"Yaaaaay," a lone woman in the audience yelled.

[dajoki]

WP
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501704.html?referrer=email

A Celebration in Search of an Occasion

By Dana Milbank

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

It was, perhaps, not the best possible time for the Republican Party to hold a soiree. The war in Iraq reached a macabre milestone yesterday afternoon as a 2,000th soldier was added to the list of the U.S. dead. Consumer confidence took a surprise tumble to a two-year low, the Conference Board announced. Support for the GOP fell to its lowest level in at least 13 years, according to a poll released by the Pew Research Center. All of Washington, meanwhile, was waiting for Friday's deadline for a prosecutor to say whether he is indicting top White House officials.

And yet, there they were at the gilded Mellon Auditorium last night: the Republican Party's biggest donors, men in tuxedos and women in cocktail dresses, dining on Asian spoon canapes, orange carpaccio and seared mignon of beef, and listening to the soothing tones of a jazz band and a keynote address by President Bush. About 250 Republican Eagles -- those who have contributed $15,000 or more to the party -- and guests were in town for the Eagles' 30th-birthday dinner, which was expected to bring the party more than $1 million.

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But the juxtaposition between the day's news and the night's festivities was awkward. In the Mellon Auditorium, its 45-foot stone columns decked with blue and white fabric, guests were greeted with cocktails at the entrance and crystal paperweights on their tables. A band, the Wright Stuff, played from a stage in the middle of the ballroom floor. Only the wine selection -- a pedestrian Clos du Bois -- hinted that these are not fat times.

RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, who, like Bush, had the political judgment not to dress in formal attire, took an innovative view of recent days. "This has been an incredible fall!" he announced, pointing to the approval of a constitution in Iraq, elections in Afghanistan, confirmation of a new chief justice and education reforms.

"Yaaaaay," a lone woman in the audience yelled.

[wookie294]

1. LOL

Awesome. "This has been an incredible fall."

Indeed, the Bush cabal is falling. Yippee!

[dajoki]

6. and we weren't invited LOL

:rofl:

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Yep

Heh heh. How awkward indeed.

[Carla in Ca]

14. I can just see the Move On ads that can be done

with that quote! I hope it isn't wasted.
Start with the statement "This has been an incredible fall" in big letters then show all the repubs that have been indicted or investigated.
It would be a beautiful thing.

[RevCheesehead]

2. I'm still waiting for the incredible fall.... TOMORROW!

Yaaaaay! (and there was much rejoicing)

[Art_from_Ark]

3. "An incredible fall"

Sounds more like he was referring to Humpty Dumpty* finally tumbling off that wall

[Mythsaje]

4. "This has been an incredible fall"

it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop at the bottom.

[dajoki]

9. the splat is comming n/t

[peekaloo]

5. What a ditz. Everybody knows you shout "Bingo".

[MsKandice01]

7. Never mind

I'm sdoooopid.

[dajoki]

10. welcome to DU

and why do you say that?

[MsKandice01]

13. I misread the article

And made kind of a dumb comment.

[dajoki]

17. we all do...

don't worry about it.:hi:

[Midnight Rambler]

11. Clos du Bois?

Someone should tell the freepers they were drinking something French (or at least something with a French name)

[dajoki]

12. freedom wine. hahahahahahahaha...

i think that one woman had a little too much.:rofl:

[BrotherBuzz]

15. Clos du Bois

'All the French you need to know' is their marketing slogan. What does that tell you? Cripes....

[FredScuttle]

16. C'mon Ken

George Takei did it

Sheryl Swoops did it


YOU CAN DO IT TOO!

[MissMarple]

18. 1st indictment of a sitting WH official since the 19th century?

Leave it to the Corruption Party. :eyes:

And Millbank references poor Scotty's "ongoing investigation" mantra.

"The causes of the discontent have grown: high fuel prices, a national debt that reached $8 trillion last week, a trio of hurricanes and the destruction of New Orleans, the indictment of Tom DeLay, the SEC probe of Bill Frist -- and, of course, the wait to see if Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury will indict a sitting White House official this week for the first time since the 19th century.

Many of Bush's natural defenders are silenced: At the White House yesterday afternoon, Scott McClellan declared 11 times that he could say nothing about the CIA leak, because it's an "ongoing investigation." In case that gave away too much information, he added: "Just because I'm not commenting on it doesn't mean you should read anything into that one way or the other.""

[dajoki]

19. "Yaaaaay," a lone woman in the audience yelled.

[skypilot]

20. lone woman

Probably Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin. Satan's little cheerleaders.

[dajoki]

22. my thoughts exactly n/t

[Hissyspit]

21. Nominated!

[Uncle Joe]

23. With all these eagles flying about,

it is no wonder Bush's clothes are so stained.