On Sep 11, 1:45Â pm, Shrikeb...@
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> On Sep 10, 8:40Â pm, Robert Cohen msn.com> wrote:
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>> On Sep 10, 4:08Â pm, Shrikeb...@
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>>> In related news, a heated debate erupted in the Star
>>> Chamber of Commerce over whether John McCain
>>> was qualified to replace Karl Rove as the Antichrist.
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>>> "He's just not Eeevil enough!" said Inquisitor Cohen.
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>>> "Evil is just a matter of taste," spat back Nancy Pelosi.
>>> "And we don't want an Antichrist with evil taste, we want
>>> one that tastes evil!"
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>>> "Well, he's too old, anyhow," said Ted Kennedy, between
>>> seizures.
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>> Persecutor Corams replies:
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>> My favorite political cartoonist is Mike Luckovich
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> Heh. Â All I can say is I sure am glad Mitt is gone.
> Hopefully, he'll be forgotten. Â We can all pray to
> Joseph Smith for that one.
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>> McCain--Palin Ahead In Polls: Voters Expressing Their Perverse Desire
>> For More Terrific Bush II Mis-Government
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> For some reason, I just can't stomach Friedman
> much. Â Ever since I read a bunch of his articles
> about the Indian software industry someone had
> printed and stapled up on a bulletin board. Â Maybe
> it's just that his self-interest and mine don't coincide.
> But I have to love what he says here:
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> In a way, I would love to hear Obama say, just
> for shock value: “I am so eager to do whatever
> it takes to fix these problems that I am ready
> to be a one-term president. Mine will not be a
> presidency that is confined to the first 100 days.
> But that is what we have fallen into, folks. The
> first 100 days have become the only 100 days.
> Once they are over, presidents are told that they
> have to trim their sails to get ready for the midterm
> elections, and once the midterms are over they
> are told that they have to trim their sails and get
> ready for the next presidential election. We can’t
> Â solve our problems with a government of 100
> days. I am going to work the hard problems the
> hard way for 1,461 days.â€
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> That would, indeed, be frightening. Â An Obama
> who didn't care about consequences. Â It would
> most certainly be a one-term presidency, which
> it probably will no matter what happens. Â Still,
> I'd like to think Obama continued to be the
> opportunist he has shown himself to be in the
> general election. Â Centrism is preferable to
> leftism. Â It's strange that people think things
> are the worst they could ever be. Â I guess that's
> nothing new. Â But, remember 1979, and you
> will know that things can get much, much
> worse.
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>> A Catty Good Looking Broad Disses A Catty Good Looking Broad
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> I was surprised that Maureen Dowd wasn't more dowdy. Â That
> pic is better than what I expected, for sure. Â But you also have
> to admire Palin for the vitriol she inspires in the mainstream
> elite media. Â Every accusation, even hearsay and apocrypha,
> will be lifted up by them as being the reason she's the biggest
> threat to Western civilization since crack cocaine. Â There are
> those in the right hemisphere of the blogosphere who say it's
> because she's far too normal for them to stomach.
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> And, regarding the per diem story:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/
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> "Gov. Palin has spent far less on her personal travel than her
> predecessor: $93,000 on airfare in 2007, compared with
> $463,000 spent the year before by her predecessor, Frank
> Murkowski. He traveled often in an executive jet that Palin
> called an extravagance during her campaign. She sold it
> after she was sworn into office."
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> Where is Joe Biden's anal exam anyway? Â That guy just makes
> me nauseas. Â I saw a video of him making a psychiatric
> assessment against some gun enthusiast, which just brought
> to mind Soviet psychiatric hospitals.
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>> If Frank Rich Is Agin It, Then The Voters of Dubuque & Peoria...
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> ...are probably for it.
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> And how can the mainstream media think they can keep alive
> the "she wasn't vetted" meme?
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http://wizbangblog.com/content/2008/05/29/alaska-gov-sarah-palin-to-
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> I am sure the polls on the NYT are pretty low. Â So
> perhaps this is Bret's corpwhore conspiracy. Â A
> kind of Judo blowback strategy to make it seem
> that the effete liberals despise Palin for being too
> normal. Â Or something. Â But sometimes, a cigar
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Limiting Pres terms makes the Pres a lame duck early on, as the cliche
goes
wounded quack gets minimal respect from colleague quacks
They after all are professionals & bureacrats, job holders that
perform (or don't) important functions, and "self-interest" (as per
my self interest and your self interest) is numero uno bottomline.
I suppose they must fear, respect, and perform admirably-maximally for
the boss, the Prez and us.
What leverage does the U.S. Prez have other than...hiring, firing,
handing out punishments, privileges & spoils of every kind