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Molly Ivans' columns, like those by Maureen Dowd, can be easily and simply translated. The translation is this:
"I hate Bush."
Of course, repeated columns that said just those three words would become even more boring than the ones that these two harrigans actually write. So the message has to be dressed up, some.
Therefore, each article becomes, "I distrust BLANK who is doing BLANK. And, by the way, BLANK is associated with Bush in the following manner -- BLANK."
The sad part is there are a few million Americans who take trash and twaddle like this seriously. Ivans is a fine writer, when she sticks to subjects she knows and can discuss without prejudice, namely the pecadillos of Texas state legislators. Dowd is never a good writer, she is merely a dictionary plus an attitude. "There's no there, there."

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Molly Ivans' columns, like those by Maureen Dowd, can be easily and simply translated. The translation is this:

"I hate Bush."

Oh, I don't know. I think Molly likes a little bush every now and then.

Ivins is a fine writer

Ivins is a terrible writer, period. Her tone is almost always juvenile, she never has anything clever, insightful or original to say, and she has no coherent sense of organization in making her point.

Ivins lucked out when W became president, because as a reliable Bush hater from Texas she was able to go national. Otherwise she would still be the fourth rate local writer she started out as.