As she left the White House beat, The New York Times’ Elisabeth Bumiller offered some parting insights that might help those mystified by this administration:
- Though it pretends otherwise, the White House is obsessed with media coverage. “Laura Bush once excoriated me during an interview for something I had written in the last paragraph of a story that you needed a St. Bernard to find in the paper,” Bumiller said.
- Those oft-quoted “Republicans close to the White House” often are “White House-sanctioned leakers — lobbyists, former party officials — who would pass on information West Wing officials wanted out. . . . White House officials then said they had no idea where these terrible leaks were coming from.”
- ‚”Like just about everyone,” the president “can be short-tempered, impatient and brusque.”
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Why am I not surprised?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364×1403272
A nice little link to a review of a film about what happens to a member of congress when they dare to speak out about stolen elections and inept government..
Slime.
Not recommended reading for the koolaide krowd. And some of you may get in touch with your inner dupe.
As in, you were duped on the McKinney threads.
I see many of you self proclaimed “moderates” swallowing the bait, hook, line, and sinker.
…and a little more food for thought about how NOT fighting fire with fire will get us four more years of a bushco puppet.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×2673795
The gist of this article is “we wont win just because we are right”.
To which I would add, we wont win by being gentler, by being more polite, by being above it all, by rolling over, etc. We wont win because we are smarter, we govern better, we are TRUE patriots, etc.
We will win by meeting them face to face on their own ground. It is what the voters clearly demand.
Or we can spend the next presidential term whining about how the conservatives dont fight fair. So much easier than doing what needs to be done to get these bastards out of government.
Go ahead. Whine away. How is that working? Does it feel better than victory?
I am starting to think losing, with the accompanying right to whine, must feel great for the so called progressives.
KFG,Appreciate, as always, your comments. Do you think at any point, getting in the mud, gouging, poking and biting with the Repub’s starts to have a downside as a strategy? Just wondering.
It does seem to me that the Rovian approach has worked – “they [meaning democrats] attack and do not have positive alternatives to offer”. The unsaid part of the counter is that they (Repubs) have nothing constructive to offer, and never have when it comes to the interests of the middle class.
I’d like to win and be dignified in so doing, but if I could choose only one of the preceding, I would choose to win.
I don’t think trying to sneak through by getting enough middle – undecided – voters is going to work [see Kerry campaign, for an example]; firing up the base is a good idea – the problem is that the Dem base is pretty small compared to the Repub base. I would like to see a good solid message that could appeal to the masses IN ADDITION to effective countering of REPUBLICAN B.S.
If you haven’t seen it, check out this Washington Post editorial:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060901977.html
It’s only an opinion. I don’t think that a party label makes you smarter or ables you to govern better. It depends on the person.
But most people think it’s labels. Saying Democrats are smarter and govern better is like saying Whites are smarter and govern better.
Good Luck in November!
I could quote the original source, the WaPo, but I’m gonna make ‘em go to DU if they wanna know what we are talking about.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132×2673901
I like websites that serve as portals to other news. I rarely quote them since someone always cries tin foil.
I now find if I link to the “tin foil” it weeds out the riff raff.
KFG! You are not too far off on the tin foil hat.
DAILYKOS CONVENTIONEERS WEAR TINFOIL HATS!
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2006/06/11/earth_calling.html
Just keep thinking that joe. Just two or three folks with no life. Nothing to worry about….
“But last week the political blogger – someone who runs an online journal – emerged into the mainstream and shed the stereotype in the glare and glitz of a Las Vegas casino.
At their helm was former soldier Markos Moulitsas. At the age of 34, Moulitsas has progressed from private policy nerd to one of the best- known public voices in Democratic politics…
Thousands of bloggers gathered last week in the Riviera….
Anyone who thinks blogging is over-rated should have looked at the guest list of power players who followed the blogging herd to Las Vegas to woo and be wooed by these latest additions to the political scene.
Reporters and columnists from all the main newspapers showed up, as did Democratic strategists. Even potential Democrat candidates for the 2008 presidential election pitched up to network and sell their political wares to the online community…”
Since that came from a so called tin foil site, I wont even mention which one.
Move along here, nothing to see. heheheheh
KFG
Give em’ hell, as Harry Truman said.
KFG
{should have been }
Give em’ hell, as was said to Harry Truman.
You’re Right KFG. The Democratunderground blog and the Daily Kos blog is on par to the main stream media. They should recieve status that the NYT and Washington Post has.
The pseudonym driven posters have much more insight than a two-bit journalist from CBS. How dare they not pay attention to the new source gem that is the Daily Kos.
But remember! Only Democrat blogs must recieve this status. Republican blogs and any other are completely b.s. and not to be taken seriously, because it is just an opinion arm of the far-right. Daily Kos is not that.
That’s cool! I’m sure you guys are rubbing your hands and can’t wait to take over the Congress again. What will the Democrats do first once they take over power again?
QUOTE: Congressman: Democratic Majority Means More Money for District; ‘I’m going to earmark the s**t out of it’…
Looks like good ol’ payouts and patronages again. Yeah! Back the Democrat Machines!
http://sungazette.net/articles/2006/06/11/arlington/news/nws936e.txt
Here’s a good video that goes along with KFG’s second link. In fact, it was a response posted in that link.
Dean on blogs:http://www.politicstv.com/blog/?p=201
DAILYKOS CONVENTIONEERS WEAR TINFOIL HATS!
Sounds like a peaceful way to make a point, to me. What’s the problem?
I don’t know where I got this, if it was from someone’s post here or somewhere else. If the former, I apologize for reposting, but if the latter, and you haven’t seen it, it’s worth the almost 2 hours.
Orwell Rolls in His Gravehttp://www.freespeech.org/fscm2/contentviewer.php?content_id=1166
heheheheh RD, do I have you hooked on the Rude Pundit?
He did a riff on it today too!!
KFG, not hooked. Yet.
I had some extra time on my hands yesterday and was cleaning off the shortcuts on my desktop. Saw the link to the Orwell thing and decided to watch. I didn’t have time to finish, which is probably a good thing, because I was deeply saddened by what I was seeing. This is probably the cause for my b!tchiness today.
Very synchronicitous, I’d say. (I think I just made up that word. LOL)