Cutting and pasting his way to oratorial greatness.
Although some see desparation in the GOP ad, as I noted in the Nov. 22 post, I seen an indication that President Rove knows no bounds in his consolidation of power. They have no shame and can sink to remarkable depths, as they did in the Saxby Chambliss ads in the 2002 election, attacking a man who'd lost an arm and both legs in Vietnam by intimating that he's soft on terrorism. Imagine what they'd do to Dean, or even Clark.
E.J. Dionne knows this. In an atypically smoldering column in today's piece, he takes Democrats to task for not getting the fact that the game has changed.
He writes, "The battle over a Medicare prescription drug benefit proves that Republicans are ruthless and determined and that Democrats are divided and hapless. Republicans have changed the rules in Washington, but some Democrats still pretend to be living in the good old days.
"...What Democrats failed to understand, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in an interview yesterday morning, is that Republicans 'are on an ideological march. They have no intention of playing fair. They want what they want when they want it.' And they get it."
Joe Klein, in Time, takes a similar route in his column this week.
"The week's events illuminate a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans on domestic policy. The Democrats are boxed into complicated and unpopular positions because they tend to stand on principle—although the principles involved are often antiquated, peripheral and, arguably, foolish. The Republicans, by contrast, have abandoned traditional conservativism to gain political advantage (with the elderly, for instance) or to pay off their stable of corporate-welfare recipients."
Interesting cover story in Time this week, actually, "George Bush: Love Him or Hate Him." Fascinating Time/CNN poll in the issue as well.
*****
Warren Spahn is dead. The winningest left hander of all time, and he didn't start in the Bigs until he was 26 because of his years in the service, including The Bulge and Ramagen, where he received a battlefield commission.
Mr. Steinbrenner, will you please come down off the ceiling now!
Although some see desparation in the GOP ad, as I noted in the Nov. 22 post, I seen an indication that President Rove knows no bounds in his consolidation of power. They have no shame and can sink to remarkable depths, as they did in the Saxby Chambliss ads in the 2002 election, attacking a man who'd lost an arm and both legs in Vietnam by intimating that he's soft on terrorism. Imagine what they'd do to Dean, or even Clark.
E.J. Dionne knows this. In an atypically smoldering column in today's piece, he takes Democrats to task for not getting the fact that the game has changed.
He writes, "The battle over a Medicare prescription drug benefit proves that Republicans are ruthless and determined and that Democrats are divided and hapless. Republicans have changed the rules in Washington, but some Democrats still pretend to be living in the good old days.
"...What Democrats failed to understand, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said in an interview yesterday morning, is that Republicans 'are on an ideological march. They have no intention of playing fair. They want what they want when they want it.' And they get it."
Joe Klein, in Time, takes a similar route in his column this week.
"The week's events illuminate a fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans on domestic policy. The Democrats are boxed into complicated and unpopular positions because they tend to stand on principle—although the principles involved are often antiquated, peripheral and, arguably, foolish. The Republicans, by contrast, have abandoned traditional conservativism to gain political advantage (with the elderly, for instance) or to pay off their stable of corporate-welfare recipients."
Interesting cover story in Time this week, actually, "George Bush: Love Him or Hate Him." Fascinating Time/CNN poll in the issue as well.
*****
Warren Spahn is dead. The winningest left hander of all time, and he didn't start in the Bigs until he was 26 because of his years in the service, including The Bulge and Ramagen, where he received a battlefield commission.
Mr. Steinbrenner, will you please come down off the ceiling now!
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