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Maureen Dowd is your typical weedy two-face who in grade-school, middle-school, and high-school turns on her friends and sneers at them and calls them names once she gets in with what she thinks is the "cool" crowd.
She's really just one more aspect of the hydra-headed evil that is David Broder, a Washington "insider" who thinks it's all a game and wants to rage at and attack anyone who wants to show some basic morality and make a difference.
I'm sure Maureen Dowd would love to sit down to some posh restaurant dinner with Ann Coulter and drink and giggle about the poor shmucks who dare to think that the government should help them rather than rich corporations and rich Republicans and rich hypocrites like Maureen Dowd.
Posted at June 23, 2008 3:30 PM in response to Times Public Editor Hammers Maureen Dowd's Coverage Of Hillary
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"In the end, I am so proud we stayed the course together."
I thought that was HUGELY unfortunate language. She sided with Bush all along in "staying the course" in Iraq, and now she thinks it's cute and charming to use that language regarding her own failed mission? Instead, her use of language is cutesily disgusting and cutesily reprehensible.
It just highlights how clueless and backward and reactionary her own stands and beliefs are.
And she has to do with George W. Bush-style smarm and self-congratulation.
Posted at June 3, 2008 11:18 PM in response to Hillary: "I Am Proud We Stayed The Course Together"
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"Cherry contracts"? That's the term? Not "choice contracts" or "no-bid contracts"?
I think I'll have to go get a cherry cherry Coke and watch a cherry DVD.
That band is ro-o-o-ckin'--I'm sorry, cher-r-r-y.
What about PLUM CONTRACTS? Perhaps that's the correct term you're searching for? PLUM CONTRACTS, eh????
Look it up--it's an advanced, technical term that few people know.
Posted at May 30, 2008 5:12 PM in response to The Daily Muck
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Just for the record, Judge John D. Bates is married to the lawyer Carol Alwyrres Rhees. Apparently, he met Carol A. Rhees when they were both lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson.
It might be enlightening to investigate whether she's ever come before his bench.
Posted at May 30, 2008 4:54 PM in response to 24 Former U.S. Attorneys Say Congress Can Subpoena White House
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What does any of this matter when you have a judge as corrupt and sleazy as John D. Bates, who will never use precedent or facts or competent analysis when it could damage republicans? John D. Bates has to be one of the worst, sleaziest, most degraded judges out there--up there with Antonin Scalia when it comes to twisting the law to further extreme right-wing goals.
Posted at May 30, 2008 4:23 PM in response to 24 Former U.S. Attorneys Say Congress Can Subpoena White House
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HA-HA-HA. He found out about the indictment from a newspaper??? WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING???
Ludicrous! Ludicrous! Ludicrous!
Posted at May 27, 2008 12:42 AM in response to Rove Hides Behind A Newspaper
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This is an exceedingly weird piece by Mr. Sargent, and reads as an accusation against the Obama campaign.
Hillary's comments were RADIOACTIVE, and responding to them extremely or with great criticism would have been RADIOACTIVE. The Obama campaign spokesmen took the wuss course of action--which was the ONLY sensible course of action--and called her remarks "unfortunate" and they and Obama claim to believe that Hillary didn't mean to say what she said, and to believe that the plain meaning of her words meant...something else, something benign deep inside her head.
Yet Mr. Sargent uses this arch tone, this arch diction about "outside observers will continue to insist"..."this tells us something about how our gaffe-hungry political press and punditry works"..."Both the Clinton and Obama camps know full well this is how our discourse functions"..."pundits [...] pretending that both campaigns don't know exactly how the insult-victim game works have been at best willfully naive, and at worst outright deceptive"...Etc., etc., etc.
And then Mr. Sargent, after going on and one with his arch insinuations, exactly adopts the Obama campaign's pacific tone and says "To be clear, I'm not saying that's necessarily what's happened this time." Mr. Sargent's statement rings awfully hollow and awfully hypocritical. At least the Obama campaign was simply consistently polite. Mr. Sargent goes on and on with this slime, and then denies the plain meaning of his words. Very Clintonian. Or right-wing Republican.
Yeah, Mr. Sargent, the Obama camp was gaming the system by underplaying a story and being as mild and noncontroversial about it as possible. How clever of you to see through their wicked guile and wily strategems.
Posted at May 25, 2008 6:14 PM in response to Hillary Hits Critics For Taking Her RFK Assassination Remarks "Out Of Context"
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The woman is batshit insane. There is only one interpretation. Saying, "Oh, bad things can happen. I want to be there if they do" does not cover it. The only message is "I hope Obama is assassinated because then I can be the Democratic nominee."
And, yes, some lame-ass apology directed towards the Kennedy family does not cut it. I don't know how tender they feel about this kind of reference, but the insult is to Obama. Big time.
Posted at May 23, 2008 6:25 PM in response to Hillary Invokes RFK Assassination While Describing Why She's Staying In Race
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According to the obituary for Marguerite "Smitty" Hensley in the Arizona Republic, October 24, 2006, courtesy of NewsBank, Cindy McCain's sister is "Dixie Burd." Both are listed as the only surviving children, so I don't know if there were others.
Her full name as revealed by the database Veromi is Deborah Ann "Dixie" Burd and she was born April 18, 1953:
Posted at May 23, 2008 1:15 AM in response to McCain Rejects Right-Wing Preacher Rod Parsley, Too
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Second McCain newspaper article, an AP piece, from the Casa Grande, Arizona "Dispatch," October 29, 1986:
I like the way it brings out McCain's luxury lifestyle, financial sleaziness with his in-laws, and, yuck, an early appearance by icky right-wing spokeswoman Torie Clarke:
"McCain's Home Readied In Secret":
"PHOENIX (AP) -- Republican Senate candidate John McCain will be ready to entertain in style if he's elected next Tuesday.
"McCain, who spent his first years in Arizona fighting off charges that he was a carpetbagger, has secretly agreed to add at least $225,000 in improvements to a half-million-dollar Phoenix home outside the district that sent him to Congress for two terms.
"For months, using the name 'Smith,' McCain has been remodeling the home, now owned by his parents-in-law, James and Marguerite Hensley, and listed on tax rolls at more than $498,000.
"According to McCain Spokeswoman Torie Clarke, the plans were filed under the names Hensley and Smith because Smith was Mrs. Hensley's maiden name.
"But copies of the permits list the work as being done either for Jim Hensley or 'Mr. Smith,' and one subcontractor who worked on the project, plumber John McGann, said he was told the work was being done for an 'Eldon Smith.'
"Improvements listed on construction permits are estimated at more than $225,000, and plans appear to call for additional work beyond what has already been applied for.
"The plans show McCain is installing jacuzzies, a cabana, a ramada, a swimming pool, fountains and a barbecue as well as adding more than 4,000 square feet to a main residence that already covers more than 6,700 square feet.
"In addition the plans show McCain is erecting six-foot-high walls and iron fences as well as installing mechanized wrought-iron gates.
"Building sketches filed with the city refer to the project only as 'proposed alterations Smith residence' and 'Smith Residence Remodel.'
"Work on the project has been going on since at least June, and Ms. Clarke said the McCains planned to move in after the first of the year."
Posted at May 23, 2008 12:48 AM in response to McCain Rejects Right-Wing Preacher Rod Parsley, Too
