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To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
Pinging the Steyn list!

A KEEPER!


2 posted on 09/28/2002 3:58:21 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: scholar; Bullish
Ping
3 posted on 09/28/2002 3:59:14 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: Pokey78
Faction B was pro-war when it was Bill Clinton in charge but anti-war now there's a Republican rallying the troops

A perfect example of how hypocrite they are.

4 posted on 09/28/2002 4:01:43 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: Pokey78
Thanks much, Pokey!
6 posted on 09/28/2002 4:04:25 PM PDT by Molly Pitcher
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A prime example of why we fell in love with Steyn!
20 posted on 09/28/2002 5:13:11 PM PDT by Amelia
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"Democrats are acting like some old-time carney freakshow"

Hahaha! Another great Steyn line! And spot on, too.

33 posted on 09/28/2002 6:53:29 PM PDT by Lady Jag
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To: Pokey78
A keeper? Okay !! Bump for a.m. read......
36 posted on 09/28/2002 7:09:42 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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But, as someone who sat there howling with laughter as Senator Daschle blinked back tears, I think his attack on the President was an example of what the shrinks call displacement: Bush only implied the Democrats were soft on the war; Gore positively boasted about it.

Zing!

47 posted on 09/28/2002 8:13:50 PM PDT by PogySailor
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To: Pokey78
This has to be one of Steyn's best ever!

Could you add me to your ping list pretty please?

Thank you!
55 posted on 09/28/2002 10:04:24 PM PDT by terilyn
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To: Pokey78; Snow Bunny; Alamo-Girl; onyx; Republican Wildcat; Howlin; Fred Mertz; dixiechick2000; ...
Excerpt:

As I understand it, the British Labour Party is divided between those in favour of war with Iraq and those opposed to it. In the US Democratic Party, it's more complicated:.

Faction A is anti-war but trying hard not to have to say so between now and election day in November.

Faction B was pro-war when it was Bill Clinton in charge but anti-war now there's a Republican rallying the troops.

Faction C can go either way but huffily insists that to ask them to express an opinion would be to "politicise" the war.

Faction D can't quite figure which position alienates least of their supporters and so articulates a whole all-you-can-eat salad bar of conflicting positions and then, in a weird postmodern touch, ostentatiously agonises over the "inherent risks" in each of them.

Faction E thinks the priority right now should be to sit around holding inquiries into why the administration failed to act on what it knew about al-Qa'eda before they killed thousands of Americans. To act on what we know about Saddam before he kills thousands of Americans would be an unnecessary distraction from the important work of investigating why we didn't act last time round.

Taken as a whole, the 50 Democratic senators' current positions on Iraq forms the all-time record multiple-contortionist pretzel display. But a week ago they showed signs of finally remembering the First Rule of Holes: when you're in one, stop digging. Instead of talking about why they don't want to talk about Iraq, they correctly figured that the easiest thing would be to give Bush some qualified, perfunctory support and hastily change the subject to something more favourable, such as the allegedly collapsing economy.

But then Al Gore rose from the dead......

< snip >

Five weeks till election day and the Democratic Party's doing a dandy impression of one of those incompetent suicide bombers who accidentally self-detonates before he gets on the bus.


You're right, Pokey. Steyn nails this one !!



Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.

69 posted on 09/29/2002 3:54:01 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP
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To: Pokey78
A KEEPER!

But you are understating! This is the BEST article I've read yet, either about the Rats or Gore or Daschole or Iraq. Thanks for the ping, pokey. A definite bookmarker!!

79 posted on 09/29/2002 6:36:37 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Pokey78
Bump!
97 posted on 09/29/2002 12:20:10 PM PDT by windchime
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