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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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25 Feb 2006 06:11:20 PM |
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Right wing Bush-bashers |
http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2006/2/25/91741/1410
There's a phrase one hears bandied about these days...
"Jumping the shark."
Here's how Wikipedia describes it.
Jumping the shark is a metaphor used by US TV critics and fans since
the 1990s to denote the moment when a TV series is (in retrospect)
deemed to have passed its peak.
Once a show has "jumped the shark", fans sense a noticeable decline in
quality or feel the show has undergone too many changes to retain its
original charm.
The phrase was popularized by Jon Hein on his website,
jumptheshark.com.
It alludes to a scene in the TV series Happy Days when its popular
character, Fonzie, is on water skis and literally jumps over a shark.
Only... the TV show being referred to these days ain't "Happy Days."
It's "The Bush Administration."
When his administration approved the sale of six American ports to a
company owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, that
shark got jumped.
Big time.
All across the country, Democrats, Republicans and Independents are
left to scratch their heads and wonder... what the HELL was he
THINKING?
The reasons why the transfer of these ports to the UAE are clearly
enumerated elsewhere.
The fact that Bush didn't REALIZE that there would be such widespread
BEWILDERMENT over how he could ALLOW such a thing to happen is the
crux of this particular biscuit.
One would expect to see comments like these from a liberal columnist
like Eleanor Clift in Newsweek.
An issue that divides Bush from his conservative base on national
security is manna from heaven for the Democrats.
Marshall Wittmann, a senior fellow with the Democratic Leadership
Council and a former advisor to John McCain, calls the flap over port
management the national security equivalent of the crime bill that set
the stage for the Republican sweep of Congress in 1994.
President Clinton's crime bill was ridiculed by Republicans for
advocating "midnight basketball," a program that symbolized the
administration's emphasis on prevention over punishment.
The phrase became a laugh line on the campaign trail for Republicans
to mock Democrats.
One does NOT usually expect to see comments like the below from
CONSERVATIVE commentators.
And not just about the ports deal... but about MANY of the dismal
hallmarks of this administration.
Conservative columnist John Podhoretz in the New York Post echoes the
neocon dismay.
THE more we learn about the Dubai ports deal, the less worrisome it
seems.
The more we see the White House in action these days, however, the
more worrisome it seems -- for conservatives and Republicans, at
least.
Democrats and liberals have every reason to be beside themselves with
glee.
"Can't anybody here play this game?" baseball manager Casey Stengel
famously cried out in the midst of the legendarily awful first-season
team fielded by the New York Mets.
In conversation after conversation this week, that same cri de coeur
has erupted on the right.
Even Conservative icon William F. Buckley is abandoning the Bush
Battleship in his declaration that "The War is Lost."
Our mission has failed because Iraqi animosities have proved
uncontainable by an invading army of 130,000 Americans.
The great human reserves that call for civil life haven't proved
strong enough.
No doubt they are latently there, but they have not been able to
contend against the ice men who move about in the shadows with bombs
and grenades and pistols.
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"Real happiness, in politics, is a wide-open hammer shot on some
poor ***** who knows he's been trapped, but can't flee."
Hunter S. Thompson
Harry
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| User: "Fredric L. Rice" |
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| Title: Re: Right wing Bush-bashers |
25 Feb 2006 09:33:17 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2006/2/25/91741/1410
There's a phrase one hears bandied about these days...
"Jumping the shark."
"Jumping the couch" is much better. If you want to show lunacy.
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George W. Bush _is_ a Christian. Get over it!
"Choke to death, Pink." - FLR
"Nice Christian attitude." -- Fred Hall
"Choke to death _please_. Better?" -- FLR
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