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  • It’s the Loyalty, Stupid (Dowd Alert)

    08/13/2014 4:33:36 AM PDT · by Haiku Guy · 16 replies
    New York Times Op-Ed ^ | 8/12/14 | Maureen Dowd
    I talked to Robin Williams once, about breasts. (snip) Williams delightedly riffed on the caricature, playing the role of an older Irish woman answering the sex line in a brusque brogue, ordering a horny caller to go to the devil with his impure thoughts and disgusting desire. (snip) Hillary Clinton was one of the 29 Democratic senators who voted to authorize that baloney war (Iraq). (snip) Channeling her pal John McCain, she took a cheap shot at President Obama when his approval rating on foreign policy had dropped to 36 percent, calling him a wimp just as he was preparing...
  • Wall Street’s Socialist Jet-Setters - DOWD Alert

    01/28/2009 2:09:42 PM PST · by gridlock · 23 replies · 859+ views
    New York Times Op/Ed ^ | 1/27/09 | Maureen Dowd
    WASHINGTON: As President Obama spreads his New Testament balm over the capital, I’m longing for a bit of Old Testament wrath. Couldn’t he throw down his BlackBerry tablet and smash it in anger over the feckless financiers, the gods of gold and their idols — in this case not a gilt calf but an $87,000 area rug, a cache of diamond Tiffany and Cartier watches and a French-made luxury corporate jet? Now that we’re nationalizing, couldn’t we fire any obtuse bankers and auto executives who cling to perks and bonuses even as the economy is following John Thain down his...