He spends a whole bunch of digital ink proclaiming the next coming of Jesus Christ clothed as our current president and gives 3 concrete examples of things the administration has done. The problem is, all three are examples of how said administration has screwed the pooch. Yet from this, he concludes that we’ve finally got some leadership in office instead of the bumbling we seem to actually have.
The fact that this man is employed as a journalist serves to emphasize the ongoing destruction of that profession as a whole.
March 17, 2009 at 10:02 am
What are you talking about?
The president gets up every day and does THINGS! LOTS of things!!!
March 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm
ok, point taken overall – the man is both a partisan hack and a moron. but i fail to see how he draws your ire more than any of the other op-ed nitwits out there. hell, bob novak has a job and i’ve not read anything here about that twit. frankly, your final statement is dead-nuts accurate – the list of indictable ‘journalists’ is just too short by a couple hundred.
seriously though, looking into bush’s use of signing statements is anything but screwing the pooch. i see it, regardless of how you feel about the ways in which they were used, as an excellent way of defining in the long run just where the president’s power to do whatever the f he pleases ends. that can’t be anything but a good thing. unless the pooch-screwing in question relates to obama’s own use of signing statements just 2 days later, of course…
March 17, 2009 at 4:22 pm
ok, point taken overall – the man is both a partisan hack and a moron. but i fail to see how he draws your ire more than any of the other op-ed nitwits out there. hell, bob novak has a job and i’ve not read anything here about that twit. frankly, your final statement is dead-nuts accurate – the list of indictable ‘journalists’ is just too short by a couple hundred.
seriously though, looking into bush’s use of signing statements is anything but screwing the pooch. i see it, regardless of how you feel about the ways in which they were used, as an excellent way of defining in the long run just where the president’s power to do whatever the f he pleases ends. that can’t be anything but a good thing. unless the pooch-screwing in question relates to obama’s own use of signing statements just 2 days later, of course…
March 18, 2009 at 6:23 am
He attracted my ire because it was linked prominently on page one of CNN which I peruse once a day for some reason I haven’t yet figured out. It was included among other, newsy sorts of articles as if it wasn’t an editorial. If I want to read an editorial, I’ll go find it. I don’t think it should be under the Latest News tickers because guess what? That crap isn’t news.
I’m actually not up-to-date on signing statements so I’m incapable of commenting, which is probably surprising given past rants.
March 18, 2009 at 6:23 am
He attracted my ire because it was linked prominently on page one of CNN which I peruse once a day for some reason I haven’t yet figured out. It was included among other, newsy sorts of articles as if it wasn’t an editorial. If I want to read an editorial, I’ll go find it. I don’t think it should be under the Latest News tickers because guess what? That crap isn’t news.
I’m actually not up-to-date on signing statements so I’m incapable of commenting, which is probably surprising given past rants.