Junior Gets a Spanking (Dowd alert)

The New York Times ^ | 08/18/2002 | Maureen Dowd

[Pokey78]

From Oxblog:

IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD

1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.

2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.

3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.

4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.

5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.

6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.

7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.

[Howlin]

Let me be the first to say it on this thread:

Bitch.

[RAY]

DITTO!

[jimbo123]

The shrew is really having a meltdown this weekend. Thank goodness she never spawned any offspring and she'll eventually depart this earth wrinkled, bitter and alone.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Oh yeah, but what about Kristol? Serving as the perfect example for MO! GRRRRRR.

And by the way, MO, Kristol was hardly "a Bush I veteran"......he was a poor advisor to Dan Quayle, who was kept out of most policy meetings........for leaking......

[tet68]

Family therapy? Maureen needs a Maaan, Maureen needs a Maan!

[pankot]

Guess who really needs the therapy.

[petkus]

Scokrott is just upsetted that he does not have a role in GWBs administration! NYT & Dowd are James Carville mouthpieces!

[jimbo123]

Isn't Dowd the one who ran off and had plastic surgery after she was dumped by Michael Douglas?

[dighton]

Maureen needs a Maaan, Maureen needs a Maan!

She had one for a while. To the detriment of her mental condition, he escaped and found sanctuary.

[Pokey78]

[RecallJeffords]

Do people outside the upper west side chablis and chardonnay crowd read Dowd anymore? Her columns were never anything more than a series of smart-aleck glib remarks, and since September 11 that genre is out of touch (except for the marginal and expected blame America first types). Now she struggles to validate her continued relevance.

Does Dowd matter anymore?

[JulieRNR21]

Let me add: *&%$*#^%@*^%$& bitch!

[dighton]

GMTA

[Hipixs]

MO thesis doesn't hold up well. Wolfowitz worked for Bush 1 and Cheney.

Wolfowitz' bio

From 1989 to 1993, Dr. Wolfowitz served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in charge of the 700-person defense policy team that was responsible to Secretary Dick Cheney for matters concerning strategy, plans, and policy.

[Pokey78]

Who will he choose?

or . . .

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WE HAVE A WINNER!

[Falcon4.0]

You go Girl!

[Howlin]

That's EXACTLY what I wanted to say! I just didn't know how to spell it!

[Miss Marple]

I can only conclude that this person has done some pretty fancy undercover work (if you know what I mean) to rate a column twice weekly in the venerable Gray Lady.

One must assume that, or that their standards have slipped to the high school tabloid level.

She is, indeed, a bitch.

[Miss Marple]

I forgot to comment on Bill Kristol, who ONCE AGAIN is showing up as the pivot point for troublemaking!! He was NEVER involved in any policy decisions in the Dad Bush White House!!! NO ONE TRUSTED HIM, and if Quayle hadn't mistakenly hired him (ruining his own career) Kristol would never have had a job! Sunnunu didn't trust him, Baker didn't trust him, and R. Emmett Tyrell (American Spectator) called him someone "who loves to sit in a smoking jacket in his Georgetown library, sipping on brandy and potificating on foreign policy." Grrrrr!!!