Fox's John Gibson on Pelosi's proposal for "draining the GOP swamp"

[Human Torch]

Pelosi's Promise if Democrats Retake House

Friday, October 06, 2006

By John Gibson



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,218418,00.html

If we can believe the polls, the Democrats have already one the election, which is 30-some days away. It's the Foley thing with an overlay of the Hastert thing. Republicans are so mad they're voting for Dennis Kucinich, John Kerry, Jimmy Carter, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore and they're running out to join the ACLU.

Since the Dems have already won, John Conyers is in charge of the House Judiciary Committee, and he's preparing the Bush impeachment papers. Charlie Rangel is chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, and he's getting ready to reinstitute the draft. Not that he really wants it; he just knows a draft is the end of the war. And even though Hastert is hanging on to the speaker's job, it already belongs to Nancy Pelosi and she's already announced her agenda for her first hundred hours.

She has announced she is going to "drain the Republican swamp." Job one: She says she will break the link between lobbyists and legislation. Now what that means is that she will hammer out a new link between Democrats' big tent special interests — abortion groups and such — and legislation. Union fat cats are rubbing their chubby hands together and chanting Kumbaya with Al Gore. Job two: enact all the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. It's a long list, but it sums up nicely as "blame Bush and Bush alone." Job three: raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, immediately followed by a press release blaming greedy bosses for laying off workers they can't afford to pay. Other worthy projects: stem cell research with federal funds. Make a bunch of human embryos, then kill 'em off for science on your tax dollar.

She didn't say anything about the war in Iraq. The reason is that Democrats don't really mind if Iraq remains a mess. They intend Iraq to be a Republican mess. If Iraq goes really, really badly, they think they can blame Republicans for a generation or two and maybe replicate the California situation from coast to coast. California is a place where it's hard for any Republican to be elected unless he or she sounds like a Democrat. Just look at Arnold. Democrats have an Iraq exit strategy alright. They want to leave and make sure the people who are left behind are Republicans. They can do their best with the insurgents, and with any luck they'll be buried there. There ya have it. Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin will be back in the White House in a couple years. Party time. That's My Word.

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. "Drain the GOP swamp" - I like that line.

Very appropriate.

[Human Torch]

3. Yep...here's the thread I posted on this yesterday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2868396&mesg_id=2868396

:patriot:

[Botany]

2. John iz a smart guy

"the Democrats have already one the election"


how quick until Fox changes this spelling mistake in the mean time ...

Stephanie Miller ..... K Olbermann .... Randi .... Al Franken ..... media matters
all need this little nugget

[ToeBot]

6. Naw, that's just how write-wing wrighters are tot to right. nt

[unpossibles]

12. well, it's not like he said anything else that was

based on fact, so why should they bother to spell correctly.

[Botany]

13. Wonder how fast Fox fixes the mistake?

Too bad .... just sent it to Olbermann

[Rose Siding]

4. "Democrats have already ONE the election"?

Come for the hilarity. Stay for the hilarity.

How better to vilify a party than by telling members of the other party that Dems want to bury you in Iraq? Shrill!

Oh, yeah, and Michael Moore is fat.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Michael Moore and Alec Baldwin

would be a big improvement at this point.

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. John Gibson, I like the way you think!

It's the best thing I've seen you do since your film debut in "Children of the Corn"

You freak.

[Ian David]

8. Please warn people before you post scary, unsetling pictures like that

YUCK!

[vixengrl]

17. If I'm convinced that Gibson is a six-foot tall white rabbit

could he be a figment of all our imaginations? Because I'm comfortable with that. Sheesh.

[Ian David]

9. Fox's John Gibson says The 9/11 Commision blames "Bush and Bush alone"

Job two: enact all the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. It's a long list, but it sums up nicely as "blame Bush and Bush alone."

[lapfog_1]

10. Good God, don't include the photo!!!

It's early in the am and I almost called ralph on the big white phone.

In the first 1 hour of the Pelosi Speakership of the new Democratic majority...
deport Rupert Murdoch and revoke any FCC licenses granted to Fox news. Issue subpoenas to all Fox
personnel that MAY have had prior knowledge of republican talking points. What did they know and
when did they know it?? We have a right to know.

[MrModerate]

11. Actually, the program as articulated by Mr. Gibson . . .

Doesn't sound so bad! A bit of sour grapes to scrub from the press releases, but point-for-point, pretty right on. (I think we will have to insist that Moore be flanked by all the other filmmakers who know shit from shinola and can tell a fascist when they see one. Anybody want to start a list?)

Oh, by the way, Gibbie old boy -- Iraq *IS* a republican mess. Your morons promoted it, did it, and fucked it up. Hell, the rest of planet earth will have to live with the results for the next 50 years, so I don't see why the authors of the abomination shouldn't shoulder the appropriate blame.

[indepat]

14. The vast swamp of support for the GOP PNAC agenda is too large to drain

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

15. Freaky dude looks like a demented albino woodchuck.

Writes like one, too. What a morAn.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. That's as good of a description as I've ever seen.