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24 July 2007

shameless

So your president is at 25% approval rating. Your attorney general is a laughing stock who doesn't even bother concealing his perjury and contempt for Congress (including members of your party). Iraq continues to spiral out of control. On just about every issue, your political foes have the upper hand. And on that one advantage you could always count on -- cash -- you're getting blown out.


So what do you do?


Seeing that Republicans can't function without an enemy, and seeing that efforts to demonize scaaary Nancy Pelosi have failed disastrously, they're moving on to Plan B -- Harry Reid.


"We really ought to be asking why this Democrat leadership won’t allow Congress to move forward on serious policy debates,” Mr. Kyl said, when asked about the talking-points memorandum he is circulating.


god, don't you just want to slap him? on top of that, the republicans are on their way to a record number of filibusters, which cnn and fox generally translate as democratic obstruction---

Posted by tomitron at 7/24/2007 06:03:00 PM  

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Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in Crete four thousand years ago the love that ended yesterday in Texas.

The seed of our destruction will blossom in the desert, the alexin of our cure grows by a mountain rock, and our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern, because a London cutpurse went unhung. Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.

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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.

john stuart mill in a letter to conservative mp sir john pakington (march 1866)


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