David Broder, you’re fired
I don’t want to live in a world where David Broder is a paid columnist anymore. Thus, I’m going to live in my own alternate Brad Reality where he has already been fired and replaced by ex-pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior…
…so now when I click on the WaPo’s website every morning, I’ll get to read stuff like this:
The final sands are running through the hourglass timed to proscribe or prescribe the fate of War.
American soldiery is perched on the borders of Iraq, preparing to kick some ass.
Time for Motivation. Going to a place within yourself, drumming up all the readiness, rage and explosiveness it takes to do what has to get done. Like morality and integrity, motivation cannot be half-assed. You have to know and believe that you are the best and that each other one striking out to stand atop your mountain is your enemy. Being able to do that is more important than even the skills one has. Being Unconquerable.
Now granted, that fucking blows.
But it doesn’t blow nearly as bad as your typical David Broder column, which usually goes a little something like this:
A Mob-Rule Moment
By David S. Broder
Thursday, July 5, 2007Former senator Fred Thompson has begun his unannounced quest for the Republican presidential nomination by telling audiences in New Hampshire that Washington is badly out of touch with the country.
As a senior campaign adviser put it to The Post’s Michael Shear, Thompson believes that “the politicians have lost their connection with what people really want and what they really expect.”
Few if any of the other 17 men and one woman vying for the presidency would be bold enough to challenge Thompson’s claim. The belief that official Washington is deaf to the people’s wishes is a staple of political rhetoric for both Republicans and Democrats — even those, including Thompson, who have operated inside the Beltway for decades.
I hate to say it – mostly because I think Thompson is a rank idiot – but he’s right. Thanks to increased global competition, people in this country are facing more economic insecurity than they have in a long time. Wage increases have generally been crappy for years. The prices of both gasoline and health care keep going up, with no relief in sight. And hey, remember when America used to be the most upwardly mobile nation in the world? Not so much these days: we’re basically turning into Paris Hilton Nation.
Additionally, there’s also this little thing called the Iraq war where lots of people are going boom-splatty-splat, and our Democratic Congress is too cowardly to challenge a president whose approval ratings are in the 20s and whose proudest second-term achievement is commuting the sentence of a convicted felon.
So yes, there’s a great deal of discontent in this country. I don’t think someone like Fred Thompson will do a damn thing to help it – the guy’s been a corporate lobbyist most of his life, after all – but I understand the anger he’s trying to tap into here.
But wait! David Broder thinks the American public is actually to blame for hating its political class! See, in D-Bro’s world, politicians are all saintly do-gooder public servants, the Wise Men of Washington who Know Best how to govern this fair land more than its wicked citizens. How does Broder know when a policy is a Good Idea? When the Wise Men all agree it is, of course! A study in comity and all that:
Let a reporter who is not running for anything suggest that exactly the opposite may be true: A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.
From Aristotle to Edmund Burke, philosophers have written of the healthy tension that normally exists between the understanding and strategies of leaders and the sentiments and opinions of their people.
In today’s Washington, a badly weakened president and a dangerously compliant congressional leadership are no match for the power of public opinion — magnified and sometimes exaggerated by modern communications and interest group pressure.
The latest cave-ins involve immigration and trade policy, and both seriously threaten the national interest.
Because trade and immigration policy are best dealt with away from the public’s watchful eye, apparently. In particular, I’m sure glad our trade policy with China didn’t face more public scrutiny while it was being crafted. After all, who wouldn’t want to import poisoned toothpaste and defective tires?
The collapse of the immigration reform bill in the Senate last month means that the broken border system, which allows a continuing flood of illegal immigrants to enter the United States with no hope of attaining the responsibilities and privileges of citizenship, will continue for at least two more years. No one is talking of reviving the effort until after the 2008 election installs a new president and Congress.
With all its shortcomings, the defeated legislation offered some prospect of improving at least some aspects of that broken system. But it was buried by an avalanche of phone calls to the Capitol from good citizens decrying what they had been told on many talk radio stations and by some conservative politicians: that it was an amnesty bill.
