Perpetual Aquarias
Take a look at this Newsmax lede. It. Is. Priceless:
Such as what? Being a Republican? Winning two elections? Breathing? In al Donka's world, they're all illegal.
But there's more!
Also note he said this with a straight face, if also with a not-quite entirely repressed eye tick.
This from the man who dragged the country to that very precipice in 2000 because he wouldn't accept his defeat at the hands of the same president he wants impeached out of puerile, malevolent spite. Yeah, he's "moved on"....
But the unwitting fount of sardonic irony had one more morsel to spew:
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From the prince of darkness to the court jester, we join DNC Chairman How-tse-tung as he prepares to tip-toe through the tulips on his way to a guest appearance on Laugh-In:
Hmmm; if Dr. Demented didn't mean the Vietnam War or racial tensions - which is crap because his party's trying to turn Iraq into Vietnam and is endlessly trying to stir up race hatreds - then what the devil is he talking about?
"Religious figures"? Howard Dean hates "religious figures." He's the ultimate secularist's secularist. He denounces moral, uplifting visions as "bigoted, intolerant, right-wing extremism." And what could he possibly consider "the same mistakes"? The essence of what the American Left became in the '60s, and their congenital inability to abandon it and grow up, is part & parcel of why they've been out of power for a dozen years. Ameriphobia is a mistake; Big Government is a mistake; racial hucksterism is a mistake; counter-culturalism is a mistake. But these are the things that define the modern Democrat Party.
Only other thing I can think of as a "mistake" is al Donka's raucous absence of Clintonoid discretion ever since they lost their minds in the Florida 2K insurrection. But Howard "YEEEAAARRRGGGHHH!!!" Dean is the personification of the "let it all hang out" ethic. If triangulation and nuance were clothing, Howie would be a nudist even if he were an adopted Eskimo.
Then again I'm probably approaching this question the wrong way - logically and rationally. Chairman How approached it the way he approaches everything - with hamfisted dishonesty:
Except Democrats. I translate the above as pretty much what Stan Greenburg was pushing back in 1992 during the (first) rise of Bill Clinton: "We've already got the poor, now let's enslave the middle class." It's not the abandonment of the welfare/entitlement paradigm, but simply its extension up the income scale.
At any rate, it's difficult to believe that even Dean's audience wasn't cynically snickering before he even finished squeezing that sentence out his foam-flecked lips. The dead, well, "give-away" was when he said, "We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds." You know what that means: No one person should be ALLOWED to succeed until everybody else does. And not everybody will succeed. So nobody will. 'Tis the essence of liberalism.
One other thought: if we're currently in the equivalent of the 1950s, wouldn't that make President Bush the counterpart to President Dwight Eisenhower? Didn't everybody like Ike? And wouldn't that make Hillary Clinton the next JFK?
Where is Lloyd Bentsen when you really needed him....?
Al Gore charges that President George Bush has "broken the law” and implies that Congress should have initiated impeachment proceedings against Bush for unspecified crimes. [emphasis added]
Such as what? Being a Republican? Winning two elections? Breathing? In al Donka's world, they're all illegal.
But there's more!
"In my view, a president who breaks the law poses a threat to the very foundation of our democracy," Gore said, noting the seriousness of his allegation.
Also note he said this with a straight face, if also with a not-quite entirely repressed eye tick.
"As Americans with a stake in the future of our country, we must act quickly and decisively. We have less than five months to win the six seats we need to control the Senate – and pull our country back from the brink of a constitutional crisis.” [emphasis added]
This from the man who dragged the country to that very precipice in 2000 because he wouldn't accept his defeat at the hands of the same president he wants impeached out of puerile, malevolent spite. Yeah, he's "moved on"....
But the unwitting fount of sardonic irony had one more morsel to spew:
"I have never seen leaders that act with the contempt for the truth that I have witnessed in George Bush’s administration.”Sure you have, Al. You look at him in the mirror every morning.
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From the prince of darkness to the court jester, we join DNC Chairman How-tse-tung as he prepares to tip-toe through the tulips on his way to a guest appearance on Laugh-In:
America is about to revisit one of the most turbulent decades in its history, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told a religious conference in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. "We're about to enter the '60s again," Dean said, but he was not referring to the Vietnam War or racial tensions.
Dean said he is looking for "the age of enlightenment led by religious figures who want to greet Americans with a moral, uplifting vision."
"The problem is when we hit that '60s spot again, which I am optimistic we're about to hit, we have to make sure that we don't make the same mistakes," Dean added.
Hmmm; if Dr. Demented didn't mean the Vietnam War or racial tensions - which is crap because his party's trying to turn Iraq into Vietnam and is endlessly trying to stir up race hatreds - then what the devil is he talking about?
"Religious figures"? Howard Dean hates "religious figures." He's the ultimate secularist's secularist. He denounces moral, uplifting visions as "bigoted, intolerant, right-wing extremism." And what could he possibly consider "the same mistakes"? The essence of what the American Left became in the '60s, and their congenital inability to abandon it and grow up, is part & parcel of why they've been out of power for a dozen years. Ameriphobia is a mistake; Big Government is a mistake; racial hucksterism is a mistake; counter-culturalism is a mistake. But these are the things that define the modern Democrat Party.
Only other thing I can think of as a "mistake" is al Donka's raucous absence of Clintonoid discretion ever since they lost their minds in the Florida 2K insurrection. But Howard "YEEEAAARRRGGGHHH!!!" Dean is the personification of the "let it all hang out" ethic. If triangulation and nuance were clothing, Howie would be a nudist even if he were an adopted Eskimo.
Then again I'm probably approaching this question the wrong way - logically and rationally. Chairman How approached it the way he approaches everything - with hamfisted dishonesty:
"If you look at how we did public housing, we essentially created ghettoes for poor people" instead of using today's method of mixed-income housing....We did give things away for free, and that's a huge mistake because that does create a culture of dependence, and that's not good for anybody, either."
Except Democrats. I translate the above as pretty much what Stan Greenburg was pushing back in 1992 during the (first) rise of Bill Clinton: "We've already got the poor, now let's enslave the middle class." It's not the abandonment of the welfare/entitlement paradigm, but simply its extension up the income scale.
At any rate, it's difficult to believe that even Dean's audience wasn't cynically snickering before he even finished squeezing that sentence out his foam-flecked lips. The dead, well, "give-away" was when he said, "We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds." You know what that means: No one person should be ALLOWED to succeed until everybody else does. And not everybody will succeed. So nobody will. 'Tis the essence of liberalism.
One other thought: if we're currently in the equivalent of the 1950s, wouldn't that make President Bush the counterpart to President Dwight Eisenhower? Didn't everybody like Ike? And wouldn't that make Hillary Clinton the next JFK?
Where is Lloyd Bentsen when you really needed him....?
posted by JASmius at 6:55 PM
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