"Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to." — Peggy Noonan, Maureen Dowd's spiritual advisor
The Harpy stared at the bottles lined up in front of her like a glass menagerie. They were cold comfort, to be sure, but they were the only company she had now that she'd driven away everyone else in her life: The men, with her shrewishness and backstabbing; the women, with her Queen-Bee-ism and backstabbing.
She looked at the bottles, and then she looked at her face in the mirror — in her near-complete lack of self-awareness, she blamed her advancing age and not her nasty untrustworthiness for her lonely state.
And then she looked at her computer keyboard.
A smile twisted its way onto The Harpy's lips, thinned by decades of bitterness. She knew just the thing to make her feel better.
John Edwards was handsome, a self-made rich man, and by all accounts kind, decent, intelligent and a good father. The sort of man The Harpy would have wanted to father her own children, which would never happen now.
So of course she had to see if she could destroy him.
Taking a page from the GOP's history of slime tricks, she decided on a variant of the old "Clinton got a $200 haircut!" fake scandal of 1993, and applied it to John Edwards, who had recently got a $400 haircut, as being evidence of something — well, what, she couldn't exactly say flat-out without giving away her agenda.
Never mind that Laura Bush paid $700 — nearly twice as much — for a haircut in 2005.
Never mind that to be president, the economic dictates of the game require you to be a multimillionaire or have plenty of multimillionaire friends.
Never mind that she, a self-professed femininst and independent woman, was undermining feminism by a) implying that not looking like an utter slob somehow made John Edwards feminine and b) implying as a corrollary that being 'feminine' was to be despised in both men and women.
None of that would stand in The Harpy's need to fill the void in her heart with the bleeding, gasping kill of yet another victim.
She typed away merrily, inserting the talking points so kindly supplied her by the Republicans, and hit "send" in a rush of exhilaration.
The exhilaration lasted about fifteen seconds. And the void was still there.
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Hi PW!
FDL Rocks!!
You forgot to make fun of her lisp.
PHOENIX WOMAN !
a little EPU housekeeping before I read your post
hey firedogs – so very sorry I missed the HRC thread although it was so heartening to read y’all’s great questions on the topic – and all that civility !
my oh my Ms Hamsher :)
LS,
where generally in the Hill Country are you ? are you aware of how many firedogs there are in Central Texas ? there’s a San Marcos/San Antonio cell, but there’s probably a dozen of us north of Austin as well
now for some PW goodness . . .
And what of the Huffington Enquirer???
buzz cuts for jeebus!
I can just hear MoDo cackling “I’ll get you, my pretty! And your $400 haircut, too!”
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Whats with Modo anyway?
She not gettin’ any?
Kucinich’s Cheney Impeachment bill was #333, today there are 3,333 listed killed…
Ironic…
I think it was foolish for Edwards to pay for the haircuts out of his campaign funds. He should have paid for them out of pocket & avoided what he had to know would be an embarassment. Bad judgement on his part.
JEP @ 9
Good things they all weren’t 6s.
I just called Dennis K’s office to say I support his move today to Impeach Cheney.
It feels good to be a number on the list of people who support his position.
I know, Bob Seeger said I’m Not A Number. And, I agree with that sentiment. I’m a human being. But, sometimes it’s good to be a number. If it means I’m part of that group which opposes what the administration is doing.
how very Hamsherian of you PW :~)
and there’s no Spotlight button for The Harpy, but will do my best to give her a chance to admire your work
eCAHNomics @ 10
I like this take on the whole thing. Or, as TRex would write, ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK!!!
Shorter MoDo:
The Democrats are the Mommy party. Bad mommy! Bad!
The Republicans are the Daddy party. Ooh, spank me daddy! Ooh ooh!
Man, what a day at FDL! And now PW!
Sam Waterston is on CNN playing Ralph Nader meets Joe Lieberman.
I think you are missing the point of the entire article. It doesn’t matter. You fell right into the trap lovey. Don’t play into repiglican talking points.
eCAHNomics says:
April 24th, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I think it was foolish for Edwards to pay for the haircuts out of his campaign funds. He should have paid for them out of pocket & avoided what he had to know would be an embarassment. Bad judgement on his part.
eCAHNomics @
10
Campaign staffer error, to be sure. Rookie mistake to submit that receipt to the campaign. In the hustle-bustle of a Presidential campaign, I doubt it was Edwards’ error. Probably his “body-man” turned it in. But it played into the GOP narrative, to be sure. Not what I’d call a deal-breaker when choosing who to back (disclosure: I’ve made a choice, and it’s Elizabeth’s husband)
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 15
ok, that had me laughing
Dover Bitch @ 14
There are two separate issues here.
