What do you suppose....
Really happened when Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and Dick Cheney burst into Condi Rice's office painted up like Apaches armed with scary toy tomahawks and demanding to see the President with their WMD "evidence"?
Did Condi (a real dyed in the wool academic) react like a stern elementary school teacher and hand out detentions to these rascals and bullies?
Or did she get rolled over like an insecure substitute, trying tor reason with these little thugs all the while getting relentlessly pushed back into a corner?
I think it was the latter quite frankly.
And having been flattened by the Cheney cabal all she can do now is bleat "bad intell" when asked why no atomic warheads and poison gas has been found in Iraq.
"Bad intell"?
Does Condi have a clue how delusional that explanation sounds?
No doubt she does and no doubt it bothers her not one whit.
This spineless shameless bint was warned for months by the State Department, UNSCOM, and those hapless appeasers at the Central Intelligence Agency that the evidence was flimsy for WMD's in Iraq.
And month after month she sat back and did damn near nothing as Dick Cheney and that whole crowd clammered for war in the Oval Office waving crude crayoned pictures of mushroom clouds and talking darkly of "hidden" I.C.B.M.s.
And so this proud republic went to war.
Thus today we can enjoy the crude spectacle of Condi Rice pretending she was a victim of "faulty intelligence gathering"...a moronic evasive euphemism that'll stand up there with "protective reaction strikes" and the like in the halls of rhetorical infamy.
Sick
Demented
Typical
Friday, January 30, 2004
Thursday, January 29, 2004
New Hampshire Idyll Part Two
WTKK 96.9, as part of it's regular news-and-information bumpers has taken to running a Jay Severin screed decrying the sorry fate of Joe Lieberman in N.H.
Or maybe it's a clip from Sean Hannity, I can't tell the difference.
That nine percent total of Joe's clearly rankles the ranting right...they need Joe to do well enough in order to paint him as a sane moderate and thus cudgel his opponents as extremists.
The problem is, that he is but nine percent of a cudgel really....not enough there to do any serious damage.
The other ninety one percent of the "sane moderate" vote clearly decamped for sunnier climes and candidacies leaving the Hannitys and Severins of the world high-n-dry.
****
Oh how Boston talk radio tried to get in on this New Hampshire primary thing....Howie Carr was hyping the allegedly close exit polls in the Granite State all Tuesday afternoon.
I was going door to door for Kerry that day and was told by one nice enough GOP matron that "Howie sez it's gonna be close".
But in the end this dim-witted plan to callously use Lieberman as a weapon against the democrats came to naught....like everyone else's expectations that day.
Oh don't me wrong, it was (to quote Wellington) "a near run thing" in many respects.
At 5pm on Primary Day, the local headquarters I was in had the atmosphere of a bankrupt funeral home...the fear of a late Dean surge was palpable.
I grabbed a sign and disappeared into the night to do a last visibility at a local polling place...better to die on my feet and all like that.
Happily though, Senator John came through like gangbusters...
The best part is that Howie Carr, Jay Severin, Brian McGrory, Eileen McNamara, and Scot Lehigh were proven oh so completely wrong.
A wonderful soul-elevating feeling let me tell you.
No doubt the whole sorry lot will go back to their "Al Sharpton is a truth-talker even if we don't agree with him" routine.
Hell Imus was already hyping the Reverend on today's broadcast...in any other non election year Sharpton is nothing but a convenient target for the I-Man's repertoire of black face style racist jibes.
Alas though, now they need to build Al up as a serious candidate....first Lieberman now Sharpton.
Politics is truly hell.
WTKK 96.9, as part of it's regular news-and-information bumpers has taken to running a Jay Severin screed decrying the sorry fate of Joe Lieberman in N.H.
Or maybe it's a clip from Sean Hannity, I can't tell the difference.
That nine percent total of Joe's clearly rankles the ranting right...they need Joe to do well enough in order to paint him as a sane moderate and thus cudgel his opponents as extremists.
The problem is, that he is but nine percent of a cudgel really....not enough there to do any serious damage.
The other ninety one percent of the "sane moderate" vote clearly decamped for sunnier climes and candidacies leaving the Hannitys and Severins of the world high-n-dry.
****
Oh how Boston talk radio tried to get in on this New Hampshire primary thing....Howie Carr was hyping the allegedly close exit polls in the Granite State all Tuesday afternoon.
I was going door to door for Kerry that day and was told by one nice enough GOP matron that "Howie sez it's gonna be close".
