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2006-06-25 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2006-06-25 08:18|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 heh heh Kos and his Townhouse "defenders" are making this story into a meltdown rather than a minor scandal

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-25 08:52|| 2006-06-25 08:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Columnist David Brooks has a piece in today's New York Times skewering Kos and his army of pallid, shuffling acolytes. This, and the TNR piece that started the whole flap, makes me wonder:

Is all this just a well-deserved, impromptu peer assault on an arrogant, overbearing asshole who's gotten too big for his britches and thinks he's running the Democratic Party?

Or are we seeing the opening shots by the Hillary Clinton Opponent Obliteration Machine as she begins to clear away the riffraff on the Loony Left in preparation for her final assult on America to put-- in JosephMendiola's immortal phrase-- the BettyCrockerCommieCrats in charge?

Either way, I'm investing in popcorn futures.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 09:18|| 2006-06-25 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, the signs are that at the next democrat convention, there are going to be some fistfight brawls for the record books.

You know it's going to be good when Karl Rove invests several million dollars to subsidize the production of the cheapest rotgut cane whiskey he can import for them.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-25 09:24|| 2006-06-25 09:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Hmmmm Dave D, I hadn't thought of the HillBill opponent elimination angle, but I like it. However they should have strangled this one in the crib way back in 2001, and surely even prior to the 2004 'lection, but at that time Kos was too valuable as a mindless Bush Hate Machine.

Animal Planet's excellent "Animal Cop" series recently featured a dog that died of blood loss from its fleas. The Democrat wing of the Progressive Party might wish to consider any possible parallels.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-06-25 10:00|| 2006-06-25 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 did it also have ~~Kerry/Murtha/Feingold/Pelosi~~ Cancer?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-25 10:15|| 2006-06-25 10:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Makes you want to go out and buy a pack of cigaretts costume, and sneek into some donk rallies.

Posted by wxjames 2006-06-25 10:16|| 2006-06-25 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Democratic Party dies from flea-inflicted blood loss, it has only itself to blame.

The Donks appear to have made a cynical, coldly-calculated decision, sometime around the time of the 2002 midterm elections, to start pandering to the Loony Left and tap into its reserves of money and political passion. Until then, most elected Democrats were on the same page as the rest of America with regard to the GWoT, and only a few wierdos in the Party opposed it.

But since then, so many in the Party have internalized their own bullshit propaganda that mindless opposition to the war is now the rule: not only have the inmates taken over the asylum, but most Staff have doffed their white coats and joined them hurling feces in the hallways-- and only poor Joe Lieberman and Hillary Clinton are left barricaded in the Nurse's Station.

I have to wonder: what kind of shape would the Donks be in today if they hadn't embraced the Left and made opposition to the War their entire agenda?

My guess is that if they'd focussed on crafting an attractive set of domestic policy initiatives instead, and eschewed the crazy Bush-bashing and anti-war lunacy, and supported the war wholeheartedly, they'd now be in firm control of both houses of Congress.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 10:41|| 2006-06-25 10:41|| Front Page Top

#8 You know you can't make this stuff up cuz no one would beleive you. Kos...the epitome of the moonbat, conservative-hating, LLL...gets caught being a whore and then...then tries to cover it up. It's just prescious.

I guess that makes Kos the Karl Rove of the "barking at the moon", LLL.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-06-25 10:49|| 2006-06-25 10:49|| Front Page Top

#9 "...if they'd focussed... and eschewed the crazy Bush-bashing and anti-war lunacy, and supported the war..."
Sorry, Dave, not possible -- there's a two fantasy limit on Donk behavior. You've just had four. Only Karl Rove gets four -- because we allow him to think way outside the box.

Posted by Darrell 2006-06-25 10:53|| 2006-06-25 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Dave, I'd ask to go in with you on the popcorn futures, but unfortunately, half the country listens to the Dem moonbats.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-06-25 10:57|| 2006-06-25 10:57|| Front Page Top

#11 That's why I'm also stocking up on ammo, just in case the "festivities" become threatening.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 11:02|| 2006-06-25 11:02|| Front Page Top

#12 "two fantasy limit on Donk behavior"

That's good. I gotta write that one down...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 11:04|| 2006-06-25 11:04|| Front Page Top

#13 OMG... now Newsweek is piling on:

