Ellen Ratner on Cavuto: "I hope he [Bush] screws up the war so he isn't re-elected".[Vanity]

12/28/02 | Me

[antaresequity]

Helen Ratner, Your World with Brenda Buttner sitting in for Niel Cavuto:

Butner Q: What do you hope happens? [with the war in Iraq]

With a sadistically cheerful attitude, Ratner responded to Butner...

Ratner A: "I hope he[Bush] messes it up, so he isn't re-elected.

Butner Amazed Q: What!...

Ratner A: Begins weak back peddaling effort...

Ratner is a traitor betch...someone get the transcript of this...

[Dog]

Your World with Neil Cavuto

[netmilsmom]

Well that explains it!!! She is from Cleveland!! I would bet on University or Shaker Heights. Those eastsiders have some wacked out ideas.

[Eastbound]

You're right of course, but I would take it a step further and interpret the 'screw up' to mean that she hopes we get hit with a couple of nukes if it means they can squeeze in another congressmen or two because of it. For the presidency, she would probably agree to take six hits.

She's history.

[zeaal]

So, Ratner would delight in any efforts by Bush to bring freedom to the Iraqi people messing up?

She is selfish, immature, and hmmmm, evil in her thinking!

[Jhoffa_]

That's going to be pretty easy to do actually.. Because "screwing up" the war is pretty subjective. You can bet the media will be twisting arms to show the war being "screwed up" as often as possible.

Plus, I just cannot believe that Saddam is going to meet us in the desert and get smoked in a re-run of gulf war '91. There's going to be allot of civilian casualties this time around because that's where he's going to put his hardware, population centers.

In addition there's always the slim chance that China will make a play for Taiwan or North Korea will get ambitious..

When and if any of this happens you can count on CNN being right there getting footage and trying to lay it on the doorstep of both President Bush in particular and the GOP in general.

[raisincane]

"I'll see her hit by a bus and watch her slimy, bloody carcass slide down a storm sewer to be eaten by ravenous rats!" CROSSHIGHWAYMAN, you are too kind. I despise Ratner. Her voice drives me insane. And her liberal bias makes me want'a puke! And her name suits her, "RATner."

[tiki]

I heard it, I didn't see it but she sounded like she had the IQ and maturity of a kindergartner.

[Paul Atreides]

She should be shipped to the most cruel Middle Eastern hell-hole where she can live out the rest of her miserable life under a burka.

[chnsmok]

where's the pic, Paul?

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

© 2002 WorldNetDaily.com

This is every columnist's nightmare and opportunity – the chance to make in-print predictions about the future. Look, the truth is that if I knew even the contents of next Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, I'd be too rich to have to work for a living. The fact that I'm not rich should clue you in about my track-record as a prophet. Nevertheless, I'm going to make a bunch of predictions anyway, and devil take the hindmost (which in all likelihood, will be me).

The Dow Jones will be higher by December 2003.

Yep, I don't know much about next Tuesday's stock prices, but I am willing to bet that one year hence, the Dow will be higher (along with the S&P and NASDAQ). The reason has nothing to do with Republican economic brilliance (the written history of which may be found in three richly bound but blank pages) – rather it will happen once the war clouds dissipate over Iraq. Or to be more precise, over the Straits of Hormuz through which much of the Gulf oil moves by tanker.

Now that is the word "real" in real estate, and it's what Bush is really defending. If Iraq cracks, what's liable to come pouring out (after the human blood, that is) is oil and lots of it. That means if Bush's gambit on the old Euphrates River works, petroleum prices will be tumbling. Also good news for Mr. Dow Jones.

The Republican Party will be well on the way toward political self-destruction.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely as the old saying goes, and while George Bush isn't the Sun King, I would have to say that in terms of American democracy, his party is real close to absolute control – the House, the Senate, the White House and the Supreme Court. What does this mean? Well, the fall of Trent Lott is a foreshadowing, a taste of things to come.

As with Newt Gingrich, these guys get mighty over-confident after an election or two. They get careless about what they say and what they do. For example, on tax reform, these guys are about to throw themselves a party – by ending taxation on dividends, eliminating the estate and capital-gains tax, and all the other goodies on the Republican wish list, they will succeed in ... in ... in turning an awful budget deficit into a horrific one and such will force them to actually raise taxes on ... on ... on the backs of the working class.

Think I made this up? Nah! It is already being reported that the White House has directed the Treasury Department to study the possibility of raising taxes on the bottom 50 percent of income earners. Lott's replacement, Sen. William Frist, is a well-respected man, but respect is no excuse for insane policies. Get ready. I know the New York Times is.

On the international front, here is one that may surprise you: Saddam Hussein, George Bush's personal whipping boy, won't actually use any weapons of mass destruction, even if he has them.

Why? Because Saddam doesn't want to prove us right. The only means he has of staying in power is to continually deny the allegations levied against him. That enables the European peaceniks to find a reason to oppose a U.S. war. Any biological or chemical strike, and Saddam loses the international ambivalence that has kept him in power for the last decade. So remember this – the threat from Saddam is much smaller then we think, because any use of his weapons validates George Bush and probably means Saddam's demise.

And, finally, for the sports prediction you have all been waiting for, Pete Rose will finally make the baseball Hall of Fame.

The powers that be in Cooperstown will finally bend to overwhelming public support and put Charlie Hustle in the Hall, where he belongs. Baseball's all-time hits leader will be included in the pantheon of the game's greats, ending a lifetime ban that began over a decade ago and has become an unreasonable blemish on the game.

[Seeking the truth]

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[Paul Atreides]

I'm trying to find a good photo of a rat's body. I have her ugly face already.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Do you supposed Ratner will be walking around the CPAC exhibition floor again?
;-)

[LurkerNoMore!]

I love it

[Paul Atreides]

Do you supposed Ratner will be walking around the CPAC exhibition floor again?

Where's Tonya Harding when we need her?

[rohry]

"...she said this with a straight face and realized what she had just said and made some weak back peddle..."

She also compared the situation to Bush I and said GWB is repeating his father's mistakes vis a vis a war in Iraq. Brenda Buttner declaired that Bush I was strongly supported in that war, Rattner declared, "yes, but I was against that war also."

I turned and said to my wife that she now had multiple feet in her mouth...

[alnick]

She same as said that she hopes that American soldiers lose their lives.

I suppose she considers that a small price to pay to get Bush out of the White House. The sewer rat.

[Paul Atreides]

As I said before, all of the wrong people were in the WTC and on those jets on September 11.

[kellynla]

I heard that moron Rat but I couldn't believe my ears!!!!!! I wonder how many dead Marines it would take to make her happy? Semper Fi

[Brilliant]

That is exactly what she said, although I don't agree that she realized she screwed up. It was pretty brazen. She seemed sincere in her hope for disaster.