Dowd: "Are They Losing It?" - Democratic Underground

gristy

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:17 PM
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Dowd: "Are They Losing It?"

Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 10:20 PM by gristy

This is from today's NY Times. Surprised it wasn't posted yet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/27/opinion/27DOWD.html

Are They Losing It?
By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: June 27, 2004

One thing you've got to say for Dick Cheney: No one will ever again dismiss the vice presidency as a pitcher of warm spit. Mr. Major League Potty Mouth has shown that, with obsequiousness to the president and obtuseness to the facts, a vice president can run the world. Right into the ground.

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First Vice chewed out The Times for accurately reporting that the 9/11 commission said there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam and Al Qaeda. Then Paul Wolfowitz called the reporters risking their lives in Iraq craven rumormongers. Then came Mr. Cheney's F-word. (Not Fox, the other one.)

Finally, President Bush got agitated when an Irish TV interviewer said most of the Irish found the world more dangerous now than before the Iraq invasion. "First of all, most of Europe supported the decision in Iraq," Mr. Bush declared. (It's all in how you define "Europe.")

More. Much much more. Be sure to go the link and read the whole thing.

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Ilsa

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:21 PM
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1. I emailed this one out to everyone!

Great write-up by DOwd. Nailed Sneer.

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aquart

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:45 PM
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11. Nailed Sneer? WHITEWASHED Bush!

"By playing on the insecurities of an inexperienced leader, Mr. Cheney has managed to change W. from a sunny, open, bipartisan, uniter-not-a-divider, non-nation-builder into a crabby, secretive, partisan, divider-not-a-uniter, inept imperialist."

This is a setup for poor innocent George to free himself of the horrid Svengali who has corrupted him. If George were free of evil Dick, he could be himself, the wonderful man America elected! Yes, indeedy.

Read it again, darlings. This column ain't on our side.

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Gildor Inglorion

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:22 PM
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2. Sorry...Ms Dowd woke up too late as far as I'm concerned...

it's SHE who isn't worth a bucket of warm spit - or anything else. After all these months of being a wide-eyed B*sh apologist, she can just go PLEASURE herself for all I care.

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Tosca

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:30 PM
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8. I disagree

Dowd goes after anyone who's in power. She's been dissing Bush and his cronies for a long time.

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:23 PM
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3. I hate this snip

Mr. Cheney assured Fox's anxious viewers that he would stay on the ticket and in the White House until January '09. (No four letter words, dear Democrats.) Vice said of W., "he knows I'm there to serve him."

Hints of stealing the election and Bush as the Messiah all rolled up into one! I am sure the faux viewers are sleeping like babies.

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keta11

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:24 PM
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4. Good read!! n/t

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ashling

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:25 PM
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5. I posted this the other day.

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gristy

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:32 PM
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9. searched for the title and also the first few words, but no hits

:shrug:

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Tosca

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:26 PM
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6. Bwhahahaahahaha!

"The conservatives defending Mr. Cheney are largely the same crowd that went off the deep end because of a glimpse of breast on the Super Bowl, demanding everything from fines to new regulations to protect red states from blue language."

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wtmusic

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:27 PM
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7. Piss on the press

and they will piss right back. Dick is not as smart as I thought he was.

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Cha

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Sun Jun-27-04 10:33 PM
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10. Zing! That's Classic!

Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 10:34 PM by zidzi

And this is a good line..
"While Democratic lawmakers delayed final passage of a defense spending bill so they could mingle with Michael Moore, the once sweat-free Bushies were acting jangly"

And dick is lyin' again..no way is this going to happen..

"Mr. Cheney assured Fox's anxious viewers that he would stay on the ticket and in the White House until January '09. (No four letter words, dear Democrats.) Vice said of W., "he knows I'm there to serve him."

Maureen can be very good at times..

"Mr. Bush must have missed that classic "Twilight Zone" episode where the aliens arrive with a book entitled, "To Serve Man." It turns out to be a cookbook"

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