since Klein doesn't know how to ask a Dem anything.

Go get em GG!

And yes, I wrote Stengel also-to denounce Kleins' sheer laziness and contempt for an actual days' investigative work.

We on the left seem to be stupified at the statements which consistently come our of the right-wing mouthpiece.

I just think that they've been getting away with it for 7 years now, so they think they can continue on with the same Rovian strategy. I don't understand why or how it can't seep into the neocon gray matter that the public is onto them. They obviously have no backup plan for getting busted, so they continue the same ruse. I don't think they realize how totally infuriating it is to those people onto the Bush cabal-or how much it insults the intelligence of Americans.

They instead try to hoist new stories upon us-while the public has long ago put cotton in their ears.

an editor-I knew I would not be reading it again.

Now Time has gotten Rove-whom Halperin gushingly wrote a book about-a gig there. Halperin probably laid off the factchecking/stats depts once he got there.

Rove, Halperin, Klein........serious writers? Puuuhleeez.

I quit reading them along time ago.

like most of the neocons on foreign policy. Both want to hide their smoke & mirrors argument behind the guise of "national security".

I used to like Klein-but he has become the ever-shrill whiner-about the blogospere to antiwar people-indicating snarkishly his contempt at having REAL Americans knock him off his pedastal.

Yet his continuance to regurgitate neocon talking points is a pathetic affirmation of lazy journalism combined with a Beltway elitist viewpoints.

As a previous poster noted-I wonder if warcrimes tribunals like those the Nurembourg Trials, would make these propagandist(like Klein,Broder, Kraut) realize thier own roles in this war, FISA,Habeus Corpus..... and thier complicity in thier role to make us all "Good Germans". This based on the constant fear-card of "national security"-which we know the neocons have been lying about since day 1 in office-(secret energy meetings, plans of Iraq drawn up beforehand, Saddam not connected to 911, OBL in Pakistan-not Iraq...)

NBC/MSNBC is using scabs from AEI, the Heritage Foundation, or the Christian Coalition now.

quiet your mind-it's there.

no cutting or pasting necessary.

to be THE ad which best epitomizes the GOP and neoconjobs.

Like all of the other neocons who take FDR's "walk softly and

carry a big stick" to an allout ridiculous literal interpretation.

Hucks' ad pretty much sums up-by having Chuck Norris as an endorsement-that even if you don't WANT to vote for Huck-Chuck is gonna MAKE you vote for him.

Does anyone else see any paralells here with the current wimpy neocons, victimized by some hatred or bigotry of someone-to try to make thier own biases public mainstream thinking. IOW-"I'm a wimp-so I need a badass,guns, or the military to do my fighting for me."

The problem is that the public is aware by now-that these supposed comic-book heroes have no kryptonite. We have 2 badly managed wars, the economy, the scandals, the corporate defense scandals,quadruple oil prices, Katrina to rightly summarize what the past 7 years is really about.

That is, that the neocons are no more than wannabe badasses dressed up in tights and a superhero costume at a comicbook convention-minus the kryponite.

They are nothing more than mytholigical creations of their own minds.

I did not know Krauthammer was in a wheelchair and was not trying to be a smart-aleck when I said neocon "contortionist".

As usual cosmic karma usually bites me back-

A contortionist is me trying to reconnect a dryer vent hose that came off (a very tight squeeze to get behind).

One of these days I'll learn! lol

this morning as I read C. Krauthammers' column.

It was too funny.

He starts out with:

When the Democratic presidential candidates pause from beating Hillary with a stick, they join in unison to pronounce the Democratic pieties, chief among which is that GWB has left our alliance in ruins..."

going on:

Sarkozys' trip earlier this month to the US was marked by a rousing speech to Congress in which he not only called America "the greatest nation in the world" (how many leaders of ANY country say that about another?)but pledged solidarity with the US on Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, the Middle East, and nuclear proliferation.

je'taime USA! Whoohoo!

I think my daughters' imitation of the Frenchs' elitist attitude is probabaly closer to the truth-(in her best French accent):

"you stupeeed Amereeecaaans...".

Then Kraut goes on about Angela Merkel:

In Germany, G. Shroeder is long gone. His successor is the decidedly pro-American Angela merkel, who concluded an unusually warm visit with Bush last week.

Did Kraut happen to catch the press interview with the 2 of them-which looked unusually strained-if not altogether constipated. In her defense, she was probably just on guard to know at what inopportune moment she was going to get the all-out shoulder massage,with the Cheney Vulcan death grip should she annouce more troop pullouts.

Then there's Brown of Australia-which K. says was unusually strong. Guess GW must have overlooked that fact that Australia does not want sanctions on Iran and wants a diplomatic approach.

The entire piece was just a bunch of self-imposed neocon asskissing supposedly by all of our allies.

It's too bad people can actually read and see the actual interviews with these leaders-who probably feel like they've been led down the proverbial "wabbit-hole".

What contortionists these neocon pundits are-who can kiss thier own ass while giving the finger to reality,all while doing the do the usual Texas 2-step Rovian propaganda dance in a flight suit.

It actually is somewhat entertaining-to see the measures they reach for these days-when it's not downright pathetic, (if not highly unethical).