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The double binds of George W. Bush
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| July 19, 2004
| Rich Lowry
Posted on 07/19/2004 4:15:02 PM PDT by livesbygrace
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I have never heard it stated better.
To: livesbygrace
What would happen if Putin offered 40,000 soldiers for Iraq? Apparently, one several financial blogs this is considered likely.
To: shrinkermd
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:19:13 PM PDT
by
Dog
To: livesbygrace
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:20:03 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column)
To: livesbygrace
Of course there are those on the Left who would bitch with thier throats cut...
To: livesbygrace
If this doesn't sum it up in a (very big) nutshell, I don't know what does.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:26:46 PM PDT
by
ChocChipCookie
(If we had some eggs, we could have bacon and eggs if we had some bacon. --unknown Freeper)
To: livesbygrace
Yes. Kudos to Lowry. He nails every one of the insane reactions to this good and brave man. I forget, did he address the fact that GW has been unable to change the "tone" in Washington? As if he could.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:31:58 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: shrinkermd
What would happen if Putin offered 40,000 soldiers for Iraq? Apparently, one several financial blogs this is considered likely.
I would
love to see that happen. I would love to see a Moscow-Washinton-Dheli axis to counter the emerging Euro-state and that other rising world hyper-power, Birkina Faso.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:39:37 PM PDT
by
Asclepius
(protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
To: Bahbah
This
tendency has never been more pronounced than with the exertions of the Bush-haters that Lowry details so well here. But what exactly is this
tendency of changing the goalposts so that you can remain on the same side of an argument which you are determined not to let go. Take for example, the reactions of partisans to the failures of the "War on Poverty." It went from we will lift the poor out of poverty by giving them a hand up. Who would argue with the propriety of that idea
if it worked? It didn't.
Charles Murray documented this in his great book
Losing Ground. There was no way they were going to roll back these programs. They just kept finding more and more obscure reasons why there were still poor people who were not succeeding.
I think this habit became internalized and has grown to an absurd degree. It manifests mainly but not exclusively on the left.
To: NutCrackerBoy
"I think this habit became internalized and has grown to an absurd degree. It manifests mainly but not exclusively on the left."
Excellent insight. Obviously, I agree with it.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:43:01 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
To: NutCrackerBoy
Great article.
I heard Krauthammer on FoxNews Panel a few weeks ago say that the Dems were constantly moving the goal posts, just as you noted.
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:48:24 PM PDT
by
dawn53
To: Asclepius
Birkina Faso? Facist Berkley?
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posted on
07/19/2004 4:54:59 PM PDT
by
Dead Dog
(Expose the Media to Light, Expose the Media to Market Forces.)
To: dawn53
By the way, George W. Bush himself may be a hardball campaigner in some respects, but I distinctly remember during the 2000 Presidential debates, more than once he complimented actions of the Clinton Administration. There was nothing resembling the torrential criticism of the nine Dwarves we endured in 2004.
To be fair, I've recently heard some Democrat partisans compliment Bush Administration on the wisdom of transferring Iraqi sovereignty early. Kudos for intellectual honesty.
To: livesbygrace
To: NutCrackerBoy
Yes, there are nutburgers on the right as well as the left, for whom nothing is good enough to satisfy, because their reason for being is to be dissatisfied. It's the
struggle that counts. If they actually got what they wanted, they would gape and sputter and not know what to do with themselves. They would
have to come up with a new complaint.
This article really hits the nail on the head, BTW.
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posted on
07/19/2004 5:40:49 PM PDT
by
wimpycat
("The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."-C.S. Lewis)
To: livesbygrace
So, basically.....
"He's damned if he do, he's damned if he don't."
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posted on
07/19/2004 6:09:53 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(I give up! Entropy, you win!)
To: shrinkermd
What would happen if Putin offered 40,000 soldiers for Iraq? Apparently, one several financial blogs this is considered likely.The level of anti-Americanism that I read and hear, from editorials and comedians in Russia, makes me think that Russia intends to stay in the French fold. Putin may be doing a Chiraq, waiting for a formal request so he can make a big show of saying "Nee-kahg-dah!".
Check out Mikhail Zadornov sometime.
To: livesbygrace
Lowry has the problem down cold. The Dems are reduced to saying that whatever Bush did, he should have done the opposite. What a program...not. Actually if you hear Kerry lately, he'll go into some sort of jeremiad about the state of the nation that Bush has led us into, but if asked about what policy decisions he'd make, most of his answers echo what Bush is doing. Kerry, naturally, wants to have it both ways. He's trying to strike a stance where he appears to be opposite of Bush, but at the same time he knows that the Dems programs are utter crap and that Bush is mostly right about national security and the economy. The Dem rank and file are too dimwitted to see what Kerry is doing.
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posted on
07/19/2004 6:40:59 PM PDT
by
driftless
( For life-long happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
To: Dog
I heard the same thing about the Russians.
Just can't remember where. I'm thinking it was on Fox News.
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posted on
07/20/2004 12:37:00 AM PDT
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: livesbygrace
Outstanding!
9 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
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posted on
07/20/2004 12:39:09 AM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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