Posted on 11/20/2004 5:07:39 PM PST by wagglebee
They're fragile and frazzled, depressed and self-doubting.
Trapped in their blue bell jar, drowning in unfulfilled dreams, Democrats are the "Desperate Housewives" of politics.
The image of Republicans as the Daddy party and Democrats as the Mommy party came roaring back in 2004, with a chesty President Bush and Dick Cheney prevailing by making the case that they could protect America from vicious terrorists and uxorious gays better than the Brahmin they painted as a sissy. In politics, as on TV, political correctness is out and retro is in. Hillary's bid to be president suddenly appears more wobbly, and the class of new senators looks like a throwback - with half a dozen white male conservative Republicans front and center.
At the Republican governors' conference in New Orleans, Ken Mehlman, the Bush campaign manager, answered the question, Who's your daddy party? "If you drive a Volvo and you do yoga, you are pretty much a Democrat," he said. "If you drive a Lincoln or a BMW and you own a gun, you're voting for George Bush."
Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes.
Yet Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney boldly projected the image of confident - if overbearing - husbands who would guard the family home from intruders, while casting John Kerry as the feminized guy who couldn't get his sports references straight, the sort who would sashay about in Yves St. Laurent pajamas, dithering, whither-ing, and fetching bottled water for Teresa while the burglar alarm rang.
Democrats were furious to learn last week that Mr. Kerry had squirreled away $15 million in primary donations that he could have spent turning out the vote in Florida and Ohio. Once more trying to have it both ways, Mr. Kerry wanted a nest egg in case of a recount or legal challenges - not exactly the killer mentality that Democrats need.
Having gutted their opponents, Republicans are pretending to patch up divisions as they ruthlessly consolidate their gains. Democrats are turning the other cheek. At the opening of his presidential library, Bill Clinton assured the audience that Mr. Bush and Mr. Kerry were "good people" who "just see the world differently."
The Republican Visigoths are crushing checks and balances and driving Democrats (and moderate Republicans) into subservient, obedient roles, sticking antiabortion provisions into major spending bills. Even the suggestion that Congress has an advise-and-consent role on judges caused the Visigoths to slap Arlen Specter into stocks, until he whimpered he would do their bidding.
The party of moral values deemed that crime pays, shielding Tom DeLay with a rule that someone facing a felony charge can still be a leader.
The ultracreepy Mr. DeLay de-pantsed Democrats on Friday, sneering: "I understand the Democrat Party's adjustment to their national minority status is frustrating, but their crushing defeat ... should show them that the American people are tired of the politics of personal destruction."
Well, yeah. Watching Bush supporters shred a war hero into a war criminal was tiring.
This most secretive administration wants to stop the public from getting any facts that might challenge its story line.
The Department of Homeland Security is making employees and contractors sign pledges barring them from telling the public about sensitive but unclassified information.
Porter Goss has warned C.I.A. employees that they should support the administration and "scrupulously honor our secrecy oath" by letting only the agency's public affairs office and Congressional relations branch talk to the media and Congress.
Senate Republicans have voted to allow Bill Frist, the majority leader, to fill vacancies on powerful committees, rather than abiding by the seniority system - a sword over moderates and mavericks.
The White House says it wants greater harmony, but it's acting like the thought police. Having run into resistance in their bid for global domination, the president and vice president are going for federal domination, pushing out anyone with independent judgment who puts democracy above ideology.
It's a paradoxical game plan: imposing democracy abroad while impeding it here.
As loser Maureen used the word here, she's referring to gay marriage.
But would someone enlighten me as to why John Effing Kerry-Heinz is described as "Brahmin"? That refers to the Hindu priestly caste, as I recall. Didn't know that Kerry was also an Indian. :-)
Brahmin also refers to the Boston elite.
I suspect she at home with a 100 pet cats most nights. MoDo, can't write one simple sentence without bad-mouthing President Bush or his family.
CONGRATULATIONS !!!
WE THE PEOPLE ….. HELPED RE-ELECT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
IN SPITE OF THE “SPIN” AND “ENDORSEMENTS” OF JOHN KERRY BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA:
Peter Jennings ABC
Tom Brokaw NBC
Dan Rather CBS
Larry King, Wolf Blitzer, &
James Carville of CNN
The New York Times
The Los Angeles Times
The Washington Post
Chicago Sun-Times
San Francisco Chronicle
The Boston Globe
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Arizona Daily Star
The Oregonian
The Seattle Times
The New Yorker
The Star-Ledger
etc. etc. etc.
