FORE!!!
Posted on 05/04/2009 6:06:07 AM PDT by gridlock
How quaint.
The Republicans are concerned about checks and balances.
The specter of Specter helping the president have his way with Congress...
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Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, tried to put the best face on it, noting, “This will make it easier for G.O.P. candidates in 2010 to ask to be elected to help restore some checks and balances in Washington.”
This is quite touching, given that the start of the 21st century will be remembered as the harrowing era when an arrogant Republican administration did its best to undermine checks and balances. (Maybe when your reign begins with Bush v. Gore, a Supreme heist that kissed off checks and balances, you feel no need to follow the founding fathers’ lead.)
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As Mr. Obama said in his news conference, it is in moments of crisis that a country must cleave to its principles. Asserting that “waterboarding violates our ideals,” he said he had been struck by an article describing how Churchill would not torture prisoners even when “London was being bombed to smithereens.”
“And the reason was that Churchill understood, you start taking shortcuts and over time, that corrodes what’s best in a people,” he said. “It corrodes the character of a country.”
Class dismissed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
(Actually, I do. And so do you!)
She inserts the obligatory Bush Stole Florida reference. That one is getting a little long in the tooth, MoDo.
She also repeats BO's assertion that the British did not torture prisoners under Churchill, even though it is demonstrably true the the Brits tortured people willy-nilly, with Churchill's encouragement.
FORE!!!
“Bush Stole Florida ...”
How quaint.
Even if he did, if al-Gore had carried his “home” state of Tennessee, he would have won the election.
Heck, the British invented and perfected a lot of the torture we read about in history.
As regards Mo Dowd, no, there is no reason to read her. If it wasn’t for Imus, I never would have even known who she was. Too bad I ever heard of either one of them, come to think of it.
Dowd better vent fast and furious for the few more weeks till the NY Time goes belly up.
This needs a special barf alert. You may have an affinity for Dowd, I have no such desire.
It’s kind of like slowing down for a car-wreck. A guilty pleasure, at best...
MoDo doesn't know checks and balances. We have a hard-left president with control of both houses of Congress and a sycophantic media. Yes you're damn right I'm concerned about checks and balances - in just over three months the man has spent more than any other Admin in history.
I have those. Just not Dowd. If they come out in public, that’s my mistake, too. Not avoid being embarrassed, but to avoid setting a bad example.
I have a 2 word cure for either side that will make it much less likely they will lose their character (which IMHO is virtually impossible because one with good character doesn’t generally lose it, and one with bad character can’t get it, they just fake it til they make it)
TERM LIMITS
Over an hour, and 11 posts in, and only one CZJ pic. What is this forum coming to?
No, but the CZJ pics make it worth posting the link to her column and scanning the excerpt.
There ya' go...
"You beast, you savage. C'mon, bark like a dog for me. Bark like a dog! I will teach you the meaning of the word respect."
You are a patriot and a scholar, sir.
“Even if he did, if al-Gore had carried his “home” state of Tennessee, he would have won the election.”
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That’s what I tell the clowns who claim that Bush stole the election! The people who know Gore best and elected him to the Senate in a STATEWIDE election refused to compound that error by electing him president. If you cannot carry your home state you probably should not be elected.
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