Now It's a Race

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 9:00 AM PST

2004/11/03 · 09:00

I don't often post diaries, but I wanted to lay out my brief take on the next four years and see if anyone has any thoughts.

This is now a race, and a pretty grim one, between how fast the reality that Republicans hid and ran against can blow up in their faces and how fast they can consolidate their power and implement enough of their proto-fascist philosophy to make the previous point irrelevant.

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The Edwards Zinger that Wasn't to Be

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Wednesday October 06, 2004 · 8:38 AM PDT

2004/10/06 · 08:38

When Cheney said he had never met Edwards on the hill, I think Edwards missed the perfect opportunity to zing Cheney for "Go Fuck Yourself."

How great would this have been:

CHENEY: ...I never met you until tonight.

EDWARDS: Well, Dick, as my colleague, Senator Leahy has demonstrated pretty clearly, you are not exactly receptive to being approached on the Senate floor by Senators of the opposite party.

I'd still love to hear Edwards use some variant of this line although the opportunity for maximum impact has been lost.

W and Rummy: All Politics

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Thursday May 06, 2004 · 10:35 AM PDT

2004/05/06 · 10:35

What exactly did Bush "chastise" Rumsfeld for anyway? The stories seem to suggest that it was only for failing to allow for the White House to sufficiently cover its ass. It was not, in other words, for the issue at hand -- the rampant abuses in the prison system that Rumsfeld oversaw.

In a way it makes sense, since it seems the only thing that could possibly stir Bush to outrage would be one of his subordinates publicly making him look like a jackass, which is exactly what the Donald did by failing to notify Bush of the pix in advance.

Of course, it is entirely possible that Bush did know and chooses to say he didn't because admitting otherwise would demonstrate some serious foot-dragging or, even worse, a coverup. It wouldn't be the first time the White House has opted for "We didn't know" rather than "We knew but were unconcerned."

And the presence of the "chastisement" on the front pages of our newspapers gives it a surreal meta-chastisement feel anyway. In other words, Bush probably didn't chastise Rumsfeld, but brought him in and said something to the effect of "We need this story on the front page, so you're going to have to take this bullet. But don't worry. You will keep your job and I won't go after you on the big stuff."

But it seems lost on the media that Bush has only questioned Rumsfeld's performance in the p.r. counteroffensive and not in the actual issue at hand.

WaPo Ed Page and Cheney - Peas in a Pod

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Friday April 23, 2004 · 9:11 AM PDT

2004/04/23 · 09:11

This jaw-dropping passage was from a Washington Post editorial on Thursday:

"Iraq is a country of diverse communities; if its differences are not arbitrated by some form of democratic politics, then it can be held together only by brute force. The wielder of that force is likely to be hostile to the democratic world and, like Saddam Hussein or the mullahs of neighboring Iran, to seek defense by means of terrorism or weapons of mass destruction."

Could it be that this most venerable newspaper is spewing the very same discredited lies as the VP?: specifically that Iraq had WMD and/or terrorist ties under Saddam. It appears so.

I'm stunned and a little chilled to read this.

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