America on verge of war with British empire

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America on verge of war with British empire
    * Mar 4th 2010, 18:34 by M.S.

red coast, laroucheKESHA ROGERS has just won the Democratic primary in Texas's 22nd congressional district. Ms Rogers is a...colleague? Admirer? Follower?...of what her website calls "the world's leading economic forecaster", Lyndon LaRouche. I first encountered Mr Larouche's economic forecasts back during the Reagan-Mondale campaign, when he ran an extraordinary long-format television commercial warning that America was about to run out of meat. What's really amazing about this guy is that his organisation is still around. You'd think anyone given to such oddly non-compelling apocalyptic visions wouldn't have a chance against the big players, but apparently he's still out there brainwashing away, so you've got to give him credit for a certain amount of talent and dedication.

Anyway, the current Larouche-ite platform has really gotten quite creative. The craziest plank, obviously, is the support for high-speed rail. But it doesn't stop there. From Ms Rogers's online victory announcement:

    The victory in the 22nd Congressional District yesterday by LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers sent an unmistakable message to the White House, and its British imperial controllers: Your days are numbered... As Kesha told the Galveston Daily News last night, when a reporter asked if she expected support from the Democratic Party in the fall election, "I am leading a war against the British Empire. I'm not worried about what Democratic Party hacks say or do."

I think this unexpectedly answers a question that Alex Massie and Daniel Larison have been asking over the past few days: why did Hillary Clinton anger London by calling on Britain and Argentina to "sit down" and work out their differences over the Falklands? Clearly, the White House is already feeling the heat, and is vainly trying to win some anti-Redcoat cred. Wimps want to go to Baghdad; real men want to go to London.