February 10th's Lesser Headlines
The Blogger server has been down all day, and now it’s up only intermittently, so I am (1) composing this post in Word so I’ll have a backup and (2) posting (hopefully) while the posting is good.
***While Intifada III is imminent, with Hamas moving up to the political/PR role Yassir Arafat used to hold and Al Aqsa and Islamic Jihad doing the asymmetrical fighting, Czar Vladimir is letting Hamas put the Ezekielian hooks in his jaws, inviting its leaders to Moscow for a state visit and going so far as to publicly declare that Russia “has never considered Hamas to be a terrorist organization.”
One wonders if President Bush missed that part of Putin the Terrible’s heart during his earlier cursory cardiac inspection.
***Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s armpit-deep ties to busted Beltway lobbyist Jack Abramoff have been common knowledge for quite a while now. The new development here is that they’re finally drawing Extreme Media attention, and Dirty Harry’s office is beginning a grudging retreat from Reid’s earlier protestations of blanket innocence.
I say let the Donks try to talk up Abramoff-scam all they want. It won’t boost them at the polls next November (The 1994 Gingrich revolution assiduously avoided pushing Bill Clinton’s scandals), and the necks they do end up garroting will be their own.
***One would think that the last thing Hillary Clinton or any of her backers would want to do is provide reminders of what a ball-busting cunt the former first lady really is. I guess Margaret Carlson didn’t get the memo:
I’m not reading much into this by itself, but in the context of the Democrat Party’s ongoing precipitous meltdown, it does all seem to fit. But if any Donk can scratch and claw out of this partisan bottomless pit, it’s the woman whose bottom is endless.
***NRO Financial’s Dave Malpass offers up more grist for the estimable contention that the only thing weak about the Bush economy is the White House’s selling of it, and declares that, “This expansion is sticking around.”
***In a nod to intellectual integrity over partisan cheerleading, NRO Financial also posts today John Tamny’s denuding of the President’s “We’re addicted to oil” canard and lamentations of his evident capitulation on the domestic energy issue.
***Lastly, in the downer of the day, Cindy Sheehan has announced that she isn’t challenging Dianne Feinstein after all.
With my post-Super Bowl sports blahs looking to stretch clear through the summer (the Sonics and Mariners both suck, and who knows whether the Seahawks will re-sign Shawn Alexander and Steve Hutchinson?), I was really counting on a DiFi-Mother CS showdown to make the spring interesting. Now I’m back to hoping for bunker-buster bombs to rain down on Iran before their city-busters dust an American city near you.
Maybe I’ll get started on the fallout shelter. I can always use another household project.
***While Intifada III is imminent, with Hamas moving up to the political/PR role Yassir Arafat used to hold and Al Aqsa and Islamic Jihad doing the asymmetrical fighting, Czar Vladimir is letting Hamas put the Ezekielian hooks in his jaws, inviting its leaders to Moscow for a state visit and going so far as to publicly declare that Russia “has never considered Hamas to be a terrorist organization.”
One wonders if President Bush missed that part of Putin the Terrible’s heart during his earlier cursory cardiac inspection.
***Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s armpit-deep ties to busted Beltway lobbyist Jack Abramoff have been common knowledge for quite a while now. The new development here is that they’re finally drawing Extreme Media attention, and Dirty Harry’s office is beginning a grudging retreat from Reid’s earlier protestations of blanket innocence.
I say let the Donks try to talk up Abramoff-scam all they want. It won’t boost them at the polls next November (The 1994 Gingrich revolution assiduously avoided pushing Bill Clinton’s scandals), and the necks they do end up garroting will be their own.
***One would think that the last thing Hillary Clinton or any of her backers would want to do is provide reminders of what a ball-busting cunt the former first lady really is. I guess Margaret Carlson didn’t get the memo:
A longtime media ally of Senator Hillary Clinton is warning Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman that Mrs. Clinton will "get even" with him for saying she's too angry to win the White House.With polls on Mrs. Clinton’s 2008 candidacy plummeting of late, one would also think that any Clintonoid would know better than to take Mr. Mehlmen’s rather obvious bait. Guess Ms. Carlson didn’t get that memo, either.
"As Mehlman will find out, Hillary doesn't get angry, she gets even," predicts Bloomberg News columnist Margaret Carlson, in a screed published Thursday….
Carlson's prediction that Mehlman will pay for attacking Mrs. Clinton comports with the former first lady's long history of playing "get even" politics. Throughout the 1990s, for instance, Clinton accusers often found themselves targeted by IRS audits - or had embarrassing details about their private lives leaked to the press.
Just this week, Anthony Pellicano - a private eye the Clintons used to dig up dirt on their opponents - was indicted in Los Angeles on wiretapping charges.
I’m not reading much into this by itself, but in the context of the Democrat Party’s ongoing precipitous meltdown, it does all seem to fit. But if any Donk can scratch and claw out of this partisan bottomless pit, it’s the woman whose bottom is endless.
***NRO Financial’s Dave Malpass offers up more grist for the estimable contention that the only thing weak about the Bush economy is the White House’s selling of it, and declares that, “This expansion is sticking around.”
***In a nod to intellectual integrity over partisan cheerleading, NRO Financial also posts today John Tamny’s denuding of the President’s “We’re addicted to oil” canard and lamentations of his evident capitulation on the domestic energy issue.
***Lastly, in the downer of the day, Cindy Sheehan has announced that she isn’t challenging Dianne Feinstein after all.
With my post-Super Bowl sports blahs looking to stretch clear through the summer (the Sonics and Mariners both suck, and who knows whether the Seahawks will re-sign Shawn Alexander and Steve Hutchinson?), I was really counting on a DiFi-Mother CS showdown to make the spring interesting. Now I’m back to hoping for bunker-buster bombs to rain down on Iran before their city-busters dust an American city near you.
Maybe I’ll get started on the fallout shelter. I can always use another household project.
posted by JASmius at 2:41 PM
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