[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.

[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.

[tet68]

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

[petkus]

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

[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?

[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.

[Falcon4.0]

You go Girl!

[DugwayDuke]

"It's a very strange relationship," a former aide to the father says. "He's so careful about his son's prerogatives that I don't think he would tell him his own views."

So, we are to believe that instead of a quiet personal phone call, Bush 41 would choose to embarass his son by having Scrowcraft publish this article in the WSJ? I guess this makes sense to Ms. Dowd.

"It must be galling for Bush père to hear conservatives braying that the son has to finish the job in Iraq that the father wimped out on."

Well, actually, Bush 41 is probably thinking: "Scrowcroft was wrong in '91 and again in '02. At least he's consistent."

"Junior could also have made the case that Dad's tax increase, which got him into so much trouble, led to 10 years of prosperity. Instead he has philosophically joined the right-wingers who erroneously think that the tax increase caused a recession."

No, "Junior" doesn't tell lies and understands economics.

[isthisnickcool]

Something between someones legs dried up few years back.....

[Trident/Delta]

Spanked???? by Scowcroft????....excuse me?!?!...The ONLY thing that Brent could "spank"....is his little monkey...Gawd, I wish the pantywaists would go back to their teacups...their whining is distracting!

semper disgusted!

[IncPen]

Pokey, is it far enough off the reservation to suppose that Scowcroft is part of the disinformation campaign, to make Bush & company look indecisive and struggling while we arrange things for a massive blow to Saddam?

For all the media tries to paint Bush as a moron, don't forget how he used the media in the campaign:

A TV commercial would appear in a backwater outlet with some outrageous accusation or gimmick (remember the 'RATS' spot?)

Locals would be up in arms, and within a day the spot would be airing wall-to-wall on the network news.

Bush would spend about $300 for airtime (on a cable station) and end up with full network airing, and the RATS looked like sniveling idiots for complaining about it.

The Bush 43 organization is reknown for not leaking, pre- and post- 911.

I believe that in recent weeks the 'leaks' have been carefully orchestrated to confuse the enemy while we move our chips around the board.

I don't know when, but I expect a brilliant finish to Saddam, once and for all.