1. I think they found out about his haircuts because they were listed on his public campaign documents. If he’d paid for them out of his own funds & not charged them to his campaign, then this wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place. Since any not-too-dumb-to-live D knows that the Rs are attack dogs, then they ought to avoid simple stuff that Rs can exploit. Choose your battles, and don’t choose $400 haircuts.
2. What Ds should say once they get attacked. Of course, attack back. It’s the fact that Ds didn’t that drove me to distraction during the first 6 W years.
Harpy thinks like it’s still the 50’s and Dad comes home after working hard. Mom has a nice meal cooked and everybody is soooo happy. Gee. Haircuts are $.50.
OT but current – PFC Jessica Lynch in congressional testimony today: “I’m still confused as to why they chose to lie”
LIE. Oops.
I sometimes like MoDo’s columns but I couldn’t get through more than 3 chapters of her book. I thought “if that was my life, I’d shoot myself.” That kind of vapid girly perspective comes through in columns like this. Nothing wrong with girlyness, but the brand she’s peddling often seems a bit soulless.
Somerby has MoDo down: She thinks no one want to read about health car. She’s all about “let them eat cake.”
So let’s just refer to her as Maureen Antoinette.
Besides, if you spent any time at watertiger’s looking at President Bush’s haircuts, you’d WANT our next President to get $400 haircuts.
Dude doesn’t even trim his dense, dark earfur.
TeddySanFran,
You’re the first around these parts to come out with their decision. EDWARDS! Far as I know, you’re the first to commit in Leftblogistan.
eCAHNomics @ 10
Top of the head guess — and it’s just a guess — is that once a candidate hits the trail, he or she is not the person managing which budget lines are paying for which expenses.
(That said, I agree with you wholeheartedly.)
For an excellent read on the fog of primary campaigning, I recommend Richard Ben Cramer’s “What It Takes: The Way to White House.” Cramer chronicles the minutiae of life on the 1988 presidential campaign trail for Bush, Dole, Hart, Biden, Gephardt and Dukakis — showing along the way how easy it is amid all the din to make a small misstep that tanks a campaign.
To draw a nice, sharp contrast between Dowd who writes trivial trash, and Gary Kamiya of Salon who writes substance and actually thinks, please spend 5 minutes reading this article. Watch an ad to get in. Well worth the price of admission.
Gary Kamiya on Iraq and VT
Bustednuckles @
8
The harpy works for an effeminate publisher whose $400 cuts on the road are legendary. She oughta try some blogger meat. Might cut through the brainlock.
(Honestie in journalism. For the record, a friend of mine ran for president, and we used every available fund to pretty him up, but then he was a pig.)
Bustednuckles @ 8
I wasn’t there, but I recall some mention of her not getting a fawning hero’s welcome at YearlyKos. maybe she never got over that.
I am kinda confused. Who or what is a harpy?
Holy shit! David Igelais (sp) is giving a great
interview on Hard Balls…
He’s telling the truth…
I was so impressed with his answers…
punaise @
31
To be fair, she’s a powerful motivating force for a lot of people in our base, including many friends of mine. I’m afraid we’re kind of stuck with her.
Totally exasperated, I wrote her a letter after this column and I said “Why don’t you write about anything important? Even my stupid friends don’t read you anymore.”
[With love and apologies to my stupid friends]
cbl @
4
I’m right on the border of Driftwood and Wimberley. We’re Nighbors!!
Bay State Librul @ 33
Yeah – he is kicking ass. He will be lead downfall.
Bay State Librul @ 33
Hard Balls! Are you the first to call it that or have I been missing out? Either way, LOVE IT.
Bay State Librul @ 33
Yep. Just accused the admin of violating the Hatch Act. Hehe. Along with the admin’s very own war hero, Jessica Lynch, calling out the same as deliberate liars, it’s a good day.
