Why Do You Keep Giving Me These Gifts?
Posted at 7:51pm on Jan. 21, 2008 Well, that's one way to get them to shut up about Bush vs. Gore.
And not before time, frankly.
By Moe Lane
All it took was the sudden need to explain away a six point loss by this year's Fresh-Faced Outsider Who Will Breathe New Life Into the Race and Get Ordinary People Excited About Politics Again (I should standardize this: God knows the Democrats run one of these poor SOBs into the ground every four years):
Breaking: Obama Wins Nevada
Yes, Obama Won Nevada
...Bowers will no doubt follow this up with A Curse Upon Your Mothers, Ye Mockers! OBAMA WON NEVADA!!!!!, or something else along those lines. Well, everybody needs a hobby; particularly when the alternative is watching your candidate get metaphorically garroted with a silken bowstring...
Read on.
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Posted at 11:55am on Dec. 18, 2007 Politico.com rips off the bandage in one fell swoop.
I would have eased it off slowly, but then, I'm a bit of a sadist, no?
By Moe Lane
Or at least a schradenfreudist, if that's even a word. Anyway, these two authors saw no reason to beat around the bush (Via Instapundit):
Liberals lose bigtime in budget battle
By: Martin Kady II and Ryan GrimThis much is clear: Democrats in Congress buckled under pressure from the White House to hold spending near the administration’s specified limit, and they’re poised to give the president more war money with no strings attached.
But the buckling didn’t stop there.
Democratic policy priorities that liberals hoped would be included in the omnibus spending legislation were also left on the cutting-room floor.
But don't feel completely bad about this! As the article notes, "Democrats will close the year touting a historic increase in fuel mileage standards, hikes in Pell grants, lobbying and ethics reform, and the first minimum wage increase in a decade"! After all, isn't that what the progressives really spent all that money and time on in 2006? Student loan availability?
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