Posted on 12/22/2005 4:45:32 PM PST by GRRRRR
MoDooDoo was interviewed by the pockmarked Andrea Mitchell tonight.
What a pair of deluded and misguided humans....read on if you can...but first, here's a pic of the man-deprived MoDo.
You know the rules.. post the Catherine Zeta Jones photos..
Where do you think the american people are on this issue of eavesdropping?
>> I don't think -- i think that the most dangerous thing that cheney has done through the years is sort of change the american identity. I think he wanted to do that. I think he wanted to exercise the ghosts of vietnam and watergate and get rid of moral ambivalence and get moral clarity. But the way he has done it has caused the opposite effect. And i think that americans don't like snooping. And a lot of republicans don't like snooping. And it has caused bush to lose the republicans in congress.
>> Do you think that they do solidify the base? Solidify the base of people who really worry about 9/11. This goes back to the same thing the president campaigned successfully on in 2004.
>> Right. Well, I am the daughter of a police detective. I always err on the side of keeping law enforcement all the tools it needs. These guys just -- this is not about that. They could have gone to the super secret court and gotten the warrants they needed. This court, since 1978, has only rejected five warrants out of nearly 19,000. It wasn't about that. It was about cheney's intense obsession about expanding executive power. He wanted to blow off this court.
>> You and others focused so much on dick cheney. Doesn't he really reflect what this president believes?
>> Yes. The bushes, you can the bushes. -- You know the bushes. You were a brilliant reagan report where we covered reagan together. And the bushes, even from the time the father was vice president, their whole family mantra is trust us, we know best. But I think in the case of bush and cheney, they have gone so far around the lawn in so many areas and not told the truth in some areas that it is hard even for republicans to trust them.
>> This is one area, you've written so much about the father/son, the freudian bush analysis. This is where they're pretty much in think.
>> On the trust me thing. Look who it is. It was one thing to trust them when they had jim baker. It is another thing with dick cheney who as bob woodward wrote in his book, has this weird fever. He brought america into the bunker with him. He has a dark looney paranoid vision. Bush wanted to be reagan ii but cheney and rumsfeld are like nixon ii.
>> Weren't they in their minds minds -- what cheney said on the phone. It is not a coincidence.
>> Right.
>> There hasn't been an attack because in fact, they did expand the powers and used this surveillance in a way that it hasn't been used before.
>> I don't agree with that. This whole attitude that warns are so 20th century. You've got to go by the law. You have to. We're -- first cheney and bush shredded the atlanta goliaths. Then the geneva convention and then bill of rights.
>> As an expert on, are men necessary, is this a gender thing? Would a woman president be pursuing national security quite the same way? Would it really matter which woman?
>> If you went to a catholic girls school you would know women can be just as nasty and territorial as men. If you've seen the amazon b movies. I do use cheney as an example, they were afraid to let a woman be president because they thought she would have lunar tides and raging hormones. But cheney has raging hormone every day.
>> I'm not sure I want to go there.
>>Ow do you think women voters react to this? Women care as much as men about protecting the family, the homeland.
>> Of course. That's why they often vote on manliness issues too. They want the good father who will protect the house from intruders just like men do. The question is is this effective? Was torture -- cheney keeps pushing for torture. Is that effective? So I don't think it is.
>> Where does this put a candidate such as hillary clinton? Who has moved on to the armed services committee. And tried to increase her own reputation on both foreign policy and in the military?
>> She's trying to be as manly as she can. She voted to authorize war. She's on the armed services committee. She'sments triangulating and pandering on this flag burning act. I don't know if she is going in the right direction either. I think the guy who comes out the best is mccain. He made the white house back off on torture and also, he's warning that we're losing our moral authority. And I think we are with things like big brother snooping and torture and more torture.
>> And someone like condoleezza rice?
>> Well, that's interesting. Because the question with her, does she really go along with all these things that these guys are proposing? Or does she try and resist it in internal meetings?
>> She was at the table. She was the advise or when all this took place.
>> It is interesting that she has such tight polls even though she goes along with these unpopular decisions. But like hillary, she's very manly. They don't cry and they don't throw like girls.
>> You're using the term manly -- as a positive. Politically.
>> For them, yeah.
>> They're relentless.
>> Condoleezza rice has also been a softer foreign policy person since she became secretary of state. She's become a diplomat. Some people suggest she is doing all the things colin powell tried to do in the first four years and got turned down. Talked to the north koreans, talked to the iranians, make peace with europe.
>> It is fascinating. The question about condi is, will they try to knock cheney off and get his job so she can set herself up against hillary? The dream race would be mccain and condi versus hillary and obama. Somehow he could leave early and go into the secure undisclosed location a little early and let her get on the ticket somehow.
>> What reaction do you get from men to the book?
>> Oh, well, I've been deluged with emails and letters and calls and guys wanting to talk about it and say whether they like strong women or don't like strong women and whether their daughters should try to hide it if they're strong. So it is funny. I feel like dear abbey answering all these email.
>> You've become our national therapeutic.
>> Exactly.
>> In addition to the being everything else, you are maureen dowd. Thank you so much.
>> Thanks. Merry christmas.
>> And coming up, as we wind down the year, we'll take a look at how president bush is getting along after the leak of the N.S.A. Domestic surveillance program. And the ongoing C.I.A. Leak investigation. One of the president's closest media advisors will be with us.
I had some CZJ pics but my hard drive melted...errrr, my dog ate my disc...uhhhh
Thanks for the reminder. I need to send Dowd more batteries as a holiday gift.
Dowd is to Cheney what that crazy guy from Berkeley, who always misrepresents himself on talk radio shows, is to Stephen King.
#7
It must be me, but I really expected this woman to be much more attractive.
For those of you who hunger for information that the MSM harpy's can't deliver, go to Powerline - they just finished exhaustive legal research on the legality of the NSA taps. Its a good read.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/012631.php
Whether Chris Matthews likes it or not, Michael Savage has a far larger audience, heheheheheheheee
INDUSTRIAL Strength eh, wot?
More batteries...............ROFLMO.........took me a couple of seconds.............LOL. Heck, give he one of those direct pulg ins............LOL
Seperated at birth?
>> I don't think --
Finally, she says something that I can actually agree with. :=)
I wonder if her father looked like Dick Cheney...
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