When The New Republic's Web site published an e-mail from Moulitsas to a group of friendly activists urging them not to talk about Kosola and thus "starve it of oxygen," Moulitsas went berserk in a blog posting, accusing the venerable liberal journal of treason. By the weekend, Moulitsas's allies were sending each other e-mails infected with the paranoia of revolutionaries who've gained power too fast: How should they deal with traitors? How much openness could they handle? Which fellow travelers could they really trust?

and this:

Yet some Dems fear that Moulitsas's popularity will pull the party so far to the left that it won't be able to win the general election in 2008. "It's a little bit like 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' with these guys," said an aide to a Democratic presidential candidate who asked not to be identified while the boss was angling for Moulitsas's support. "You like what they're saying when they're coming in, but you don't know what they're going to do once you let them into your house."

"Will" pull the party too far to the left? I think they already have.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 11:35|| 2006-06-25 11:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Professor Ann Althouse:

Kos's writing style -- which has obviously served him well as a blogger up to this point -- sounds angry and crazed to the outsider. It's easy to get him to react with "belligerence and paranoia," and the more successful he is, the more Democrats are motivated to marginalize and disqualify him. Those he's accused of "digging around in my past" have denied that they're doing it, but, really, why wouldn't they be doing it? And why wouldn't part of their strategy be to make him think that they are so they can lure him into displaying more of that "belligerence and paranoia"?

So I assume there is a conspiracy and a strategy to investigate Kos. And it's so easy to do because it can succeed even if it fails to turn anything up, because it will provoke him, and when he reacts, they'll all say he's paranoid, belligerent. Escort that man back outside the gate.

Posted by Mike 2006-06-25 12:39|| 2006-06-25 12:39|| Front Page Top

#15 #11: That's why I'm also stocking up on ammo, just in case the "festivities" become threatening.

Not neaning to be funny, You're just now stocking up?
I have both a goodly supply of many different types and calibers put away, and extensive reloading equipment/supplies on hand, and have had it for years.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-25 13:11|| 2006-06-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#16 No automatic weapons here, so I haven't seen any point to keeping more than a thousand rounds or so on hand.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 13:25|| 2006-06-25 13:25|| Front Page Top

#17 Well Dave, I guess it's okay to go with the just-in-time inventory model. :)

Posted by GORT 2006-06-25 13:32|| 2006-06-25 13:32|| Front Page Top

#18 Arizona Daily Star: Murtha says U.S. poses top threat to world peace

Domestic enemies. Deal with them appropriately.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 14:02|| 2006-06-25 14:02|| Front Page Top

#19 I can't tell Murtha from Chavez or Galloway, anymore.

Are the people in his little PA district really a majority moonbat stronghold?

Or are they just not hearing the shit this asshole spews?

He's not only a traitor in my eyes, he's certifiably insane - and so are the morons who put him in office.

Posted by Ulamble Gleans6011 2006-06-25 14:25|| 2006-06-25 14:25|| Front Page Top

#20 "Are the people in his little PA district really a majority moonbat stronghold?"

No, I think they're most old-line UMW-type Democrats.

In any case, I just contributed $500 to Murtha's GOP challenger in this fall's election, Diana Irey.

Let's get this ratbastard traitor outta here!

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 14:36|| 2006-06-25 14:36|| Front Page Top

#21 Gotta get the UMW types to see that Diana Irey is more like them than Murtha is.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-06-25 17:14|| 2006-06-25 17:14|| Front Page Top

#22 Or are we seeing the opening shots by the Hillary Clinton Opponent Obliteration Machine

If I were Markos, I'd be taking some basic steps. Like putting a remote start in my car...

Posted by Pappy 2006-06-25 21:24|| 2006-06-25 21:24|| Front Page Top

#23 LOL... at the very least.

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2006-06-25 21:28|| 2006-06-25 21:28|| Front Page Top

#24 Keep Murtha on the tube saying stupid shit like his Cut and Run stuff, and the AMERICA is the biggest terrorist in the world, and those UAW types will be right on over.

Its all about the press properly reporting the guy instead of covering for his decrepit senile ass.

Posted by Oldspook 2006-06-25 21:34|| 2006-06-25 21:34|| Front Page Top

#25 Decrepit, maybe. But not senile - he knows EXACTLY what he is doing.

(spit)

Posted by lotp 2006-06-25 22:36|| 2006-06-25 22:36|| Front Page Top

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