How nutty is Phil Donahue? He is the only person left in the media who takes Arianna Huffington seriously. The interview/discussion tonight was almost unbearable.
Archives for July 2002
Mike at Cold Fury just
Mike at Cold Fury just hammers something I mentioned the other day- the fact that Cheney exercised his options in Halliburton when he did because he was essentially forced to by the media pressure and the Gore campaign.
Ann Coulter may sometimes write
Ann Coulter may sometimes write with a touch of rhetorical excess,
but I think Democrats are losing their minds. Bush’s 72% approval rating, and the fact that none of the scandals they have tried to create and pin on him (the scandal attempts literally run from arsenic to Worldcom) are working is making them nuts. Everytime I see them on television, every time I read them in print, they seem to be slipping deeper into hysteria. Of course, the NY Times has never been known for their editorial balance or integrity, but they are now rapidly approaching dementia. Krugman, Kristoff, and Dowd are nearing a Chernobyl like meltdown.
The NAACP and the NEA are hysterical, and as two of the major arms of the Democrat party, they must be worried that they are making no inroads.
Even Senate and House Democrats are losing their minds. If you listen to Lieberman and Daschle, you might actually think that the President can talk and magically confidence will be restored in corporate officers. A few well placed words and VOILA!, the economy will be booming with no sign of inflation. Hell, Joe Biden actually tried to say that the President’s speech caused a nose dive in the market 20 seconds after it was delivered. Cynthia McKinney thinks… Oh, who cares what that nutbag thinks.
Even left-wing bloggers are going off the deep end. The normally calm and well-spoken Matt Yglesias (who, btw, has a new layout), seems to becoming increasingly stridenmt, and his writing seems to rely more on ad hominems than logic and analysis. Indeed, he refers today to a Newsweek article that Josh Marshall read and distorted, and tries to present that as evidence that Cheney has problems because of his behavior at Halliburton. The article is innocuous and raises no new information- what is amusing is Josh Marshall’s fevered response and hyper-active imagination:
In the calculus of the Bush White House political game Cheney isn’t just the heavy. He’s the anvil. Whenever there is a hint of trouble — like when the first intelligence failure revelations came out — you can bet they’ll send out Dick Cheney to go right for the Dems’ jugular.
Cheney is like the mob goon who comes to your house, looks at you with maniacal eyes, wrings your neck with his clammy hands and tells you if you don’t cool it he’s not just gonna kill you, he’s gonna wipe out your family, knee-cap your nephew, saw your dog in half, and pour salt and bleach all over your lawn so nothing grows on it again for another hundred years.
Too many viewings of Casino and Goodfella’s there Josh? You can almost see the condescending smile on Marshall’s face as he wrote this (just look at his picture in the upper right hand corner of his page, as he gazes off into space reflecting deep policy issues- remember Democrats = Smart, Republicans = Dumb). I am not sure what is worse- Marshall’s ramblings, or the fact that Yglesias is taking him seriously. And these are decent Democrats. As the election nears, who knows what kind of great lies, false truths, and gimmicks the real scum of the party will try to rally around? We know the Democrats are not against pandering and sheer racism– what other depths will they sink to this year to smear a popular President.
One more thing Democrats- could you PLEASE get your stories straight. I s Bush either a dunce or a criminal business mastermind? Your story changes every day and I am getting confused.
If you are tired of
If you are tired of pop-up ads and you use windows, send me an email and I will send you a hosts file that will eradicate most of em.
Lawrence Kudlow just made Public
Lawrence Kudlow just made Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum look like a complete jackass on Hardball. Slocum was clearl out of his league, and, honestly, was shown that he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground.
BTW- The topic was the current Democrat smear about Cheney and Halliburton. I would recommend watching the late viewing or reading the transcript for a laugh.
Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise John
Well Surprise, Surprise, Surprise
John Corzine might actually be a stock cheat and scam artist, unlike the false allegations the Dems are throwing up about Cheney and Bush.
Sen. Jon Corzine, whose Wall Street expertise plays a key role in Democrats’ strategy on corporate responsibility, led an investment banking firm that is being accused of inflating stock prices in the 1990s and contributing to the market crash.
Two Points:
A.) There is no more evidence to this than there is anything regarding Cheney and Bush.
B.) Democrats will not utter a word and continue their full frontal assault on the economy, business, and this adminstration.
I am waiting for the
I am waiting for the outrage from liberal bloggers when they hear about the shady business dealings of Terry McAuliffe. It is not limited to Global Crossing, as this little piece points out:
“In one deal, McAuliffe and the fund officials created a partnership to buy a large block of commercial real estate in Florida. McAuliffe put up $100 for the purchase, while the pension fund put up $39 million. Yet McAuliffe got a 50-percent interest in the deal; he eventually walked away with $2.45 million from his original $100 investment. In another instance, the pension fund loaned McAuliffe more than $6 million for a real-estate development, only to find that McAuliffe was unable to make payments for nearly five years. In the end, the pension fund lost some of its money, McAuliffe moved on to his next deal, and fund officials found themselves facing the Labor Department’s questions.”
I know I will be waiting for a while, because there really is no outrage over Bush and Cheney- it is merely partisan politics. Remember, this is the party that has multiple definitions of the word ‘is.’ To prove it, Democrat flack addresses why Dems are not worried about the DNC chair’s business dealings:
A Democratic-party spokeswoman dismisses suggestions that McAuliffe’s record might damage his credibility. “First of all, Terry McAuliffe isn’t president of the United States,” says the DNC’s Jennifer Palmieiri. “He doesn’t have the responsibility or the ability to restore confidence in the markets.” Second, Palmieiri says, “We’re holding Bush to Bush’s standard – the standard he has laid out for corporate CEOs. He should follow that example. He has not been upfront with what his own situation was.” Finally, Palmieiri says, the business records of Bush’s Democratic critics are far less important than the fact that they support the Sarbanes corporate reform bill. “Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.”
My favorite line:
“Whatever their business dealings are, and whatever they have done in the private sector,” Palmieiri says, “they still want to support the most responsible reforms available.
Translation: It does not matter if Democrats were lying, cheating, dirtbag, screw-the-poor moneygrubbers in the past. They have now seen the light and realize that massive government intervention and a number of new layered laws can fix the problem.