John Edwards probably goes to an expensive hair stylist. He is after all a gazillionaire. He probably pays oh – $150 to $200 for a regular inhouse cut. The stylist doubles the rates for a house call. This is normal. I just cannot see John sitting in the waiting room at SuperCuts in the local mall.
MoDo is just too clever for her own good. And I think she is a bi*ch.
Loo Hoo @ 27
Oh, no, there’s lotsa partisans at DK and MyDD — for lotsa candidates. Here too, I think. We’ll be chatting about this campaign for a while; I don’t want to defend (or criticize) any candidate without declaring my preference. We have a swell field this year; take it from someone who remembers 1988. And 1968, for that matter.
On the other hand, I knew MoDo was a class-betraying harpy as soon as I heard she was an email-pal of Poppy Bush’s. So I wasn’t surprised — and won’t be further surprised — by her attacks on Democrats.
Who you leaning to, Loo Hoo?
Damn, no Keith. Is he off all week?
Kass: I believe a harpy is a mythological creature…half bird, half woman, all rapacious and generally no fun.
mrsmarks @28
” tanks a campaign.”
Funny.
CD @ 43
I am still confuzled but now flapping my wings for some reason. Chrip.
it’s her M.O.: Modo: sop, err, randy.
Tweety calling on whistleblowers…well blow me down! He just said re: Rove using the RNC communications back and forth, “I wonder if that isn’t his M.O.” I do declare!
TeddySanFran @
42
Frankly I can do without seeing his face for a week. He needs some downtime after his positively tactless VTech performance last week.
A’57 @ 44
Har! Ya got me there.
SnarKassandra @ 32
Cassie, use the google, and you’ll find Greek mythology mixed with the Shakespeare. Has something to do with a particular kind of woman. I didn’t know what a harpy was until i, well, got old.
eCAHNomics @ 10
do you really think that John Edwards sits down and writes checks each evening for bills presented to his campaign headquarters?
i don’t think he does.
didn’t he pay for these from his personal income once he discovered (via the scandelous MSM) what happened? i don’t think a haircut would have been brought to his attention for financial disposition before the scandal.
maureen dowd and others have bones to pick, and they can’t find bones suitable for a presidential debate/policy/position.
i’m not sure why, but i expected better of her choices.
as far as i’m concerned, JRE is the only candidate speaking out about how he may create policy regarding issues i care about. certainly, not all issues. but many more than the others currently running for the democratic ticket.
eCAHNomics, the thrust of that blog post, and of my comments here, is that the minutia of the “gaffe” is irrelevant. The right-wing attack is both baseless and inevitable.
If they will attack Edwards no matter what he does, then it doesn’t really matter if he made it a little easier for them. What matters is how hard he body-slams them when they open their traps.
I’m still waiting for that kind of response. I asked Clinton earlier if the Democrats have the fortitude to undo all the damage to our government that the Bush administration has caused from top to bottom. I think she does. I don’t know about some of these other candidates and when I ask them the same question, I will not ask if they think the Dems have the fortitude, I will ask why should I believe you have the fortitude.
cbl @
4
And the San Antone cell is plotting coup. Or at least a pup party at Gruene Hall for the July Gospel Brunch with a Texas Twist.
Anyone ever read, “Women Who Run with the Wolves”?
Ha, ha!!! Wild woman!
punaise @ 46
beautiful!
Even though there’s no Keith they are leading with the Tillman story. I could not drag myself away from my computer this afternoon. Stunning testimony
Helen @ 56
Truth hertz!
Seems David Iglesias is behind the Rover inquiry.
punaise @ 46
I want no mo’ of MoDo’s M.O., d’oh.
Helen @ 56
Yeah, the wingnuts’ response has been interesting, too.
Legal question:
Since Waxman asked or subpoened the RNC stuff first, if the WH tries to say that “their” investigation is more important. Which demand for records trumps which?
TeddySanFran @
26
I’m bald and I can’t get decent haircuts for $10 (which is prolly what der Chimpy pays). If I actually HAD hair, I think I would be willing to pay a bit more. Which is why NOBODY but ME touches the ‘Stache! :})
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 15
Now Junior, you need to put your Page costume on first….
LS @ 57
Megahertz.
Kevin Tillman will not rest until he knows the truth!
LS @ 61
The whitehouse is using this special investigation as a big road block.
