Goss resignation "very bad news for Bush" (Jonah Goldberg gets it right)

[jefferson_dem]

"I think this is very bad news for Bush. No matter how this plays out, at the end of the day he has to nominate someone and that alone will give the Democrats a perfect foil to have the familiar debates and raise the predictable criticisms. And that's the rosy scenario."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/

YUP. :popcorn:anyone??

[robbedvoter]

1. Lots of confusion...

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. It's much worse then that

Goss goes all the way back to the Bay of Pigs with Poppy. If Porter is going down, the rest won't be far behind.



Porter Goss, 2nd from left, with some 'friends' in Mexico.

[ReadTomPaine]

10. Just posted this Operation 40 'group shot' myself in another thread..

People have to read up on Goss's history to understand how big a blow this is to Bush. I wonder if Negroponte was behind this.

[MADem]

3. But, but, but....a KENNEDY scraped his car on a jersey barrier!!

Surely THAT's more important than having the CIA director playing cards with lobbyists and banging sexworkers!!!

[Zen Democrat]

5. But .... not worse than a CIA director who took bribes as a congressman.

For sex.

And one of the cabal members is singing.

Tra la la.

[MADem]

8. No, no, NO...don't look over there, look HEEEERE!!!

It's a KENNEDY!!! Let's dig up Marilyn Monroe AND Mary Jo, too!!! And, fundies, they're CATHOLICS!!! Booga Booga!!!!!

They gotta hope one of the "service women" doesn't turn up on Larry King or Inside Edition!

Oh, the tawdry tales those ladies could tell!!!!

[AtomicKitten]

4. Goss is and always was an assclown.

I'm glad he's going and wait with baited breath to see what other assclown is nominated for the post. Like Colbert said, it's just rearranging deck chairs on the Hindenburg. Crash and burn.

[FrenchieCat]

6. Oooh....is that the Bush Admin in that thingie that's looks NOT to be

"Soaring"?

[Jackpine Radical]

7. What the hell is "baited breath" anyway? Is that where

you eat worms & stick your head underwater to attract fish?

I await your reply with bated (=abated, stilled) breath.

[AtomicKitten]

13. So, like, I could use the Spellcheck function

I'll leave it uncorrected so your superiority will resonate into the ages.

On edit:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-bai1.htm

BATED BREATH

From Steve Gearhart: “Where does the term baited breath come from, as in: ‘I am waiting with baited breath for your answer’?”

The correct spelling is actually bated breath but it’s so common these days to see it written as baited breath that there’s every chance it will soon become the usual form, to the disgust of conservative speakers and the confusion of dictionary writers. Examples in newspapers and magazines are legion; this one appeared in the Daily Mirror on 12 April 2003: “She hasn’t responded yet but Michael is waiting with baited breath”.

It’s easy to mock, but there’s a real problem here. Bated and baited sound the same and we no longer use bated (let alone the verb to bate), outside this one set phrase, which has become an idiom. Confusion is almost inevitable. Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel (a process called aphesis); it has the meaning “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”. So bated breath refers to a state in which you almost stop breathing through terror, awe, extreme anticipation, or anxiety.

Shakespeare is the first writer known to use it, in The Merchant of Venice: “Shall I bend low and, in a bondman’s key, / With bated breath and whisp’ring humbleness, / Say this ...”. Nearly three centuries later, Mark Twain employed it in Tom Sawyer: “Every eye fixed itself upon him; with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale”.

For those who know the older spelling or who stop to consider the matter, baited breath evokes an incongruous image, which Geoffrey Taylor humorously (and consciously) captured in verse in his poem Cruel Clever Cat:

Sally, having swallowed cheese,
Directs down holes the scented breeze,
Enticing thus with baited breath
Nice mice to an untimely death.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Thanks for the delightful citation.

And for the nice monument to my superiority. I have so few of those! :silly:

[AtomicKitten]

15. my pleasure

:)

[Uncle Joe]

9. If Bush wants to regain some measure of repect,

he should appoint Valerie Plame as the new CIA director.

[0007]

11. John Negroponte wants a person from his intelligent organization

to head the CIA.

I don't know why they just don't install Bernard Kerik, oh yeah, I forgot that he's one of Rudy Giuliani crooks.

[Imagevision]

12. Rove indictment next... keeping Bushco on the ropes

[Supersedeas]

16. the timing could not be better!!!! Fingers crossed and lucky rabbits foot

in hand