But in the end this dim-witted plan to callously use Lieberman as a weapon against the democrats came to naught....like everyone else's expectations that day.
Oh don't me wrong, it was (to quote Wellington) "a near run thing" in many respects.
At 5pm on Primary Day, the local headquarters I was in had the atmosphere of a bankrupt funeral home...the fear of a late Dean surge was palpable.
I grabbed a sign and disappeared into the night to do a last visibility at a local polling place...better to die on my feet and all like that.
Happily though, Senator John came through like gangbusters...
The best part is that Howie Carr, Jay Severin, Brian McGrory, Eileen McNamara, and Scot Lehigh were proven oh so completely wrong.
A wonderful soul-elevating feeling let me tell you.
No doubt the whole sorry lot will go back to their "Al Sharpton is a truth-talker even if we don't agree with him" routine.
Hell Imus was already hyping the Reverend on today's broadcast...in any other non election year Sharpton is nothing but a convenient target for the I-Man's repertoire of black face style racist jibes.
Alas though, now they need to build Al up as a serious candidate....first Lieberman now Sharpton.
Politics is truly hell.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
New Hampshire Idyll...
Well, the mighty Deanosaur seems to have taken yet another spear in the vitals....thanks in small part to mine own humble efforts in N.H. nigh these last two days.
Don't worry though, the Deanosaurus Rex will live to screech another day.
:)
What exactly Joe Lieberman is supposed to do with a paltry nine percent of the vote last night is a holy mystery.
He keeps talking on and on about being the only "sensible centrist" in the campaign, and then when it comes time to vote he wracks up these puny numbers.
Generally centrists do have this tendency to capture more votes...
Of course it doesn't help matters any that Lieberman keeps insisting that the two decorated war veterans and the po' boy country lawyer are somehow NOT gonna seize the vital center when the time comes.
Intellectually this argument amounts to carrying water for George Bush....which is not gonna endear him to anyone as the primaries roll on.
Meanwhile the right is trying to spin Joe's current angst into an appeal to Joe's constituency come November.
With nine percent of the vote in hand it seems clear most of those voters were co-religionists of the Senator (to put it delicately)...their votes may not be fully transferable to the GOP come the fall....but the matter bears watching.
Joe needs to bail out of this thing quite frankly, with no hard feelings on either side.
It is sad that he is joining a long list of losers like Fritz Hollings and Fred Harris....alas it's the nature of the political zeitgeist to mock these brave quixotic souls, which is a shame.
Well nothing has to come to an end for him, there is much good business to be done for a Senator from Connecticut who has a democratic colleague in the White House.
One hopes Joe sees his opportunities here.
Well, the mighty Deanosaur seems to have taken yet another spear in the vitals....thanks in small part to mine own humble efforts in N.H. nigh these last two days.
Don't worry though, the Deanosaurus Rex will live to screech another day.
:)
What exactly Joe Lieberman is supposed to do with a paltry nine percent of the vote last night is a holy mystery.
He keeps talking on and on about being the only "sensible centrist" in the campaign, and then when it comes time to vote he wracks up these puny numbers.
Generally centrists do have this tendency to capture more votes...
Of course it doesn't help matters any that Lieberman keeps insisting that the two decorated war veterans and the po' boy country lawyer are somehow NOT gonna seize the vital center when the time comes.
Intellectually this argument amounts to carrying water for George Bush....which is not gonna endear him to anyone as the primaries roll on.
Meanwhile the right is trying to spin Joe's current angst into an appeal to Joe's constituency come November.
With nine percent of the vote in hand it seems clear most of those voters were co-religionists of the Senator (to put it delicately)...their votes may not be fully transferable to the GOP come the fall....but the matter bears watching.
Joe needs to bail out of this thing quite frankly, with no hard feelings on either side.
It is sad that he is joining a long list of losers like Fritz Hollings and Fred Harris....alas it's the nature of the political zeitgeist to mock these brave quixotic souls, which is a shame.
Well nothing has to come to an end for him, there is much good business to be done for a Senator from Connecticut who has a democratic colleague in the White House.
One hopes Joe sees his opportunities here.
Saturday, January 24, 2004
Friday, January 23, 2004
Whatever happened to Pat Buchanan?
No really I wanna know...once a fiery revolutionary xenophobe he is now content to call into the Imus program and rumble away happily about the New Hampshire Primary.
Comfortable, middle class, warm, fuzzy, stentorian, even cuddly.
Dear Ghod could this be...a NEW Buchanan???
