Who schedules these debates? Let’s see- 60 Minutes, the Simpsons, NFL Playoffs, and the People’s Choice awards. Let’s watch 9 people sputter instead!
Seriously- I watched about 3 minutes, and from what I saw, I declare Bush the winner.
Archives for 2004
Another Planet
If you ever thought to yourself that some members of the east coast establishment media and all of California really might be an alternate universe to the one in which you reside, check out this syrupy piece on illegal immigration:
Imagine America without illegal immigrants, the people who flip the burgers, clean the toilets, watch the kids and send their children to public schools.
Would the grass be greener?
I clean my own toilet. I flip my own burgers.** If I had any, I would send my own children off to school. Your argument in favor illegal immigration does nothing but convince me that you are a spoiled snob who relies on others to take care of you. Bugger off.
**- Speaking of flipping burgers- Franklin Farms vegetable burgers are so awful that they taste bad with cheese and mayonnaise. Stick to Boca burgers.
Steyn Online
Mark Steyn discussing the Morons on Parade Nine Dwarves, and in particular, Dean. This bit about Kerry is priceless:
ohn Kerry is the tall, aloof Vietnam veteran who enjoys saying that George W. Bush went into Iraq
Hrmm
Interesting things in the desert:
It was confirmed that three dozen 120mm Iraqi mortar shells, found yesterday by Danish troops, contained Mustard gas. This is a blistering agent first used during World War I (1914-1918). Iraq developed production technology for mustard gas in the 1970s, began producing it in large quantities in 1981 and first used it in combat against Iran in 1983. Nearly 3,000 tons of Mustard were produced by Iraq during the 1980s, and over 20,000 Iranians and Iraqis were injured by it. The Danish troops found the shells south of Baghdad, buried in the desert and wrapped in plastic. Some of the shells were leaking. It was estimated that the shells had been there at least ten years. Iraq agreed to get rid of it’s chemical weapons in 1991, but delayed compliance throughout the 1990s.
What else is buried out there?
Twisted Logic
The Paul O’Neill ‘tell-all’ book and interview has created some inspired thinking by the Calpundit:
BETTER DUCK AND COVER, PAUL….Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill isn’t finished with his, um, unkind remarks about George Bush, remarks that we all get to hear and see tomorrow on 60 Minutes. But then there’s this:
O’Neill, who was asked to resign because of his opposition to the tax cut, says he doesn’t think his tell-all account in this book will be attacked by his former employers as sour grapes. “I will be really disappointed if [the White House] reacts that way,” he tells Stahl. “I can’t imagine that I am going to be attacked for telling the truth.”
He’s got to be kidding. After all this time is he really that clueless about the kind of people he’s dealing with?
How did a naif like him get so rich, anyway?
Neat-O! In other words, everything O’Neill says is true, automatically, and any attempts by anyone in the administration to state otherwise is evidence of the ‘kind of people he’s dealing with.’
No mention of whether O’Neill’s ‘cluelessness’ is only towards the subjects Kevin knows best, or infects all of his perspectives.
I guess I should view this falling out in a new light:
In a nonstop round of interviews, George has been hit with scathing criticism. On NBC, Katie Couric asked him how it felt to be called a “turncoat” whose take on the President was “kind of creepy.” Over at CBS, Mark McEwen said the author was being called a “backstabber” and an “ingrate.” On CNN former Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald noted that if the President hadn’t given George the “opportunity of a lifetime,” George might still be a Capitol Hill aide, not a “multimillion-dollar book writer and commentator” (inside the White House make that “commentraitor”). And James Carville says Washington has become The Truman Show, broadcasting Clinton’s private life in something approaching real time.
If I inhale the California ether and use the Calpundit’s standards- everything bad Stephanopoulos stated in the book is true, and that all of these attacks from the Clinton White House is evidence of the type of people we were dealing with.
Democrats.
I Made The News!
It has been pointed out that I made the bigtime, being mentioned in the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette by Jack Kelly. Kinda cool. The Post Gazette is the local paper I read most, so this is extra cool.
As an added bonus, Kelly, as he usually does, gets the story right.
The Failing Democratic Memory
Remember the recession we were slipping into, the crashing stock market, the declining Matt Yglesias doesn’t in yet another thread discussing whether Bush is the worst President ever:
It seems to me that the badness of George W. Bush is at least 70 percent a matter of lost opportunities. The nineties boom dealt him a strong hand on fiscal policy as did 9/11 in its way on foreign policy, and he’s played both very poorly.
Everything was rosy- he had it all on a platter, and he just squandered it… Alex Knapp has more.