Monday, March 28, 2005

Very Nice Line

Atrios lives up to his reputation:

The way to be perceived as strong isn't to let George W. Bush tell you where to point your dick.


As true as it is funny. That is, as I was suggesting earlier, liberals and Democrats have a foolish tendency to see their weaknesses and try to overcome them in ways that only highlight their weakness. Like kowtowing to Bush on foreign policy, expecting to get a cookie from Bush or voters or somebody hor having been such good little boys and girls.

Whatever Bill Clinton's weaknesses, and they were indeed legion, he was better than I think any other contemporary Democratic politician at repositioning without signaling to everyone paying attention that he was repositioning.

It's nice, on the other hand, to see Bush appear to be engaging in the same sort of foolish behavior-at Dkos we find that Bushites apparently leaked Bush's supposed reservation about actually signing the Terri Schiavo bill, this coming alongside a general WH distancing from the whole affair. Does the W stand for "wimp", George?

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