Creepier than Nixon

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 4/9/04 at 10:24am

This picture made my morning...

Except that, opps, the link didn't work, so nevermind.

Updated On: 4/9/04 at 10:24 AM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 4/9/04 at 10:57am

Is it...a picture of ...Andrew Lloyd Weber? Michael Reidel? Neil Diamond?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 4/9/04 at 11:05am

Eh, if all else fails, make it your icon.... For a limited time only....

See if this link works:

http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/31/dean/

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/9/04 at 11:29am

great, john dean rides again...just a preview of next year's kick off to the impeachment campaign that will follow kerry's humiliating defeat.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/10/04 at 9:59am

Well, if his defeat is humiliating, it'll be because of a 300 thousand difference in the popular vote, and W's electoral college triumph.

But with things as volatile as they are right now, changing literally hour-by-hour, November seems a long way off indeed. Start with getting through the next scary week, both in terms of the 9/11 hearings and the myriad crises in Iraq ... then the June 30th transfer of "power" to God knows who ... and end with the Republican convention in NYC -- now seen by many as a tactical error in public relations.

The photo op the Administration predicted as a companion piece to the country's most famous National Guardsman in flight suit -- a bustling square in Bagdad a year after the statue fell (and fell and fell, if you watch Fox) ... was forbidden. The irony was pretty sad -- an edict was issued yesterday to shoot-to-kill anyone setting foot in that square. And all posters of the thug who's causing the uproar had to be ripped down. Democracy in action? As Mr. Rummsfeld always tells us, "Freedom is messy..." So is creating the illusion of "control" and "stabilization..." With 50 dead marines in a week, control feels like an empty goal.

So much rhetoric spews forth from the re-election war chest about Bush's great leadership. Okay, show me. We haven't seen him "leading" us since he took over the airways one winter morn to tell us of his intention to stop queers from getting hitched. I dunno, call me quirky. Somehow, with the body bags arriving in Delaware with increased regularity, married homos feels like ... a lesser "threat matrix" in this regime's values-based America.

What is required, and soon, is a press conference, no? Those of you are embrace Mr. B, are you defending this President's retreat to the ranch and non-profle, even as we re-enter bloody war a year later? Colin and Condi have had to all his bidding, and now, I daresay, the over-exposed, filibuster-mastering Dr. Rice will not be used as readily.

CNN now offers 15 minute updates. What a difference a year makes. With history being made in quarter hour intervals ... November is a lifetime away. Stay tuned.

Updated On: 4/10/04 at 09:59 AM

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 4/10/04 at 10:31am

Oh, Papa, don't be silly!

With all these kicky new incriminating memos popping up every other day, I'm hoping for an impeachment before September!

(Oooo,Can we make that a DOUBLE impeachment? pleeeeze?)
Well, Whaddaya Know!

Updated On: 4/10/04 at 10:31 AM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 4/10/04 at 11:05am

actually i just realized, if they do impeach that puts slick dick at the helm...unless they pull a nixon re-dux and get him out first a la spiro agnew.

i do want to make one comment on the memos that are coming out and the idea that 9/11 could have been prevented. i just don't think it could have been prevented given the structure of our national security apparatus at the time. looking back in hindsight it's really easy to pick out a bits and pieces and say "a ha!" but the reality is, that even given the attacks that had been made already, this was something new and unheard of. sure they talk about hijacking, but people until then had hijacked planes and held hostages. they'd used explosive but in truck bombs. anyway, i'll share an interesting article with ya. try to get past the fact that it's easterbrook.

http://www.tnr.com/easterbrook.mhtml

[Auggie27]

Posted: 4/10/04 at 7:02pm

Papa, I may be breaking rank with my element in agreeing with you about Bush and the inability to predict/stop 9/11. There's evidence that signals should have been heeded, but the Clinton response after the Cole was minimal, and to me, inexcusable. What troubles me -- and frankly baffles many -- is the Bush response to the very existence of the commission, and the stonewalling that has ensued since it began its job. Why not just admit that systems weren't in place, and let the air be filled with regret? All of the effort being taken to defend non- or under-reaction is pointless. And everything we adults teach our children NOT TO DO. I tell my son -- if you make a mistake, just admit it. No wonder the Clark apologia resonated, even it was theatrical grandstanding. The tone of mea culpa is unknown in the white male world -- and there is no one in the Bush administration who ever errs. Ever. (Even in Iraq, they are scrambling to tell us they always knew it would be evolve so badly -- don't insult our memories, if not our intelligence. If they knew, why did they put that man on the deck of the ship with his s--t-eating grin?)

Look, neither administration did all it should, and it's time for key parties to own the lapses, blunders and sloppy bureaucracy. Many of us might've had a different reaction to the Rice performance if she hadn't begun her testimony with a 20 minute paean to her boss's brilliance and infalability. To those who accuse members of the panel of politicizing the process, include the election-minded rhetoric of Ms. R.

Updated On: 4/10/04 at 07:02 PM