Mitch McConnell really is a blockhead:
“I think Secretary Rumsfeld has done an excellent job. He’ll be remembered as one of the great secretaries of defense,” Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Meanwhile, SusanHu tells me that she was most unimpressed with Bob Casey’s performance on Meet the Press. I didn’t see it, so I have no idea how well he did. I trust Susan’s judgment though, and she didn’t get a good first impression. I have such a visceral reaction to Little Ricky Santorum’s puss that I doubt I’d notice any defects in anyone that debated him. If you saw MTP, give us your impressions.
Meanwhile, let’s go into the time machine for a speech Dick Cheney gave in August of 2002.
“Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region,” Cheney had contended. “When the gravest of threats are eliminated, the freedom-loving peoples of the region will have a chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace.”
In the same speech, the vice president had also predicted that Iraqis would “erupt in joy” after Saddam’s regime was overthrown.
“As for the reaction of the Arab ‘street,’ the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are ‘sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans,” Cheney had said.
“Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of Jihad,” added Cheney. “Moderates throughout the region would take heart.”
Could he possibly have been more wrong?
no.
I beg to differ, k/o. He could also have said:
“And if I turn out to be way off on all this, I’ll no doubt pay the price.”
to Russert’s first question. Asked if knowing what he knows now he’d vote to authorize the invasion of Iraq, Casey went into some song and dance bullshit.
A one word answer would have been a beautiful thing.
like i have been saying all day today since the “great debate”!
GOP-1
DEM-0
Boy are we on a roll!
billjpa
In many ways Casey is more pathetic than Santorum; he postures as a Democrat and claims to stand for Democratic principles.
Also, I was not surprised to see that Casey failed to respond appropriately when Santorum made the odious remark about how his (Casey’s)father would be so disappointed in him. How could Casey not respond with visceral outrage at such a crack? (Unless of course he’s so out of touch with real humanity that he’s just a mechanical cog in a campaign/money machine.)
My take is that the Dem party will likely be better off in the long run if this creature Casey loses to little Ricky in November.
My take is that the Dem party will likely be better off in the long run if this creature Casey loses to little Ricky in November.
First off, I agree with this comment. In the short run, A Santorum victory will seem like a progressive loss, but there is a longer term sliver lining to a Santorum victory, IMHO! Treatment of the majority voters, namely women, as second class citizens eventually will set the stage for a huge voter backlash against fundamentalist control, especially control by men. However, if the Dems like Casey and Reid are in power, just who do these angry women backlash against since both parties will look and act the same on this critical social issue. However, if Ricky Santorum and his fundamentalist minions are still in control, then the object of anger will fall where it belongs, and progressives will be the clear alternative. Bottom line motto, state your important principles and stand by them!
Also, the Santorum adds now running that show Casey not showing up for work in the jobs he has been elected to because he is always running for another office ARE VERY EFFECTIVE! I find myself agreeing with these adds, so they will do damage and rightly so, again IMO!
Vwry good point NG. I’ve held foralong time the idea that change will come only after the electorate finally sees that the GOP are the exclusive owners of the insanely destructive policies and actions currently wrecking the country. Santorum helps to further make that case with his own lunacy.
SusanHu tells me that she was most unimpressed with Bob Casey’s performance on Meet the Press
They’re both revolting and deeply, deeply creepy.
I hate and fear both men equally. I feel slightly more contempt for Bob Casey because he’s weak and pathetic whereas Santorum is just plain crazy and thus slightly more scary. I hate both men as much as I hate Orrin Hatch. If I lived in PA I would refuse to vote for either and I hope to God that Casey does not win because if the Dem leadership adopts the walking insult of Bob Casey as the template for a winning Democrat I and a good many other people are declaring war on the Democratic party ‘leadership’.
Some friggin choice for any self respecting woman in PA.
I live in PA, and I will leave that race blank!
Sure is great to see Susan Hu’s name on the front page of BT again. I hope she’ll be willing to write for us again!
required to consider anything from several different stances. They are limited to esposing and believing their own opropoganda on how the world is and will be. That many thousands of Americans have to die because of this is tragic. That many hundreds of thousands of foreigners have to die because of this is worse.
Those in our country like to talk about critical thinking. sadly that is all it is – talk.
Increasingly our once fairly decent country is looking more like some out of control pumped up on steroids version of the Roman Empire at its worst moment, and our leaders mirror perfectly some of the worst Roman despots and their acolytes.