AND OTHER KERRY ENDORSEMENTS BY:
The Communist Party
Vietnamese Communists
The Socialist Party
Yasser Arafat
Organization of the Islamic Conference
American Muslim Taskforce
AND THE FOLLOWING KERRY SUPPORTERS:
Bill and Hillary Clinton
Jimmy Carter and Al Gore
Sen. Ted Kennedy & Sen. Robert Byrd
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson
General Wesley Clark and Sandy Berger
George Soros and Richard Clarke
Sen. Tom Daschle and Rep. Nancy Polosi
John Kerry and the other John Kerry
AND 99.99% OF THE HOLLYWOOD CROWD:
Michael Moore & Barbra Streisand
Steven Bing & Ben Affleck
Bruce Springsteen & Michael Stipe
George Clooney & Martin Sheen
Michael J. Fox & Warren Beatty
Aaron Sorkin & Harvey Weinstein
And don't forget Whoopie Goldberg
etc. etc. etc.
PLUS:
DNC and Kerry Campaign attorneys attempting to intimidate anyone who did not agree with Kerry including the Swift Boat Veterans and the P.O.W.’s
AND WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM:
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan
France’s President Jacques Chirac
Germany’s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder
IT IS AMAZING, BUT WE DID IT WITH OUR SECRET WEAPON CALLED THE “TRUTH”
Elections 2004
I think you're right: (from the column)
"Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes."
What she means by cleaning up his political messes, is left in Dowdie's alcoholic haze, and yet she always leaves you knowing she is tremendously jealous of Laura.
She's a self-admitted "highbrow hussy from Washington."
Uxorious
I believe the reference is to mincy, limp-wristed gays, you know, the sterotype? Thought Dems weren't into sterotypes.
I think she also is implying a similarity between "red state" view of gays-who-want-to-be-married and the "red state" view of Kerry.
love your tag line....I may call on you.
i'm past my prime sadly ....for wet work.
I guess you don't run into words like that in public school, not in the last 40 years, anyway.
All of them. This is not even a list of particularly esoteric words. Thirty years ago you would find them used regularly in all sorts of books and occasionally in the newspaper. As the vocabularly of the English language continues to increase, the practical vocabulary of public school educated Americans decreases and writers write for a population with an ever contracting ability to read.
My thoughts exactly!
But I still don't get the "swaddled" reference.
1)To wrap or bind in bandages; swathe.
2)To wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes.
3)To restrain or restrict.
Whatever usage is she referring to?
What a freaking nut.
THE FILTHY NASSSSSTY BUSHIESESSSSSS.....WE HATES THEM FOREVER.....THEY STOLE THE PRECIOUSSSSSSS (gollum, gollum).....IT'S OURSSSSS AND WE WANTS IT, WE WANTS IT....NASSSSSTY THIEVESSSSSSS (gollum, gollum)
I didn't read the article at all. I saw her on MTP w/ her sidekick who kept calling her 'Mo', william safire.
Here's the truth: it is a waste of time to pay any attention to this modern day furie. The only people who listen to her are those who are not clever enough to do simple math.
The bottom line is that she was badly screwed by her Dad in the past; we'll never know the truth of what he did to her. But we do know how stupid she is regarding the men she hangs around now.
the stupidness is clearly reflected in her writings.
Dowd will dry up and blow away only after everyone sees she doesn't even merit an 'alert' anymore...
Lots of other leftist writers are more worthy of scrutiney; e.g., is it just me that has noticed that R. Dawkins is all of the sudden on a bunch of science programs in the MSM outlets? That man is a definite problem ...
Use them in one sentence? Piece of cake.
The organizers stood akimbo facing the triptych esconced catafalque, punctilious in their abstemious reaction to the eulogy that was aborning brio, eschewing torpor and eminating with a celerity from the speaker's desiccated face.
According to Bob Dole, Lyndon Johnson was berating an aid about not being able to make it golfing one Sunday.
Lyndon Johnson: "What are you, a man or a mouse?"
Aid: "A man, sir, my wife is afraid of a mouse."
The new Total B!tch SNL Weekend Update with Tina Fey and Amy Poler did a number on Dowdy last night.
I love it when they eat their own.
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