Me at Drezner’s place this morning. Italics are the person I’m responding to, and below it, my response. I’d like to say I’m shocked by his suggestions, here, but I’m really not, as you’ll see.
Don’t be surprised by
Am I the only one who roiled a bit at Pelosi?
“But event the most powerful nation in the history of the world must bring other nations to our side to meet common dangers.”
Perhaps she wasn’t listening to the
Boortz apparently shares my thoights as regards the reaction of the Democrats last night during the SOTU address:
“My most vivid memory of last night’s speech was the Democrats clear hatred of the mention of anything relating to tax cuts.
Impressive, these Democrats.
They lose ther ability to stand when tax cuts are mentioned.
Yet they make all kinds of noise when the end of the Patriot act is mentioned.
On both points, it’s clear, they support the failure of
The George W. Bush Conspiracy Generator
This Java app spits out conspiracy theories that are more plauseable than what one finds in one of Dean’s Speeches.
Examples:
George W. Bush caused the Cubs to lose to the Marlins in Game
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Mort Kondrake has an interesting take on the election:
“Here’s a harrowing pair of facts for Democrats: In 60 years, no Democrat has ever won the presidency without carrying the youth vote. And right now President Bush’s approval rating among
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New York Gov. George Pataki (R) is reportedly taking in campaign money at a fast pace, even that fund raising is being outdone by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (D). Spitzer is pretty much a lock for the nomination for Govenor
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Ananova is reporting today that:
“J.R.R. Tolkien’s great-grandson has backed Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson to make a film version of The Hobbit. Jackson has already said he’d be interested if a deal on the film rights can
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Rich Lowry: Ted Kennedy’s Iraq lunacy
Another worthy read.
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In FrontPage magazine.com this monring Lowell Ponte suggests the big losers were the big unions.
“The blue collar unions had bet their chips on longtime AFL-CIO partisan Rep. Richard Gephardt of neighboring Missouri. The mostly-government-employee white collar unions AFSCME (the
Gephardt to End Presidential Campaign:
AP’s reporting:
“Dick Gephardt is conceding the Democratic presidential nomination to one of his rivals, acknowledging after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa that ‘this didn’t come out the way we wanted.'”
Doesn’t say
“A man of 36 is believed to have become the first person in Britain to die directly from cannabis poisoning.
Lee Maisey smoked six cannabis cigarettes a day for 11 years, an inquest heard. His
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“DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – John Kerry seized the lead as Iowa Democrats began their first-in-the-nation voting Monday, the initial step in the battle to face President Bush this fall.
Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina
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Who cares?
It’s not like they’re going to win in the general election anyway.
But, what the heck….
In this order.
Dean, Gephardt, Kerry, Edwards
Ipse Dixit is running a map that breaks down President Bush’s aproval ratings by state.
Assuming people vote the way the approval ratings are right now, on a state by state basis, would mean Electoral College totals of Bush –
