no. the point is it doesn't matter what rove thinks. at all.

thanks for the link!!!!!!!

Posted at August 22, 2007 1:30 AM in response to Karl Rove Quickie

Don't be a vizzini, andrew. don't be a vizzini.

MAN IN BLACK
All right: where is the poison?
The battle of wits has begun. It
ends when you decide and we both
drink, and find out who is right
and who is dead.

VIZZINI
But it's so simple. All I have to
do is divine from what I know of
you. Are you the sort of man who
would put the poison into his own
goblet, or his enemy's?

He studies the Man In Black now.

VIZZINI
Now, a clever man would put the
poison into his own goblet,
because he would know that only a
great fool would reach for what
he was given. I'm not a great
fool, so I can clearly not choose
the wine in front of you. But you
must have known I was not a great
fool; you would have counted on
it, so I can clearly not choose
the wine in front of me.

MAN IN BLACK
(And now there's a
trace of nervousness beginning)
You've made your decision then7

VIZZINI
Not remotely. Because iocane
comes from Australia, as everyone
knows. And Australia is entirely
peopled with criminals. And
criminals are used to having
people not trust them, as you are
not trusted by me. So I can
clearly not choose the wine in
front of you.

MAN IN BLACK
Truly, you have a dizzying
intellect.

VIZZINI
Wait till I get going! Where was I?

MAN IN BLACK
Australia.

VIZZINI
Yes -- Australia, and you must
have suspected I would have known
the powder's origin, so I can
clearly not choose the wine in
front of me.

Posted at August 21, 2007 2:04 AM in response to Karl Rove Quickie

i hope there's nobody here defending nader who also blamed lieberman for running as an independent.

Posted at June 29, 2007 1:47 AM in response to Supreme Court: Have We Already Lost America? Thank you, Ralph.

this is interesting.

i don't know what to make of it.

engaging africa as a source of profit is a fine way to legitimize them.

until america can measure up to china's investment strategy, i say we give nothing at all.

apparently, we are only demeaning them by trying to help them.

Posted at June 27, 2007 4:10 AM in response to The World Was Going Our Way

all i can think of when i think of china is bush using the excuse that china hasn't signed on to the kyoto accord. so maybe china should sign on to some sort of plan of attack on global warming?

that and toxic toys.

not a fan.

but if the rest of the world thinks they're great, more power to them.

although, what's written above does point out what certainly bears repeating. iraq has impacted our credibility abroad.

the fact that china is now viewed more favorably (if that is indeed the case) doesn't show me that china is a good country, it only shows me how far we've fallen during the bush administration.

Posted at June 25, 2007 9:14 AM in response to China's Charm Offensive

i was thinking about no. 6 more than about no. 1 when i wrote my response.

Posted at June 20, 2007 11:00 PM in response to Take Back America, Please

awe crap.

we* suck.

___________________________
* americans

i think what was just described above is, indeed, the uber-progressive point of view.

i think that's why i choose to remain a most imperfect progressive.

gen. clark would have one consider the possibility that anything good that happened in eastern europe during the 90s was no mere accident. i'll give him the props.

Posted at June 20, 2007 4:12 PM in response to Take Back America, Please

he's trying to sell the book.

i suspected what rosenberg says above. but it's nothing i didn't already know.

anyway. he's saying creepy things to sell the book.

Posted at June 20, 2007 7:48 AM in response to Hillary, Tony Soprano and Carl Bernstein

My point is not that dems should listen to smirking republicans.

my point is that much of the progressive blogosphere agrees with smirking republicans on the conclusion being made: that failing to support ending the war by cutting off funds means you are for more war.

if anything i am saying they should not listen to anyone at all who says crap like this: "if you want to end the war, then you must cut off funds, and if you don't cut off funds, then you are for more war."

Posted at June 11, 2007 9:21 AM in response to How's your romance?

One thing is true: the anti-war netroots are gagging on their own tail. and to make the point, i will draw some attention to what this analysis fails to do: it fails to bring itself up to date with the addition of jim webb to the senate, a senator who has a son in iraq, a senator who was against the war in 2002, but has not signed on to the netroots approved way of ending the war.

so the if/thens of last year no longer apply. you are either for this, or you are for more war. you do it my way, or you are for more war. i can see no other way, so if you won't do it, it's clear to me that you have -- knowingly -- chosen a path that will lead to more war.

i turn on c-span and hear republicans -- smirks etched on their faces -- "if you're serious about ending the war, why then you must be for cutting off funds."

i turn off c-span and turn on the progressive blogs and hear the exact same thing. of course, in earnest.

so. yes. there are fissures in the anti-war netroots, and false choices are being revealed to themselves. there will be those who will feel inclined to continue to support netroots success stories like webb and tester (and those people will have to consider that a decision not to support a certain way to end the war does not equate to a decision to have more war), and others who will choose not to do so.

i should add, much of the sliming of kucinich from the left comes from people who genuinely believe that if his is the face of the anti-war movement, then the anti-war movement will be marginalized.

it's not his position on the issue. it's the other baggage that comes with him. and, yes, that haircut is part of it. even if i bought the rhetoric of the anti-war netroots movement, i still wouldn't want kucinich being front and center on that movement.

Posted at June 11, 2007 8:15 AM in response to How's your romance?