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The Red Zone (Dowd alert)
The New York Times ^ | 11/04/04 | Maureen Dowd

Posted on 11/03/2004 7:17:17 PM PST by Pokey78

WASHINGTON — With the Democratic Party splattered at his feet in little blue puddles, John Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall in Boston about his concession call to President Bush.

"We had a good conversation," the senator said. "And we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing."

Democrat: Heal thyself.

W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.

The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riff-raff who disagree to heel.

W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."

The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always gracious until they don't get their way. If W. didn't reach out after the last election, which he barely grabbed, why would he reach out now that he has what Dick Cheney calls a "broad, nationwide victory"?

While Mr. Bush was making his little speech about reaching out, Republicans said they had "the green light" to pursue their conservative agenda, like drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting the tax code.

"He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one Bush insider predicts. "He'll raze Falluja if he has to. He feels that the election results endorsed his version of the war." Never mind that the more insurgents American troops kill, the more they create.

Just listen to Dick (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalized our economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." Well, it has revitalized the Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow. And "confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.

Vice continued, "Now we move forward to serve and to guard the country we love." Only Dick Cheney can make "to serve and to guard" sound like "to rape and to pillage."

He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq.

Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate.

Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.

James DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."

John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.

Seeing the exit polls, the Democrats immediately started talking about values and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white Christian soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary's 2008 campaign (nothing but a wooden stake would stop it). Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt Gingrich did in the 90's.

But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.

Invading France?


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KEYWORDS: dirtyrats; dowd; fifthcolumn; filthyrats; marxists; rats; redzone; socialists; sorelosers; zetajones
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1 posted on 11/03/2004 7:17:18 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78

She is such a pig. Funny how the left always accuses people of doing things that they do.


2 posted on 11/03/2004 7:18:55 PM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: Pokey78

Well, I'm glad to see she's not bitter.


3 posted on 11/03/2004 7:19:11 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (THANK YOU, FREEPERS for re-electing President George W. Bush!)
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To: Pokey78

She really IS a lonely old hag, isn't she


4 posted on 11/03/2004 7:19:19 PM PST by digger48
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To: Pokey78

What John Kerry wants to unite us now? What will he say about the heart of American values, like Whoppi Goldberg and Michael Moore? He never said anything while campaigning, but gave them credit.


5 posted on 11/03/2004 7:20:29 PM PST by ONETWOONE (onetwoone)
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To: Pokey78

Aw Maureen, you're feeling down? Put some ice on it.


6 posted on 11/03/2004 7:20:42 PM PST by SoDak (Home of Senator John Thune)
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To: Pokey78

I'd hate to see her liquor bill.


7 posted on 11/03/2004 7:20:47 PM PST by Paul Atreides
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True hate.


8 posted on 11/03/2004 7:21:20 PM PST by ReadyNow (When you see the eye, expect a lie!)
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To: Pokey78

She is so full of bull that it's not even worth our time to respond. She's going down in flames with the rest of the party and doesn't even know she's on fire. Let her burn.


9 posted on 11/03/2004 7:21:21 PM PST by Angry Enough
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To: Pokey78
W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.

Why have two sides if they're both the same? Idiot.

That's the way it works. Losers gotta STFU. Now, go do that.

10 posted on 11/03/2004 7:22:44 PM PST by BikerTrash (Enough already with the carnival freak show...bring back COOL!)
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To: satchmodog9
But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching. Invading France?

Uhm, nope, France is cool with me. Hearing no objections we proceed to France!

11 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:06 PM PST by Damifino (The true measure of a man is found in what he would do if he knew no one would ever find out.)
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Invading France would be WAY too easy. We need to keep our powder dry for bigger missions.


12 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:13 PM PST by Paladin2 (SeeBS News - We Decide, We Create, We Report - In that order! - ABC - Already Been Caught)
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OK, where's the obligatory pic of Catherine Zeta Jones that always seems to accompany a Meow Dowd thread?


13 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:16 PM PST by demnomo
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To: Pokey78; Miss Marple; PhiKapMom; hchutch

Catherine Zeta-Jones is probably handling this better.


14 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:31 PM PST by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women!)
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To: Pokey78
warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country

Sure didn't seem to hurt ancient Rome. (/sarcasm)

15 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:36 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh
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Never mind that the more insurgents American troops kill, the more they create.

She's obviously fallen off the wagon (again), poor dear.

16 posted on 11/03/2004 7:23:59 PM PST by Martin Tell (Victory! Accept no substitutes.)
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To: Pokey78

She's a pig, 'nuff said.


17 posted on 11/03/2004 7:24:21 PM PST by AJS
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To: Pokey78
So much for healing. We will soon see whether Congress is more conciliatory than Ms. Dowd. Somehow, I doubt it.
18 posted on 11/03/2004 7:24:30 PM PST by Cracker Jack
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To: Pokey78

"All the views that's sh*t to print"

The left is dead.


19 posted on 11/03/2004 7:25:22 PM PST by FatherofFive
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