If Not Now, When? [Fred Barnes: “ ...everybody gets it" but(the) Democrats”]

The Weekly Standard ^ | February 14 / February 21, 2005 issue | by Fred Barnes

[johnny7]

I heard Chris Wallace on an interview with Howie Carr... WRKO talk-show host/Boston Herald writer. Wallace was at this 'lunch' and was talking to Bush with Brit Hume. They looked over in the corner and saw Dan Rather, alone and somewhat uneasy.

The president walked over to Rather(Wallace followed) and said... “Hi Dan... you 'gonna be retiring in Austin?”

SWEET!

[riri]

The president can be very cold.

I love that about him.

[Balding_Eagle]

For decades, Republicans prayed for the day they'd control Congress. Having achieved that, Rove said, it's time to do something with it.

How true that is.

[Condor51]

Fred Barnes ROCKS!
IMO he is absolutely the best conservative 'pundit'. He literally eats Mara and Juan alive and puts Mort in his place like whipped dog. And the way he crosses his arms in a show of disdain and dominance over the liberal twits brings a smile to my face.

I even unknowingly started doing it a few years back. One night after verbally putting a liberal in his place I noticed I had my arms crossed in triumph, just like Fred does.

[GVnana]

Amen.

[TADSLOS]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[lormand]

“Hi Dan... you 'gonna be retiring in Austin?”

...hoping to see Rather here in the Austin area so I can let him know how we "feel" about him.

[ccmay]

The president can be very cold. I love that about him.

He was the designated hatchet man in his father's White House. It goes along with his blunt talk on everything else.

I would rather have a man who is honest and candid, not someone who sneaks around and talks behind your back. I bet Bill Clinton never fired anybody face-to-face in his life.

-ccm

[marktwain]

For decades, Republicans prayed for the day they'd control Congress. Having achieved that, Rove said, it's time to do something with it.

Truer words were never spoken. Bush's plan to create an ownership society is the way to go. It destroys the dependency base the Marxists have created.

Americas long, illicit affair with socialism is about to end, now that she has been revealed as a lying, promiscuous, ungrateful simpleton.

[Valin]

The Bush agenda is dominant across the board, as Democrats have failed to lay claim to a single issue on the table in 2005.

Memo to the Democrats:
Life is full of disappointments...this is one of them..DEAL WITH IT.

[Valin]

Dan Rather? Who's he?

[ConservativeConvert]

Fred is indeed good. Mort is pretty good too and even Mara seems to be a reality-based Democrat. Juan Williams is the most out-of-touch. But the very best Fox All-Star is Charles Krauthammer.

[xzins]

filibuster in the Senate will become the answer to everything.

with a complicit media they can get away with it most of the time.

[drt1]

"But the very best Fox All-Star is Charles Krauthammer"

I second that!

[johnny7]

And the way he crosses his arms in a show of disdain and dominance over the liberal twits brings a smile to my face.

'Ya 'gotta like the guy. Poor Mort, Fred treats him like his misbegotten son. I got friends like Mort who are good Americans... but need a good kick sometimes when they need 'remindin!

Krauthammer is the one who puts the whip to Juan and Mara. The guy is unmerciful with them... and for good reason. He has no patience whatsoever with spineless, waffling toadies.

[MKM1960]

Then the first time it happens Sen. Frist better better tell the Dems that the new rules are off the old rules apply haul in the cots and coffee cause nobody is going anywhere. They want to filibuster then they are going filibuster the old fashioned way. Let's see if Sheets is up for another 14 hour speech.

[Valin]

I LOVE the look on Britt Humes face when Juan Williams is talking.

[DTogo]

Ditto!

[JustaCowgirl]

i>The president told one anchor that he didn't think the anchor understood "the politics of Social Security."

Something I heard Chris Wallace say to Brit Hume about this made me think the anchor in question was Peter Jennings (he definitely said it was ABC). Oh, how sweet it would have been to hear W put the ever-so-smug and arrogant PJ in his place.

[Just A Nobody]

But the very best Fox All-Star is Charles Krauthammer.

So true. Did anyone catch his brilliant analysis on Fox's Sunday night coverage of the Iraq election? He was shot down by Tony Snow at the speed of light. The camera was still on Charles when he laid his head back, rolled his eyes and exhaled.