I bet the cable news folks are providing wall-to-wall coverage of Report Release Parties all over the U.S., but I don't have TV in my cubicle at work
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Do these cats know how to party or what? Did I hear something about former Sen. Alan Simpson doing the hula in a grass skirt?With this release of the Iraq Study Group's big report, I imagine it must be coast-to-coast ISG-mania! (Come on, West Coast, you've got some catching up to do!) So how is your celebration going? Here at the NYC branch HQ, we couldn't find that old botter of ginger ale we thought was in the fridge, so we're kind of winging it. (We lived large, dumping out what was left in the old pot at the coffee machine and putting on a fresh one.)
Meanwhile our friend Noah offers this perspective on the festivities:
"Isn't it really an intervention? By the people who, along with the media, put W in the White House in the first place? I'm interested to see what support the media give it. I can tell you that I'm sick of hearing them refer to the thugs behind it (Baker, etc.) as distinguished, great Americans."
posted by KenInNY @ 10:40 AM
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It is a sight to see, Ken. Edwin Meese even has caught the TV commentator fever as he painstakingly tells us how Bush 43 is in line with the plan and how the ISG is in line with what he is already doing.
And, it makes one's head spin to see Nora McDonald holding the guest's feet to the fire.
The circus has begun and, I think this is only the first ring. There are others to come.
Though Bush does not know it yet, I suspect that the battle begins here in earnest. But, again, that is just an intuition of mine.
I am writing about some of that. More later.
The hula indeed. Very funny....haha.
Noah, I salute you, Sir. James Baker is nothing but a much smoother version of Karl Rove. He makes my skin crawl. (I meant Baker, but the pronoun applies to either thug.)
Not a single member of the ISG was sufficiently intelligent, free-thinking, or independent of the sick group-think of the all-republican federal government, enabled by the corporate mainstream media (thanks so much, NYT and WAPO!) to have been able to actually offer up a truly new idea.
The fixed 9/11 commission was pathetic enough. This latest "group" was even more stacked with unthinking blinkered sorts. The petulant one will treat the recommendations as the most he should be expected to do. An actual sentient human would know their recommendations are the minimum he must do if he is to retain even a shred of credibility and authority.
Fortunately the election results suggest that old hissy-short-pants-boy will be much less free to operate than in the past.
Reason to hope anyway.
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