Thursday, September 16, 2004
‘The sheer scale of some of these markets’: Surprised Boston doesn’t have its own downtown weekend flea market, complementing Haymarket. ...
Is Dan Rather a right-wing plant?: It’s become a laughable full-scale contemporary media/political drama -- no longer a highly dubious story about the highly bogus subject of Bush’s irrelevant Guard duty 35 years ago. ... A Republican friend of Hub Blog said yesterday that he talked with some low-level person in the Bush operation and that she and other staffers were ‘ecstatic’ about all the attention being paid to the Guard/RatherGate furor. Reason: Attention away from today’s you-know-what, all because Danno and others couldn’t resist pushing a decades-old, non-story Guard issue that won’t swing a single vote either way. ...
That clever, well-oiled Right Wing Attack Machine. How did they lure Dan et gang into the old Let’s Revisit Vietnam trap? Dangling Vietnam works every time, I suppose. ... But what if it’s proven someone else dangled the Vietnam-era bait? Now who else is obsessed with Vietnam? Hmmm. ... Hub Blog thinks Reader No. 1 is onto something: Will Kerry soon insist we stop talking about Vietnam? Kerry lost all of August to a Vietnam debate. He’s losing most of September to a Vietnam-related debate. Checking the old calendar as I write and, yes, I think it’s possible some of October could be wiped out too. ... But they’ll get to the bottom of GuardGate, damn it!
‘Dancing-in-the-street crowd’: Don’t look now, but two prominent Republicans are now criticizing the administration’s handling of Iraq. Senator Richard G. Lugar: "Now, the nonsense of all [the predictions] is apparent; the lack of planning is apparent." ... Senator Chuck Hagel: "Maybe we ought to have a hearing with the inventors of this, have them come back up, all these smart guys that got us in there and said, 'Don't worry.' " ... Ah, Sen. Hagel, smart guy Paul Wolfowitz will be more than willing to explain the war -- after he finishes his new op-ed campaign on behalf of an Indonesian journalist, whose fate is being linked to the war.
... Most of the senators’ were rightly furious about non-military reconstruction efforts in Iraq, a point made yesterday by Austin Bay, via Instapundit, who took time out yesterday from RatherGate to post on the latest depressing news from Iraq. But the problem just isn’t reconstruction: major military concerns abound, too. ... Hey, where are all of last year’s mocking ‘They’re Bungling It’ comparisons between post-war Germany and Iraq? This ain’t post-war Germany, folks, unless I missed the part about suicide bombers and entire German cities being taken over by insurgents.
Concrete Watch: OK, so we knew there would be problems at the beginning for the new Central tunnels. But I sure hope it’s not the concrete.
Is Dan Rather a right-wing plant?: It’s become a laughable full-scale contemporary media/political drama -- no longer a highly dubious story about the highly bogus subject of Bush’s irrelevant Guard duty 35 years ago. ... A Republican friend of Hub Blog said yesterday that he talked with some low-level person in the Bush operation and that she and other staffers were ‘ecstatic’ about all the attention being paid to the Guard/RatherGate furor. Reason: Attention away from today’s you-know-what, all because Danno and others couldn’t resist pushing a decades-old, non-story Guard issue that won’t swing a single vote either way. ...
That clever, well-oiled Right Wing Attack Machine. How did they lure Dan et gang into the old Let’s Revisit Vietnam trap? Dangling Vietnam works every time, I suppose. ... But what if it’s proven someone else dangled the Vietnam-era bait? Now who else is obsessed with Vietnam? Hmmm. ... Hub Blog thinks Reader No. 1 is onto something: Will Kerry soon insist we stop talking about Vietnam? Kerry lost all of August to a Vietnam debate. He’s losing most of September to a Vietnam-related debate. Checking the old calendar as I write and, yes, I think it’s possible some of October could be wiped out too. ... But they’ll get to the bottom of GuardGate, damn it!
‘Dancing-in-the-street crowd’: Don’t look now, but two prominent Republicans are now criticizing the administration’s handling of Iraq. Senator Richard G. Lugar: "Now, the nonsense of all [the predictions] is apparent; the lack of planning is apparent." ... Senator Chuck Hagel: "Maybe we ought to have a hearing with the inventors of this, have them come back up, all these smart guys that got us in there and said, 'Don't worry.' " ... Ah, Sen. Hagel, smart guy Paul Wolfowitz will be more than willing to explain the war -- after he finishes his new op-ed campaign on behalf of an Indonesian journalist, whose fate is being linked to the war.
... Most of the senators’ were rightly furious about non-military reconstruction efforts in Iraq, a point made yesterday by Austin Bay, via Instapundit, who took time out yesterday from RatherGate to post on the latest depressing news from Iraq. But the problem just isn’t reconstruction: major military concerns abound, too. ... Hey, where are all of last year’s mocking ‘They’re Bungling It’ comparisons between post-war Germany and Iraq? This ain’t post-war Germany, folks, unless I missed the part about suicide bombers and entire German cities being taken over by insurgents.
Concrete Watch: OK, so we knew there would be problems at the beginning for the new Central tunnels. But I sure hope it’s not the concrete.