Mary McCurnin @ 66
But can they override Congressional inquiry at this point in time?
dakine01 @ 53
I could say something about that being preferable to Cheney
pooping a clot, but that would be unkind, so I won’t.CD @ 43
You forgot drop dead ugly.
who cuts bush’s hair?
how much?
rove’s?
cheney’s?
any decent self respecting journalist would ask these hard hitting questions
SnarKassandra @
32
Cassie, ya need to pick you up a copy of either Edith Hamilton’s Mythology or Bulfinches’ Age of Fable. Both are fun reads and cover most of the Greek Gods and Godesses.
BTW, good questions this afternoon for the Senator.
LS @ 61
Since they can make multiple copies it doesn’t make sense only one can look.
But then, nothing the GOopers do makes sense anymore.
I refuse to believe that Bush, Rove, Rice and Rumsfeld didn’t know about the Tillman coverup.
And I don’t want to get started on Dowd. Yet.
wtf @ 70
They outsource it to Halliburton, so…ding da da ding ding…that would be $35,000…
MoDofo must have been a seriously unpopular teenager who became a reasonably attractive woman and is still paying back all the guys who said she was ugly in high school. Nooners is just bat sh-t crazy -still trying to figure out a way into either the Pope’s crypt or ronnie raygun’s
wtf @ 70
Bush probably uses a chainsaw when he’s in Crawford. Just sayin’
you know, if i could afford a 400 haircut i would try one; just to see what it’s like … there’s no shame in that
the shame is republican corporate welfare for thieving corporations and shredding the safety net for the poor the ill and the aged
Crazy Horse @ 50
Speaking of Shakespeare, anyone catch one of our Representatives today cite the Bard’s famous line: “Oh! what a tangled web we weave: When first we practice to deceive!”? *g*
wtf @ 70
If I recall correctly, plenty of that charge was for tv makeup. And all of those republicans also get made up for tv…shrub, every single time.
The whole attack is as bogus that on Gore’s brown suit…also spearheaded by MoDo. (She can’t be teh shrieking harpy, because there can be only one.)
Somewhat off-topic. The artwork isn’t darkblack’s oeurve, but this is pretty good.
ls@78
a chainsaw for a haircut
gosh what if there’s an accident …
Mary McCurnin @
40
I heard John explain the haircut thing on Ed Shultz. He said he was embarrassed at the incident but that the bill for haircuts was sent to his campaign not him. The way he explained it, haircuts have to be gotten by calling a hair person in, as there is no time for going out for a cut. He said he knew his haircut would be expensive but he was horrified at the price.
Do not feed the trolls.
Do not feed the trolls.
Do not feed the trolls. . . . .
Props to David Iglesias, fired USAtty, Republican-American, who has appealed to a special counsel about KKKRove violation of Hatch Act.
Props to all Republican-Americans who are beginning to see the light.
wtf @ 78
Actually, some of the best haircuts I’ve ever had were from a salon in the town I lived outside Albany, NY. And they were half price cuz bald men only had half the hair. :})
Dover Bitch @ 52
I understood your point & agree.
As for haircuts, get mine done at Kenneth’s at the Waldorf Astoria, though not by Kenneth himself. Just went above $100. So $400 sounds pretty dear to me.
punaise @ 68
Given his age, and his general demeanor, we know he has no trouble clotting a poop….
wtf @ 70
They have searched their memories and they cannot remember recalling where they got haircuts. The haircuts are on their calendar, so they concede they got them, but where when how and how much, they just can’t recall.
Why would MoDo launch a snarky little torpedo like that anyway? I could understand Coulter, but why Dowd?
Are we really expected to take this in (White) house (Special Counsel) investigation of Rove seriously?
punaise @ 46
top ten, p.
Jessica is the straw
Jessica is the straw
Jessica is the straw
thx TSF!
Aaahhh
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 80
That would explain everything-both why the charge was so high & why he charged it to campaign account. I must admit I didn’t read articles on this subject with any care, but don’t recall seeing it mentioned before.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 91
If it somehow enables the WH to block our ability to get at the truth, it has to be taken seriously.
RonD @ 90
As I’ve certainly said before, she really doesn’t like anyone. And, she’s perfect for the Washington gossip beat. She’s got the disposition of Hedda Hopper with a yeast infection.
eCAHNomics @ 87
I get $30 for a women’s shampoo cut and blowdry in East Central Florida.
