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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

In which Tanya thanks Steve for making the case for Prozac

Steve -> "But you say that even though you disagree with the Simpleton-in-Chief, you're not ready to cut him loose. What does he have to do to earn that degree of ire from you? He has already grown the FederalNational government at a pace that would make LBJ blush. He has invaded and occupied a country that posed no discernible threat to us while completely abrogating any responsibility for securing our borders and allowing an invasion from our South. He has pandered to and triangulated on every left-wing agenda item the Democrats could cook up. He has tramped up and down the first and fourth amendments like some drunken Democrat on a power binge. He tried to appoint his secretary to the Supreme Court and tried to hand over management of our deep-water ports to Arabs, requiring rank-and-file conservatives to bitch-slap him back into line while the GOP leadership stood by slack-jawed. So what does he have to do to earn your ire? Shoot old ladies in the back for cheating at a bingo game? Fondle an intern in the Oval Office? How threadbare does this guy's sheep disguise have to become before you admit there's a wolf in there?"

Are you a spy from MoveOn.org? You sound a lot like one of those radicals on there. You sure do have a funny way to win people to your way of thinking, loser.

-> "You're new to this party politics thing, aren't you? Nothing, and I mean nothing happens without the leadership's blessing in a political party. The revolt was allowed because mid-term elections were on the horizon and the leadership didn't want a civil war to be in progress. They deferred, they equivocated, they stalled. As I said before, the full Senate bill will be passed if the GOP wins a majority in both houses of Congress. The leadership will toe the line."

You do know that they have therapists and medicine to help you with your paranoia.

-> "And there's your dose of realism, presented in the most rational way possible."

It sounds like to me that you're a bitter old man.

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