Murder Most Fowl (Dowd)

[chiburb]

Whoreen nails one! For all those that write her to express their dismay at her typical column, isn't this one worthy of praise?

Snip:

Now, with the White House looking untrustworthy and desperate; with the national security team flapping around and pointing fingers at each other and, of course, Bill Clinton; with even the placid Laura getting testy; and with Newsweek reporting that the Justice Department is reviewing whether Halliburton was involved in paying $180 million in kickbacks to get contracts in Nigeria at a time when Dick Cheney was chairman, anybody else would be sweating.

Not deadeye Dick. His heavy lids didn't blink when it turned out he'd blown up a half-century of American foreign policy alliances on a high-level hallucination.

Here he was, fresh from presenting a crystal dove to an obviously perplexed pope, stolidly waiting for the club's pheasant wranglers to shoo the doomed birds into his line of fire. He had killed only 70 or so the last time out. But this time he was convinced that the bird population could sustain more casualties. Quack and Awe.

"Rove needs to toughen up. Why fret over some J.F.K. wannabe who thinks he's going to sail to the White House on a sea of ketchup? Sure, he'll say you brainwashed Junior, exploded the deficit, let Halliburton fleece the government, let big business write environmental policy, turned the White House into a secret society, rewarded your rich friends and went to war on a wild surmise. But, golly, so what?"

"Yeah," Dick agreed. "This is our due." BLAM!

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/opinion/08DOWD.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1076245354-n+EHd96jy2495zSc8Txjuw

[GOPFighter]

1. Deadeye Dick!

"His heavy lids didn't blink when it turned out he'd blown up a half-century of American foreign policy alliances on a high-level hallucination."

Drip-drip-drip. The media are starting to turn on this Administration. Fewer and fwer puff pieces and more in-depth reporting. By fall many more Americans will see that Bush is just another preppy, overindulged kid who has never had to take responsibility for his actions before.

Oooooooooh, I wish I could stick around and read what historians say about this Adminstration 100 years from now.

[IronLionZion]

2. until the October "Surprise"

WMD miraculously found or Osama pulled from a spider hole. What would really blow would be another terrorist attack. If a major attack happened before the election it would be pure coincidence and any good patriot would not change presidents in the middle of a war against an idea/emotion(terror)!

[Politicub]

3. That's what I picked up on too

"His heavy lids didn't blink when it turned out he'd blown up a half-century of American foreign policy alliances on a high-level hallucination."

Dowd nailed this evil administration and how it has caused America to become a country of repression. Remember how Clinton had the world eating from his palm just five short years ago? I remember feeling hopeful about the human condition.

Bush and his cronies are evil through and through. It will take an extremely talented and sincere series of presidents years to overcome the carnage. Unless we have another Clinton, I don't think I'll see it in my lifetime.

[napi21]

4. Dead eye Dick!

I LOVE THE NAME!!!! I don't think I'
We do however need to prepare for an October Surprise. Noam Chompsky was on C-Span yesterday, and said the same thing. "Finding Osama the day before the Dem comvention, and $$$$$$ of ads flooding the media 2 to 3 weeks before the election will buy the election for Bush!"

I hated hearing him say that, but we need to think about how to counter something like that! I sure could happen!