something-something complex Matt
Weird-ass honorific, dude.
Did you read the Op-Ed piece by the AEI dude (R. Marc Gerecht) in the Times today or possibly yesterday? It makes a lot more sense with this back story. I will go find a link.
Does this mean he's going to start commenting as Gnihtemos-Gnihtemos Xelpmoc?
That would be the Unfogged pseud of former UN Secretary-General Boutros-Boutros Ghali.
I never thought I'd say this, but I miss Dan Quayle.
I don't trust Steve Clemons. He is not dishonest, but my feeling from reading him for years is that he has internalized an attitude of "Protect the Presidency" (if not the President) and sustain the possibility of bipartianship on foreign policy. I would think after the information we received about Bush being front & center on torture that no one would claim he is Cheney's dim sock-puppet again, but Clemons is still going at it.
The list of formerly unfortunate Republicans whom I now miss grows longer by the day. I mean, I practically had to put Ashcroft on it, didn't I.
ABC News says Congress has approved the Iraq-war-funding bill without timetables:
Bowing to President Bush, the Democratic-controlled Congress grudgingly approved fresh billions for the Iraq war Thursday night, minus the troop withdrawal timeline that drew his earlier veto.
Bow! BOW! Mandom.
14: Yeah - let us not forget that the something-something complex was the coinage of a Repubican.
The strategy here seems to be that of the fait accompli: putting the US in a position where attacking Iran is the only smart choice. The advantages of this approach are clear: diplomacy is hard, fucking it up is easy. There are a lot of incidental data that corroborate this. Does anyone else remember the head of the revolutionary guard just disappearing off the earth about a month ago? I have no evidence that we got him, but a) who else wants him? and b) that would semi-explain the recent kidnapping spree of the Iranians. Also, we arrested a good number of Iranians in Iraq. God knows what happened to them.
That's the "facts on the ground" strategy perfected by Ariel Sharon. Fuck things up so badly that no one else can fix it, and your plan becomes the only one possible.
The strike-out in the post title didn't show up on Bloglines so it only made sense to me when I clicked through to the site. Btw, has something about the posts-and-comments feed changed in the last 2 weeks or so? New comments don't cause the post to refresh in my reader which kind of takes away of the point of the feed.
2: ahhh, that explains it. I thought it was a reference to his honorific "Big Media Matt," which had someone been further altered and become too complicated to be worth remembering.
Yglesias is a puppet of the Media-Informational Complex. Or something.
If this is true then I hope that when the closing credits roll on the Bush administration Tom Clancy and Dan Brown at least get co-writer credits on the screenplay.
Fuck that fucking fuck. Aren't there any lampposts in DC?