Well why not?
Pat got his start as one of the many servitors hired back in 1966 to dig up Tricky Dick's political corpse and morph it into "A New Nixon".
Seen in this context, the transformation from bloodthirsty mountebank to comfortable old fraud is pretty easy-Nixon did it why not Pat?
So there he was gassing away on the public airwaves about Dean's volcanic "concession" screech on Monday night.
Predictably, Buchanan chastised the Vermont Governor for not concealing his passions better....
Good grief, who is "Pitchfork Pat" to talk??
Well that is mark of the transition from would-be tyrant to avuncular media whore, a marked toleration for your own hypocrisy.
Buchanan has even softened his once loud opposition to the Iraq war. It is in so many ways a pundit's war and if he wants to be a playa in that game he has to show some flexibility.
Still, I have to say, Pat sounded almost forlorn on the radio today...he so desperately wanted to be a playa in national politics.
Where is the frantic little fag-basher from the mean streets of Washington D.C.?
Truly Pat has gone swell on us...given up his gas house gentleman's overalls for a silk tie and fresh topper.
Nothing left but to sit on the sidelines in his new finery and watch as the fabled revolution runs inexorably away from him.
In truth Buchanan's national revolution of 1996 has been co-opted by the very blue-blooded stuffed shirts he used to excoriate in front of cheering crowds of dispossessed hard hats.
That has to hurt....
No really I wanna know...once a fiery revolutionary xenophobe he is now content to call into the Imus program and rumble away happily about the New Hampshire Primary.
Comfortable, middle class, warm, fuzzy, stentorian, even cuddly.
Dear Ghod could this be...a NEW Buchanan???
Well why not?
Pat got his start as one of the many servitors hired back in 1966 to dig up Tricky Dick's political corpse and morph it into "A New Nixon".
Seen in this context, the transformation from bloodthirsty mountebank to comfortable old fraud is pretty easy-Nixon did it why not Pat?
So there he was gassing away on the public airwaves about Dean's volcanic "concession" screech on Monday night.
Predictably, Buchanan chastised the Vermont Governor for not concealing his passions better....
Good grief, who is "Pitchfork Pat" to talk??
Well that is mark of the transition from would-be tyrant to avuncular media whore, a marked toleration for your own hypocrisy.
Buchanan has even softened his once loud opposition to the Iraq war. It is in so many ways a pundit's war and if he wants to be a playa in that game he has to show some flexibility.
Still, I have to say, Pat sounded almost forlorn on the radio today...he so desperately wanted to be a playa in national politics.
Where is the frantic little fag-basher from the mean streets of Washington D.C.?
Truly Pat has gone swell on us...given up his gas house gentleman's overalls for a silk tie and fresh topper.
Nothing left but to sit on the sidelines in his new finery and watch as the fabled revolution runs inexorably away from him.
In truth Buchanan's national revolution of 1996 has been co-opted by the very blue-blooded stuffed shirts he used to excoriate in front of cheering crowds of dispossessed hard hats.
That has to hurt....
Thursday, January 22, 2004
The Laura Ingraham Asylum for the Criminally Inane:
Back when Laura Ingraham was shopping around for a religion, did no one try to steer her to Rev. Moon's "Unification Church"?
Apparently not.
If she'd-a-gone ga-ga for the Moonies she'd only be ahead of the GOP pack, perhaps for the first time in her life!
I mean, think about that.
But, sadly, it was not to be, Laura went Catholic, and now she finishes off a parishful of sacramental wine with one gulp...SARS or no SARS.
Yes indeedy Milady Tedium was on the Imus program today with her vast repertoire of awful impersonations and that screechy adolescent voice of hers.
Laura please! If you are somehow reading this, give the pubescent tone of triumphalism a rest willya?
Even Jerry Lewis gave up playing "the kid" when he turned forty!
It doesn't help matters the way that vulgar old zombie Imus indulges her gubernatorial sense of satire and treats her like Laura is a serious thinker.
I'm afraid Ms. Ingraham is a kind of neocon Jessica Simpson endowed thanks to years of conservative think tank welfare, with the unerring ability to predict the past.
All but forgotten was her spiteful dismissal of Senator John Kerry, now she fearlessly conflates Dean's allegedly faded candidacy with the internet bubble of the 1990's.
This is a stultifying comparison that has been only zipping around the web since Monday night...clearly Laura pulled her head out of her ass long enough to log on to alt.simpleminded-cliches before calling in to Imus this morning.
