Showing posts with label national review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national review. Show all posts
Saturday, April 07, 2007
I Know It's Very Far from Scientific......but readers keep pointing out it was snowing in Washington, D.C. and New York, among other places, this week. Makes An Inconvenient Truth on cable a tad unconvincing to the average person. So word harder, Al. Or something.
This is the woman who is the manager of National Review's blog. Her wisdom simply amazes me. It snowed this week, therefore global warming doesn't exist. It was 25 degrees above average in parts of the south two weeks ago though. What does it all mean? Obviously anecdotal evidence is the scientific way to look at things. I am with you there K-Lo. If it is cold anywhere on the planet on a day it shouldn't be, it is proof that those scientists with their education and fancy degrees don't know what in the hell they are talking about with this global warming hoo-hah, to use the technical term.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Today, the National Review Editors have called for Alberto Gonzales to lose his job. Along with the usual boilerplate about how lame democrats are, they do admit to some of Abu Gonzales' shortcomings strictly on the level of competence.
We do not need more evidence, however, to reach a conclusion about the suitability of Alberto Gonzales for the leadership of the Department of Justice. While we defended him from some of the outlandish charges made during his confirmation hearings, we have never seen evidence that he has a fine legal mind, good judgment, or managerial ability. Nor has his conduct at any stage of this controversy gained our confidence
Ouch, that had to leave a mark. I think most Americans can agree that Alberto Gonzales is simply unsuited for the job. The remark has been made over and over that Gonzales still sees himself as the President's personal lawyer, and not the chief legal officer of the United States, defending the constitution first, as well as defending the interest of his patron.
The one thing that really struck me later in the article was a phrase that they used to fight justifications from Republicans that Gonzales should stay because democrats want him gone.
What little credibility Gonzales had is gone. All that now keeps him in office, save the friendship of the president, is the conviction of many Republicans that removing him would embolden the Democrats. It is an overblown fear. The Democrats will pursue scandals, real or invented, whether or not Gonzales stays.
This is an interesting way to put things. Over the last several years the word embolden has been used in one particular way. We have to follow Commander Cuckoo Bananas' plans in the middle east, because not doing so would embolden either the enemy or the terrorists. This phrase has become redundant and well overused.
Today, we worry about emboldening the democrats. I think the choice of words was deliberate. It's a dog whistle for the base. Many people in the mainstream media seem to tune out when the right does this, but this choice of words is highly inflammatory. But perhaps pointing this out would embolden the Republicans, so I will stop now.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Occasionally, I look at National Review's 'The Corner' to get my fresh set of GOP talking points. Byron York, who incidentally has excellent hair, has some great sources for GOP boilerplate. Whatever bullshit the GOP is trying to spin, people like him have the faxes or email points down cold and the denizens of the Corner spread this stuff like manure.
So yesterday when news broke that Monica Goodling from the Justice Department planned to plead the fifth, I was interested to see how the Corner rats would spin the story.
Noted Duran Duran anthologer Kathryn Jean Lopez did report the news at 4:36 PM with a link to the AP report. She didn't leave any comments. Perhaps it was because she was digesting (the report) and wasn't prepared to speak to it yet.
15 minutes passed, and a new blog post came up. Wow. The spin room at the White House must work quickly. Awww rats, it was a post about immigration bills.
So I waited for the good GOP spin that I knew would soothe my soul. I didn't have long. Four minutes later at 4:55 a new post came. Oh crap, it's picking on Rosie O'Donnell time again. False alarm.
I waited and waited and waited. Were they taking long dinners? Was there a DC event that all the cool kids went to last night? If so, how did Jonah Goldberg get tickets? Right before bed, once more I checked and there was a blog post at 10:55. It was a link to Brit blogs covering the Iranian's holding the 15 UK sailors.
At that point, I gave up. But first thing this morning, I checked while rubbing my eyes and saw that there was a post at midnight about Rich Lawry discussing YouTube politics, and John Miller at 6am complaining that 24 has jumped the shark.
This can not go on unchallenged. They will be discussing Mork & Mindy pretty soon if Karl Rove does not hand out the proper phrases that will prove once and for all that a Justice Department official taking the fifth is a good thing for Republicans and proof of how evil democrats are when they persecute innocent people.
There are multiple people writing for the Corner. There is Mario Loyola, K-Lo, Jonah Goldberg, Kate O'Beirne, Byron York, John Miller, Larry Kudlow, Iain Murray, Stephen Spruiell,Mark Krikorian, Ramesh Ponnuru, Andrew Stuttaford, Peter Suderman and several others. It's not like my one man blog. It has now been 15 hours since this story broke. It says something to me that there is nothing but silence on this story which is leading every newscast, and was the top story last night.
They got nothing.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Valerie Plame Wilson complained that Dick Cheney — the elected vice president of the United States — made an "unprecedented number of visits" to the CIA in the run-up to the Iraq war. She's right. It's shocking. Evidently, Cheney actually listened to the CIA.
Anybody who has turned on a tv news the last few years, who still has a pulse knows that JPOD is proving once again that nepotism is a very bad thing. Cheney didn't listen to the CIA. He went to the CIA to pressure them into giving him intel that "proved" Iraq was responsible for everything that bad that has happened in the world. Ironically, it turns out everything evil in history was perpetrated by Khalid Sheikh Mohammed per his confession. Podhoretz's employers, The National Review, believe Mohammed's confession. This has encouraged me to write to them about some money I have in Nigeria, and need their help and a finder's fee in retrieving.
