Dowd: Absolute Power Erupts

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/opinion/21dowd.html?hp=&pagewanted=print&position=

They're fragile and frazzled, depressed and self-doubting.

Trapped in their blue bell jar, drowning in unfulfilled dreams, Democrats are the "Desperate Housewives" of politics.

The image of Republicans as the Daddy party and Democrats as the Mommy party came roaring back in 2004, with a chesty President Bush and Dick Cheney prevailing by making the case that they could protect America from vicious terrorists and uxorious gays better than the Brahmin they painted as a sissy. In politics, as on TV, political correctness is out and retro is in. Hillary's bid to be president suddenly appears more wobbly, and the class of new senators looks like a throwback - with half a dozen white male conservative Republicans front and center.

At the Republican governors' conference in New Orleans, Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, answered the question, Who's your daddy party? "If you drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat," he said. "If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and you own a gun, you're voting for George Bush."

Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes.

[DELUSIONAL]

1. Now she is concerned? she was part of the whore media

who keep up the hate toward Clinton 24/7 -- and as a result of her participation in the PsyOps -- Liberal & Progressive & Democrat was turned into dirty words.

She is going to have to do a whole lot more to separate herself from the rest of the media whores.

In other words she is a long way from being anything like Helen Thomas.

[progressivedancer]

2. okay

Dowd is a great writer, but she's all about Bitching really. Their doing this, their doing that, Kerry wears this, Kerry eats that, etc... Never really any constructive criticism or plausible advice.

And just to add, I don't think Dowd will ever ever come close to Queen Helen Thomas.

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Whoreen, you brought this on us.

You made your bed with the Nazi Party, dear Whoreen.

Now lie in it and let the bed bugs feast!

[dand]

4. MO-DO hates everybody equally,

I love her. She has these war criminals down pat. When she rode Clinton's ass for eight years I hated her.

[otohara]

5. Who's your daddy party?

What's this line all about?

"Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes."

This is so fucking depressing!

[GCP]

6. F*ck you, Dowd - I didn't see any of this Bush-bashing in 2000

You were too busy writing about Gore wearing earth tones and other such crap. You gleefully joined in the group pile-on. Thanks to you and your ilk we're all in this dung-heap which was once a proud nation.
F*ck you.

[Nightwing]

7. Mo Dowd aka Bush Enabler

Go ahead and bitch all you want, no one is listening any way. :puke:

[rodeodance]

8. I am listening--the article reminds me that I have lots to work to do the

next four years!!!!!


.....The Department of Homeland Security is making employees and contractors sign pledges barring them from telling the public about sensitive but unclassified information.

Porter Goss has warned C.I.A. employees that they should support the administration and "scrupulously honor our secrecy oath" by letting only the agency's public affairs office and Congressional relations branch talk to the media and Congress.

Senate Republicans have voted to allow Bill Frist, the majority leader, to fill vacancies on powerful committees, rather than abiding by the seniority system - a sword over moderates and mavericks.

The White House says it wants greater harmony, but it's acting like the thought police. Having run into resistance in their bid for global domination, the president and vice president are going for federal domination, pushing out anyone with independent judgment who puts democracy above ideology.

It's a paradoxical game plan: imposing democracy abroad while impeding it here.....

[a new day]

9. Dowd wrote a book entitled "Bushworld", which is hardly enabling

And a bit of criticism directed at the Democrat's tepid reaction is apt:

Having gutted their opponents, Republicans are pretending to patch up divisions as they ruthlessly consolidate their gains. Democrats are turning the other cheek. At the opening of his presidential library, Bill Clinton assured the audience that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry were "good people" who "just see the world differently."

The Republican Visigoths are crushing checks and balances and driving Democrats (and moderate Republicans) into subservient, obedient roles, sticking antiabortion provisions into major spending bills. Even the suggestion that Congress has an advise-and-consent role on judges caused the Visigoths to slap Arlen Specter into stocks, until he whimpered he would do their bidding.

The party of moral values deemed that crime pays, shielding Tom DeLay with a rule that someone facing a felony charge can still be a leader.

The ultracreepy Mr. DeLay de-pantsed Democrats on Friday, sneering: "I understand the Democrat Party's adjustment to their national minority status is frustrating, but their crushing defeat ... should show them that the American people are tired of the politics of personal destruction."

Well, yeah. Watching Bush supporters shred a war hero into a war criminal was tiring.