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Dems Determined To Ignore Progress In Iraq (Mark Steyn On The Defeaticrats Quagmire Alert)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 12/04.05 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 12/04/2005 2:34:59 AM PST by goldstategop

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The liberal ostriches bury their heads in the sand, preferring not to notice just how well things are going in Iraq. Mark Steyn has coined a new term to describe the Cut and Run Democrats lack of support for history's largest experiment in democracy-building: Defeaticrats. With all the cliches they're throwing around, you'd think al Zarqawi was standing on a mountain of American corpses. The Iraqi people will put all this self-flagellating braggadocio to rest when they vote again on Dec. 15th. The Purple Finger Revolution keeps chugging on despite the Defeaticrats' best efforts to discredit it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

1 posted on 12/04/2005 2:35:01 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
New Steyn Kerryism: "[I was] against the benchmarks before I was for them." Priceless!

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

2 posted on 12/04/2005 2:41:54 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Already posted

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1533688/posts


3 posted on 12/04/2005 2:43:36 AM PST by mal
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To: goldstategop
Mark Steyn first came to my attention when he was Media Critic/Commentator for the old American Spectator. I usually find movie review columns to be nearly worthless for determining the watchability of movies or TV show- his was an exception, and he was always interesting to read.

He jumped further up in my estimation with an article in the Wall Street Journal during the Clinton nastiness titled "In Defense of Tabloid Sleaze," in which he took his fellow journalists to task for their faux outrage and curious lack of curiousity about "the most powerful man in the world being caught with his pants around his ankles."

A later WSJ column, "My Life is Not a Game" pointed out that all the machinations in Washington, and elsewhere, have real-world consequences that affect real people- like Steyn and his family- and were not merely some silly game of "gotchas" put on for the amusement of the chattering classes on TV.

4 posted on 12/04/2005 3:48:58 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: goldstategop

Murtha has lost it. He's demented. Lieberman - there's something likeable about him.


5 posted on 12/04/2005 4:38:23 AM PST by RoadTest (A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. - Proverbs 25:11)
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The Defeaticrats were against the benchmarks before they were for them.
They take a position. Change their position. Lie about ever having had different positions. And the media works with them hand-in-glove. And a few people on Fox News call them on it, in a disorganized way... but they're drowned out by the overall tone of Fox News these days, which is to be more balanced than dedicated to getting the story out.

This is the biggest story since WWII. How a political party and the media are conspiring to lie to the American people. And though there are plenty of people writing about it, like Steyn, and a few people talking about it on Fox, on the whole, this story is being covered up. Certainly on network TV its being covered up. Completely.

It will disappear down the memory hole. History departments in every university in the Western World (not to mention the Arab World) are busy rewriting history. It's a work-in-progress. The whole sordid history of the defeaticrats which includes their loud denunciation of benchmarks followed by their loud braying demand for benchmarks (after the benchmarks were already achieved), is being covered up by the media and rewritten by the historians.

It's a conspiracy. Not centrally led, but a conspiracy of like-mindedness. The biggest conspiracy of the modern era.

6 posted on 12/04/2005 4:50:19 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Pokey78
Unexcerpted Ping!


7 posted on 12/04/2005 5:05:30 AM PST by Watery Tart (Heifer cow is better than none, but this is no time for puns. --Groucho)
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How a political party and the media are conspiring to lie to the American people.

How is it a secret conspiracy if the libs lost the 2004 elections? What about 2006? Think they will make any gains? Fact is, 50.5% of the people know what's going on and vote against the Dem party. After Iraq has settled down, we'll get down to domestic business. We know who are the internal enemies are.

8 posted on 12/04/2005 5:21:16 AM PST by lemura
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To: lemura

Good point. I guess I was over-generalizing. What I described is happening, but a lot of people know it's happening, as you point out. Thanks for the correction.


9 posted on 12/04/2005 5:23:56 AM PST by samtheman
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To: goldstategop
It must be awful lonely being Joe Lieberman in the Democratic Party these days.

It it were not for Lieberman's vote against impeaching Clinton I would be tempted to think that Senator Lieberman might be the only principled man remaining in the entire Senate.

Maybe he is still growing up, and has learned that principled people can handle the loneliness.

(MWTH thinks to himself: "listen to me. The only Senator I can say one decent thing about is a Democrat")

10 posted on 12/04/2005 5:50:03 AM PST by manwiththehands (Democrats and the MSM: lies and hypocrisy on steroids)
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To: lemura

The fact that John Kerry made it through the election without releasing his service record and came close to winning is disturbing. They proppedhim up as a Hawk despite him drafting bills in 1993 that called for the freezing of military pay for five years and early retirement of 80,000 NCO's. That would have virtually destroyed the military and it was suppressed.


11 posted on 12/04/2005 5:54:09 AM PST by Wristpin ( Varitek says to A-Rod: "We don't throw at .260 hitters.....")
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To: backhoe

Mark Steyn is a joy to read. There was another article posted on FR yesterday that was sheer joy.

Mark Steyn: 'We Aren't the World' - The Democrats new theme song - ^
Posted by UnklGene
On News/Activism ^ 12/03/2005 6:27:01 PM EST · 24 replies · 1,225+ views


12 posted on 12/04/2005 6:03:47 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
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To: Watery Tart; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; ...
Thanks!

Steyn ping!


13 posted on 12/04/2005 6:04:58 AM PST by Pokey78 (‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
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To: mal; goldstategop
Already posted

Yeah, but this one is nicely un-excerpted.
I appreciate that.
14 posted on 12/04/2005 6:22:26 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
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To: manwiththehands
(MWTH thinks to himself: "listen to me. The only Senator I can say one decent thing about is a Democrat")

I'd invite you to look more closely at Senator Coburn of Oklahoma.

15 posted on 12/04/2005 6:24:48 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Ken Blackwell for governor Ohio 2006)
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To: billhilly
'We Aren't the World'

Steyn always manages to produce a nice turn of phrase, doesn't he? One reason he's enjoyable to read.

16 posted on 12/04/2005 6:30:29 AM PST by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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To: goldstategop
Hey Senator Joe, come into the light; escape from the dark side.

The Republicans have a big tent that holds everyone from Ronnie to Rudy.

17 posted on 12/04/2005 6:31:53 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: backhoe

I enjoyed reading that piece, and am always ready for the truth of what he writes so eloquently. I loved his new word, Demoquits, in the other article. We really need to popularize that.


18 posted on 12/04/2005 6:33:27 AM PST by billhilly (If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
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To: goldstategop

bttt


19 posted on 12/04/2005 6:33:37 AM PST by Gritty ("The Defeaticrats were against the benchmarks before they were for them" - Mark Steyn)
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To: billhilly
I loved his new word, Demoquits, in the other article. We really need to popularize that.

See tagline...

20 posted on 12/04/2005 6:38:41 AM PST by backhoe (Demoquits... turning tail for two generations...)
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