Jane Hamsher vivisects Shrub and Poppy

[bklyncowgirl]

Lots of good nasty stuff in here. She concludes that Junior not only knew but instigated the leak because 1. He hated Wilson because Wilson was Poppy's guy and 2. He's a nasty little SOB.

"If Bush wasn't in on the "smear Wilson" campaign and didn't care about it, I have to believe he would've told Ari to put a sock in it and focus instead on all the great photo ops this current trip was affording him. It was his big chance to con Tony Blair into believing he actually gave a toss about Africa, and pretend his medieval policies on contraception weren't responsible for wiping out large swaths of the population.

Why would he allow Joe Wilson to have the limelight and fling dung all over his big PR campaign? 'Cos Wilson was Poppy's guy, that's why. Dubya is his mama's boy -- as Arianna noted, he's a guy born on third base who thinks he's hit a triple. He can't talk back to Poppy. Hell, he can't even talk back to Scowcroft. But he sure could grind Joe Wilson into the ground with a faux-cowboy boot heel."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/oedipus-tyrannus-wrecked_b_9553.html

[OKNancy]

1. Picky little correction

to the writer... Huffington didn't come up with the saying "born on third base who thinks he's hit a triple" . I'm pretty sure that was Jim Hightower.
( or maybe "noted" means she just noted Hightower's famous expression... in that case...nevermind :-) )

[slor]

2. I thought it was Ann Richards...

I really like her too!

[Toots]

3. Ann said Bush* was born with a silver foot in his mouth

She would make a great Vice President IMO. I don't think voters would vote for her for President but as Vice-President she would be a tremendous asset..

[July]

4. Molly Ivins? nt

[tenshi816]

5. I thought it was Molly Ivins!

[MN ChimpH8R]

9. Ann Richards delivered the silver foot line

about Poppy. I've always thought that Ivins gave her that line. It sounds sooooo Molly.

Hightower was the source of the born on third base line - also about Poppy.

[OKNancy]

6. LOL - well now I had to go look it up and surprise!

This was said first about Poppy Bush back in 1988 by Hightower.
Here is a 1999 CNN article ( funny reading after all this time too.)


http://cgi.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/1999/06/14/george.first.html

But that may be because he's got something better: a family legacy to watch over
By Hugh Sidey

June 14, 1999
Web posted at: 12:00 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT)



Back in 1988, Jim Hightower, a razor-tongued Texas democrat, amused the nation by saying presidential candidate George Bush was a man "born on third base thought he had hit a triple." Hightower was only a little bit right.

Bush was born intelligent, healthy, handsome, tastefully wealthy, with the best social and school connections and a lust for adventure, to a mother and father who taught him the virtue of public service. So he may have been born closer to home plate than even Hightower suggested.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Both Jim Hightower and Ann Richards said it

The true source seems have gone into 'urban legend' territory, but both Hightower and Richards said it. I think Hightower said it first, but that first time was about Poppy, not junior, if I recall correctly.

[Supersedeas]

8. born on third base....whew