All this sneering criticism that Dean has attracted only obscures the fact that his critics once marked out hard for him...even Laura who regarded his nomination a done deal three weeks ago.
Anyway just who made this drunken inane social-climbing bint a political expert anyway?
Most of her brilliant insights could've been lifted from Eileen McNamara's damn column...or any half-witted website.
With false humility Laura then claimed that she spent four years in New Hampshire and doesn't "understand" the state.
That would be the remorseless eight semester long bender she had at Dartmouth with time out to pleasure Dinesh D'Souza,
Lemme tell you something Laura I spent four years in New Hampshire too I was even sober for some of it, and I think I understand the Granite State perfectly.
New Hampshire is a bitterly conservative state, with a pronounced suspicion of out-of-state conservatives.
It's the only so called republican leaning state in the Union wherein I overheard some duffer in a bar call Ronald Reagan "a fag".
And that was at the height of Saint Ron's popularity!
All this talk about lost Hanover did put the radio tyrantess in a laughably nostalgic mood though.
Eventually the bad impressions and sarcastic put-downs of other people's sense of haute couture trailed off, Laura sighed and began babbling about Jesus and the life hereafter.
This is where the conversation took a decisive down turn there is nothing more unintentionally hilarious than Laura Ingraham trying to contemplate her maker.
Whatever she was doing last night though, she was too addled this morning to properly quote Matthew 16, verses 13-18.
That is the whole "You are the rock upon which I will build my church" routine, which seasoned Catholics can recite it in their sleep.
Well I'll give her a pass cause she is a newbie and all....I still think she is a seedy bitch though.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the congressionally licensed airwaves
And elsewhere
1-22-04
7:45am EST
God Save the Republic.
Back when Laura Ingraham was shopping around for a religion, did no one try to steer her to Rev. Moon's "Unification Church"?
Apparently not.
If she'd-a-gone ga-ga for the Moonies she'd only be ahead of the GOP pack, perhaps for the first time in her life!
I mean, think about that.
But, sadly, it was not to be, Laura went Catholic, and now she finishes off a parishful of sacramental wine with one gulp...SARS or no SARS.
Yes indeedy Milady Tedium was on the Imus program today with her vast repertoire of awful impersonations and that screechy adolescent voice of hers.
Laura please! If you are somehow reading this, give the pubescent tone of triumphalism a rest willya?
Even Jerry Lewis gave up playing "the kid" when he turned forty!
It doesn't help matters the way that vulgar old zombie Imus indulges her gubernatorial sense of satire and treats her like Laura is a serious thinker.
I'm afraid Ms. Ingraham is a kind of neocon Jessica Simpson endowed thanks to years of conservative think tank welfare, with the unerring ability to predict the past.
All but forgotten was her spiteful dismissal of Senator John Kerry, now she fearlessly conflates Dean's allegedly faded candidacy with the internet bubble of the 1990's.
This is a stultifying comparison that has been only zipping around the web since Monday night...clearly Laura pulled her head out of her ass long enough to log on to alt.simpleminded-cliches before calling in to Imus this morning.
All this sneering criticism that Dean has attracted only obscures the fact that his critics once marked out hard for him...even Laura who regarded his nomination a done deal three weeks ago.
Anyway just who made this drunken inane social-climbing bint a political expert anyway?
Most of her brilliant insights could've been lifted from Eileen McNamara's damn column...or any half-witted website.
With false humility Laura then claimed that she spent four years in New Hampshire and doesn't "understand" the state.
That would be the remorseless eight semester long bender she had at Dartmouth with time out to pleasure Dinesh D'Souza,
Lemme tell you something Laura I spent four years in New Hampshire too I was even sober for some of it, and I think I understand the Granite State perfectly.
New Hampshire is a bitterly conservative state, with a pronounced suspicion of out-of-state conservatives.
It's the only so called republican leaning state in the Union wherein I overheard some duffer in a bar call Ronald Reagan "a fag".
And that was at the height of Saint Ron's popularity!
All this talk about lost Hanover did put the radio tyrantess in a laughably nostalgic mood though.
Eventually the bad impressions and sarcastic put-downs of other people's sense of haute couture trailed off, Laura sighed and began babbling about Jesus and the life hereafter.
This is where the conversation took a decisive down turn there is nothing more unintentionally hilarious than Laura Ingraham trying to contemplate her maker.
Whatever she was doing last night though, she was too addled this morning to properly quote Matthew 16, verses 13-18.
