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"Shallow Throat" on Obama and GOP Obstructionism
By Bernard Weiner (about the author) Page 1 of 3 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Bernard Weiner - Writer
I was shocked. For six years, I had been meeting secretly with the GOP mole I called "Shallow Throat"** -- a high-ranking official in the Bush Administration -- and each time, ST made sure to wear different wigs and scarves and dark glasses. Now, here was Shallow Throat in front of me, at a Smithsonian cafe, with no disguise. Except this time wearing a smile a mile wide.
"You've outed yourself," I said. "And you're grinning like a banshee. Has Obama's election liberated you?"
"What's really liberated me," said Shallow Throat, "is that the rightwing extremists who hijacked my party, and almost took the country down with them, are gone in electoral disgrace. Before Obama's landslide victory, I always had to worry that I might be discovered talking to you, and lose my governmental position, or worse. I revealed a lot about what was going on inside the White House and my party and Cheney's heavies have no love for leakers. So thanks, Bernie, for not revealing in your articles any clues about my identity, not even my gender."
I responded: "My readers and I have always found Shallow Throat's revelations useful in figuring out how we in the opposition should confront and challenge the GOP and the CheneyBush Administration. That's why I sent you the coded message the other day: I think we all could benefit from your insider perspective about the new Obama presidency and how the Republicans are responding to his initiatives."
"You understand," said Shallow Throat, "that my long-range goal is to help take the Republican party back to its traditional, small-government, conservative roots, if that's still possible, as a brake on your Democrat friends' tendency toward social engineering. The time will come when you and I will be political opponents once again."
"Then why are you willing to talk to me now? Isn't there a contradiction there?"
REPAIRING THE WRACK & RUIN
"Not really, not yet," said ST. "The first task is to undo the great damage done by the wrecking crew of Bush and Cheney and their cohorts -- to the economy, the Constitution, the environment, America's reputation abroad, etc. That restoration will take years and years. Especially because the corporate mass-media still support their point of view, the courts are riddled with far-right ideologues appointed by Bush/Cheney, and also they've hidden many of their most effective, lower-level operatives in civil service jobs inside the government. But since I've exited from government service and work as a consultant now, I don't have to be afraid any more of retaliation from GOP dead-enders or the new Administration. I can say what I like, openly."
"You mean I can use your name now?" I asked.
"Afraid not, " ST said. "I don't want to scare off clients, who might wonder if I can be trusted with the information they'll be giving me. The Beltway is a closed loop and everybody knows everybody. I'll continue to be your 'Shallow Throat' but still anonymously, at least for now."
"OK," I said. "Tell me how you read the early plays of the Obama Administration, and about how your fellow Republicans are responding to them."
OBAMA AS A PRAGMATIC CENTRIST
"I think it's pretty clear, especially judging from the major appointments to his Cabinet and economic team, and from the howls coming from the progressive wing of the party, that Obama plans on governing pretty much from the pragmatic wide center, though laying on enough liberal veneer to satisfy his base."
"Give me some examples of what's behind this 'liberal veneer' you're talking about," I said.
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