The republican rats are leaping off the sides of the SS *Adminstration

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

I mean, really.

In widely reported news in just the last couple of days I have heard Grover Norquist, Jack Abramhoff, Brownie, Peggy Noonan, Scooter Libby, Lindsy Graham, Ed Rollins and assorted MSM talking heads,

leaping into the lifeboats and paddling away furiously from the sinking Bush administration. They need to get an early start so they aren't sucked into the giant, ever rippling vortex. Sadly, there aren't enough lifejackets or boats for all of them.

[wtmusic]

1. Imagine being stuck in a lifeboat with Grover Norquist

I guess drowning is worse

[C_U_L8R]

2. Poor poor Grover

is drowning in his own bathtub....
blub blub blub

[wtmusic]

6. ROFL

Zing!

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. I wouldn't close my eyes to sleep if I were stuck in a lifeboat with

Norquist.

[Dr.Phool]

4. I'd have to drown Norquist.

[hopeisaplace]

8. rubber duckie you're the one, rubber duckie

the only thing left in his tub

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. Noonan? what did you hear about that can'o'worms?

She so whistfully lies on behalf of the Bushista gangsters, that I gag when i hear her recite.

[norml]

7. Four Presidents and a Funeral: A spirited tribute to Mrs. King--and to dem

PEGGY NOONAN



Four Presidents and a Funeral
A spirited tribute to Mrs. King--and to democracy.

Friday, February 10, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST

Listen, I watched the funeral of Coretta Scott King for six hours Tuesday, from the pre-service commentary to the very last speech, and it was wonderful--spirited and moving, rousing and respectful, pugnacious and loving. The old lions of the great American civil rights movement of the 20th century were there, and standing tall. The old lionesses, too. There was preaching and speechifying and at the end I thought: This is how democracy ought to be, ought to look every day--full of the joy of argument, and marked by the moral certainty that here you can say what you think.

There was nothing prissy, nothing sissy about it. A former president, a softly gray-haired and chronically dyspeptic gentleman who seems to have judged the world to be just barely deserving of his presence, pointedly insulted a sitting president who was, in fact, sitting right behind him. The Clintons unveiled their 2008 campaign. A rhyming preacher, one of the old lions, a man of warmth and stature, freely used the occasion to verbally bop the sitting president on the head.

So what? This was the authentic sound of a vibrant democracy doing its thing. It was the exact opposite of the frightened and prissy attitude that if you draw a picture I don't like, I'll have to kill you.

It was: We do free speech here.

That funeral honored us, and the world could learn a lot from watching it. The U.S. government should send all six hours of it throughout the World Wide Web and to every country on earth, because it said more about who we are than any number of decorous U.N. speeches and formal diplomatic declarations.


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http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110007937


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=385359&mesg_id=385359

[Arkham House]

9. God Bless Her!

A Repub who still believes in democracy...whoda thunk it?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

10. nice words, actually. Thanks for the link