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Once again, as after Hurricane Katrina, Rove has done what he’s always vowed never to do — he’s alienated the base. And boy, are they alienated.
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October 4, 2005
WB: Freakazoids +
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The BASE will love her for this …
Miers Backed Gay Civil Rights
Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers went on record favoring equal civil rights for gays when she ran for Dallas city council, and she said the city had a responsibility to pay for AIDS education and patient services.
The pending threat to Bush creeps upon him, soft and steady, the way floodwater rises an inch a moment. Another moment, another inch, uncorked, unstopping. Only a question of time from here where you stand to floating face down, a friend to the maggots and gators.
His tidal demise even now creeps up the cuff of his trousers, and will creep ever higher as prices for gas, food, Christmas presents and every single item that gets trucked to a store shelf goes up in price this fall and winter. And then goes up. And then up again.
I see it coming. I overheard it at Joe Lingle’s Quick Stop this morning:
“I tell you what Jim it gits damn hard to see chasing some effin’ furrin empire in Eye-rak or Eye-ran or Eye-don’t-givadam over there when an American man can’t buy good smokes no more can’t pay his heating bills can’t afford to drive his own truck to work can’t afford beef but once a week and can’t sell his feakin’ house cuz it ain’t even worth what the mortgage sez. I’m tellin’ ya this Bush fella looked good fer a while but he’s like those fast talkin’ college boys in the front office he don’t actually know his asshole from his top end an that’s a fact. He’s a slack-jawed liar, an he walks funny, ya know? I tell you what, I ain’t puttin’ up with this shit much longer, no way, no how.”
Posted by: Antifa | Oct 4 2005 8:34 utc | 3
LOL that article b points to is from SF and while it’s hardly a ringing endorsement from the Gay and Lesbian community it will have the repressed repugs ‘chewing the carpet’ if you’ll forgive the pun.
Pretty soon they’ll be asking themselves if she’s a tongue n groover herself. As the English used to say “funny she never married”.
Maybe some left leaning troll should point this out to the wingnuts heh. What ‘proves’ it is the way that the move to stand David Dreier in for Tom Delay was kyboshed. Word got back to BushCo and they decided that appointing two who bat for the other team, within a week, would indeed be over-stressing the base.
Ooohh they’re lucky that the left doesn’t get into the outing business. Actually for me its more that if I go to one of those muck-raking, red baiting, people hating sites I get distracted by some particularly obnoxious piece of hate speak and end up losing my rag locked in a debate with a nasty-minded simpleton.
Posted by: Debs is dead | Oct 4 2005 9:03 utc | 4
When the plague came to a medieval city, panic among the local priesthood (after the death toll began) always ensued.
Sometimes the populace would even kill a few priests.
Most enjoyable.
It didn’t stop the plague, but it sure must have been fun.
Posted by: Lupin | Oct 4 2005 9:20 utc | 5
Yikes! The Latin needs correction – Rota Fortunae not Fortuna, which needs to be in the genitive case.
Posted by: steve | Oct 4 2005 11:05 utc | 6
However logical it might be for conservatives to scuttle the Miers nomination to get someone they can be more sure about, I think Matt is basically right: the conservative movement has made it entirely clear that they’ll eat anything Bush puts between two slices of rhetorical Wonder bread, and they’re not going to stop now…
Shit Sandwich Suprisingly Tasty; I Give It A B+
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 4 2005 12:03 utc | 10
More fallout predicted?
GOP faces ‘civil war’ over Bush’s faith based rule:
Without a Doubt
Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that “if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3. ” The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion.
“Just in the past few months,” Bartlett said, “I think a light has gone off for people who’ve spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he’s always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.” Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and self-described libertarian Republican who has lately been a champion for traditional Republicans concerned about Bush’s governance, went on to say: “This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can’t be persuaded, that they’re extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he’s just like them. . . .
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 4 2005 12:22 utc | 11
Yikes! The Latin needs correction – Rota Fortunae not Fortuna, which needs to be in the genitive case.
Thanks for pointing that out. Now you can see why I flunked out of Latin class — twice.
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 4 2005 13:27 utc | 12
Gen. (ret.) William E. Odom
What’s Wrong With Cutting and Running? In Iraq
on democracy now this AM.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 4 2005 13:36 utc | 13
Looks like someone at WP is mimicking billmons style.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 4 2005 13:59 utc | 14
The pending threat to Bush creeps upon him, soft and steady, the way floodwater rises an inch a moment.
That’s the key to this nomination-she does oppose abortion, but most importantly she is a bush LOYALIST. Any indictments or constitutional “crisis” she would get to rule on, along with corporate lawyer/judge Roberts.
Posted by: doug r | Oct 4 2005 14:27 utc | 15
“Looks like someone at WP is mimicking billmons style”
I KNEW I should have taken out a patent on that.
Posted by: Billmon | Oct 4 2005 15:57 utc | 16
Bush just had a “save Miers” press conference where he emphazised that he doesn´t want activist judges.
For someone who came into office because of an activist court decision that is remarkable flip-flop.
Thanks for pointing that out. Now you can see why I flunked out of Latin class — twice.
Why on earth would you take Latin again after flunking the first time? Once was enough for me.
Posted by: Night Owl | Oct 4 2005 16:35 utc | 18
why is everyone suddenly giving Bush credit for having an original thought? don’t forget that he is just the talking head. the nomination came from whoever has control of the microphone in his ear.
Posted by: juniper952 | Oct 4 2005 18:39 utc | 19
No guarantee that Bush didn’t do it himself.
I think he needed an ally in the judiciary.
Posted by: ab | Oct 4 2005 21:17 utc | 20
So the Freakazoids were against the filibuster before they were for it?
Posted by: michaelFromDC | Oct 5 2005 3:59 utc | 21