Which politicians you channeling today, besides Dubya?

Dean Martin, favored entertainer of the Mafia.

Ideal state? Sarcasm flag please!

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

When invasions and embargo and propaganda and isolation and demonizing and infiltration and espionage and blackmail and whining fail, there's always running out the clock.

Bush will claim this as a foreign policy victory since it happened on his watch - sorta like the myth of Reagan and the Eastern Bloc.

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Bush will claim this as a foreign policy victory since it happened on his watch

Bush should be careful about taking credit for shit that happens on his watch.

Bush should be careful about taking credit for shit that happened on his watch.

You forget the Reagan Rules, though:

1) Nothing bad that happens in a Republican interval is the fault of the sitting President - it is, however, the fault of dirty hippies, the New Deal, and the League of Nations (post 1990s, you can add Clinton's penis to the fault list).

2) "I don't recall" is a legitimate defense.

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With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.