Molly Ivins ROCKS: "Post-Election Etiquette"

[leftchick]

:yourock:

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Media Matters collected some gems of fairness. For instance, Monica Crowley with MSNBC, in the wake of John Kerry's botched program, astutely observed "how lucky we are that he was not elected president. ... The Republicans remain the grown-ups, the responsible ones on national security."

How many dead Americans has this grown-up war resulted in?

And how darling of Fox's Juan Williams, upon learning polls show the people favor Democrats on taxes, to say, "To me, that's crazy."

And how many times did Chris Matthews use the Republican talking points about Nancy Pelosi? Extremist, uncooperative, incapable, unwilling to work with the president.

So after 12 years of tolerating lying, cheating and corruption, the press is prepared to lecture Democrats on how to behave with bipartisan manners.

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/44104/

[leftchick]

1. KEY POINT.....

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Then we get to the real meat of this election. There are all manner of shuffle steps and politically shrewd thing for the D's to do. But now is not the time to be clever. The Democrats won this election because we are involved in a disastrous war. We know how to do this: Declare victory, and go home.

[Ringo84]

2. She ALWAYS rocks

Many of the right-wingers who subscribe to my paper (the Richmond Times-Dispatch, a pretty Republican paper) have been falling over themselves trying to get her column dropped from the opinion page. So far, they haven't succeeded. Molly is my favorite op/ed columnist (besides Leonard Pitts), and I hope they keep her - not only because her columns are consistently good, but just to piss off the right-wingers.
Ringo

[leftchick]

3. in my paper

she runs the same day as Cal Thomas and Mona Charon. Molly has her work cut out for her.

[Ringo84]

7. Ugh!

We have Thomas Sowell (smug bastard), Fred Barnes (gag), and others. but we also have Leonard Pitts, Paul Krugman, and Molly. So it's not always that bad.
Ringo

[Laelth]

4. K&R for Molly!

:patriot:

n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[texpatriot2004]

5. kick it for Molly nm

[Bobbie Jo]

6. k&r

Yep...Molly always nails it.

[Shipwack]

8. K&R... We need to remember who are friends were... nt

[Wonk]

9. k & r

[immoderate]

10. Good Golly Miz Molly!

:yourock:

--IMM

[cassiepriam]

11. As usual the double standard. Repugs can be sociopaths.

Dems can't sneeze without getting hammered.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. I had completely forgotten about this ... Bu**sh** double-crossed Kennedy

"Go back to the first year of the administration, when Bush double-crossed Ted Kennedy in the No Child Left Behind Act. Think about it: You've said at the outset of your administration that you need cooperation to get anything done. Then you double-cross one of the senior senators of the other party when your re-education and labor agenda is dependent on him?"

Small potatoes compared to what he's done since, but it was a clear early warning of what to expect from this stick figure of a human being.

[bobbolink]

14. Good point! That would make a great LTTE!

:hi:

[earth mom]

13. Molly Rocks!

Molly: :yourock: