I always wondered how Tom DeLay would stomach New York for the GOP convention. Now we know. But I wonder, where do the Norwegians stand with the coalition of the willing.
Will they be stuck in port? Or out at sea? Either way, the metaphors will be ripe, with the headline writers at the Daily News and the Post having a field day. Just another reminder that DeLay and the Grand Ol' Party of wingnuts continue to be fully out of touch with life on terra firma.
Out of touch. Zen master Bush. It's a sequel! The more things change...
Not so out of touch. The resignation of Condit at Boeing was smart for the company, but only obscures the real scandal -- the lease deal that set all this in motion. A broader inquiry into the Pentagon's books, and the Senators who supported the fiscally stupid deal, should be launched.
Touchy. Josh Marshall gives us a sobering link and summary to a Washington Post story describing the "ever-evolving exit strategy" in post-war Iraq. Earlier this year, there was a commercial for Red Bull, the "energy drink," who were promoting events around the country in which people launched various heavy, flightless vehicles into bodies of water. The tag line was, "Designed by amateurs. Built by volunteers." Kind of sums up our work in Iraq. Where things get more interesting every day.
As an anecdote to that news, take a look at the MoveOn.org story in Salon today. A friend told me about their contest asking for ideas for a 30-second spot highlighting the Bush follies. It should yield hilarious results, but I thought it was a bad idea. It's just so much speaking to the choir when instead we need to convince the undecided who like Bush as a person (go figure), but are concerned about where we're heading by laying out real alternative ideas about what direction we should be taking. But maybe I should lighten up. I was fascinated to learn that the founders of MoveOn.org are the creators of the flying toaster screen saver.
George Soros responds to his critics on PRI's "Marketplace" today. He says that the $12 million he's given to grass roots organizations are not an effort to gain influence, as his Republican detractors claim. It is because he -- a survivor of Nazi occupied Budapest and a refugee of the Cold War, mind you -- thinks this is one of the most important elections in American history, a referendum on the Bush doctrine in which we must choose between a world in which we are, strangely, bullies who live in constant fear, or a nation that works with others to combat Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, ecological degradation, and falling living standards.
As if to underscore the unilateralist paranoia that drives the Bush foreign "policy," check out this profile of Josh Bolton in USA Today...er...well...today.
Will they be stuck in port? Or out at sea? Either way, the metaphors will be ripe, with the headline writers at the Daily News and the Post having a field day. Just another reminder that DeLay and the Grand Ol' Party of wingnuts continue to be fully out of touch with life on terra firma.
Out of touch. Zen master Bush. It's a sequel! The more things change...
Not so out of touch. The resignation of Condit at Boeing was smart for the company, but only obscures the real scandal -- the lease deal that set all this in motion. A broader inquiry into the Pentagon's books, and the Senators who supported the fiscally stupid deal, should be launched.
Touchy. Josh Marshall gives us a sobering link and summary to a Washington Post story describing the "ever-evolving exit strategy" in post-war Iraq. Earlier this year, there was a commercial for Red Bull, the "energy drink," who were promoting events around the country in which people launched various heavy, flightless vehicles into bodies of water. The tag line was, "Designed by amateurs. Built by volunteers." Kind of sums up our work in Iraq. Where things get more interesting every day.
As an anecdote to that news, take a look at the MoveOn.org story in Salon today. A friend told me about their contest asking for ideas for a 30-second spot highlighting the Bush follies. It should yield hilarious results, but I thought it was a bad idea. It's just so much speaking to the choir when instead we need to convince the undecided who like Bush as a person (go figure), but are concerned about where we're heading by laying out real alternative ideas about what direction we should be taking. But maybe I should lighten up. I was fascinated to learn that the founders of MoveOn.org are the creators of the flying toaster screen saver.
George Soros responds to his critics on PRI's "Marketplace" today. He says that the $12 million he's given to grass roots organizations are not an effort to gain influence, as his Republican detractors claim. It is because he -- a survivor of Nazi occupied Budapest and a refugee of the Cold War, mind you -- thinks this is one of the most important elections in American history, a referendum on the Bush doctrine in which we must choose between a world in which we are, strangely, bullies who live in constant fear, or a nation that works with others to combat Islamic fundamentalist terrorism, ecological degradation, and falling living standards.
As if to underscore the unilateralist paranoia that drives the Bush foreign "policy," check out this profile of Josh Bolton in USA Today...er...well...today.
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