Thaaaat's better.
webstersII, CZJ is the Wife of Dowd's ex boyfriend, Michael Douglas. FR's little way of rubbing it in.
Posted on 11/08/2004 7:51:18 AM PST by Pfesser
The New York Times' Maureen Dowd, who in her first postelection column last week accused President Bush of "dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule," apparently thinks she went too easy on the Republican. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that her second postelection column, published yesterday, bordered on the hysterical.
"Just how much did Karl Rove hate not being one of the cool guys in high school in the '60s? Enough to hatch schemes to marshal the forces of darkness to take over the country?" Miss Dowd asked.
"Oh, yeah," she answered.
The columnist added: "W.'s presidency rushes backward, stifling possibilities, stirring intolerance, confusing church with state, blowing off the world, replacing science with religion, and facts with faith. We're entering another dark age, more creationist than cutting edge, more premodern than postmodern. Instead of leading America to an exciting new reality, the Bushies cocoon in a scary, paranoid, regressive reality. Their new health care plan will probably be a return to leeches.
"America has always had strains of isolationism, nativism, chauvinism, puritanism and religious fanaticism. But most of our leaders, even our devout presidents, have tried to keep these impulses under control. Not this crew. They don't call to our better angels; they summon our nasty devils."
Miss Dowd repeated some of this yesterday on NBC's "Meet the Press." Her conservative colleague, William Safire, appeared on the program with her, and gently assured Miss Dowd that everything would be OK, and that someday the Democrats will return to power.
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To do it quickly:
The New York system allows several parties to endorse the same candidate for office; you then select from among the parties for your vote, but if several parties endorse the same candidate they add the votes from those various parties up to determine which candidate got the most votes. Those parties then retain ballot access and position based on how many people voted for the party.
So if you saw these results:
Governor
REPUBLICAN: George Pataki, 3,761,112
DEMOCRAT: Ben Dover 3,852,761
WORKING FAMILIES: Ben Dover 211,672
CONSERVATIVE: George Pataki 418,532
RIGHT TO LIFE: Ronnie Peters 290,453
FUSION: Biffy the Space Chipmunk 245,671
AMERICANS FOR TAXES: George Pataki 873
George Pataki would become the next governor, since he got the most total votes, even though the Democrats got the most votes.
The Democrats would get the top line on the next election, since they were the party with the most votes for governor.
The Fusion party would automatically qualify for the next ballt since they got a substantial share of the total votes,
but American for Taxes would not even though their nominee did better.
She is the Democrats' FUTURE... "HELEN THOMAS"!
ROFLMAO!!!!
Oh, and if "Biffy the Space Chipmunk" seems silly to you, that party nominated Grampa Munster the last election I voted in NY.
Maureen in a nut-shell.
Besides, why change the course of the Dem Party, now? They didn't lose by much in OH, sadly. People don't like change. Libs, particularly, don't like change. She's a regular talking head. Why change that? What's needed is for her to appear more regularly on Ophrah, or even the McLaughlin Group. Let the woman be heard. Michael Moore needs to be making some more frequent appearances, as well. Suck it up, Mike. Your party needs you. Mid-term elections, soon, and those Court appointments.
Isolationism? Obviously she hasn't a clue what comes out of her mouth. Oh yeah.
She, obviously, is not up on the latest medical techniques. Leeches are very useful in modern medicine as are maggots and bee stings.
YOU know KZJ is quite beautiful, I wonder what her politice are,she is a wonderful actress too .
"(looking at my watch) When does hell freeze over?"
Actually "hell froze over" on Friday night around 2:00 a.m. I believe. We live in a small bush Alaska town that started as a government experiment to prove that hell really does freeze over. LOL Temperature by Saturday morning was -28.
First I want to acknowledge Zell Miller's contribution. I am proud of my own small contribution of bringing a handful of non-voters to vote for Bush in Texas, but he did more to get Bush elected than I ever could have.
I hope you can see that is no contradiction that I admire the effects of his contribution and simultaneously view him with the highest level of distrust I can manage. Sell-outs will be sell-outs forever. I've been burned by this in business.
So until I am convinced otherwise (which is possible), I just see another politician who is trying to have it both ways, *especially* if he is still a Democrat! For a wild but (I think) relevant example: "Oh I've fought for the Communist Party for 40 years, and I'm still a member of the Party... but I fought for Capitalism this election cycle."
To that I reply: I appreciate the work you've done, and fully expect you to try and undo it next time.
BTW, Thanks for the book tip. If I am misinformed, I will always strive to educate myself.
I watched MTP yesterday too (first time in years), and saw the same thing.
I'd never seen Maureen Dowd before, and expected to see a bright, brassy, confident, funny, tough-as-nails leftist version of Laura Ingraham.
Nothing could've been further from the truth. MoDo is whiny, bitter, petulant, childish, insecure, and ... unfunny.
She gives us Irish girls a bad name. :(
I noticed this too. She used to have a bite to her writing but after MD dumped her she began writing like a petulant child or on a really bad day, she writes like an overly emotional, borderline hysterical adult. Her article speaks for itself. Its just embarrassing.
Zell-out Miller changed parties just when those who trusted him needed him most. I despise that behavior, just as much as I would if one of our own broke for the Dims.
Maybe he didn't want to be a piano player in the whorehouse any longer.
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