When I was in college, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, my commie Econ 101 professor blamed everything wrong with the economy on Reagan.

I think we can trust that everything will be blamed on whoever the handiest Republican is.

Yuhp. The next successful Republican president will displace Bush, just as Reagan displaced Nixon, and Nixon displaced, I don't know, Ike.

And from the rooftops will come the cry:

Worst. Presidunce. Eveh.

Can I keep blaming Clinton?

Lileks is great. So much better than you, Ace.

But I still love ya. Iowahawk is better, too, but you have comments where I can say - uh - pithy things. And I've yet to be deleted on this blog. Yes!

No.

Actually, the next terrorist attack stands a good chance of killing *me*, so I guess I'll just have to take a raincheck on all those warm hugs / vitriolic moonbat insults Lileks is promising us from his 99.9% safe Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Man, I gotta get a new job, one someplace not on Al Qaeda's "revisit/do-over" list.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

One of the benefits of living in flyover country is that as long as you don't live in a big city, Al Qaeda won't hurt you - after all, why hit a place if no one in the world knows where it is?

It's gettin' sort of foggy outside. Might make it tough to see the fairways in the morning.

F'n Bush!!!

This perpetual demonization is nothing new. Every four years for well over half a century the Dems have run against Herbert Hoover. Come 2050 and the Left will still see the hand of Bushitler and the Evil Neocons (sounds like a band name) behind every natural or manmade disaster and their every electoral loss.

140 years later, you still find many on the left who still sneer at the accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln. I still feel history will think kindly of Bush on the big things.

Don't be too critical of the loony left. If they were sane, Republicans and conservatives would be out. I thank God every day for the nut case leaders like Howard Dean , Harry Reid, Dumbell Durbin, Teddy Kennedy (make that any Kennedy), Hillary Clinton, and weiro hatefilled organizations like moveon.org. And isn't Soros special? The greatest strength of the Conservatives is the hatefilled character and angry politics of their opposition. Just think what political problems a congenial, loving, lovable lefty would present. Fortunately no lefty would even consider filling that bill.

What Dave said.

There's just something about living in Manhattan. Let me say this, however - if they do nuke me and GWB or whoever succeeds him as President doesn't turn the entire Arab/Muslim world into a shiny glass parking lot, I WILL come back from the grave and haunt that gutless wonder from here to eternity.

And I will help bring the priest to have your dumbass Manhattan ghost exorcised. Try thinking before you type: if a Middle Eastern terrorist lets off a nuclear device here, how is killing everyone in a place where his terrorist brethren have already done plenty of killing and maiming of their own people a fitting response? Muslim terrorists are just as much a problem for Muslims in the Middle East as they are here -- in fact, more so, as it is easier to kill their own people (and they do, in cartloads) than it is to go overseas and kill Americans.

The media/communications strategy of the Bush administration has failed. I would welcome a more aggressive apporach.

The media is gleeful attacking Bush because it is so low risk. Saw Miles O'Brien commenting on the resume of FEMA Director.

No talk of the mayor, the governor. The fact is the media has done a good job on undermining Bush on this. And it will go on until his approval is 20% and
the Congress is in Dem hands.

We'd better get used to it.

I agree, but I have to ask "Why?". Why are the lefties spending so much political capital on someone who's political career is effectively over? 01/20/2009 is comming and then the President will not be in office and will no longer be there to kick around, why not switch to demonizing someone with a future?

Not that I mind...

sinner,

it opens the checkbooks of the faithful 13%

Dean has a pretty poor trackrecord on fundraising.

Dave;s right. It really gets the moonbats fired up, selling their bikes and stuff so we can get rid of Bush and Rove once and for all!

I'd like to think our side was pure on this type of boob-baiting, but every time Santorum opens his mouth I think perhaps not.

Dear Abby:

My husband is a liar and a cheat. He has cheated on me from the beginning, and when I confront him, he denies everything. What's worse, everyone knows he cheats on me. It is so humiliating.

Also, since he lost his job five years ago he hasn't even looked for a new one. All he does is buy cigars and cruise around and bull**** with his pals, while I have to work to pay the bills. Since our daughter went away to college he doesn't even pretend to like me and hints that I am a lesbian. What should I do?

Signed, Clueless

Dear Clueless:

Grow up and dump him. For Pete's sake, you don't need him anymore -- You're a United States Senator from New York, and its high time that you started acting like one!

sponge, I think there's also some element of "it feels good to rant and howl", but mostly I think it's money.

check this out from Bob Somerby - I can't stand the guy's politics but I do love his take on screaming at the right,

As red-state Houston houses the homeless, our brilliant professors shout loud, nasty names. Result? This will become an increasingly conservative country, in which mature red-staters house the homeless—and institute their tax and military policies—while our dumb-ass liberals rant and rail. But so what! People who run with Atrios will have the thrill of having been so right! Why, everyone will have been racists but them! Readers! Oh what a feeling!

Has anyone seen the plug for the new TV show 'Commander in Chief'? I saw it last night for the first time. It stars Gena Davis as the first woman president. My first thought is that the libs are preparing viewers to vote for Hilary in '08.

I don't think a female chief executive would do a bad job, as long as they do better than this:

Officials in Louisiana agree that the governor would not have given up control over National Guard troops in her state as would have been required to send large numbers of active-duty soldiers into the area. But they also say they were desperate and would have welcomed assistance by active-duty soldiers.

"I need everything you have got," Ms. Blanco said she told Mr. Bush last Monday, after the storm hit.

In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that," Ms. Blanco said. "I thought that I had requested everything they had. We were living in a war zone by then."

Hm.

Many feel it may take till Doomsday to recover from this eight year plague but I'm hopeful that an administration and Congress that puts America and NOT the tax bills of potential political doners FIRST...could put us back into world leader-ship shape in no time.

Many feel it may take till Doomsday to recover from this eight year plague but I'm hopeful that an administration and Congress that puts America and NOT the tax bills of potential political doners FIRST...could put us back into world leader-ship shape in no time.

We're already recovering.

Water's being pumped out of the city, new homes are being found for the victims and the rebuilding process has begun in some areas.

And we're still the world leader.

So take your talking points elsewhere.

Dane,

1. Be honest. Replace "many feel" with "I feel."

2. Be specific if you actually want to discuss. If you're
just venting, then that's fine, but don't expect a substantive response.

3. Funny how this "eight year plague" was put into place, and kept in place by the VOTERS. If you don't like it, then win elections.

Many feel it may take till Doomsday...

Which is defined as the next Democratic administration, right? Otherwise, by your 'logic', there can be no recovery.

Dane, is your email address really "lump it lefty"?! I love it! It's got that "sod off swampy" sort of feel.

Did you intend that?

"Be specific if you actually want to discuss. If you're
just venting, then that's fine, but don't expect a substantive response"

Is this Harry Callahan or Mary Callahan? What happened to 'Well punk do you feel lucky today..."? :)

I'm a kindler, gentler, more introspective Harry Callahan.

Plus, I can't find my Model 29 today. Dammit.

It's an eighty eight magnum. It shoots through schools.