Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[sgtclub]

This is a laughably parochial reaction. Does Dowd think that Allawi is only talking to her and her ilk? Iraqis know very well that Allawi was flown to the United States for U.S. election purposes. What Dowd forgets is that Allawi knew that Iraqis too were listening to his speech. As a leader, he has to sound positive for his own people about the future of the country. Morale is vitally important to the nation's future.

http://iraqpundit.blogspot.com/2004/...wis-visit.html

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Adder
Dude. You actually took the time to write and post that? It's not even funny. Not even in a right-winger sense.

You haven't been around much lately. That sails over the bar compared to some of the stuff posted around here.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I have said many times that I think this will be a close race (absent a complete drubbing this Thursday). But I do think that Bush will win, and I'm happy about this for many reasons, one of which is that we won't have to hear from the frenchman again for a while (or at least until 2006, if he pulls an Al Gore).

I'm sure, however, that the left will have innumerable excuses for the lost (e.g., the swiftvets, Florida, Kerry didn't go negative enough, etc.). So I'd like you people to go on the record with your excusses now, so that we won't have backfill later. If Kerry should lose, what are the excuses?

efs

All those Left Behind as children in the Red States.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sgtclub
I have said many times that I think this will be a close race (absent a complete drubbing this Thursday). But I do think that Bush will win, and I'm happy about this for many reasons, one of which is that we won't have to hear from the frenchman again for a while (or at least until 2006, if he pulls an Al Gore).

I'm sure, however, that the left will have innumerable excuses for the lost (e.g., the swiftvets, Florida, Kerry didn't go negative enough, etc.). So I'd like you people to go on the record with your excusses now, so that we won't have backfill later. If Kerry should lose, what are the excuses?

efs

Unlike Kerry, you guys seem to think that Bush is a strong candidate, and he certainly has all the advantages of incumbency. So if he loses, it's pretty much a referendum on his policies, right?

[SlaveNoMore]

Shape Shifter
Believe me, we haven't forgotten how the admin did a half-assed job in Afghanistan in order to free up troops for Iraq. Tell me, how are things in Afghanistan? Last time Karzai was in the US, he said he didn't want to return home.

Hitchens just got back and he was jumping all up and down on the news shows about how successful things are in Afghanistan.

Same goes for a bunch of blogs I linked to over the weekend.

But as we all well know, the Dems crave failure.

[SlaveNoMore]

sgtclub
I have said many times that I think this will be a close race (absent a complete drubbing this Thursday). But I do think that Bush will win, and I'm happy about this for many reasons, one of which is that we won't have to hear from the frenchman again for a while (or at least until 2006, if he pulls an Al Gore).

I'm sure, however, that the left will have innumerable excuses for the lost (e.g., the swiftvets, Florida, Kerry didn't go negative enough, etc.). So I'd like you people to go on the record with your excusses now, so that we won't have backfill later. If Kerry should lose, what are the excuses?

efs

I'll start


The dead were disenfranchised in Illinois (against all precedent).

Two million blacks were disenfranchised in Idaho and New Mexico.

Five million Democrats in Pennsylvania when disenfranchised when - according to McAwful- they accidentally pulled the lever for Bush.

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
Unlike Kerry, you guys seem to think that Bush is a strong candidate, and he certainly has all the advantages of incumbency. So if he loses, it's pretty much a referendum on his policies, right?

OK, now you're confusing Boards.

Name a single one of us who suggested Bush was a strong candidate?

It's only because the Dems put a fucking empty lunchbox at the top of their ticket that Bush is (1) able to motivate his base and (2) get people like me, Club and Hello to zealously promote his candidacy.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
OK, now you're confusing Boards.

Name a single one of us who suggested Bush was a strong candidate?

It's only because the Dems put a fucking empty lunchbox at the top of their ticket that Bush is (1) able to motivate his base and (2) get people like me, Club and Hello to zealously promote his candidacy.

He's a weak candidate because his policies are so fucked up?

[SlaveNoMore]

Tyrone Slothrop
He's a weak candidate because his policies are so fucked up?

Domestically, I think Bush could do a lot better (and I've said this at least 20 times on these pages). A lot more Jack Kemp and a lot less Jack Kennedy.

But Kerry would be much worse, so its a non-starter

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
Presumably you read the full statement accompanying the veto and didn't rely on the "laudable but unnecessary" blurb of newspaper writers, correct?

Just finished reading it. What does his veto statement say that I didn't? Can be accomplished through other government regulation. This is a GOP governor? Call Trent Lott and tell him he can vote against environmental legislation because it could be more efficiently enacted through EPA rulemaking.

Arnold said he would make California business friendly, but like all Republicans he refuses to admit that life in a modern industrial state would be unbearable without byzantine government regulations. Live by the soundbite, die by the soundbite. Too bad AS never made a movie with a cute quip about a petard before administering a coup de grace to an incapacitated villain.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by bilmore
Okay, to be fair, you stop filibustering judges and let them up for votes, and we'll stop with the pledge silliness. Deal?

If you were capable of delivering on even one promise made on behalf of your party, I might take that deal.

Except I don't want the GOP to stop embarrassing you. So no dice.

Still wonkin' . . . .

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Joe Lockhart's "puppet" comments about Allawi yesterday were beyond disgraceful. Kerry needs to immediately and publicly fire this jackass, retract his statements and apologize to Allawi, his cabinet and all of our troops overseas.

I thought in the new era we didn't kowtow to foreign leaders. Pussing out makes Jesus cry.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
I actually wouldn't be surprised by this. Failed assault weapons ban renewal aside, DiFi has been doing a reverse Scarborough (now that's a term I never thought I'd coin) for a while now. The Green party aficionado whose rants I am subjected to whenever I go to the office refrigerator bitches about her conservative streak as often as he explains to me how Halliburton is inserting subliminal messages into SpongeBob episodes to get kids to support drilling in ANWR.

DiFi supports a flag burning amendment. 'Nuff said.

I do not believe that Democrat millionaires do much better of a job with the people's business than Republican ones. Neither group has lived my life, or the lives of the people who actually can be helped by a government properly run. Won't Obama be the poorest of the Senators? Or the one with an annual income closest to the American average?

The Senate is a fucking joke. If our founding fathers saw what the Senate has become, with some states having more Senators than Reps., and legislation being basically a massive wealth transfer to less populous states WHICH ARE LOSING IN THE POPULATION MARKETPLACE, they would choke on the Great Compromise.

[SlaveNoMore]

Atticus Grinch
I thought in the new era we didn't kowtow to foreign leaders. Pussing out makes Jesus cry.

This is the best rationale I've heard all week. Touche!

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Not Bob
OK, "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" was a huge hit for Croce, but it ain't the song that people who think he was an artiste have in mind when they sigh wistfully over his passing. Try "Time in a Bottle" or "Operator."

FWIW, I am fonder of "Box No. 10" and "Roller Derby Queen."

Come to think of it, "Box No. 10" would benefit from some kind of punk cover. If str8 were here, I'd aks him to get a message to Rancid's A&R man.