Dowd: Bush is running around like a "Today Show" weatherman

[tgnyc]

looking for a photo-op.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. That was brilliant! nt

[mandyky]

2. She was brilliant today

on MTP! I usually don't watch but the oil guy on CSpan was making me sick.

[qanda]

3. That was hilarious

They seemed to all be ripping Bush apart. I loved what Friedman said, "It's all going to be okay until it's not!" That is so true. We have allowed China to pretty much own our country and we're going to be screwed when the bill comes due.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

5. When the hell did this happen?

I am only an interested observer of the politcal scene and had no idea until I joined DU that we owed all this money to China.

Whose idea was THIS?? And when did it start? Can anyone catch me up to speed?

[asjr]

7. Grannie--I didn't know CRAP about anything until

I came to DU. When I can't get DU I have withdrawal symptoms.

[okieinpain]

17. oh god this is bad, I'm the same way. does this mean there is

going to be a dua.

[Ilsa]

8. Yeah, I think I read here on DU last week that China owns about

46% of our debt. Lovely, thought, isn't it? We pay the Saudis so they can have the means to kill our troops, and we are getting more to China.

Meanwhile, the financial sacrifices for the war, and Bush's* tax cuts for the wealthy will be on our children and grandchildren.

[ashling]

12. I don't mean to offend, but

even a casual observer should known this, It's only beoing talked about EVERYWHERE. I have even seen political cartoons about it in weekly newspapers in "the heartland" (ie., the "no brainland").

[TallahasseeGrannie]

26. I've known about it

for about a month or so. Strange thing is I get most of my news from blogs and online. So go figure!

But then I will have to say I often skip over economic news. So if that is the forum, then I guess I did miss it.

[Theres-a]

22. DU is amazing

Seems to me,our collective questioning about the information we are fed helps to unspin it.Then there's the information that is a small paragraph,that get buried under infotainment,that somebody posts and we all discuss it.There is real information and discernment here.We are putting it front and center,that which is largely ignored elsewhere.I am so grateful for DU.

[AlCzervik]

24. They buy are bonds and we are in big trouble if they decide to cash them

in.

[Ilsa]

10. Friedman also commented that in spite of the increase in

tax revenues to the govt., we have a greater increase in debt (bought by China, mostly). He added that Bill Clinton proved during his administration that you could have economic growth without cutting taxes.

[DemsUnited]

25. AGREE! Scary how many people don't understand that US national debt

is being funded by countries like Japan & China!! They seem to think the government is borrowing money from US banks and business or something. Wonder how "Red America" would feel if they knew that the Iraq war is being paid for by borrowing more money from China.

[leftofthedial]

4. that's about right,

except that he's less eloquent and less qualified than even the local channel weatherperson

[ashling]

14. not to mention the fact

that he it was idiot media lackies and Bush apologists like him that let turdface put us in this position in the first place!

[valerief]

6. The ball's in Al Roker's court now!

Wonder if Today Show will acknowledge her bon mot.

[Quixote1818]

9. She said Bush is now the head of FEMA

:rofl:

[ignatius 2]

11. I heard a radio reporter on NPR yesterday who was asked if he got to

talk to the wee cowboy. He said, no, Bush was more interested in the photographers.

I wished I had a rewind button so I could hear that over and over and over again!

Some of the media are swimming toward the light of truth and perhaps even decency, and once you have seen there is no turning back.

[Loge23]

13. link for transcript

Terrific stuff here. Dowd's wit is absolutely lethal!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9438988/

[ignatius 2]

15. Thanks for posting that, I had not seen Mr. Broussard's comments. I

really like that guy. It seemed as if he cleaned Tim's clock and the comments about mother nature not being partisan and asking what kind of blackheart questions his friends mama's death were freakin' awesome.

There is a man who could stand up to any tepug or swift boat asshole and mop the floor with them.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Back in 2000, Dowd did her part to smear Al Gore

and put the chimp on his pedestal. I'll never forgive her for that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/11/opinion/11DOWD.html?ex=1127793600&en=91bba6095f558871&ei=5070

[kath]

18. Oh, GACK, I couldn't bear to read that piece. MODO spent *lots* of time

talking about "earth tones" and other stupid bullshit (against Gore) during the 2000 campaign. I'll never forgive her for that either.

Yeah, now that the tide has turned, she speaks out against Chimpyshit once in a while. But she's *definitely* one of the ones responsible for helping him get into office. A fokkin' dipshit mediawhore. No forgiveness. Screw her and the horse she rode in on.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

19. Thank you for sharing that

I will never read another thing she writes.

[Kolesar]

21. I had heard that MoDo was anti-Gore but that was the first I saw of it

In 2000, I did not spend a lot of time reading columnists. Thanks for posting that.

[bleedingheart]

20. When Brock referred to * as the Manchurian candidate...

I nearly fell off my chair.

[Supersedeas]

23. yea, where did that come from?