Re: Maureen Dowd: Playing All the Angles

Governor Brewer might make a citizen's arrest and I would
have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all,
declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her
state.

The debate between the former boxer and the former competitive weight
lifter, the soft-spoken Mormon and the outspoken Christian, was a
source of fascination because

I just skimmed and found 1 outright lie (the first... the only
difference in AZ's law and longstanding federal law is AZ's law
prohibits profiling) and one brain fart so great as to deny the author
ANY credence... Mormons ARE Christians.

Did not bother to read any further... these BLATANT errors disprove
anything he has to say.

On Oct 17, 5:51 pm, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Playing All the Angles
> By MAUREEN DOWD
> Published: October 16, 2010
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> Go to Columnist Page »As I sat above the Hoover Dam under the broiling
> sun, I was getting jittery.
>
> There was Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona, speaking at the dedication of a
> bridge linking Arizona and Nevada 890 feet above the Colorado River.
>
> As the politicians droned on and my Irish skin turned toasty brown, I
> worried that Governor Brewer might make a citizen's arrest and I would
> have to run for my life across the desert. She has, after all,
> declared open season on anyone with a suspicious skin tone in her
> state.
>
> We are in the era of Republican Mean Girls, grown-up versions of those
> teenage tormentors who would steal your boyfriend, spray-paint your
> locker and, just for good measure, spread rumors that you were
> pregnant.
>
> These women — Jan, Meg, Carly, Sharron, Linda, Michele, Queen Bee
> Sarah and sweet wannabe Christine — have co-opted and ratcheted up the
> disgust with the status quo that originally buoyed Barack Obama.
> Whether they're mistreating the help or belittling the president's
> manhood, making snide comments about a rival's hair or ripping an
> opponent for spending money on a men's fashion show, the Mean Girls
> have replaced Hope with Spite and Cool with Cold. They are the ideal
> nihilistic cheerleaders for an angry electorate.
>
> Seated next to Brewer at the bridge dedication was Harry Reid, the
> slight, mild-mannered, 70-year-old Senate majority leader who has
> wandered into the surprise fight of his career — a race where the fur
> is flying.
>
> "Man up, Harry Reid," Sharron Angle taunted him at their Las Vegas
> debate here Thursday night. That's not an idle insult, coming from a
> woman who campaigns at times with a .44 Magnum revolver in her 1989
> GMC pickup.
>
> With casino red suit and lipstick, Angle played the Red Queen of the
> Mad Hatter tea party, denouncing career politicians and ordering "Off
> with your head!" and "Down with government benefits!" Even sober and
> smiling beneath her girlish bangs, the 61-year-old Angle had the
> slightly threatening air of the inebriated lady in a country club bar,
> tossing off outrageous statements and daring anyone to call her on
> them.
>
> The debate between the former boxer and the former competitive weight
> lifter, the soft-spoken Mormon and the outspoken Christian, was a
> source of fascination because the rivals perfectly represent the two
> caricatures of the midterms: The Washington incumbent and master of
> back-room deals who's been around forever and lost touch with people
> versus the wacky new-breed Tea Party challenger who's hiding from and
> hating on the press, spouting a lot of weird stuff and vowing to do
> what Barack Obama didn't: Shake up Washington.
>
> The senator began the debate with a gentle reminiscence about his
> mother, who took in wash from the brothels in scruffy Searchlight,
> Nev.
>
> Angle could have told the poignant story of her German immigrant
> great-grandmother who died trying to save laundry hanging on the
> clothesline in a South Dakota prairie fire, which Angle wrote about in
> her self-published book, "Prairie Fire." But instead the former
> teacher and assemblywoman began hurling cafeteria insults. "I live in
> a middle-class neighborhood in Reno, Nevada," she said. "Senator Reid
> lives in the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C."
>
> Reid did not man up enough to mock Angle's nutty assertion that
> Shariah law exists in Dearborn, Mich., and Frankford, Tex. (a town
> that hasn't existed since 1975). But he did rebut Angle's inane
> contention that health insurers should not have to cover anything,
> talking about how important it was to be covered on mammograms and
> colonoscopies.
>
> "If you do colonoscopies," he said, "colon cancer does not come 'cause
> you snip off the things they find when they go up and — no more."
>
> "Well," Angle replied tartly, "pink ribbons are not going to make
> people have a better insurance plan."
>
> Angle has been pressing the case, underwritten by Karl Rove's
> operation and other conservative groups that have made the majority
> leader their No. 1 target, that Reid must be punished for being in a
> socialist triumvirate with Nancy Pelosi and President Obama. In the
> debate, she went for the jugular, asking him how he became "one of the
> richest men in the Senate" after coming from Searchlight "with very
> little."
>
> Reid, who cloaks his ambition and brass knuckles under a mousy facade,
> looked as if she had slapped him. He called her "my friend," but
> clearly did not think of her as his "pet," as he unfortunately dubbed
> Chris Coons, the Delaware opponent of the bewitching Christine
> O'Donnell.
>
> He said that was "really kind of a low blow," adding that he had been
> a successful lawyer before becoming a pol, and "did a very good job in
> investing."
>
> After the debate was over, Angle scurried away and so did I — in a
> different direction. I was feeling jittery again. If she saw me, she
> might take away my health insurance and spray-paint my locker.
>
> More:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/opinion/17dowd.html?ref=opinion
>
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> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> Have a great day,
> Tommy

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