Posted on 03/02/2005 10:35:08 AM PST by bloggerhoss
James Taranto, in his Best of the Web feature today, posts a TiVo-enabled transcript of Nancy Soderbergh (former Clinton aide) talking to Jon Stewart on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. On the subject of the obvious relationship between Bush policy in Iraq and the Jan. 30 elections there,
Soderberg: It's scary for Democrats, I have to say.
Stewart: He's gonna be a great--pretty soon, Republicans are gonna be like, "Reagan was nothing compared to this guy." Like, my kid's gonna go to a high school named after him, I just know it.
Soderberg: Well, there's still Iran and North Korea, don't forget. There's hope for the rest of us.
Stewart: [crossing fingers] Iran and North Korea, that's true, that is true [audience laughter]. No, it's--it is--I absolutely agree with you, this is--this is the most difficult thing for me to--because, I think, I don't care for the tactics, I don't care for this, the weird arrogance, the setting up. But I gotta say, I haven't seen results like this ever in that region.
Soderberg: Well wait. It hasn't actually gotten very far. I mean, we've had--
Stewart: Oh, I'm shallow! I'm very shallow!
Soderberg: There's always hope that this might not work.
To be fair, she did earlier qualify her "hope that this might not work" by admitting "as an American, you hope good things would happen." But it underscores the moral dilemma faced by the Bush-hating left.
Jon seems to be really shaken by the onslaught of good news. It makes him even less funny than usual, and he really fears that. That whole "mess-o-potamia" bit is now totally blown.
His guest had the same problem, since the point of her entire book was to point out how all the events currently unfolding are impossible.
It's ironic that they are now praying (only semi-jokingly) for something to screw up so that they can hop on it.
Looks like the Dems will just have to settle for beating up straw-man Social Security arguments and scaring old people with BS stories to make themselves feel better, at least until the press starts beating up on the Prez. again.
There seem to be quite a few "new" signups pushing this same blog.
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