"Ah hates Barbara Boxer"
Posted on 05/03/2005 8:21:13 PM PDT by quidnunc
During the impeachment trial of blessed memory, I had a brief conversation with Sen. Barbara Boxer. “My duty is to the Constitution,” she said gravely. “My duty is to preserve our two-party democratic system. It’s up to the Democrats to save the Republican party from itself.” Warming to her theme, the petite brunette liberal extremist noted the latest Republican poll numbers — down somewhere between Robert Mugabe and the Ebola virus — and explained, “That’s not good for our democracy. This is a tragedy for the Republicans. The GOP has become the Get Our President party. That’s not the Republican party the people want. We have to reach out to them.”
“Oh, come off it,” I said. Well, okay, I didn’t. Instead I nodded thoughtfully in a nonpartisan sort of way and marveled at the senator’s ability to reel off her bit with a straight face. Eventually, sensing a massive uncontainable guffaw rising in her gullet, Ms. Boxer wrapped it up and stepped into the Senate elevator. As the doors slid closed, muffled howls of laughter began to shake the Capitol, glass rattled in the windows, plaster fell from the ceiling . . . Politics affords few greater pleasures than offering one’s opponents some friendly but hopefully lethal piece of advice.
We’re in one of those phases now — hence, the vogue for columns on the “Conservative Crackup,” a fearsome beast that, like the Loch Ness Monster, more and more folks claim to have spotted looming in the distance. In reality, the unrelieved gloom is on the Dem side of the ledger: The Republicans are all but certain to increase their majority in 2006. Whereas, if you want the state of the Democratic party in a single image, cut out the photograph from the New York Times the other day: a pumped Robert C. Byrd giving a clenched-fist salute at a MoveOn.org rally. That’s the Rainbow Coalition 2005 model: a dwindling band of ancient vindictive legislators yoked to a cash-flush unrepresentative fringe. It would actually be to the Democrats’ advantage if the Byrd-Kos union were to crack up, but instead their union seems merely cracked, like a miscast double-act thrown together by a desperate burlesque agent.
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Just want to go on record as saying "Ah hates Barbara Boxer" (and if I had a picture of Yosemite Sam I would post it here.
Ahhhhhhhh that felt good.
THAT is one of Steyn's articles I didn't like---eww--and if Hillbilly reads it (and you know she will), it will just stroke her ego that much more....
I don't think Mr. Steyn needed to do that...
"Ah hates Barbara Boxer"
"a dwindling band of ancient vindictive legislators yoked to a cash-flush unrepresentative fringe"
money quote.
Hey! not gonna happen anyway. No known photos of her exist where she is wearing flannel and carrying a shotgun.
Love it!!!
LOL!!!Sometimes that little guy so totally expresses my feelings!!!!!
THANKS VERY MUCH, ENTERPRISE :)
Consider for example current Senators Sheets Byrd, the Cap'n of the USS Oldsmobile, and Pukeulski from MD. The idiot Barbie Boxcar will be in the Senate until A) she retires, or, B) we kick Cubafornia out of the Union.
Not holding m'breath on either of those eventualities.
The only thing that's "petite" about Boxer is her brain. You don't have to have any intelligence to be a Communist. The government does your thinking for you.
"Thufferin' thuccotash, I hate her too!"
Oh, yeah, babe!! WTG!! (pardon the Emerilism, pls...g!)
I think one of the article's key points is that Hillary is one smart, tough politico and that Republicans underestimate her at their peril. If the GOP cannot put together an effective counter to her support among Dems, libs, social moderates, and the ink-stained legions of the MSM, we will wake up in early November with a bad case of "Clinton Redux".
Have ya seen ted kennedy lately?
Teddy Boy isn't going to run for President any time soon.........
I think we need a Republican Governor to run for President in 2008. Who would be good? Frist, Condi, lack the gravitas of a Governor, an experienced executive.
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