That is the whole "You are the rock upon which I will build my church" routine, which seasoned Catholics can recite it in their sleep.
Well I'll give her a pass cause she is a newbie and all....I still think she is a seedy bitch though.
Such is the Kingdom of Heaven
On the congressionally licensed airwaves
And elsewhere
1-22-04
7:45am EST
God Save the Republic.
Santorum for Veep!
I refuse to yield, I'm convinced that Cheney is gonna step down next August and not run for re-election in the fall.
Which will give his alleged master George Bush the priceless opportunity to ramp up the convention with a new veep pick.
When the klaxon sounds and Santorum's name floats to the top of the scumbucket, please remember you read it here first on the Chimes at Midnight.
No my friends, this is not mere blogsturbation, I'm convinced that Santorum is relentlessly "amplifying his presence" with an eye towards the 2004 GOP vice presidential nomination.
High Pitched Rich is vain, blustery, a demagogue and a well coiffed sort of toady...he hasn't got the spine God gave a nerf ball
In other words he is a perfect fit for the current inhabitant of the White House.
***
Santorum was in fact flogging himself like a medieval flagellant on the Imus program yesterday.
True to form Rich fairly groveled at the mere mention of the President's holy name.
However it was an appearance rich in useful themes for the coming presidential campaign.
Being a low sort of lout, Rich didn't come out openly for mob rule and mass fag bashing...no that would be too honest.
Time enough for that in 2005 once they've got this pesky election nonsense squared away.
No instead he recast the gay marriage issue as a judicial-constitutional matter, in which rampant activist judges were somehow imposing a new "right" on the poor helpless masses.
In other words, typical swindlespeak from La Famiglia Arbusto.
Thus Bush and Santorum are gonna run on a "smash the judiciary" ticket.
They aren't gonna talk about queers and their hope-chests per se just flail away at the judges that wanna reward homosexuals with super constitutional rights.
That is the current GOP line..and it is ingenious I will admit.
It is also only mildly offensive given the fact that a bunch of activist judges on the Supreme Court basically put Bush in office.
So it's Bush and Santorum in 2004, I feel sure of it.
A more primitive paranoid pairing can't be imagined.
Well what can I say?
The Busheviki are on a rampage to put the salad days of Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies to shame.
Who can really blame a malevolent young hack like Rich if he wants to ride this weird conglomeration of democracy hatred, judicial paranoia and queer bashing to the stars?
Sick
Demented
Typical....
I refuse to yield, I'm convinced that Cheney is gonna step down next August and not run for re-election in the fall.
Which will give his alleged master George Bush the priceless opportunity to ramp up the convention with a new veep pick.
When the klaxon sounds and Santorum's name floats to the top of the scumbucket, please remember you read it here first on the Chimes at Midnight.
No my friends, this is not mere blogsturbation, I'm convinced that Santorum is relentlessly "amplifying his presence" with an eye towards the 2004 GOP vice presidential nomination.
High Pitched Rich is vain, blustery, a demagogue and a well coiffed sort of toady...he hasn't got the spine God gave a nerf ball
In other words he is a perfect fit for the current inhabitant of the White House.
***
Santorum was in fact flogging himself like a medieval flagellant on the Imus program yesterday.
True to form Rich fairly groveled at the mere mention of the President's holy name.
However it was an appearance rich in useful themes for the coming presidential campaign.
Being a low sort of lout, Rich didn't come out openly for mob rule and mass fag bashing...no that would be too honest.
Time enough for that in 2005 once they've got this pesky election nonsense squared away.
No instead he recast the gay marriage issue as a judicial-constitutional matter, in which rampant activist judges were somehow imposing a new "right" on the poor helpless masses.
In other words, typical swindlespeak from La Famiglia Arbusto.
Thus Bush and Santorum are gonna run on a "smash the judiciary" ticket.
They aren't gonna talk about queers and their hope-chests per se just flail away at the judges that wanna reward homosexuals with super constitutional rights.
That is the current GOP line..and it is ingenious I will admit.
It is also only mildly offensive given the fact that a bunch of activist judges on the Supreme Court basically put Bush in office.
So it's Bush and Santorum in 2004, I feel sure of it.
A more primitive paranoid pairing can't be imagined.
Well what can I say?
The Busheviki are on a rampage to put the salad days of Abbie Hoffman and the Yippies to shame.
Who can really blame a malevolent young hack like Rich if he wants to ride this weird conglomeration of democracy hatred, judicial paranoia and queer bashing to the stars?
Sick
Demented
Typical....
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