[Pokey78]

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From Oxblog:

IMMUTABLE LAWS OF DOWD

1. Ashcroft never deserves credit.

2. Offering constructive solutions to problems, instead of whining endlessly about them, is a sign of weakness.

3. The People Magazine principle: all political phenomena can be explained with reference solely to caricatures of the personalities involved ("Dubya" is stupid; "Poppy" is an aristocrat; Cheney is macho-man; etc.). Any reference to the common good or even to old-fashioned politicking is, like, so passe.

4. It is much better to be cute than coherent.

5. Maureen knows best. Her long years as a columnist (doing basically what your great-aunt Tillie does in the nursing home bull sessions, but getting paid for it) have given her deep insight into foreign relations, politics, welfare, the Constitution, and all other topics. To disagree with Maureen in any way is not only a sign of being wrong, it's a hallmark of pure evil...or at least membership in the NRA, which is pretty much the same thing.

6. It is usually possible and always desirable to name-drop and name-call in the same sentence.

7. The particulars of my consumer-driven, shamefully self-involved life reveal universal truths.

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Explanation of the Dowd/Douglas connection: by Miss Marple- 2/11/03

Ms. Dowd was escorted around New York and DC for many months by one Michael Douglas of Hollywood fame and fortune. She got to go to all the best parties, was photographed for the tabloids, and was picking out a gown to wear at the Oscars. Of course, Michael had become interested in her during Clinton's impeachment, when she had written some very anti-Clinton columns. After a few weeks of the Michael treatment, she began to write anti-Starr, ant-Newt columns, ignoring Clinton.

Then Clinton was acquitted by the Senate. In an amazing coincidence, Michael Douglas dropped Ms. Dowd like a hot potato, and instead picked up a hot tomato, Catherin Zeta-Jones, who subsequently bore him a son and they were married.

Ms. Dowd cannot get over her tragic loss. Her columns are increasingly anti-Bush, in the hope of impressing her lost love, Michael.

In addition, we think she has a secret crush on the President and is trying to get him to pay attention to her. Ha!

[Blackyce]

How would one go about firing the Vice President of the United States?

[MHGinTN]

Translation of Dowd's sour remarks ... Cheney's gravitas is too great for democrat competition, so Maureen and her cronies want him to exit the scene, to make it fair. Interestingly, President Bush now has the gravitas. Nya nya, Maureen, your 9 clown caucus is impotent!

[Brett66]

Is it that time of the month again?

[Publius6961]

What's a Maureen Dowd?

[Free ThinkerNY]

Dowd and her ilk are hoping that we fail in Iraq. Their pathological hatred of Bush is all that matters to them. Pathetic.

[Robe]

Dowd is the modern day traitor b!tch

[blam]

The Mobile Register cancelled Dowd's articles when she change the meaning of something GWB said.

[Cicero]

The only thing worse than Dowd's politics is her dreary writing style. She is racing Molly Ivins to the bottom of the barrel.

Why would the NY Times give such a coveted job to a woman with no intelligence, no contacts with or knowledge of any of the people she regularly pretends to write about, and a tin ear as a writer?

[dead]

The spinster cat lady checks in.

I'll bet she wears a sweater in August and gets taunted by the neighborhood kids about her smell.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Mr. Cheney's parallel universe is a Bizarro world where no doubts exist. He indulges in extremes of judgment, overpessimistic about our ability to contain Saddam and overoptimistic about the gratitude we would encounter as "liberators" in Iraq.

Ms. Dowd's parallel universe is a Bizarro world where no doubts exist. She indulges in extremes of bourbon, pessimistic about the ability of the 9 dwarves to contain Bush(every drunk has their lucid moments) and overoptimistic about the gratitude she would encounter as a RAT toady(see Michael Douglas).

[Petronski]

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[Reagan Man]

Another fine example of Maureen Dowd, being out of her mind.

[Texagirl4W]

Is she and Helen Thomas related?

[Valin]

Dowd wants Cheney fired
Hey Maureen, we all got wants. I want to spend a weekend on an island with Catherin Zeta-Jones and a large container of chocolate syrup, but I don't think that's gonna happen either. So I guess we'll just have to live with disappointment.

[mcenedo]

#1 thanks for the picture

#2 havn't had the time (or the stomach) to read Dowd lately...

sorry to see nothing's changed...

Dowd leads her life under a constant, life threatening siege, from the Right. Whether she's barely escaping the hounds of Ashcroft's privacy/censoreship hunt, or the "mind numbing" clarity of Cheney's message, Dowd is simply delusional.