Top Ten Victory Celebrations by Republicans in Congress
The Republicans in Congress appropriated $20 million for a victory celebration for Iraq and Afghanistan, but couldn't use it in 2006 for obvious reasons. 
That item started me thinking of other things that the Republican Party could spend $20 million of the taxpayers' money to celebrate.
10. Stopping weapons of mass destruction programs that aren't even there!
9. "Loose lips sink ships" employee of the year.
8. Richard Bruce Cheney safety in hunting Award!
7. Funding urban renewal in Beirut.
6. World's best interrogators.
5. Tom Delay: Honest Politician of the Year.
4. Jack Abramoff's sacrifice of wealth for principle.
3. The administration's tough love toward New Orleans.
2. The revival of the Afghanistan economy.
1. A new kind of Big Brother program in the Congress just for pages! (A.k.a. "No child left behind!)
posted by Juan Cole @ 10/05/2006 12:32:00 AM
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It is a sad day to see that NPR has not only been gutted but also lobotomized. This morning news reported on the "inappropriate emails allegedly sent" by Foley to underage pages. Isn't the investigation far enough along that a journalist could feel justified in stating Foley really sent the emails or is this a hangover from yesterday's assertion by GOP leadership that there was a vast Liberal Leftwing conspiracy to sieze control of Congress and Foley was a victim of this.
The report went on to report on Air Force One, President Bush is very unhappy that this scandal is taking attention away from his campaign to alert the public to the fact that we are under siege by Islamo-fascists and in constant danger from terrorist attack. The scandal also obscures his good news to the American people that his security program is a great success, without which we would have already been brought to our knees by Al Qaeda.
I thought I had tuned into Drudge at first.
RIP NPR news.
LOL - a good laugh I needed to appease my anger after my daily newspaper read.
You missed one. Assuming he remains until November, "things happen" Rumsfeld will be the longest serving Secretary of Defense in US history. ...And possibly the most incompetent?
I have been reading Informed Comment for many months and admired your academic tone and obvious authority. My admiration is no less, even as I am saddened and concerned by this display of frustration.
However, I loved the snark.
lindata:
I won't presume to put words into the good Prof. mouth but I think he would agree that snark is good for the soul. Specially in this dark days.
But Snark we can get all over the blognet. Cole analysis we can only get here.
I understand where Lindata is coming from. I felt a bit that way myself when I read today's blog.
Then again, as Alexander Pope once put it:
A little nonsense now and then
Is relished by the best of men.
Because of its provisions mandating the reporting of (male) student names -- along with other important personal data -- to the Selective Service System, my brother the high school teacher and his colleagues call the typically Orwellian "no child left behind" law the "no child left at home" dragnet. As veterans of the American War on Vietnam, both my brother and I remember when the so-called "Selective Service" system existed to select the ones like George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Bill Clinton who wouldn't have to serve in the military. It never ceases to amaze me how many people fail to understand the true nature of this "select the best and draft the rest" theory of "trickle down" national "service."
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