Letters to the Editor
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lupercus @ boehner
lupercus, maybe Boehner's comment means they're fixing to dump Cole--that in itself would be a distress signal by the GOP. Perhaps they're looking back at the happy-talk Rove was making prior to the '06 debacle and don't want to go there again.
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Another point Chris C
Now you got me going full steam...
Seriously, is anything more humiliating than watching Democrats lose their guts over condemnation of Rush Limbaugh's calling of Iraq vets, who wants the troops out, "phony soldiers"? Republicans were practically falling over themselves in condemning MoveOn and in ensuring Democrats condemn it, but Democrats couldn't do a goddamn fucking thing against Limbaugh while he tore apart our own. Is it any wonder Broder and his likes never take liberals seriously, and laugh in our face while we debate what compromises we make with GOP while they make none?
And still where has been the outrage amongst the Amercan public, whom GG claims to have a pulse on, when that drug swilling swine in the form of a human calls our soldiers phony?
Sure Harry Reid proposes some kind of resolution condemning Limbaugh, but you could practically hear Republicans laugh and say, Sure bring it over and we will piss over it. And what do we do ....we run for cover and giver our genitals with our tails
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“He came in here and he trashed the place, and it's not his place."
Does any quote better define what David Broder has done to the Washington Post or to political commentary?
At 78 years old, David Broder has little time to salvage a legacy that will mark him as a political hack forever. He most certainly has not shown any effort at self-reproach, instead he has embarked on a voyage to sell this middle east adventure to the American public while carrying the bloody standard of neocon crusaders.
How sad for Broder that the public sees right through his sad effort to sell death and misery to his subscribers. Broder needs to make sure that someone buries these fine awards with him when he goes, because they won’t have any meaning after he is gone.
Doctor of Political Science, DePauw University, May 18, 2003.
National Press Foundation's Distinguished Contributions to Journalism Award, 1993.
White Burkett Miller Presidential Award in 1989.
4th Estate Award from the National Press Club, 1988.
National Society of Newspaper Columnists Lifetime Achievement Award.
Time and truth will catch up to Broder and wherever he is, he will most certainly squirm.
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.
Baltasar Gracián
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Brilliant as always
Made me think of the poll that Kos pointed out on 10/2-
To begin… What do you think is the most important problem for the government to address? Is there another problem you think is almost as important for the government to address? (OPEN-END)
Partisan politics/party bickering
Total: 1
Rep: 2
Dem: 1
Ind: 1
Thinking about the campaign for the presidential election in 2008, what two issues would you
most like to hear the presidential candidates talk about? IF R GIVES ONE ISSUE PROBE
FOR SECOND: Is there another issue you’d like to hear about? (OPEN-END)
Partisan politics/party bickering
Total: 0
Rep: 0
Dem: 0
Ind: 0
I've been of a mind for a while that we need more partisanship- more passion, more cojones. Enough of this wussy crap, start plowing right over them and get it done.
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Attaboy "BO" Steele.
You urge us all, and I mean all the pro-war pundits, to do the right noble thing. Virgil said in a real defensive war: 'pulchrumque mori succurrit in armes' So, you it!
Interpretation: It is indeed beautiful, I think, to die in battle. Aeneid, 11, 317. Virgil.
Sacrifice the Life for your beliefs. Nature wishes that at least. Your comradeship's with all the dead soldiers and innocent civilians will thank you in comradeship. Go.
Death will be pain, abject misery, lingering horror, that's if you don't respect what you preach here. Go.
If no: Anticipate fevers, mental breakdowns, hemorrhoids, and no mischance such a glorious valiant opportunity. Take Petraeus. Or, in the final analysis the GOP movement has BETRAYED all humanity. Honest. IT is written as simple as that. Be courageous.
Ya's will get all soldiers respect
Visit Arlington. Add your name to the 300,000. Hurry. The grave yard is filling up. Read all about it in the Washington Post.
Hear ye. Esacpe humilty.
Do noble battle. hurry.
To live is to die. gone?
Keep a principle. You said IT.
Keep the GOP's mind intact. Go!
Take Cole, Broder/Ignatius.
Be no DEAD-ENDER for a nut-worthy?
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Batting .000 and hitting Cleanup
In no other field could people have such a catostrophic record of failure and error while maintaining their position and reputation. If these guys were ballplayers, they'd be booed off the field instead of hitting in the cleanup spot. Yet the mainstream media has had these flops on the All Star team for decades.
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Bo Steele
a bold idea
Is it possible to write a post without (1) impugning somebody's integrity, (2) name calling, or (3) a citation to irrelevant polls?
-- P.D. "Bo" Steele
Nothing "bold" about your "idea". In fact it is quite timid.
The "integrity" of those in question in this column is not in question anymore. They have none.
"Name calling" is in the ears of the beholder. If I call you obtuse for the post I am replying to from you, you might call that "name calling". I call it a description.
Polls are irrelevant?
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Patreus
Glenn says in his update:
"Today, the Infallable One -- He Who May Not Be Questioned -- Gen. David G. Petraeus "has stepped up accusations that Iran was stoking violence in Iraq and said Tehran's ambassador to Baghdad was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods force" and "accuses the force, the elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, of inciting bloodshed in Iraq and of training and equipping militias who have attacked U.S. troops." Now that He has decreed this, we may not question it."
I was not aware that he could not be questioned. Indeed, I could swear he was questioned on the record just a few short weeks ago. So what is the point of say He May Not Be Questioned, when in fact he has been Questioned? In public. And on the record. Do words have meaning or not?
If the echo chamberees that inhabit this blog were ever curious as to why their arguments are routinely ignored, even by Democrats, a hint could be found in Glenn's update.