You know, I hate to give the wingnuts credit for anything, but they mobilized the hell out of their people to kill the immigration bill, and I don’t think that was such a bad thing. It was a really crappy bill that was written by business interests to ensure a steady supply of cheap labor in the country. This is not a knock on the immigrants, by the way – it’s a knock on our economic elite’s perverse quest to drive down workers’ wages across the board. At a time when people are facing such drastic insecurities, it made no sense to pass a bill that would have worsened them.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a man I have criticized on other occasions, stood his ground and produced 33 Democratic votes to move to close debate — much to his credit. But Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who had promised to support the bill, which was President Bush’s last hope for a major domestic victory, saw only a dozen Republicans rally to that cause — and then bailed out himself, voting no.
Predictably, McConnell blamed the defeat on public sentiment. The bill “wasn’t the people’s will,” he told the Louisville Courier-Journal. “And they were heard.”
The House was no more courageous. A day after the Senate folded on immigration, the Democratic leadership of the House quietly scuttled the president’s authority to negotiate trade agreements for the United States.
The “fast-track” process, in which Congress casts only an up-or-down vote on trade deals negotiated with other countries, has been the key to a vast expansion in world trade. But the resulting trade agreements have run into populist protests from labor and liberal groups that blame them for the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs.
The Bush administration has responded to Democratic pressure by including enforceable new labor and environmental standards in several pending bilateral trade agreements. But the action by the House means that any further deals are unlikely as long as Bush is president.
Good. I’m glad they snipped Bush’s fast-track authority. Most of these trade deals have done nothing but add to Americans’ economic pressure. Passing more of them would make things worse. Good for the Democrats for deep-sixing that shit. Bad for David Broder for being an elitist fuckbag.
I think labor and the environmentalists have made a good case for including their protections in these trade deals. But ending the president’s negotiating authority will only do our country damage. “America needs to remain open for business to the 95 percent of the world’s consumers living outside the United States,” said U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab. And she is right.
The point is pretty basic. Politicians are wise to heed what people want. But they also have an obligation to weigh for themselves what the country needs. In today’s Washington, the “wants” of people count far more heavily than the nation’s needs.
You can win elections by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.
And per Broder, what “needs to be done” generally involves kowtowing to business interests at the expense of the public.
You’re fired, David Broder. I expect your desk to be cleaned out by noon.
I refuse to believe that “soldiery” is a word. And if it is, it’s a very bad one, that needs to be quietly taken out back, and never heard or seen from again.
“Let a reporter who is not running for anything suggest that exactly the opposite may be true: A particularly virulent strain of populism has made official Washington altogether too responsive to public opinion.”
…the reason why the House has 2 year terms is precisely so that at least half of Congress will be extremely responsive to public opinion. It’s to prevent exactly what Broder is bitching about, ie. an “out of touch” federal government.
Personally, I think the system is going to stay broken until term limits are imposed on both chambers.
“You can win elections by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.”
See, now, the trick, and what separates out a politician from, I dunno what, let’s say “statesmen” for lack of a better term, is that a good politician will successfully explain to the people why the plan (s)he supports is actually the better plan, and convince them of it’s merits. Run on sentences, for example.
Maybe if it were still 1830, this would be a might tricky. However, with modern technology in communications and transportation, this is a very easy task to undertake. It’s just that, you know, no one (or, at least, extremely few) does. As a result, the people get their information from Rush Limbaugh and Dan Savage. The smart ones get their info from, you know, reputable and good sources, but most people either aren’t that smart, or too apathetic/busy to take that much effort.
It’s a fundamental, but easily fixable, problem in the American governmental system. Broder’s column, however, is the solution equivalent of ,”some one sure cut through that fence, alright.”
Broder said:
You can win elections by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.
Let me fix that for him:
You can sell papers by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by writing what the country needs done.
There, much better!
The Incredible Mr. Limpet got a curveball from Fred this week — he had to provide “balance” with both Foamin’ Newt and Tedious Will on the opinion section. Not an easy job to channel reality instead of the cocktail weenies plugging up his colon– this was the best he could do.
He’d rather be a fish, you know. David spent a good part of the Fourth standing on a high bluff, glasses misting from the spray while he was staring out at Chesepeake Bay, a lonely man out of his element.
Why can’t someone just be there for David when he needs them to give him a good push?
“You can win elections by promising people what they want. But you win your place in history by doing what the country needs done.”
It’s so easy to remain the wise elder, above the fray of dirty dirty politics, when you never ever explain what “the country needs done”.
Because then you have to like…subject substantive ideas to scrutiny and criticism. And probably think about them first.
