Archive for November, 2009
Doubling Down
I have nothing but bad feelings about the addition of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Watching Michael O’Hanlon on the evening news was like a punch to the gut- we’ve been down this road before. At what point are O’Hanlon and Pollack every going to be discredited enough that their expert advice is no longer [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
298 Comments
Posted in: War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Get Off My Grass
Am I the only one who gets pissed off when people send me emails marked as urgent? Isn’t that pretty damned presumptuous? Shouldn’t I be the one that gets to determine it is urgent? And if it is so damned important, call me. And it really pisses me off when it is marked as urgent [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
177 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
A Village Story
This story was hand-made for DougJ: Chelsea Clinton, the 29-year old daughter of former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has become engaged to her longtime boyfriend, investment banker Marc Mezvinsky. *** Mezvinsky is a son of former Pennsylvania Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky and former Iowa Rep. Ed Mezvinsky, longtime friends of [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
76 Comments
Posted in: Other
The Last Eight Years Never Happened
Fred Barnes: You can’t fight a successful war unless the commander-in-chief is fully committed to it. So President Obama’s chief task in his speech Tuesday night on Afghanistan is to make it absolutely clear that he is. *** It’s true that Obama championed Afghanistan as the “good war” in his presidential campaign last year. And [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
78 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Black Jimmy Carter, War on Terror aka GSAVE®
Dickmentum, continued
Steve Benen makes a good point about the Dickmentum that Jon Meacham is feeling right now: Indeed, rank-and-file Republicans were asked in a new poll about who best reflects the party’s principles. Just one chose Dick Cheney—not 1 percent, I mean one individual person. Republicans deserve a lot of condemnation for making Bush their 2000 [...]
November 30, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
107 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, General Stupidity, Good News For Conservatives, Media
Just Spreading the Word of God
I’d like someone to ask the folks living at the C-Street Christian Brothel about this: Members of the Family have occupied seats in both houses of Congress going back to the 1930s, but for all but its most recent history, the hallmark of the Family has been secrecy. In the past year, however, three sex [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
75 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Religion
Open Thread
fuddmain, Anhinga. Jeff, Black Rhinoceros Spraying a Trail. Email me a link to your one or two favorite pics on a photo site like Flickr (do not send the image itself please) and I will put up favorites in open threads. Send a short caption if you want one. Click on the photos for a [...]
November 30, 2009
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Tim F. ·
24 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread, Photo blogging
Tell Me Sully is Wrong
Just tell me he is wrong about this: As Obama appears to be intensifying the lost war in Afghanistan, with the same benchmark rubric that meant next-to-nothing in the end in Iraq, he does not seem to understand that he will either have to withdraw US troops from Iraq as it slides into new chaos, [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
224 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
Just Imagine
Can you imagine what the GOP’s own message man, Alex Castellanos, would do with commercials with this information: Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing this morning of four Lakewood police officers, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health. Nine [...]
November 30, 2009
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John Cole ·
65 Comments
Posted in: Outrage, Republican Stupidity
Dickmentum
Jon Meacham: But I think we should be taking the possibility of a Dick Cheney bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 more seriously, for a run would be good for the Republicans and good for the country. (The sound you just heard in the background was liberal readers spitting out their lattes.) Why? [...]
November 30, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
97 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Good News For Conservatives
We are all Vulcans now
John Harris, in a list of ways to attack Obama that Republicans may find helpful: Too much Leonard Nimoy [.....] But his intellectuality has contributed to a growing critique that decisions are detached from rock-bottom principles. Both Maureen Dowd in The New York Times and Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post have likened him to [...]
November 30, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
70 Comments
Posted in: Black Jimmy Carter, Good News For Conservatives, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
What’s news
I am reading the front pages of the NYT, WaPo, and ESPN mobile sites. One doesn’t have a Tiger Woods story on it. Guess which?
November 29, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
178 Comments
Posted in: General Stupidity, Media
Steelers Open Thread
This time for reals, although I don’t even feel like it is game day. I sort of feel like this is a scrimmage or a pre-season game, because I honestly have no expectation that we might win. I guess this is what it is like to be a Browns fan. In other news, memeorandum’s top [...]
November 29, 2009
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John Cole ·
303 Comments
Posted in: Open Thread
Give ‘em enough thread
There was a request for an open thread, even though there are two fresh threads up already. I do what I’m told. Question: I did some wine-tasting in the Willamette Valley yesterday (visiting my sister in Portland). Any interest in some wine blogging about expensive pinot noirs? I worry that it might seem, well, too [...]
November 29, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
86 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Open Thread
Fresh voices!
I missed this: the winner of the WaPo Next Great Pundit contest is Michelle Rhee’s ex-husband. Rhee is the chancellor of the DC schools and a darling of the Post (as well as David Brooks, Joe Klein, and the rest of teachers’ union-hating punditocratic masses). What a fresh outside-the-beltway voice this will be!
November 29, 2009
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Angry DougJ ·
38 Comments
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Media






