Dowd: "There's nothing more pathetic than watching someone who's out of ..

[understandinglife]

.... touch feign being in touch.

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As if the Veterinarian and the Niece were not bad enough, there was also the Accused. David Safavian, the White House procurement official involved in Katrina relief efforts, was arrested on Monday, accused by the F.B.I. of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into the seamy case of "Casino Jack" Abramoff, the Republican operative who has broken new ground in giving lobbying a bad name. Democrats say the fact that Mr. Safavian's wife is a top lawyer for the Republican congressman who's leading the whitewash of the White House blundering on Katrina does not give them confidence.

Just as he has stonewalled other inquiries, Mr. Bush is trying to paper over his Katrina mistakes by appointing his homeland security adviser, Frances Townsend, to investigate how the feds fumbled the response.

Mr. Bush's "Who's Your Daddy?" bravura - blowing off the world on global warming and the allies on the Iraq invasion - has been slapped back by Mother Nature, which refuses to be fooled by spin.

From Message: I Can't By MAUREEN DOWD on September 21, 2005

More at the link:

http://select.nytimes.com/2005/09/21/opinion/21dowd.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Georgie boy, here's your problem in one sentence -- "The more the president echoes his dad's "Message: I care," the more the world hears "Message: I can't." "

America, here's your problem as best I can summarize it for you in one sentence -- You've got a guy who stole the White House from you and he couldn't write an honest sentence if his life depended on it.


Peace.

[rodeodance]

1. Georgie boy, here's your problem .......

Georgie boy, here's your problem in one sentence -- "The more the president echoes his dad's "Message: I care," the more the world hears "Message: I can't." "

[aquart]

2. They seem to have fixed the little loophole. Can't get in.

[daninthemoon]

3. Damn it I wanted to read this.

[Carolab]

4. Somebody posted a workaround the other day.

Anyone know where it is?

[understandinglife]

5. Try this and tell me if it works:

http://tinyurl.com/afgjq


Peace.

[NoQuarter]

6. No

on-line subscrivers can't even get in.

[Carolab]

8. The other day someone posted the first four paragraphs.

Then I posted four more.

If everyone with a subscription each posted four paragraphs consecutively, we could get it all.

[Journeyman]

7. The workaround was to delete "select" from the URL . . .

however, the NYT seems to have closed that loophole.

[understandinglife]

9. Yes, they have. And, a couple of others , as well. Perhaps ...

...others with access can post additional portions of the Op-Ed.


Peace.

[Journeyman]

12. I'm hoping we can find alternate sources for the Opinion Pieces. . .

may have to read them a week later, but at least we'll get 'em.

[Dan]

10. and a little more

....."Mr. Bush should stop posing in shirtsleeves and get back to the Oval Office. He has more hacks and cronies he's trying to put into important jobs, and he needs to ride herd on that.

The announcement that a veterinarian, Norris Alderson, who has no experience on women's health issues, would head the F.D.A.'s Office of Women's Health ran into so much flak from appalled women that the F.D.A. may have already reneged on it. No morning-after pill, thanks to the antediluvian administration, but there may be hope for a morning-after horse pill.

Mr. Bush made a frownie over Brownie, but didn't learn much. He's once more trying to appoint a nothingburger to a position of real consequence in homeland security. The choice of Julie Myers, a 36-year-old lawyer with virtually no immigration, customs or law enforcement experience, to head the roiling Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency with its $4 billion budget and 22,000 staffers, has caused some alarm, according to The Washington Post.

Ms. Myers's main credentials seem to be that she worked briefly for the semidisgraced homeland security director, Michael Chertoff, when he was at the Justice Department. She just married Mr. Chertoff's chief of staff, John Wood, and she's the niece of Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "......

[Carolab]

11. Thanks. Anyone else? n/t

[Hardrada]

14. Nothingburger!! I like that.

I'm sort of a nothingburger but I don't try to get into high office!

[Cha]

17. As if! As if bush can even

"ride"!

Thanks for this..the nwt should be ashamed and made accountalble for holding their best opinion editors under lock and key. :wtf: do they think they're doing?

[necso]

13. "Ms. Myers's main credentials...

...she's the niece of Gen. Richard Myers, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff"

Now you're talking.

[DemReadingDU]

15. I like Maureen Dowd

thanks for posting bits and pieces of her latest column everyone

[malta blue]

16. self delete

[understandinglife]

18. Full text at Truthout:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092105M.shtml


Peace.

[Carolab]

19. "....so we can more better do our job." GACK.

Wow, his language gets worser by the day, don't it?

P.S. UL, thanks for posting this.

[Ellipsis]

20. Kick n/t