Sorry for the lack of posts, but I am guest blogging at the Carpetbagger Report this week-end, and Tim and Tom will be holding down the fort here.
I currently have two posts up- “The Tet Defensive,” and “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.”
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Sorry for the lack of posts, but I am guest blogging at the Carpetbagger Report this week-end, and Tim and Tom will be holding down the fort here.
I currently have two posts up- “The Tet Defensive,” and “Heads I Win, Tails You Lose.”
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CaseyL
Very impressive posts at Carpetbagger, John. Congrats on getting the guest-poster gig!
The Other Steve
good article on GOP crazies
VidaLoca
Thanks TOSteve.
From the article:
“Forensic psychiatrists”? He’s suggesting the right wing of the GOP (in the House at least) is certifiably insane? But, but… who knew?
For 12 years all your “dissenters” kept your dissent well hidden. Now it’s acceptable to reveal it, now you race to catch the train before it leaves the station. And now you apologize.
Wankers.
VidaLoca
TOSteve —
Um, that didn’t come out right. To clarify, by “you” I meant Meyer and all his “dissenters”, not yourself.
Mr Furious
I was about to start nagging you for neglecting your duties over there, the other two guesters were kicking your ass…heading over to check it out now.
(It should make you happy to know that I come here first everyday, and Carpetbagger second…)
Pb
The Other Steve,
I’m not buying it. This is how the article reads to me:
The Other Steve
The impression I got from the article was that because they had no experience they didn’t really understand the issues, and as such got things horribly wrong.
demimondian
I’m sure that’s the impression you were suposed to get. I got the impression that I wanted to ask “Why now, Mr. McNamara? Why not then, when it might have made a difference? What kept you from telling the truth in 1996, 1998, 2000, or later?”
jcricket
What’s going to be far worse for Bush’s legacy are his administrations actions and theories around torture, secret prison and detainee treatment. The reality of what he’s been doing is just beginning to be reported. Gitmo, Abu Ghraib and the gulag archipeligo will go down in history as as bad, if not worse, than our internment camps during WWII[1]
[1] Something that it took 20+ years to admit even happened and 50 years before ass-hats like Malkin started suggesting were a good idea.
capelza
Great articles John Cole…congrats on the guest blogging, too!
The one about the exaggeration of the “power struggle” was especially good I thought. It is how I have felt about it as well.
Pb
The Other Steve,
Maybe, but note that it doesn’t mention any current Republicans who are actually holding office now. It’s all the fault of these former disgraced House Republicans–and that chapter has come to a close! So don’t worry, people, it’s still a-ok to vote Republican! Blunt, Boehner, those guys are great! And of course the Senate Republicans have always been totally awesome. No mention of Trent Lott either, I see…
The Other Steve
Obviously because Mr. McNamara had a book to sell.
jcricket
You know, this is my favorite Republican “discreditation” talking point:
So, books are bad? Capitalism/Selling is bad? Promotion of one’s ideas is bad? Is that really the best they can do?
It’s got to be a “bottom of the barrel” tactic. Far less effective than “vote for Democrats and the terrorists rape your wife and babies with radioactive batons”.
Krista
They’re envious of the fine quality of your commentariat, and are hoping some of us will drift over there.
Right? ;)
capelza
Krista…will we have to get dressed up for the visit? Will my mother lick her thumb and try to get that smudge of my face with it before we go in the door? (I confess to doing this to the kids and suddenly realised that I had become my mother. The kids recoiled exactly as I had.)
Krista
We could just go over en masse, as the rowdy bunch of ne’er-do-wells that we are, and embarrass John…
And my mom did that to me too. Gross.
Mary
Oh, yeah? My mum spit on a piece of kleenex and rubbed it on our faces. If we were lucky, we got her to skip the first step and spit on the kleenex ourselves.
demimondian
Our youngest just left the office, having come over (along with Mom) to *HAVE LUNCH WITH DADDY*! Dessert was a particularly messy chocolate cake…guess what I did to his face afterwards.
And, do you know what I was thinking? “Damn — I’ve become my mother!”
The Other Steve
Did anybody notice that the redstate choices of pence and shadegg died in horrid defeat in the Republican leadership votes?
demimondian
No, TOS. The Republicans had a unifying vote, in which the best fitted candidates to accelerate their inevitable dominance of the American electoral landscape. The defeat of the well-qualified alternatives will lead to no long term division in the caucus — after all, it hasn’t led to division in the past.
Jay
There’s the problem. Bush has an LBJ stuck in his throat.
capelza
I read somewhere that AFTER Nixon won in 68 and we started the Vietnamazation of the war another 30,000 Americans dies. Does anyone have a link that gives the death toll by year? I know the number was huge, but I didn’t realise that it was that high.
As for the spit polish…I just thought of a great grant proposal for a thesis in Anthropology. Do an ethnography of the quickie facial cleaning techniques of mothers in Polynesia, Africa (Saharan and Sub-Saharan), any place that strikes my fancy. Nature versus culture and all that. What is the Rotuman translation of “OMG..I’ve just become my mother!”?
Krista
Awww…that’s so cute. That’s the kind of thing your kid will always remember, too.