Yes, I know I'm cynical, but do you really think Bush intends this concept -- for it's not a detailed plan -- to become law?
It plays to the Hispanic community (or so Rove would like to believe) and to the business community, particularly the Wal-Marts of the world. My guess is that the fanfare the administration is blaring now will quickly turn to silence as the bill stalls in Congress...until the presidential debates when Bush will proclaim his brotherhood with day laborers.
Yuck. What a weird story. Condi and the Bushes do jigsaw puzzles? Can you imagine the Nixons doing jigsaws with Henry Kissinger? And how about this example of presidential statesmanship:
"'I can't do it with Schröder,' Mr. Bush told Ms. Rice, according to a senior administration official who witnessed the exchange. Ms. Rice, who had not directly suggested that Mr. Bush meet with Mr. Schröder, rushed to reassure. 'No, no, no, we won't make you do it with Schröder,' she said. But Mr. Bush seemed to know what Ms. Rice had in mind. 'Wait a minute, you'll get me back with Schröder, I know what you're trying to do,' the president said, the official recounted.
"Soon enough, a meeting to begin defrosting relations was set up between Mr. Bush and Mr. Schröder at the session last September of the United Nations General Assembly. `I knew that was going to happen,' Mr. Bush laughingly told Ms. Rice after the meeting was scheduled, the senior administration official said. Ms. Rice gently bantered back, the official said, but then concluded, `Now, look, it's the right time to do it.'"
I wouldn't do it with Schröder, either, but that's another story. Strange bedfellows, indeed.
Speaking of our last liberal president, as Nixon would say, "It would be wrong."
*****
Oh, good. Curt Schilling is shaping up to be a real target for Yankee/Sox hatred. He calls himself "Gehrig38?" Where does he get that? And his arguments against Questec vacillate between being just wrong and being petulent, as in, great pitchers should get a bigger strike zone. But a great post by Bambino's Curse, and thanks to Alex Belth for the link.
It is interesting -- both in politics and baseball -- the difference between, and roles of, the filter of traditional media versus the direct contact of the internet media. I had been planning a post on the difference between the reaction of the blogosphere to the Pete Rose story and the reaction of traditional sports writers. I expected that the baseball beat writers would, as usual, fall all over themselves in complaining about the treatment of "Charlie Hustle" (which now has new meaning) who, after all did embody what the FAN wants to see in a BALLPLAYER since, gosh, he RAN TO FIRST BASE ON WALKS (what is the relevance of that?)! Looks like I spoke too soon. Peter Gammons is not a brutal guy. Today, he is. Ouch. Good for him.
On a brighter side -- sort of -- The Futility Infielder on Tug McGraw, who rivals Yogi in his philosophical musings.
It plays to the Hispanic community (or so Rove would like to believe) and to the business community, particularly the Wal-Marts of the world. My guess is that the fanfare the administration is blaring now will quickly turn to silence as the bill stalls in Congress...until the presidential debates when Bush will proclaim his brotherhood with day laborers.
Yuck. What a weird story. Condi and the Bushes do jigsaw puzzles? Can you imagine the Nixons doing jigsaws with Henry Kissinger? And how about this example of presidential statesmanship:
"'I can't do it with Schröder,' Mr. Bush told Ms. Rice, according to a senior administration official who witnessed the exchange. Ms. Rice, who had not directly suggested that Mr. Bush meet with Mr. Schröder, rushed to reassure. 'No, no, no, we won't make you do it with Schröder,' she said. But Mr. Bush seemed to know what Ms. Rice had in mind. 'Wait a minute, you'll get me back with Schröder, I know what you're trying to do,' the president said, the official recounted.
"Soon enough, a meeting to begin defrosting relations was set up between Mr. Bush and Mr. Schröder at the session last September of the United Nations General Assembly. `I knew that was going to happen,' Mr. Bush laughingly told Ms. Rice after the meeting was scheduled, the senior administration official said. Ms. Rice gently bantered back, the official said, but then concluded, `Now, look, it's the right time to do it.'"
I wouldn't do it with Schröder, either, but that's another story. Strange bedfellows, indeed.
Speaking of our last liberal president, as Nixon would say, "It would be wrong."
*****
Oh, good. Curt Schilling is shaping up to be a real target for Yankee/Sox hatred. He calls himself "Gehrig38?" Where does he get that? And his arguments against Questec vacillate between being just wrong and being petulent, as in, great pitchers should get a bigger strike zone. But a great post by Bambino's Curse, and thanks to Alex Belth for the link.
It is interesting -- both in politics and baseball -- the difference between, and roles of, the filter of traditional media versus the direct contact of the internet media. I had been planning a post on the difference between the reaction of the blogosphere to the Pete Rose story and the reaction of traditional sports writers. I expected that the baseball beat writers would, as usual, fall all over themselves in complaining about the treatment of "Charlie Hustle" (which now has new meaning) who, after all did embody what the FAN wants to see in a BALLPLAYER since, gosh, he RAN TO FIRST BASE ON WALKS (what is the relevance of that?)! Looks like I spoke too soon. Peter Gammons is not a brutal guy. Today, he is. Ouch. Good for him.
On a brighter side -- sort of -- The Futility Infielder on Tug McGraw, who rivals Yogi in his philosophical musings.
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