Better to just keep cutting and pasting “A pox on both their houses, why don’t they just quit bickering and GITRDONE” for 50 years.
The smart ones get their info from, you know, reputable and good sources, but most people either aren’t that smart, or too apathetic/busy to take that much effort.
Like Teh Sadly!
Uhhh, I mean that teh Sadly is a “reputable and good source”…not that you all “aren’t that smart, or too apathetic/busy to take that much effort”
Sadly, I am sure that plenty of wingnuts would read that and say “gee, that Ultimate Warrior feller is purdy smarrt! Go ‘Murica!”
Sometimes I think things would be better if the Earth just hurled itself right into the sun.
“WE of the royal court will ALWAYS be looking out for you little stupid fucks so shut up and go back to dancing with the stars, peasants!”
Broderism refined to its essence. Funny, sounds a lot like an Aristocracy to me only the “people”, like me, get to choose every so often the courageous politicans that will decide what I want and need. Thank you, sir, can I have another?
I don’t know what the following idea makes me(socialist? crazyass? horrible commie hippie?),but:
The more I see today’s wealthy and connected people spout off nonsense like this,the more I think that maybe capping the amount of money people have access to in one lifetime is a good idea. After that first 100 million or so,how much money does one person need? Hell,all I want is a measely half a million,and getting to that is unlikely,seeing as how we’re just blue collar people at my house. I’ve never been greedy.
Ok,so maybe the money doesn’t drive everyone who has it nuts. And maybe not everyone who sucks up to power is a complete asshole. That’s entirely possible. But,from what I can tell,being wealthy and having access to power just plain fucks up people’s heads in all kinds of nasty ways. Which might not be so bad if it didn’t hurt so many people in the long run.
Broder should have been fired at least a decade ago. He certainly has enough money to retire and live a happy life. Must be nice.
It seems to me that this is better accomplished through the estate tax. Those that tend to earn a lot of money in their lifetimes also tend to be quite generous with it, setting up foundations, scholarships, etc… It’s inherited wealth that seems more interested in perpetuating itself than in aiding the common good. (These are, of course, rank generalizations but useful ones and accurate enough.)
our Democratic Congress is too cowardly to challenge a president whose approval ratings are in the 20s
Can someone pur-leeze explain this to me? I mean, I have real trouble understanding why the hell they can’t throw their weight around just a tiny bit, at least. Just stand up and be counted, maybe? Or is that too much to ask?
a badly weakened president and a dangerously compliant congressional leadership are no match for the power of public opinion
Sadly, no! Try Iraq on for size, Buster.
Maybe if it were still 1830, this would be a might tricky.
Once again, Sadly, no! I can’t remember the source, but something I was reading recently said that a couple of hundred years ago, Americans were incredibly politically aware and involved. They’d consent to sit in a stuffy town hall for 6 hours at a time, listening to very complex debates and speeches. And by debates I don’t mean the “Am not!” “Are too!” version that we get now: I mean real debates dealing in depth and at some length with real issues. Then they’d voluntarily go home and go through the same thing in their home town.
Incredibly informed. Incredibly involved. And these were village people (macho, macho man…), not urbanites. The butcher, the baker, and the candlestick-maker would all talk about politics, not in terms of who would be the best to have a beer with, but in terms of policies and ideology and theory. Voluntarily. Jeebus, these days you just about have to pull teeth to get anyone to talk about politics.
Where did we go wrong?
Shorter David Broder:
Stupid American Public!
Why can’t they just vote for Representatives in the government and then let those Representatives do what they were hired to do? Even if they do a complete 180 degree shift from what they said they would do, hey!, you voted for them, now shut up!
And we could save a lot of time and effort if we just allowed The Unitary Executive to do all the decidering, cause that’s why he’s there.
I can’t understand why Americans don’t grasp this basic, simple premise.
So, Some Guy, you are advocating that we just “disappear” that word, on the basis of your dislike for it. Showing your true colors, as it were.
Why not just come out and say it, that you want that inoffensive member of the lexicon taken out back and shot. Make it dig its own grave while you’re at it.
I believe that your advocated course of action would constitute a grave violation of the Geneva Rules of Style.
And once you’re on that slippery slope, what’s next? Where does it end?
I suppose next you’ll be saying we should do the same to other words, say for instance, “proactive.”
…
Uh, well. Hmmmm. Maybe I …
Oh, fuck it. I’ve got a shovel in the trunk of my car. ‘Twere best the deed be done quickly. Let’s go.
