Politics: Where we struggle to kneel in the muck.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Capsule? This is too long. Just gimme something you'd spit at the judge.

I already gave you the capsule. Bush was wrong about the 100,000 Iraqi police. Very, very wrong. This was the back-up for the judge's clerks, to keep them busy and off the streets.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
The next Swiftboat ad will take care of this. It'll be good.

Yeah, but you're all about substance, remember?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by bilmore
Like I said before, the fun is back in politics.

(Four years of one-sided "liar, stoopid, monkeyface, evil, Hitler" may be fun for one side. Now, finally, it's fun for us, too. The idea of any Dem decrying the "politics of personal destruction" is just such a hoot.)

Yeah, it's almost like the Democrats are stinging over the continuing personal attacks on the Clintons or something. Why don't they get over it?

[sgtclub]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
As I posted previously, the Washington Post reported that it was a guy who was previously with the CPA but who is now with the campaign.

The campaign or the administration?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Even the original JFK wrote a book or something on it, about "While We Slept". At least, I think he did.

I'm pretty sure that was Churchill.

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by sgtclub
The campaign or the administration?

As far as I can tell Senor is no longer employed by the admin. He has a relationship with the campaign under which the campaign refers interviewers to him. So it's the GOP equivalent of Wes Clark (without the crazy eyebrows, presumably) writing the speech.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
West Palm is not 100% Jewish Ty. And guess what? If you were a gentile living in a county that is 85% Jewish people over the age of 75, you might start agreeing with the Nazi parts of Buchanan's platform more then you do now.


In-laws visiting this weekend!

That's what I love about you, Hank. You're never afraid to look too tasteless. It's so refreshing to readd one who has no inner censor whatsoever.

[Say_hello_for_me]

Originally posted by taxwonk
I'm pretty sure that was Churchill.

I think you are right. While England Slept? The original JFK wrote something though.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Did he say "fully" trained?

Actually, I think he did.

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by Not Me
You can also car pool with others.

This is the funniest thing you have ever posted. Kudos!

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
I think you are right. While England Slept? The original JFK wrote something though.

Profiles in Courage.

[sgtclub]

It's not just that he has exaggerated what has gone wrong in Iraq. His entire speech was premised on the assumption that there were European troops and Muslim troops and United Nations gendarmes who would have gone to war with us against Saddam had Bush only waited another few days, weeks, months in the spring of 2003. That is a lie. And now, he holds out the same false promise. It is true, he admits, that there is a Security Council resolution calling on U.N. members to provide soldiers and trainers and a special brigade to protect the U.N. mission in Iraq. "Three months later," he admits, "not a single country has answered that call." Of course, Bush is to blame. And what should Bush do? He should "convene a summit meeting of the world's major powers" and "insist that they make good on that U.N. resolution."

There is something risible in Kerry's faith in these hopeless transactions brokered by Kofi Annan and in the United Nations itself, which is staging yet another tragic, do-nothing performance on Darfur. He surely knows there is no cavalry of Europeans and Arabs about to ride to Iraq's rescue (especially since he intends to withdraw American troops, hardly a move that will give other nations confidence). He surely knows there are no foreign funders willing to bear the financial burden, either. But, if he admits that, then much of his critique of Bush's Iraq policy collapses, and with it his confidence in the honorable community of nations--the kind of phrase of which liberals are fond. Except that the nations to which it refers are neither honorable nor a community nor, in many cases, even nations. Kerry may want to rely on their goodwill, but I don't.

[SlaveNoMore]

taxwonk
Profiles in Courage.

How about a book that Kennedy actually wrote ?

[The Larry Davis Experience]

Originally posted by sgtclub
His entire speech was premised on the assumption that there were European troops and Muslim troops and United Nations gendarmes who would have gone to war with us against Saddam had Bush only waited another few days, weeks, months in the spring of 2003. That is a lie.

I realize you don't really say you endorse this view, so maybe this question is not worth the time, but after Bush I's experience in 1991, why is this a lie?

[Not Me]

Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Does that mean I have to get in a car with others, and come and go when they come and go?

Just checking.

Yes, and I understand that makes it hard to do with a job like we have. So you can buy yourself a car that gets better gas mileage. Or don't. Keep funding terrorism if you like.

I agree that car pools generally only work for those with defined hours. But even those types rarely bother to use car pools. Ya know why? Because gas is cheap in this country. If it were expensive, many people would either have to live closer to where they work, or they would have to do things like car pool or take public transportation.

Upping the taxes on gasoline will help to win the war on terrorism. Can't do it all at once too fast because of how that would affect those who live far away from where they work.