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November 10, 2006
WB: The Emperor at Bay
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eeyeew, this is sorta fun: googled robert gates, confirmation just to find out what the process would be–does this nomination have to clear any committees before the Senate gets ahold of it? so much history pops up–1982 infighting for Casey and Reagan, 1991 speech by Leahy who did vote to confirm Gates for the CIA directorship, bits and pieces of the Walsh Report, buncha freepers and Aggies “discussing” R and G….surely the Dems can stall this for a few weeks…before us internetrrrists all get hauled off to the KBR camps (btw, did they finish those or are they behind schedule and over budget?)
meanwhile, thanks to U$ in the other thread, I can lie awake waiting for the first symptoms of Persian Bird Flu.
Posted by: catlady | Nov 10 2006 8:15 utc | 1
I’m just waiting for them to find some position to bring Ollie North back in to. Then they’ll have the entire old gang all back together again.
Posted by: Maxcrat | Nov 10 2006 13:37 utc | 2
Stopped by a friends house today, they had MSNBC on the tube (had just watched or were getting ready to watch) Keith Olbermann, yet it was on something else at the time, Scarborough Country I think, as I don’t watch tv and have no Ideal of sequence. But they were Interviewing some fuck from Newsweek magazine, the editor of the New republic, and Pat Buchanan and host Chris Matthews(?) was just very condescendingly (in general) rubbing the republicans face in the dirt…
I set up the above to say this:
Then they showed a clip of Nancy Polosi meeting with Bush at the Whitehouse (a fire side chat with no fire*) and Chris Matthews was bloviating about how he was stunned to see how Bush had lost his show of strength and that we would have never seen Polosi in the Whitehouse before the dem victory, and just indignantly went on and on about how whipped down the pResident looked and how Bush would have to work w/the dems, then all of a sudden, Pat Buchanan started howling, ‘the repub base will attack Jr. over this’ and, and..
It was an astounding (at least to me, as I never watch tv) snapshot of theater and drama.
And here’s the thing*, we all know how the Bush gang tv appearances are majorly stagecrafted and completely micromanaged and it did not escape me that in the middle of November behind Polosi and Bush their was no fire lit in the fire place. A fireside chat with no fire. Now what kind of message does that send about working bipartisan with the incoming dems?
Could I be make something out of nothing here? Sure, but I suspect everything they do, even down to small nuances such as this, send signals all be it unconscious to most. They are masters at
propagenda and spend billions (of your money) on persuasion strategies against you.
Also see, Rumsfeld’s finger wave
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Nov 10 2006 14:35 utc | 3
Neither party wants to be accused of initiating the partisan squabbling, but once it happens, the fur will fly.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Nov 10 2006 14:56 utc | 5
When a fully-grown male Anaconda finds itself trapped, facing a larger enemy who is capiable of killing him — the Anaconda resorts to a display of distracting behaviors with his larger enemy.
This will go on just long enough for the Anaconda to see an opening, leap out and get one coil around some part of his enemy. You know what happens next.
You’ve seen the Swiftboaters; you’ve heard the robocalls; you’ve watched the Blackshirt waddle of the Gingriches and Limbaughs. You’ve had your head rubberized trying to resolve the difference between obvious truths and the sputterings of the wingnut public vomitorium. You’ve watched the MSM mutate into a factory that produces news with all the revelvance of a Disney cartoon.
Of course, if the Anaconda misjudges his strike through desperation, overconfidence, or delusional belief (the fabled DoD)… well, Anaconda steaks are quite good.
Posted by: Austin Cooper | Nov 10 2006 16:09 utc | 6