Some Guy wants term limits for Congress, and I think that they’re a bad idea. The fact is (to borrow Gary’s junk) that some people do get good at the job of legislating, and they do become knowledgeable about various topics that it is good to have legislators become knowledgeable about.
(It’s 6 a.m. I don’t know, even after rereading it, if that sentence made sense. I leave it as an exercise for the student.)
What we need in order to break the lock that lame incumbents have on their jobs is a drastic reorganization of campaign finance rules. My idea is that candidates go ahead and accept contributions, which are then placed in a pot and distributed equally to all candidates actually on the ballot. That way, you’d still get more money if you fundraised your ass off, but so would everyone else.
Then there’d be stricter oversight of how the money gets spent.
Other campaign-reform possibilities:
1. A “Big Brother”-like reality TV show where the candidates from both parties live together in a big house, totally cut off from their handlers, and have to interact with one another and perform “policy challenges.” Each candidate would get one vlog post a day. Friday would be “Jell-O shooter night,” and we’d get to see everyone with their inhibitions blown away. (Honestly, I think that this–except, maybe, for the Jell-O shooter part, because I don’t want to see Clinton standing on a table and doing a weird striptease for “the boys” or grainy night-vision images of Mitt praying to the porcelain god–would absolutely be the best thing that could happen to Presidential campaigns.)
2. Everyone would sit in a rocking chair on a front porch in Canton, Ohio, and wait for Election Day–none of this unseemly flesh-pressing.
Megadittoes, Brad.
Besides, Broder always lacks foke.
From Aristotle to Edmund Burke, philosophers have written of the healthy tension that normally exists between the understanding and strategies of leaders and the sentiments and opinions of their people.
“their people”? Perhaps poor Broder is confusing the year 2007 with the year 1776. Someone should remind him that this is not a monarchy, and we are no longer the subjects of King George.
I think Broder’s last bit of insightful work that was actually worth reading happened back when everyone else was ignoring George McGovern’s run for the Democratic nomination.
This is not firsthand knowledge on my part. I read it in Hunter S. Thompson’s book on the ’72 campaign, and you know that if he said it, it’s true.
But Broder? Not so much.
For most people, there are basic structural and functional changes that happen to brain cells as the years pile up. Higher-level cognition is the first to go – it’s initially often very subtle, but the downward slide inexorably leads to the fetal position, kind of like growing up, only backwards.
In today’s Washington, the “wants” of people count far more heavily than the nation’s needs.
Oops! Broken sentence! Better fix it:
In today’s Washington, the “wants” of corporate sociopaths count far more heavily than the nation’s needs.
There! All better!
David Broder was a cranky old man starting when he was about 20. what a fucking ball of laughs he must have been as a roomie in college, always trying to find a “consensus” about whether to buy meisterbrau or budweiser (there is a candidate, gennie cream ale, who is not beholden to the right or the left…), and trying to get the campus government to compromise on the issues of the day.
i bet everyone really hated him.
A.mazing.
Barbara at The Mahablog had a brilliant (in my humble opinion) disection of broder (I mean, broder’s piece) Hmmm… my clarification didn’t make that sound less painful, did it? Oh well… th IS “Sadly, No!” after all! 😀
http://www.mahablog.com/2007/07/05/the-natives-are-restless-2/
I wasn’t sure whether to laugh very loud, or clap. So I did both. 😀
I did enjoy Comments such as:
“Any minute now, the savages will break into Broder’s tastefully appointed study and leave mud on the hand-made Turkmen carpeting.”
and this:
“People were misled by talk radio and some conservative politicians? So shocking. All my delusions are shattered.”
heh! 😀
Enjoy! (And thanks for all the wonderful satire over the years!)
Americans: bad for America!
David Broder is why the phrase ‘ass hat’ was invented. I am going to be so glad when his generation is gone.
Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out, Dave…
Brad–
Didn’t you get the memo? That Broder was moving out of the “political columnist” area and into the “science fiction/futurist” area? When he writes that the government is too responsive to the people, it’s his (first, touching) stab at an alternate reality story. Newt just published one, so why not The Bro?
Otherwise, I’m with Doc Washboard: term limits, no. Campaign finance “reform” (read: public financing) fuck, yes. Someone ought to sit the American public down and say, “Look, have you ever hired anyone? Even a babysitter? How would it strike you if you found out that your employee spent literally half the time you’re paying him for, doing something else?”