Is Kenneth still living? He must be a very old fellow.
TSF,
I’m not committing yet, but I do like Edwards a lot. He’s taking stands that I like on really important issues. Coming out early on issues like Iraq, healthcare and Fox is delightful. Elizabeth is a real asset too.
I do think Hillary has a real asset in Bill, though. I think she cares about America and our standing world-wide. Bill would be a rock star ambassador that could repair our damaged image more quickly than anyone else, I think.
I do not like her stand on the war, and thought she would have been well-served to keep her thoughts to herself about those of us wanting the war to end to vote for someone else. Hillary is brilliant, and I would like to see a woman in the White House instead of another white male. That said, she needs to earn my trust back.
Barack Obama seems too much like a preacher to me at this point. I don’t want anybody preaching at me, we’ve had enough of that to last a lifetime.
Richardson is certainly qualified, but I don’t know enough about him. I want to hear more.
montag @ 98
HAAAAAA!!!!!
I am suddenly feeling itchy.
hackworth @ 98
Yes, he’s still around. Seems like a nice, calm older man.
Hugh @
80
Hugh – didn’t Sir Walter Scott write that famous line??
Alison used the word “allegedly” to describe whether the GAO presentation was to help the GOP candidates.
Dear, the GAO Administrator testified under oath about the meeting where the Powerpoint exhibit was shown, and the exhibit was admitted as part of a sworn hearing. There’s no “allegedly” about it.
Fineman wonders if the OSC/WH investigation is to shut Waxman down.
TeddySanFran @ 105
jathink?
DSPinPW @ 76
Shorter DSPinPW: Look! An obvious distraction!
Speaking of Distractions…how much does 370 days of Bush vacations cost us the taxpayer?
eCAHNomics @
10
eCAHNomics, see Snowbird at 83. Aso note that this was not just a haircut but also makeup for a video shoot too. When I first saw this story, my initial reaction was anger at Edwards poor judgment and to think, gee that’s where my donation is going. Then I dug a little deeper and realized this is just one more example of how the press loves to jump on us and on how we all need to make dealing with that one of our top priorities.
We need to respond to their eagerness to trash and also their unwillingness to do anything but look at campaigns as horse races. Edwards has so much to say and all they report is his haircut.
So PW: Thanks for a great service. This is a blog I’ve been meaning to write for a while now!
Stephen Parrish, CPA @ 103
Yes, he did, but no one bothered to tell the Representative that.
hackworth @ 73
Heck with the haircut. I’ll happily give John Edwards a backrub.
I don’t know if its been mentioned here, but I hadn’t thought about what Howard just said on Countdown. That the “special counsel” investigation could be a way to not have to testify cooperate with Waxman. Dang, I’m such a Pollyanna!
Mary McCurnin @ 102
Ya know, Mary, I was gonna tell you re: your 101; if you are really a girl you should not be joking about yeast infections!! ;)
TeddySanFran @ 105
Umm, Fineman wonders about a great deal. Too bad he’s short on memory. While this may be the intent of the WH, there’s precedent in the Watergate, Iran-Contra and BCCI investigations–both the prosecutors and Congress worked in tandem at one point in time or another on those.
TeddySanFran @ 106
You definitely need to be a Newsweak columnist to figure that one out.
Thanks for the intel, Howie.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 92
No. This has been another edition of simple answers to simple questions.
Get Rove and you’ve got the other two…
Fineman on Olbermann says in order for Rove to be criminally prosecuted under the Hatch Act Rove’s actions have “to be rally brazen”. Rove. Brazen? Get a grip Fineman. This whole administration is nothing if not brazen.
RonD @ 90
Time to cite some Somerby!
dakine01 @ 71
Thanks. She didn’t answer any of them though.
MoDo is a sneaky PR operative for the rethugs. She bashes Democrats and cries crocodile tears about the disaster she caused after the fact. (Her Kerry and Gore bashing helped put Dumbya in office twice.)
She resembles the Pope in this regard.
Can you see no hypocrisy in doing so [while] orating about two Americas?
So if a person is lying on the ground, bleeding, any healthy person who calls for a doctor is a hypocrite? Good to know the right-wing values are as strong as ever.
Zee @ 112
You are not alone. Me too.
