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Mark Steyn: A lot of fuss about nothing
The Spectator (U.K.) ^ | 10/29/05 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 10/27/2005 6:52:54 AM PDT by Pokey78

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1 posted on 10/27/2005 6:52:57 AM PDT by Pokey78
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To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...

Steyn ping!


2 posted on 10/27/2005 6:54:03 AM PDT by Pokey78 (‘FREE [INSERT YOUR FETID TOTALITARIAN BASKET-CASE HERE]’)
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BTTT

Hopefully there won't be any indictments tomorrow and W will nominate a true blue conservative judge for the Supremes.

Talk about making a lemonade out of a lemon. LOL


3 posted on 10/27/2005 6:59:35 AM PDT by kellynla (U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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Another Steyn gem. Just what I needed to cheer me up.


4 posted on 10/27/2005 7:01:10 AM PDT by pushforbush
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The Dems’ big immovable obstacle remains their inability to articulate a set of ideas that connects with the electorate

Which is also exactly the problem with the Conservative Party in the UK !

5 posted on 10/27/2005 7:04:35 AM PDT by 1066AD
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We'll give you Newt Gingrich to jump-start your Conservative Party, and we'll throw in both Clintons as a goodwill gesture.


6 posted on 10/27/2005 7:06:59 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .....)
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To: Pokey78

I sit here speechless....

One of his best ever.


7 posted on 10/27/2005 7:07:13 AM PDT by misterrob
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Damn, Steyn is good: the world’s most lavishly funded intelligence agency can do no better on a priority security matter than flying in a vain unqualified buffoon for a week of pseudo-spook tourism.

And: If the Left were nimbler, they’d have figured that the whole thing is just a Karl Rove front operation to provoke the Times into tearing itself apart.

8 posted on 10/27/2005 7:09:09 AM PDT by mikegi
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Bump for later copy. I'm going to e-mail this one around.


9 posted on 10/27/2005 7:09:34 AM PDT by Renfield (If Gene Tracy was the entertainment at your senior prom, YOU might be a redneck...)
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Steyn, as usual, is great.

If Special Prosecutor Fitzpatrick does NOT look into the likelihood that elements within the CIA were running an opertion against the president, then Fitzpatrick is not the even-handed, non-partisan genius that the MSM is making him out to be.

He's an amateur.

Such an operation would be a violation of the Hatch Act (among others?), and would be relevant to the case at hand.

10 posted on 10/27/2005 7:09:46 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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Another home run by the Sultan of Steyn.
I get a grin, agin.


11 posted on 10/27/2005 7:10:06 AM PDT by hang 'em (Hey Libs:Iraq isn't Vietnam:Plame isn't Watergate:Bush isn't Nixon:Stuck in 60's=Stuck on STUPID)
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I am so glad that the usual reaction of the Left to conservative thought is to ignore it; someday they might actually read Steyn without a dismissive glance and a scoff, and we will be the worse off for it.
12 posted on 10/27/2005 7:12:01 AM PDT by kingu (Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
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I think Steyn is on to something by going back and looking at the 1994 midterm elections. Because it was at that moment that the tide changed for Republicans. I would agree that it was throw the bums in more than throw the bums out. What needs to be said is that the 1994 election was about the voter's being disconnected with those that they elected. The past few months tell us there is a bigger disconnect with those that were elected and those that put them in office than there was in 1994. Those who voted expected more. They expected more than than Harriet Miers. The biggest travesty is that Republicans have continued politics as usual for what is the majority party. As a minority party it is easy to attack Bobby Byrd's abuse of his power to spread the pork in WV. But the fact is Teddy Stevens is the Bobby Byrd of the Republican party, and it is about time someone stood up and gave Stevens what they would have given Bobby Byrd. Unfortunately, the more I see of political parties the more they appear to operate as criminal gang and a bunch of racketeers. That is certainly what they were in the time of Arthur and Conkling, but the difference was there was no income tax which allowed politicians to skim such a big portion of the GDP for their petty political purposes.


13 posted on 10/27/2005 7:16:42 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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Thanks !


14 posted on 10/27/2005 7:17:15 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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Terrific! A nice bunch of Steyn-provoked belly laughs is a great way to start the day. :-)


15 posted on 10/27/2005 7:17:48 AM PDT by TChris ("The central issue is America's credibility and will to prevail" - Goh Chok Tong)
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>New Orleans is a nice place to have a margarita with a topless transsexual but they wouldn’t want to live there

Pardon me if this
is off-topic, but I think
I prefer to share

margaritas with
fully dressed transsexuals.
I mean, be honest,

with transsexuals
most of the time their clothing
is their best feature.

16 posted on 10/27/2005 7:18:29 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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A Steyn classic!
17 posted on 10/27/2005 7:22:16 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Fitz has a bit more to worry about than the guy who brought down Martha Stewart for lying about a crime that wasn't committed.

Bringing down a government for a crime that wasn't committed is a heavy burden. Is he up to it?


18 posted on 10/27/2005 7:23:17 AM PDT by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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"... but that the world’s most lavishly funded intelligence agency can do no better on a priority security matter than flying in a vain unqualified buffoon for a week of pseudo-spook tourism."

Now that is one of the best lines I have read lately. Wonder if the boys and girls in Northern Virginia are reading that? LOL


19 posted on 10/27/2005 7:27:41 AM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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The more looters and welfare deadbeats who went on TV to whine that Bush wasn’t doing enough, the more most Americans remembered that New Orleans is a nice place to have a margarita with a topless transsexual but they wouldn’t want to live there and they don’t see why they should pay a gazillion dollars to those who do.

No one sums it up quite like Steyn.

20 posted on 10/27/2005 7:29:26 AM PDT by Red Boots
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