Our job: widen the split!
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 12:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
Miers pick may be splitting solid GOP base
Conservatives’ unified front may be coming apart with nomination and other issues
Archive for October 9th, 2005
Is this the opposite of the dog ate my notes?
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 12:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
New York Times reporter Judith Miller has discovered notes of a conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff in June 2003.
More blogging soon
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 07:40 - Category: Unfiled ;
Full blogging resumes Monday night! While I’m enjoying vacation, my
sister’s house only has a dial up modem so I’ve having to blog from a
Panera Bread store nine miles away, they have free wi-fi.
Tropical storm Tammy
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 07:38 - Category: Unfiled ;
The rain gauge in my sisters backyard in Canton, CT recorded nine inches
of rain in 24 hours, due to Tropical Storm Tammy moving through. Even
by New England standards that’s an extraordinary amount of rain.
Reason 93 why the Dems are clueless
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 07:36 - Category: Unfiled ;
Dean’s Scheme. According to an Associated Press
profile, DNC Chairman Howard Dean is “borrowing ideas from President
Bush’s re-election campaign, Madison Avenue and his own Internet-driven
White House bid” to drag the Democratic party “into the 21st century.”
Said Dean: “What I’m trying to do is impose a system and run this place like a business.”
Of course, a political party or movement is nothing like a business.
The only reason Dean falls back on that tired phrase is that many
Democrats are begining “to wonder whether he has the management skills
to carry out his plans or the ability to raise the money needed to pay
for them.”
As longtime readers know, I dedicate an entire chapter in my book on why government cannot be run like a business. Many of the observations apply to political parties as well. [Taegan Goddard's Political Wire]
Well put
Bob Morris @ Oct 9th 2005 07:34 - Category: Unfiled ;
The New York Times has a strange article
about protests at the Wall in Israel, which seems to suggest that the
only thing that matters is how Israeli intentions are perceived, but
this sentence stands out for oddness:
In earlier weeks, the demonstrations often deteriorated into violent
clashes between stone-throwing protesters and baton-wielding soldiers
and police officers, whose use of stun grenades, rubber bullets and
tear gas made it look as if Israel was repressing dissent.
Made it look as if Israel was repressing dissent? Just how
far up in Cloud Cuckooland do you have to ascend before you can’t
recognize that stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas aren’t
designed to promote conversation?
far up in Cloud Cuckooland do you have to ascend before you can’t
recognize that stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas aren’t
designed to promote conversation?
