Conservatives Without Conscience

See, e.g., The American Heritage Dictionary (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1982) or Webster’s College Dictionary (New York: Random House, 1991).

82.

Al Gore, “Transcript: Former Vice President Gore’s Speech on Constitutional Issues,” CQ Transcripts, Washington Post (January 17, 2006) at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR 2006011600779_ pf.html.

83.

Joshua Micah Marshall, Talking Points Memo (January 17, 2006) at http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007455.php.

84.

Joseph J. Collins, “War and Destiny: How the Bush Revolution in Foreign and Military Affairs Redefined American Power,” Joint Forces Quarterly (First Quarter 2006), 93.

85.

Jeffrey Goldberg, “Breaking Ranks: What turned Brent Scowcroft against the Bush Administration?” New Yorker (October 31, 2005) at http://www. newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051031fa_fact2.

86.

Steve Mavros, “Letters to the Editor: Cheney and the Politics of Terror,” New York Times (September 9, 2004), A-32. Also, commentators have, from time to time, addressed the fearmongering of Bush and Cheney. For example, Bob Herbert, “Get It Together, Democrats,” New York Times (October 17, 2005), A-19. (“Ever since Sept. 11 President Bush and the G.O.P. have been pushing the nation’s fear buttons for all they’re worth,” Herbert wrote); and Joshua Kurlantzick, “The Rise & Fall of Imperial Democracies,” Washington Monthly (January/February 2006), 33. (“President George W. Bush tapped a powerful vein of nationalism and fear after 9/11 to expand his authority, intimidate opponents, reward corporations allied with his party, and punish dissent within the government. He then used his enhanced powers to invade and occupy Iraq and to capture and imprison thousands of individuals suspected, rightly or wrongly, of being terrorists,” Kurlantzick noted in passing in his essay).

87.

Taranto, “The Weekend Interview with Dick Cheney,” A-8.

88.

Karl Rove, “The GOP Remains the Party of Ideas,” January 20, 2006, address to the Republican National Committee at http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-1_21_06_Rove.html.

89.

Luke Mitchell, “At Issue in the 2004 Election: A Run on Terror,” Harper’s (March 2004), 79.

90.

Jim Harper, “Secrecy fetish hurts war on terror; Assessing the risk is made more difficult,” Orange Country Register (February 15, 2006).

91.

John W. Dean, Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (New York: Warner Books, 2005), 194. Citing Oren Gross, “Chaos and Rules: Should Responses to Violent Crisis Always Be Constitutional?” Yale Law Journal, vol. 112 (March 2003), 1011, 1030–31.

92.

Dan Eggen, “U.S. Is Given Failing Grades by 9/11 Panel: Bipartisan Group Faults Counterterrorism Progress,” Washington Post (December 6, 2005), A-1.

93.

Anonymous, “Mortality Fears as Measure of Politics?” Los Angeles Times (July 25, 2004), A-23.

94.

Associated Press, “More Americans fear terrorists are winning,” MSNBC.com (April 22, 2004) at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4805575.

95.

CNN, “U.S. President/National/Exit Poll,” CNN.com at http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/US/P/00/epolls.0.html.

96.

Martha Crenshaw, “Counterterrorism in Retrospect,” Foreign Affairs (July/August 2005) at http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20050701fareviewessay84414/martha- crenshaw/counterterrorism-in-retrospect.html.

97.

Al Gore, “The Politics of Fear,” Social Research, vol. 71:4(Winter 2004), 20.

98.

Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism (New York: Knopf, 2004).