It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

The Weekly Standard ^ | December 29, 2003 | Fred Barnes

[Thom Pain]

"Albright... She is one pathetic creature."

You are too kind...

[Thom Pain]

"Madeline was mistaken for a cleaning lady."

I find this VERY demeaning to cleaning ladies all over the world!

[Thom Pain]

"I also think when election season really begins (when the Bush team engages) that the RATs are going to pay a price for their judicial obstructionism."

You have hit on the key element of this upcoming election! We have to give W the overwhelming majority in both houses or the Ninth Circuit will become the model for the Supreme Court. A failure to bring the S.C. back to the U.S. Constitution will have disastrous impact for a hundred years!

[thesummerwind]

OOOOOOOOOOOh! I just wish these sickos would just disappear. I still cannot believe the extreme low quality of the people Clinton put in high positions of our government.

[theFIRMbss]

You know, if those three
teamed up to host SNL,
I think I'd watch it...

[dagnabbit]

Here's the list: capture of Saddam Hussein, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's about-face, enactment of a prescription drug entitlement, signing of the first rollback of Roe v. Wade, fastest economic growth in 19 years, quickest pace in worker productivity gains in 20 years, two-decade high in increased manufacturing activity, significant drop in jobless claims, lowest underlying rate of inflation in 38 years, and rock-bottom interest rates. Oh, yes, the stock market: A week before Christmas, the Dow's up 23 percent for the year, 4 percent since Thanksgiving

A sweeping illegal alien amnesty and it's in the bag!

[SW6906]

Someone may have already thought of this, but I am going to make up Free Saddam! stickers and place them next to the Howard Dean stickers on every leftists vehicle I can find.....

[MeekOneGOP]

I know what you mean. After he was first elected [ick!] and I heard of his
cabinet picks, I knew we were in trouble. I still remember thinking:

What a circus act, what a bunch of clowns !

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! I love that Free Saddam T-Shirt !!

[LS]

Hehehehe. Priceless.

[#3Fan]

First Durbin.....I can't stand the guy. I wrote a polite but direct letter to him regarding the judicial nominees/filibuster ..... never received so much as a form letter in return.

Typical Democrat.

As for the accomplishments of the Administration and President..... the dems continue to "misunderestimate" the "stratergery". Failing any bad turn of events, I suspect the perfect storm is brewing for the democrats in 2004. The shift will be seismic - in the presidential election and congress. It will be as much the President's doing as it will be the dems. The map on election night will be red, baby!

It would be nice. This country elected Clinton twice though so I don't underestimate the media's ability to pull the wool over enough people's eyes to fool enough of the public to get what they want.

[#3Fan]

Hmmmm.....I'm dieing to know if W and Rove knew the content of the Demo response and went public with Saddam's capture on hoping to splatter big egg on the Dems faces. They obviously scrambled fast enough to avoid disaster. OTOH, probably not. By holding the news a few hours they would have splattered egg all over Durbin.

True. I wouldn't have minded they set that liberal jerk up though. lol

[wny]

"Here's the list: capture of Saddam Hussein, Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi's about-face, enactment of a prescription drug entitlement, signing of the first rollback of Roe v. Wade, fastest economic growth in 19 years, quickest pace in worker productivity gains in 20 years, two-decade high in increased manufacturing activity, significant drop in jobless claims, lowest underlying rate of inflation in 38 years, and rock-bottom interest rates. Oh, yes, the stock market: A week before Christmas, the Dow's up 23 percent for the year, 4 percent since Thanksgiving."

or as the NY Times would say "RECENT STRING OF SETBACKS BAD NEWS FOR BUSH"

[Grampa Dave]

You posted:

Democrats were flummoxed by Saddam's capture.
He stole my word. :^)


I have stolen, er, borrowed it from you. Flummoxed was one of my Grand Dad's favorite words. Thanks for recycling it!

It is so appropriate with what GW is doing to the Rats.

[anglian]

Just a little love note from the DU. We will be stuck with this regime if the Dems. luck doesn't change. How can everything always turn up roses for these *&^%# ers."

hee hee, and this from MEMRI should be sent to really drive em nuts!



In a column in the Saudi daily Arab News, columnist Dr. Muhammad Al-Rasheed praised the American capture of Saddam Hussein, and hailed President Bush as a liberator. The following are excerpts from his column: [1]

"Beware the march of history or the ides of March, whichever appeals to you. Those who have eyes and ears will learn from the demise of Saddam Hussein and the pathetic pictures shown to the world. Gone are the palaces, the swagger, the mindless ruthlessness, the endless resources of money and men. Nothing is left but a shabby old man, who is now as pathetic as his rise and fall had been tragic and murderous.

"Dictators and murderers are a breed apart. The lucky ones die in office. The majority live to suffer the humiliation and anger of their victims and those who survived them. Count with me and fill in the blanks as you wish: The Shah, Bokassa, Idi Amin, Ceausescu, Sese Seko of Zaire, Hitler, Mussolini, the Soviet apparatus, and last but not least, Saddam, the son of Hussein. The most notable of this lot were the most courageous: Nero and Hitler. At least Nero had the courage to fall on his sword and lament that Rome was losing a 'great artist.' I wonder who is next.

"The jubilation in Baghdad put the Arab media to shame. America, for this brief moment at least… is a liberator and not an occupier. I can't help being smug, since what I saw gave me back some confidence in the possibility of justice in this world. I had almost lost hope. It took George Bush to give me that back. I don't agree with him on many things, and while many Americans share my stand, I'll give the man his due. He will go down in Arab history as the liberator of Baghdad, even if the whole mission in Iraq comes to nothing more than this.

"… The reality we have to face is the fact that it took Americans to relieve Baghdad of its dictator. Arab impotence recorded a new low. I might sound naive but I would like to ask where the 'freedom fighters,' 'the resistance,' 'the strugglers for the freedom of Iraq' were when that man ran amok. Having delivered Saddam, the Americans will have to deliver Iraq. Shouldn't we now be wise enough to give them at least a chance, if not a real helping hand?

"We started this business of post-September 11th by jousting with the Americans loudly and virulently. We could not believe that any of our sort would behave in such barbaric ways. The truth became clearer with time. Regardless of the reason for the American intervention in Iraq, the end result couldn't have been happier for the Iraqis or more loaded with hope for other Arabs.

"Dare we say Carpe Diem and actually seize the day?"
[1] Arab News (Saudi Arabia), December 18, 2003.

http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD63103

[gcruse]

Grabbing Saddam

I'm seeing a two-reeler here.  Get Warren Beatty on the phone,
and correct me if I'm wrong, but here's our Bush!

[gcruse]

I don't know which book you're reading, but in a book I read a few years ago, one guy in the position to know said, years later, that Sacco was innocent - Vanzetti was guilty. Or vice versa...

[Prime Choice]

Someone may have already thought of this, but I am going to make up Free Saddam! stickers and place them next to the Howard Dean stickers on every leftists vehicle I can find.....

That's the most pernicious, perfidious, persnickety, perverse idea I've heard all year!

I love it. Take pictures when you do it! ; )   : )

[Luke21]

This president is always four steps ahead of the media and Bolshies.

I get such a kick out of the commies being played for the fools they are.

[hobson]

I was shocked to find this posted by another DU'er:

McGovern was the anti-war candidate.
Mondale said we needed to raise taxes on the middle class.
Dukakis was a short governor from a New England state with a temper.
Dean is indeed a bit of all three. Add some Goldwater and a light peppering of Adlai Stevenson to taste.
Conclusion: All got their butts kicked in the elections they were in.