Quick Shots: Alright, I Missed One
Prior engagements kept me from listening in on today’s blogger conference call with the great Ken Mehlman, but Tim Chapman has got you covered…
Fellow RINO Jane from Armies of Liberation was featured in a most unusual setting…and from all accounts acquitted herself quite well…congrats!…
The great Tom Maguire takes on the Times editorial we discussed earlier…as does the White House (thanks for the tip, AE!)…
Count me as delighted that the White House is fighting back. And about time I say. The Bush Administration has three full years to go, it is too early to give in to lame-duckishness.
Thanks very much. It was quite an experience. They were very fair and gave me a good opportunity to talk to a very borad audience about Yemen that I wouldnt have had otherwise. But I’m surprised that stagefright doesn’t actually kill you.
Hey, I can relate…I once had to give a twenty-minute speech to about 450 people at a conference…I threw up beforehand in my hotel room, I was so nervous…
What have they got to lose by coming out swinging?
I really think that the good news is being kept under hat til State of the Union in Jan 06. The mission is pretty much done-No saddam, freely elected government by Dec 15th, Sunnis will have representation and are participating, forces trained-if not in quality, at least en masse, no civil war, Koffi had to go there bestowing his ‘grace’ upon the mission (in less than three years). They have to find their own leaders, and they never will with us standing over their military shoulder. This is the first vote(Dec 15th) that no one even questions its legitimacy or believes there will be a delay.
We’ll leave 30,000 thru next year, but the rest are coming home.
How sweet is it going to be to hear Bush say ‘mission accomplished’? (note to democrats who harp on the mission accomplished speech-he never said those words.)
The dems calling for a timetable for withdrawal is a last ditch effort to claim credit for bringing the troops home and appear to have some say in this. Summer is going to be filled with small conservative blogs doing opposition research on various congressional dem candidates for stupid statements.
If there is a reason for our soldiers to perform hazardous duty after their ‘inauguration’, I don’t see it. While I doubt the success here will embolden a similar action elsewhere it surely will rankle the far left to the core when they want to hold up Vietnam as an example, they will have the answer: Iraq.
In the coming years there is going to be a flourish of national pride, springing from economic fortunes and successful foreign (miltary and domestic) policy. As low as things seem now we are on the cusp of something great as a nation. Is it going to be a golden era? It will be whatever we make it.
mtl, surely you don’t think Bush will say Mission Accomplished? He’d give Frank Rich another 2 year’s worth of columns!…
I think drudge has already taken Frank off his links.
Dowd and Freidman are gone, but Krugman and Brooks still linger.
TimesSelect has been the greatest boon(to me) in history. By the time the State of the Union rolls around, the Times will be almost completely removed from existence.
It takes a lot for an established paper to decline in subscriptions-those old farts who subscribe must be dying in droves. Surely no one is cancelling on them for being to moderate?
The NYT is still a great paper, outside their political views. The problem is that the have become the beacon for disinformation in a paper that was once the standard of journalism, and distract from the quality of the other sections. Apparently the star value of the politcal staff is over-rated. They ran the paper into the ground, and probably are the highest paid. They squandered the reputation of every respectable journalist outside the politboro…
Dec 15th?
Mission accomplished.
You’ll see a lot of smiling faces in the WH and Foggy Bottom.
(and a lot of people drunkenly saying:
Merry Fitzmas.)