Ecce Congress. Can someone please finish inventing that time machine, so we can get fifty years into the future and look back on this and laff?
The error of ommission by Broder three days after the Libby commutation is even worse than what he wrote. Thirty years after being Republican counsel on the Senate Watergate Committee, Fred Thompson is carrying water for yet another criminal president. He is the bagman for Scooter Libby, a spiller of
national secrets for the sake of political revenge. I’m sure Broder approves of Thompson’s efforts for Scooter, since a good lie about an enemy buying Niger yellowcake for the enemy’s ten-year-unused nuclear reactor is worth compromising an entire CIA arms control operation for. Right, David? Oh David, you may think you are on the level of James Reston or Walter Lippman but all you are these days is WaPo’s Maureen Dowd. Have another warmonger cocktail weenie for us, David.
Not only is Broder a hack, he’s not even original. His entire column looks like it’s lifted from a column by Walter Lippman from the 50’s. Lippman, the Broder of his day , wrote The Public Philosophy in 1954. It’s thesis is that the people are too powerful & public opinion weakens an already weakened President. The beltway elite have been writting&re-writting this same story, how to shut up or ignore the public for the greater good, since the Constitution was written to disenfranchise as many people as possible.
Lots o’ blood on media whore media’s hands, too. They think it will wash off.
It won’t.
tender regards,
Lady MacBeth
Damn, this is some shit. How dare the people of the United States try and influence what sort of country the United States is and will be?
David Broder the Maureen Dowd of WaPo? Not hardly, he’s more like the Adele Furgeson of the Bremerton Sun. He’s an Authoritiarian old man living in a world that bares just the faintest resemblance to reality.
Oh c’mon B-Dawg! You know the American public is dumb enough to vote against their own interest. I fact, I’d say the public organizes and votes against their own interests about half the time.
I mean, given the above, and Broders and virile oil men are winning half the time, which is better than half of the baseball teams out there. So what the Hell, do they want to win all the time? Wouldn’t that just push the country into a Marxist fantasy, all Upton Sinclair-like?
I might be willing to let my reps make more decisions in DC if I knew I might actually be able to vote the bozos out before they died. It’s striking when you look at elections in the early 20th century how many times the voters were able to “toss the bums out.” Swings of 100 or more seats in a single election were not uncommon. We were happy in 2006 for picking up, what, 30 seats? Hell, 100 years ago a 30 seat pickup was boring and status quo. Get rid of these gerrymandered seats with lifetime occupants and maybe, just maybe, I’ll trust my rep to do something more substantial that meet and greet some scout troop.
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Good. I’m glad they snipped Bush’s fast-track authority.
Me, too. You know it never occurs to Broder that Bush has been giving Congress the bird for six years now–maybe, just maybe eliminating the fast track authority is Congress finally saying, “Oh, yeah? Fuck you, too–and the unitary executive you rode in on!”
I’m all for public financing of campaigns, and I agree that redistricting is better than term limits. Two other things I’d like to see happen are
— closing the revolving door between K Street and government. Too many people look at government service as a “stepping stool” to consulting and lobbying. So senate staffer X greases the skids for Company Y, then amazingly, Company Y just happens to have a job for Senate staffer X! What a happy coincidence! That’s just asking for corruption, isn’t it?
— Forcing candidates and political appointees to submit a freaking resume and pass a basic “government operations” test before running or being nominated. Gods, I’m so tired of listening to Congressmen who don’t understand the Constitution or have never read the laws they are trying to pass much less understand the implications of them.
Why, oh why doesn’t the largest employer in the US have a fucking human resources department?? Why are there no minimum requirements posted for every fucking job in the government?
Why are people with no experience in finance allowed to rebuild the Iraqi stock market? Why are people who don’t speak Arabic set up as foreign service officers in the Iraqi embassy? Why is a guy with no public administration and no crisis management background allowed to head up FEMA?
Why are these people–people who would get laughed out of the human resources office, whose whisper-thin resumes would get circular-filed without a second thought, whose profiles wouldn’t even come up in an employment website search–why are these people allowed to be in charge, dammit?
Why doesn’t he just call us “rabble” and be done with us? I’ll bet in the Broder lexicon that’s not even uncivil.