The National Review believes the left is obsessing on Mohammed's statement that he was tortured. Actually we are not, we already have known about that for years. We are too busy making fun of his ludicrous confession, and writing bad jokes about how he is the real father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. I wonder which "left" the dim witted step-children of Bill Buckley are observing.
Kahlid Sheik Mohammed forced me to write this post. Well, I really haven't addressed if Jpod is just being evil and doesn't mean it. There is no evidence to support that theory. The man is very fucking stupid.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Cliff May just may be picking lice out of K-Lo's hair soon and grunting if this level of intellectual power keeps going on like in the following.
The trope that conservatives seeking a pardon for Libby are hypocritical (Chris Wallace raised it with Brit Hume this morning, and Brit essentially conceded the point) deserves further consideration.
Bill Clinton lied to a grand jury. As a result, he did not lose his job, did not go to jail and soon thereafter became a multi-millionaire, lionized and celebrated in his party and around the world. If that’s the fate in store for Libby, by all means, bring it on.
Ok, Bill Clinton had his law licence suspended for lying about getting a hummer as part of an investigation into a land deal that costed more than $70 million by some estimates. He lied under oath about getting a blow job. Because we couldn't get to the truth about the land deal, unless we first found out about Monica Lewinsky's dietary habits.
Cliff May grunts further...
One more point: Valerie Plame is getting $2.5 million for “her story.” How much did New York publishers and Hollywood producers pay for the stories of Paula Jones and Juanita Broaddrick?
Let's see. We have a beautiful sophisticated, world traveling CIA agent, who ran a front company for a spy agency, who was outed as an operative by a cabal in the White House including the President's top aide, and the Vice President, and his top aide.
Paula Jones said Bill Clinton showed her his wee-wee. NY publishers really don't know what an important book is do they? Those bastards. Cliff May will be making his next appearance at the Columbus Zoo with Jack Hannah next week. Ask him what he thinks about flinging versus tossing excrement while you were there. He has written a pamphlet. Sadly, NY publishers have rejected it.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
The president and Senate Democrats are pushing to expand the Visa Waiver Program to even more countries that feel we owe it to them to admit their citizens without scrutiny just because they've sent a few uniformed truck drivers to help us in Iraq.
That was Mark Krikorian today in the National Review. I am sure this will fire countries up to help out in Dick's Bogus Journey to Iran. But, I see it through National Review's eyes as well. They have been making sacrifices by shopping with some of the tax cuts they have received. It's not like driving a truck through Ramadi is that big of a deal anyways. Have you tried to find a parking spot on Rodeo Drive at 2PM? That requires serious driving.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
There is actually very little that's conservative about Giuliani, other than his law-enforcement record. Yes, he made the trains run on time, but some of his supporters are willing to write-off large segments of the conservative coalition, which are not found in New York City or the District of Columbia, with their wave-of-the-hand dismissal of serious issues Giuliani will have to overcome. But please, spare us the fiction that he's some great conservative. If I vote for him, it will be because all the Democrats are so deplorable, not because of his embrace of radical environmentalism, open borders, gun control, abortion, and the rest of it.
I am just wondering what the rest of it is? Could it be the multiple infidelities, screwing his cousin, dressing in drag or what? Don't leave us hanging here.
Over at National Review's The Corner, Andy McCarthy backhandedly commends the NY Times for not discussing Dick Cheney's role as the successor to Darth Cheney in light of the assasination attempt upon him by the Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday.
Whaddya know, no mention today of Cheney's "well-known penchant for secrecy." Apparently even the Times now grasps that the Veep had pretty good reasons to be discrete. Maybe Cheney's not nuts! Maybe the Taliban and al Qaeda really do want us dead after all. Who knows — maybe tomorrow the Gray Lady will even acknowledge that the Patriot Act and the NSA program are not sinister power grabs but modest, sensible precautions against people who are hellbent on killing us. Naaaaaaahhhhh.Yes, the fact that the Taliban attempted to kill Cheney does convince me that we need to waterboard, stick wires to people's genitals, put foreign object into their anuses, listen into everybody's phone calls. Thank goodness this event happened. Otherwise, I might have continued assuming that Cheney was a dirtbag who enjoys urinating on the constitution during his morning constitutional, and that his actions have made the world a more dangerous place.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Byron York has a little blog post up on Mitt Romney, what York says about Romney isn't that original but what fascinates me more is how this post reflects the cynical opportunism that Mr. York endorses as a political philosophy. He acknowledges the fact that Mitt Romney is flipping hard to the right to pander for votes. This does not disturb him at all. It's the fact that Romney can't come up with a better "narrative" for his campaign, which is leading people to notice the fact that Romney is pandering like a whore to get votes in the GOP primary.
I thought I was cynical. Yet, it still warms my heart over when candidates actually mean what they say on the big moral issues. I even give passes to people who disagree on some things as long as they are being honest agents. Byron York apparently just wants to be pandered to by non-believers just as long as they are skilled enough to pull it off. Conservatives wondering why you have gone adrift, look no further than Byron York.
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