Don't Expect A Joyride From Scooter, Dems (Mark Steyn On The New Miz Moneypenny Alert)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 10/30/05 | Mark Steyn

[goldstategop]

Lewis "Scooter" Libby who? The Democrats shouldn't bet the farm on a sweep in 2006. When it comes to James Bond, the Democrats haven't stirred or shaken things up. And as the inmitable Mark Steyn put its well about Libby, he's really "the gal who played Moneypenny in ''The Living Daylights.'' Yes, that Miz. A bit player in the big picture. There's no Happy Fitzmas for the Left.

("Denny Crane: Gun Control? For Communists. She's a liberal. Can't hunt.")

[G.Mason]

" ... Wilkerson [Colin Powell's former chief of staff, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson] is a whiny stewardess in a snit because she doesn't want to learn a new spiel. "Do you want the chicken or the beef?" She's been serving up State Department chicken in Cairo and Amman and Damascus for decades, and she's not comfortable with the new Texas beef. But the only hijack that's going on is the State Department's bland assumption that it has the right to block the president's foreign policy."

Excellent!

Toss in a little CIA and we have a full course dinner. ;)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The Democrats see the world in purely political terms. They have an increasingly tenuous grasp of the profound social, cultural and national security issues that transcend the politics and the passing figures associated with them

Pretty much what my tagline says . . .

[jocon307]

"...maybe Chimpy Bushitlerburton himself."

LOL! Chimpy Bushitlerburton, that cracked me up!

[maggief]

... Scooter Libby said to Judith Miller about what Valerie Plame knew about what Joseph C. Wilson IV said ...

It's a he said/she said - she knew/he said. LOL

[sphinx]

But the only hijack that's going on is the State Department's bland assumption that it has the right to block the president's foreign policy.

Bingo.

[rellimpank]

--bttt-

[freema]

Enjoyed this!

[Paige]

Great Article! He nails it with the truth and adds the puns making a person laugh out loud while reading it!

[elli1]

And my favorite is:

The future of Iraq is mostly a matter for Iraqis now, and it's not going badly, as you can sort of tell if you decode the headlines -- "Bitterly Divided Iraqis Take Time Out From Trembling On Brink Of Civil War To Overwhelmingly Ratify New Constitution," "Three Sunnis And Their Pet Camel Boycott Poll In Sign Iraq May Be Becoming Ungovernable," etc.

[hershey]

A true blue conservative jurist nominated this week for the Supreme Court would go a very long way to energizing Bush's base.

[Guenevere]

bttt

[gotribe]

"...one reason the Democratic Party is such a bunch of losers is because they're all tactics and no strategy."

They're still the lost generation.

[Terabitten]

Scooter Libby?

[Alia]

Dems are stuck in a time warp. They haven't grown. Will not grow. Karma, IMHO, is beginning to hit them full-frontal. They invented the politics of personal destruction.

Obviously, what goes around, comes around.

[normy]

The Bush caricature -- the idiot sock-puppet manipulated by Cheney and Rove to do their bidding -- is exactly backward. The president is his own man -- to such a degree that he seems not to notice that very few others are

Nailed it.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Democrats see the world in purely political terms.

In other words: they want power. Everything else is incidental.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Excellent read. About the only thing he "missed" was that the left also imagined that somehow after all he describes happened, reality would get turned on it's head leading to Clinton being installed as President. A few lefties even stretch that to include Kerry. I wish they'd wake up and join the real world someday.

[Deetes]

BTTT

[counterpunch]

one reason the Democratic Party is such a bunch of losers is because they're all tactics and no strategy

That's one of the best lines I've read in a long time.