Well now. How much of the conceptual responsibility and salesmanship of the President's escalation is due to Karl Rove? I think he should get the full credit--waaay ahead of Rumsfeld and Cheney.
Posted by Gtash at January 22, 2007 03:19 PMIt is truly amazing how hard it is to dance a puppet when one does not hold all of the strings! Things are really hard when you only hold the tail string on the doggie puppet and all the other strings are held by your enemies.
Now the repugs are faced with the inevitable quandry--if we cannot kill with feet on the ground, can we use wings in the air---or is the price of oil getting so low that we need to try to grab the Iran puppet to remain relevant?
More chaos anyone?--It got lots of votes last time?
Conspiracies to attack the homeland conveniently uncovered. Inspectors without visas.
Oh me, Oh my, no longer relevant am I.
Tweedle de dee,
Tweedle de dum,
Let's go pound the war drum.
The rats begin jumping off the USS Little Boots.
Posted by Christopher at January 22, 2007 03:58 PMChrist, is the GOP a mess. Things keep going like this, 2008 is going to make last November look like a mild electoral hiccup.
I suppose Bush has done one good thing as President. Instead of enacting Rove's permanent GOP majority, he's on the verge of burying the party for a generation. Nice going.
Posted by gf120581 at January 22, 2007 04:45 PMThis is a no-win situation for not only McCain, but also for the other three top GOP candidates in the 2008 race.
Not so sure this is a blow for just Bush lovers, but may also be a blow for blue dog Dems like Harman, and for LIEberman.
Watch those ropes, rats. They're slippery, unless you've found a way to safely shinny down them upside-down.
Quick definitions (shinny)
verb: climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
It's been raining here in Phoenix and when I looked closely at the worms in the garden, they were sporting little McCain faces.
Has anyone else noticed this evolutionary phenomena, or should I seek help?
Posted by TIKI AL at January 22, 2007 05:16 PMTIKI AL, I wasn't going to say anything, but since you have broken the ice, my dog has worms in his feces with little faces of Bush.
Posted by Judith at January 22, 2007 05:41 PMThanks for simultaneously confirming my sanity and ruining my appetite.
Posted by TIKI AL at January 22, 2007 05:47 PMEt tu, St John?
Isn't St John the McCain aware that Cheney is a surger, too? Who the Hell does he think is supporting Nero's surge? Condi?
And who does he think is a bigger proponent of the "glorious flight forward" into the Iran inferno? St J, Cheney wanted to nuke Iran LAST February and veru sportingly deferred. Not this time, though.
Very, very unfair of you, St John of the Unsightly Goiter. You loser.
Posted by euzoius at January 22, 2007 08:13 PMWe must encourage these politicians to speak out. the more they speak, the better the chances are they will go down fighting each other.
just enjoy the carnage and make sure that they have knives and other weapons that will require literal and political bloodshed
when a bag is full of hot air and pus, it won't take too many jabs before it is lanced. just wear protective clothing, for it is certainly infected
Posted by oldtree at January 22, 2007 08:21 PMWhy anybody would expect better of McCain is beyond me. He still supports the surge, and probably bombing Iran, too. No, he's not a neo-con and he's not irrevocably evil like Cheney and maybe Bush. But he is and always has been in his political life a dumbass lunatic.
We need to stop pretending the stupidity and insanity on the right started with Dubya and the neo-cons. It's there in so many ways beyond Bush, the neo-cons and even the Christian right. It started in large measure with Nixon; lurked in the junior staff positions of cabinet posts under Ford; blossomed under Reagan; was all over the place -- including being ignored -- by Bush I; and finally came home to roost under Dubya. What is "it?" It is all the insane mish-mash of Republican policy "ideas," from tax breaks for the wealthy to the point of bankrupting the country; to bizarre deregulation schemes that give away tax-payer assets; to barely disguised racism inherent in all sorts of campaign messages and domestic policy decisions; to brazenly criminal wars (this time under the neo-con label, give them time and they'll go after Russia or China under the paleo-con one); to institutionalized Christian fundamentalism in our formerly secular country; to blatant usurpations of Constitutional Law and civil rights, including the Bill of Rights; to truly terrifying notions like rationalizing the "legitimate" use of nuclear weapons; etc., etc., etc. It's ALL there under Dubya. And McCain is very much a part of those Republican ideas. Dubya is NOT an aberration within the Republican party. He is typical of it. As is McCain.
Yes, right now, I'm all for cutting deals with any Republican Senator we can peel away from Dubya. But amongst ourselves, let's not lie to each other about how Bush is off the rails so far from Republican thinking. He's not. The only reason we're seeing his support evaporate is because the public is finally waking up to what a bunch of stupid nutjobs the Republican party is, and remaining in power, even at the cost of their so-called values, is more important to them then to continue supporting those Republican policies.
Are there a few sane and smart ones out there? Yes, but McCain is not and nevver has been one of them.
Posted by Brian Bell at January 22, 2007 08:59 PMBrian B, you're right---unlike the dead-end true believing Nazis of old, who put a gun in their mouth as Berlin came down around their ears, most of our principled Repubs will simply burn their "conservative" party card and claim they had nothing to do with the Buscist era.
It was all a tragic misunderstanding of "conservative" principles.
We'll have to see what the Repub party membership archives hold....
Posted by euzoius at January 22, 2007 09:16 PM"...Dubya is NOT an aberration within the Republican party...."
BINGO!! Duh-bya IS the Republican't Party.
Posted by bartcopfan at January 23, 2007 06:58 AM