Author: Fuzzy Curmudgeon

Who is this asshole, and why is JWR running his tripe?

Arafat’s aide told me that Bush, Powell and even, Rice has refused to speak with Arafat directly. Arafat has to go through a third party if he wants to ask Powell or Bush, or Rice for help. Now this is silly, silly. I remember sitcoms with this plot. Somebody was mad at somebody and they had to speak through somebody else, even though they were in the same room, or sitting next to one and other.

Um, just me, but why does Arafat (or Strong) think Bush is going to pick up the phone personally and talk to him? Especially at this point?

C’mon, I know there is a lot of sophomoric garbage in the Bush administration,

A hell of a lot less than under Clinton. Thank God.

but are we reduced to pre-pubescent pouting. Please get an adult to answer the phone when somebody calls the White House or the Department of State on the weekends. The president can act like a big boy and speak with Arafat before more children are killed in Israel and Palestine.

Hey Morgan — get a clue. Bush already has said that Arafat is irrelevant. Why talk to him when there are hotter irons in the fire, like whacking Saddam? Talking to Arafat is definitely something I’d let someone less senior deal with.
Compared to the Butcher of Baghdad, Arafat is indeed pretty small potatoes.

But today’s column on Townhall is just too good to pass up.

Instead of obsessing over why angry primitives hate Americans, a more fruitful area for Democrats to examine might be why Americans are beginning to hate Democrats.

Yep.

Go read it, it’s all good, but the money quote is this (at least if you hate Puff Daschle like I do):

It’s telling that Daschle finally showed “passion” when he felt the Senate was being attacked. That’s what really galled him. That’s what really made the mask slip. I think that the “attack” on the Senate is one of the least significant events of the last 54 weeks, but that’s what got him steamed. Listening to subsequent speeches from Sen. Boxer and the utterly senile Robert Byrd just confirmed the impression: some of the Senators seem to believe that criticism of the Senate is beyond the pale, because it is THE SENATE, after all.

Amen. As P.J. O’Rourke has famously observed, the Senate seems to have been the way the Founders came up with to keep fatuous blowhards out of private industry. I can’t think of a better place for a Tom Daschle, a Robert Byrd, or a Jim Jeffords. You certainly wouldn’t want them running a Fortune 500 company.

…is saying Gore is an important person, who had an important speech yesterday that the networks should have covered live, and whose election was stolen.
His name is Bob Fertnik. I guess it makes sense that he’s the founder of democrats.com .
O’Reilly just called him one of the biggest spinners he’s ever seen.

…just tore Daschle a new one in the Senate (on Fox).
In the most urbane, calm, and calculated way possible, too. He made Daschle look like a raving maniac.

Did I just say Democrats in the Senate were incompetent? They also have a lot of nerve. Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, meet pot.

Senators Tell Interior to Get Its Act Together
After nearly a decade of spoiled records, lost money and three Cabinet secretaries cited for contempt of court, lawmakers are saying the Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Department of Interior has lost its credibility with Native Americans.

Hmm. Who was in charge of BIA for 8 of the past 10 years?
Let’s all sing it in unison: DEMOCRATS!
Whose act is it that needs to get together, again?

I guess Tom “Puff” Daschle is living in a different world from the rest of us:

Calling recent comments by President Bush “outrageous,” Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle on Wednesday demanded that Bush apologize for implying that the Democratic-controlled Senate was compromising national security.

Umm…Tom…bubulah…truth hurts, doesn’t it?
Fact of the matter is, this man is probably the most incompetent boob in the Senate right now, unless maybe we factor in Hollings and Byrd.

Hmm. It looks like the wife and I still didn’t manage to get out of Isidore’s way 🙂 From that 10AM advisory today it looks like Indy will get sideswiped as it goes through Kentucky.
This looks like good news for the NE drought though, if it drags enough water up from the Gulf with it.

So saith the Times of London (linked via Fox here). And if he manages to get one and uses it, I’m reminded of a passage from an old H. Beam Piper novel (Uller Uprising for any Piper fans out there) that goes something like this:

“We should raze Keegark flat as a pancake and use Orzgild’s head to play football on it.”

This in response to the said alien’s getting and setting off a nuke that killed a number of Terrans, among other atrocities. And I think it has application to Saddam.
(If I can find the book, I’ll get the quote right. I suspect it’s packed in a box somewhere, unfortunately. But that was essentially the gist of it.)

All kinds of hits from Google, people looking for stuff on the Maniac Mom from Mishawaka. Not much here but my carping about her, folks 🙂