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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.

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!!!

Poor ol' Dowdy. I agree, someone needs ~~therapy~~ rehab all right but it isn't the Bush family. It is kinda sad to see that fresh, stinging wit reduced to spewing spite and malice. She has been stuck in a fog for years cranking out hateful columns filled with resentment about a good and decent family that she will never understand. Too much booze and bitterness have dimmed a once bright mind. Now she is little more than a tiresome shrew, unpleasant, brittle and nasty.

Dowd's columns are what happen when you mix clever writing with a poor thought process.

Instead of writing a substantive criticism of either Scowcroft's fears or Rice's imperatives, Dowd sends up this pseudointellectual garbage. For some time she's been writing this psychosexual analysis of Bush the Younger as if it has any validity to it.

Add to this fact the probability that she's getting hammered by some media bigwig and you can start putting things together. Her writing is clever but it is also substandard. Someone is getting something for putting her columns in print.

The great thing is that many liberals actually read her column like they read Doonesbury: for what they believe to be deep intellectual analysis hidden by cutting satire.

Which should tell you something about most liberals.

Someone posted on here an assertion that Dowd's paychecks were sure larger than ours. That's true.

But all that proves is that you can be well paid and shovel shit at the same time.

Be Seeing You,

Chris