Bloodless Coup

Number of female national security advisors:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 0
Number of female Secretaries of State:
Republicans: 1
Democrats: 0

You bring us a Golda Meir or a Margaret Thatcher and we'd have a female President, which we'd have anyway if people found out with Obama there's no there there. There's only advisors and speechwriters, and a certain Washington insider Vice President.

Morris I think you miscounted on Secretaries of State.

And wow - you noticed that there are places in which both parties have 0's. Good for you! Nice deflection from the numbers of actual living, breathing people where the discrepancies between the parties are quite large.

So wow. The Republicans lead in the number of NSC advisors! True, that one Republican didn't actually perform her job, but nonetheless she had the title - and no Democratic woman has yet held that title. OBVIOUSLY the Republicans are therefore the party of political opportunity for women. It's so clear.

So, you think Rice was a worse NSC than Pelosi is a Speaker? She claims to be ignorant that the Catholic Church has a position on abortion. She promised civility, then turned the lights off on the opposition. The only thing she's pushed through is a minimum wage hike, and then she blames Bush for inflation despite the wage-price spiral being basic economics. She promised to do something about high gas prices, then they went up another buck and a half and she still opposes drilling.

It isn't women that people of our generation have a problem with. It's women like Pelosi, Blanco, and Landrieu.

What on Earth are you babbling about? Who said people of our generation had a problem with women?

And I didn't say Rice performed her job poorly. I said she didn't perform it at all. It's on that front that while I grudgingly note her presence on the official list of NSC advisors, it's hard to consider her an actual NSC advisor. You don't like the content of Pelosi's work and that's your prerogative - but saying she's bad is different than saying she's not actually functioning as Speaker.

And btw, calling her "uncivil" show just how wackily out of touch with what really goes on in DC you are. She's practically Melanie Wilkes compared to the Republicans who preceded her. I mean really. Just try to get an oversees trip approved that doesn't include Republicans, or something scheduled during a Republican retreat - try.

What do you have against Jeane Kirkpatrick Morris? WHat would Bill think!?

"There's only advisors and speechwriters, and a certain Washington insider Vice President."

Seriously Morris? As a defender of W this is what you come up with?

At least our Washington insider VP doesn't eat children, shoot his friends in the face, tell people to go fuck themselves on the floor of the Senate, and . . . well, shall I go on?

And o please o please tell me you're blaming the spoils of eight years of horrible economic decisionmaking on a year-old minimum wage hike, which still doesn't put wages where they were, in adjusted dollars, under early Clinton and the boom over which he undisputedly presided. You know that one, the one, unlike Reagan's, that actually wasn't smoke and mirrors, that wasn't borrow hide and run, but actually lifted all boats.

Seriously? What do your smarmy textbooks say about people who will say anything to find themselves in opposition to their entire audience, no matter how incoherent and silly.

"no there there"? Morris, you're off message... the line is that Obama is too elitist and intellectual, not enough of a bomb-first-ask-questions-later-or-not-at-all type. Pay attention next time, okay?

Ack.

"Seriously? What do your smarmy textbooks say about people who will say anything to find themselves in opposition to their entire audience, no matter how incoherent and silly."

So, for you the mark of psychological health is agreeing with people even when I think they're wrong? I thought Bush fans were supposed to surround themselves in echo chambers where no one can disagree with them. As Jacflash would say, pay attention to the talking points you're supposed to be using.

And Binky needs to correct her stat, the one about how many women have ever been nominated to a Presidential ticket, because apparently it's even now. Maybe ours will win her own state.