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1. Rhod:

A moment of silence for Bolton…to match the monastic silence in The White House on every major issue of the day. Good grief.

Dec 4, 2006 - 9:10 am 2. Buddy Larsen:

I see a plan taking shape. First, the White House retreats on every issue possible. Then, next …well, I haven’t really gotten that far yet.

Dec 4, 2006 - 9:43 am 3. Buddy Larsen:

h/t Gateway, from the White House:

I am deeply disappointed that a handful of United States Senators prevented Ambassador Bolton from receiving the up or down vote he deserved in the Senate. They chose to obstruct his confirmation, even though he enjoys majority support in the Senate, and even though their tactics will disrupt our diplomatic work at a sensitive and important time. This stubborn obstructionism ill serves our country, and discourages men and women of talent from serving their Nation.

Dec 4, 2006 - 10:04 am 4. jedrury:

Someone is playing games at the the Times. Here is the end of the article.

“But on Nov. 9, when Senator Lincoln Chafee, Republican of Rhode Island, announced that he would deny Republicans on the committee the last vote needed to send Mr. Bolton?s nomination to the full Senate, some officials began to privately acknowledge that chances of confirmation were low.

Alternative names that have been mentioned both inside and outside the administration include the American ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad; Philip D. Zelikow, the State Department counselor; Paula Dobriansky, undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs; and Mr. Chafee.”

????????

When the White House appoints Chafee, just shoot me because we will have finally realized that GOP is without any sense of retribution. With the exception of Jim Jeffers has there ever been a bigger traitor to the party?

How many millions were spent to save his butt in Little Rhody and this is what the president gets from this aristocratic mealy mouth wimp?

Dec 4, 2006 - 10:09 am 5. Rhod:

Jedrury:

You second to last paragraph contains the words “shoot” and “retribution”, both unfortunate usages when the subject is a pol from Rhode Island. Chafee is just being smart. When your nets snag in Narragansett Sound, the problem is the acres of cement snowshoes on the bottom.

Dec 4, 2006 - 12:06 pm 6. jedrury:

Rhod: Got a good laugh from your post.

Little Rhody shares the same reputation as New Jersey.

Dec 4, 2006 - 12:14 pm 7. Godzilla:

The Dems have been slurping at the well of bitching and moaning for 6 long years, obstructing every damn thing this administration has tried to do, never offering an alternative plan.

However, the wheels of Ka keep turning, as Stephen King would say, and right now I’m starting to feel like a kid lining up at the toy store to buy a brand new super gizmo-ized XBox.

I don’t know when the store is going to open, but I can hear the rustling behind the door, and someone twiddling for the key.

It’s going to be fun becoming a firebreather. I think.

Dec 4, 2006 - 12:21 pm 8. Buddy Larsen:

I disagree with Godzilla. I think we need to set an example, and avoid calling the no-good low-life sonsabitches names.

Dec 4, 2006 - 12:31 pm 9. Terrye:

I don’t think this about the White House backing down. If they don’t have the votes, they don’t have the votes. That is a result not only of Chafee, but the midterms. Too bad some of those pissy libertarians and conservatives out there complaining about everything from immigration to earmarks did not think about Bolton before they turned on the GOP. Hey, but they wanted to send a message to the GOP a lot more than they wanted to send Bolton to Turtle Bay.

Dec 4, 2006 - 12:55 pm 10. Rhod:

Mr. Larsen is more fun than Don Rickles, or for those of a certain age, Jack E. Leonard.

Dec 4, 2006 - 1:32 pm 11. Buddy Larsen:

Ha–that’s good company, Rhod. Rodney Dangerfield is more me, tho. Like when he was talking about his first girlfriend–he called her and she said to come on over, nobody was home. He went over, and nobody was home.

Dec 4, 2006 - 2:15 pm 12. ricpic:

Mr. Bolton is virile. Ergo: he has to go! Pansy power wins again.

Dec 4, 2006 - 3:43 pm 13. Lem:

While Bolton bolts, others say they stay.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/

Dec 4, 2006 - 5:40 pm 14. Barry Dauphin:

Maybe Bush can appoint Dan Rather—courage!

Seriously, there is some talk about appointing some gasbag old Senator. Instead,they should appoint Claudia Rosett.

Dec 4, 2006 - 8:32 pm 15. Gary Rosen:

How about Brigitte Gabriel, who is an American citizen?

Dec 4, 2006 - 11:41 pm 16. Buddy Larsen:

Claudia Rosett, Brigitte Gabriel, two great ideas. They’re both clear voices for right vs wrong, and whether speaking or writing, they really make the sparks fly.

Dec 5, 2006 - 5:51 am 17. Buddy Larsen:

George Mitchell? Sorry, but this is the man who introduced the modern form of soft-voice/big-lie to the Senate, in a contrived and deliberate attempt to improve his party’s DC position by weakening Ronald Reagan’s foreign policy–to the detriment of the national interest.

Dec 5, 2006 - 5:56 am 18. stu:

How about the time Rodney was with the prostitute and when he dropped his pants she dropped her price.

Dec 5, 2006 - 8:59 am 19. Rhod:

Or when Rodney discovered that his wife’s interest in him was replaced by her interest in food. She put a mirror on the dining room ceiling.

Dec 5, 2006 - 10:21 am 20. Buddy Larsen:

He said he ordered a plastic blow-up mail-order girl, and now her plastic blow-up mail-order boyfriend is in town, looking for him.

Dec 5, 2006 - 11:58 am 21. Rhod:

Hah! He asked his wife why she never told him when she had an orgasm, she said “You’re never around”.

Dec 5, 2006 - 1:00 pm 22. Buddy Larsen:

yep–he said “I got married because I wanted sex in the worst way…and that’s what I got, sex in the worst way!”

Dec 5, 2006 - 1:34 pm 23. Rhod:

Laughter here…Before Roger kicks us out, Buddy…when he had sex with his wife for the first time, he asked “Am I the first?” She answered, “Maybe. Your face looks familiar.”

Dec 5, 2006 - 2:49 pm 24. Gary Rosen:

More Rodney:

“The first time I had sex, I was so scared. I was all alone!”

“Kids are doing it so young today they’re making birth control pills shaped like Fred Flintstone.”

Dec 6, 2006 - 12:09 am 25. Buddy Larsen:

LOL–I remember a few times, on the “Tonight Show”, after he had become a huge hit, he would do his act a little differently, holding back a long time, working up to his tagline. When he’d finally say “I tell ya I don’t get no respect!” the room would let loose a roar unlike anything I ever heard anytime else on that show. He’d never let on he heard it, he’d just stand there sweating, about fifteen nervous tics going on, eyes bugged out, tugging his tie, looking hunted. Everyman, if ever there was one.

Dec 6, 2006 - 7:07 am

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