[FryingPan101]

Tsk, Tsk, Howard Fineman. Hittin' the old whine bottle again, huh?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...No, the real reason is so that the GOP can fill the airwaves, cable channels and Internet with ads depicting the Democratic Party as a fetid nest of big-spending, tax-raising war wimps...

Bwahahahahaha!

[gulfcoast6]

OUR President does not need a page from Clintons book, if he did he would use it in a outhouse 'for other pruposes'.

[shiva]

from MSNBC....who cares!(trans:who gives a $hit!)

[TomGuy]

which was to Hoover up as much cash as possible

And this reporter doesn't have an agenda? lol. Talk about slanted reporting.

[prairiebreeze]

Reporters and media idiots get real cranky when they don't get invited to something. Shakes up their poor self-images.

Prairie

[RJCogburn]

Selectively abandon your own party dogma and join the other side to take the edge off of

That has been happening since the start, but the pace seems to speeding up. Too bad.

[COBOL2Java]

...with George W. Bush as chairman of the board and Karl Rove as the all-powerful CEO. Other key players are Mark Mehlman, the COO; Ed Gillespie, the new chair of the party (in charge of keeping the Republican insiders on board and in line) and Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition organizer in charge of turning out the evangelical base...

Hey! What happened to the line about Dick Cheney being the brains behind everything! Mr. Vice President, you're being dissed here! :-)

[ClearCase_guy]

When Clinton did these things, he did them because he was Brilliant. And because it was good to do these things. When President Bush does these things, he does them because he is a copy-cat. And because they are bad things to do, which a money-grubbing evil Republican would be expected to do.

[q_an_a]

Here is an example of how bogus are news people today. President Bush has not run a single advertisment and Howard is telling everyone what he is going to do. He uses the past to predict and then says he KNOWS the truth. He thinks everyone is as corrupt as Klinton and will have his results. Then he is surprised when the story changes and Howard is wrong. But the editors woun't make him retract his story.

[an amused spectator]

Fineman quotes on Bill "Alpha Male" Clinton from our friends at MRC:

"There's no doubting that the nation is about to be led by its first sensitive male chief executive. He's the first President to have attended both Lamaze classes and family therapy (as part of his brother's drug rehabilitation.) He can speak in the rhythms and rhetoric of pop psychology and self-actualization. He can search for the inner self while seeking connectedness with the greater whole." -- January 25, 1993 Newsweek.

"The President's claims to budget-cutting fervor has some plausibility. The deficit is down -- perhaps 40 percent more than had been predicted, and Clinton vowed to submit a 'tough' budget next week. In many ways, it will be. He'll propose cutting hundreds of programs and eliminating dozens of others." -- February 7, 1994 Newsweek.

"You may recall that Ronald Reagan, on whom Forbes models himself, said his tax cuts would balance the budget. Instead, they helped add trillions to the national debt." -- Fineman and Mark Hosenball, January 29, 1996 Newsweek.

"Clinton is giving the best evidence yet of his approach to leadership. It's about understanding, not threats; accommodation, not confrontation; about getting people (or at least Democrats) to sing the same song. The style is reminiscent of another patient, nonjudgmental figure given to hugging in public: Barney the Dinosaur." -- Fineman and Eleanor Clift, August 9, 1993 Newsweek.

"The Oklahoma bombing has illuminated a once dark landscape much farther afield: a radical fringe of militant gun owners, `hate radio' talk show hosts, racial extremists, and religious cultists. Their numbers are small -- and their GOP ties tenuous at best. But their fervor is influential at the grass roots Republicans call their own." -- May 8, 1995 Newsweek.