Congress or administration can be un-made. > > Even if the NRC or the DoE succeeds at first in putting the kibosh on cold > fusion, as long as Rossi gadgets are being sold elsewhere in the world, > information about them will circulate. They will be in the headlines in > every major newspaper and web site on earth, for week after week. This will > make it far easier for us to get the word out, and overcome the anti-cold > fusion propaganda in the mass media, Wikipedia, Sci. Am. and elsewhere. If > we can persuade millions of voters that allowing this technology is in their > best interest, and that they personally stand to save huge sums of money, I > promise that no political force on earth will be able to stop it. > > We have been engaged in an academic bun fight for 22 years. One group of > elderly professors against another. A few academic hacks such as Robert Park > have been able to squash the research by repeating lies periodically in the > Washington Post and Sci. Am. They succeeded because the public thought this > was a silly academic squabble having nothing to do with them, or a perpetual > motion machine scam. The public had no idea it is real. Once the mass media > begins showing nightly news video of Chinese factories churning out > thousands of machines, and hundreds of megawatts of capacity are installed > every day worldwide, John & Jane Q. Public will realize THIS IS ABOUT MONEY. > Their money! Enough money to buy a house and send their kids through > college. No one will ignore that. No one will let Robert Park or the NRC, > OPEC or any Washington politician stand between them and a large pile of > money. > > - Jed > >