What Broder really sounds like is an 18th-century aristocrat carping about the storming of the Bastille, and he comes complete with the aristocratic cluelessness that the anger of the rabble is in reaction to the excesses of the aristocracy. And he could have shown some acknowledgement of the limits of a fucking asshole lame duck president who has squandered all his political capital on an immoral war and the rape of the nation’s coffers (and I mean the US, not Iraq). But then Broder sees the Iraq war and the rape of the US as a feature, not a bug.
I lull myself to sleep at night with dreams of being rich enough to buy WaPo, just so I can fire Broder, Fred Hiatt, and the rest of the corrupters.
Broder is just saying honestly and stupidly what James Madison said with intelligence and subtlety.
Seriously – read Federalist 10 and mentally substitute “me and people who think like me” every time you see the term “faction”. These people have *never* wanted hoi polloi like us near power and government.
Exactly, Jillian. I contend that Washington is merely the place that the Founding Fathers envisioned. Elite, Insular, and Powerful.
Thanks a lot, old dudes with wigs…….
In today’s Washington, the “wants” of people count far more heavily than the nation’s needs.
Huh? No, I must have misread that. Hang on, lemme read it again.
[Shakes head]
People. Nation. Seems to me the nation is kazillion tons of dirt between a couple of oceans. It doesn’t have an interest. It doesn’t have needs. The people who live on that dirt are what constitutes America. It’s interests are their interests. And the whole idea of representative government is that the people will elect to positions of power politicians that will execute THEIR will. I didn’t know this was so hard to grasp.
As far as campaign finance/electoral reform, great but we need to come up with Plan B. The problem is electoral reform laws must be passed by a sitting congress, made up entirely of cynical, jaded, power hunger incumbent politicians. You ever notice how aggressively law enforcement organizations resist community oversight? Same deal. People might want it, but the very organizations that would have to implement it have very powerful self-interested reasons not to.
So while it would be the right answer, it will never happen, so we need to sneak some kind of trojan horse solution past ’em…
mikey
As a result, the people get their information from Rush Limbaugh and Dan Savage.
Due respect, but I think you meant Michael Savage. Or perhaps you think that the people are regularly reading about ben-wa balls, anal beads, and what to do about your straight boyfriend who really, really wants to suck a dick.
As a result, the people get their information from Rush Limbaugh and Dan Savage.
Due respect, but I think you meant Michael Savage. Or perhaps you think that the people are regularly reading about ben-wa balls, anal beads, and what to do about your straight boyfriend who really, really wants to suck a dick.
Whoops, sorry for the double post. I humbly submit to an atomic wedgie as penance.
Mr. Broder! Mr. Broder! The people are revolting!
David Broder: “You can say that again.”
“But ending the president’s negotiating authority will only do our country damage.”
I’m no business whiz, but even I know more about negotiating than this. Doesn’t he know that it can sometimes be an advantage not to have the final authority? That having the power to say a final no but not a final yes can give you leverage? It lets you play good cop and bad cop at the same time. “Look, I want to close this deal right now. We’re both on the same page here. But I gotta go back and deal with those guys in Congress, you gotta give me a little more.”
But this does require subtlety and intelligence. No wonder Bush can’t be bothered.
ImJohnGalt, the world might be a better place if there was more Dan Savage and less Michael Savage.
Just a thought.
Am I the only one who wasn’t aware that ex-Senator, Governor and Liebernemesis Lowell Weicker Jr. has long served on the board of World Wrestling Entertainment?
I wonder if the Ultimate Warrior supported his candidacy.
Qetesh, true dat.
Im, you mean Dan Savage, who wanted us to “kick some Islamofascist ass” in Iraq? No one’s ever accused the Sullivan-wannabe of political competence, especially after he confessed to licking Dobson’s doorknobs (an attempt at one-man biowarfare) and voting illegally in Iowa (where he didn’t live) in 2000. Hell, for someone who’s “seen God” while having his butt rammed and purports to hate bisexuals he’s conveniently forgotten that he’s had far more pussy than most gay men, sort of a “born-again” gay I guess.
I lull myself to sleep at night with dreams of being rich enough to buy WaPo, just so I can fire Broder, Fred Hiatt
If you’re going to dream, dream big. Personally, my favorite involves being elected absolute dictator of the world, where my first official act would be to order Broder and Hiatt broken on the wheel.