Stephen Parrish, CPA @
104 Hugh @
80
Crazy Horse @ 50
Der google gives it to Scott as one oft attributed to the Bard
eCAHNomics @ 3
Nah, the lisp she can’t help.
Ceterum censeo procuratio dumus esse delendam.
Mary McCurnin @ 66
Yeah, Howard Fineman, raised the issue on Countdown! Very pertinent question!
realworld @ 105
See me @ 95–got it.
A’57 @ 124
I knew I should have taken Latin in high school.
Balrog @ 58
Good one, Balrog. That give me more confidence in the investigation.
How’s tricks? Getting awfully close to the Mother’s Day baby time!
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 118
Exactly. Dowd’s the ‘respectable’ version of Coulter.
Phoenix Woman @ 123
Are you sure? I’ve seen some impressive speech therapy.
BTW, Hi Cassie. Nice site.
LoudounLib @ 128
I took latin in HS and have no eff’in clue.
itwasntme @ 86
I’d like to see him primary Domenici next year; but then I’d like to see Bill Richardson defeat him for the Senate seat.
RonD @ 91
So that we would all talk about it, and her.
John Edwards/Wesley Clark? Is that a viable ticket?
TeddySanFran @ 134
Tweety asked if he has a future in politics and he said no – he is persona non grata.
RonD @ 135
I could go for that. Besides their policies, I wouldn’t mind a little eye candy in the WH for those 8 years.
Blasting back at Republican stooges is accomplished here.
OT, but of interest. Updates on Tommy Yum’s 4 year old son Esten (read from bottom to top for chronological order):
To visit Esten’s Care Page, go to HERE and type in EstenMaxwell in the prompt.
In reflection upon the question, it would seem Waxman wouldn’t be precluded but rather, included, as there is much overlap, and Waxman has absolute Subpoena power as Chair of the House Oversight Committee!
RonD @ 132
Thanks! I also have my own site. Poltical Teed Tidbits.
I like Edwards/Kucinich. And Edwards/Clark would work. And there are other good dems. If Gore does not run, that is.
CTuttle @
141
That’s what I wanted to hear! I don’t think I could stand one minute more if they coup’d oversight somehow. I trust Waxman – he’s been incredible in staying on all of this.
A’57 @ 124
Quamdam intellego administratiam rei publicae esse delendam
Something like this?
CTuttle @ 141
So, assuming Waxman has access to both his own information and the OSC/WH investigation/subpeona/transcripts. Can we find us a bit ‘o obstruction or perjury after we contrast and compare?
Helen @ 121
IANAL but I suspect that no court, except perhaps our great unbiased SCOTUS would give the special counsel precedence over congress if push comes to shove. My theory is that this is to ferret out any forgotten skeletons before any real patriots discover them.
Ha !
400 dollar haircuts.
I get mine cut just like my Grandpa did.
I get the one with the big hole in the middle.
As it stands now I do not want either of the two Democratic front runners as my next prez. However, I do want to defeat the Republicans. Soundly. Just about whatever it takes.
Speaking of subpoena power, there’s a rawstory headline about GOP going back & checking out Ds use of emails under Clinton. Wouldn’t they need subpoena power to do that?
and with good reason OKK
Bush knew how Tillman died
Oklahoma kiddo @ 148
Unfortunately, I think both of them are counting on that fallback position on the part of many voters.
Helen @ 122
If you read Tom Hamburger’s piece on this, and read between the lines, you’ll see that he suspects that very same thing.
Bustednuckles @ 148
BWA HA HA HA!! Hey, I cut and color – hey who said color? my own, and I’m a girl!!
LS, That’s how it’s designed to work, however there is a monkeywrench; The Unitary Executive , whereby, Bushco sprinkles his ‘Executive Priviledge’ pixie dust!
Of course, the troll here is ignoring Laura Bush’s $700 haircut.
Bustednuckles @ 148
follicly challenged fellas unite!
montag @ 152
Yes. And I resent such ‘you have nowhere to run but to us’ smugness.
Phoenix Woman @ 157
I don’t have to be on TV every day (or ever) but I get haircuts from a beauty school student for $5.
Hugh @ 144
Actually I made a typo. It should read:
Quamdam intellego administratiem rei publicae esse delendam
Upside down world:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…..o_abortion
Blast!
Quamdam intellego administrationem rei publicae esse delendam
There, he said, feeling better.
Joe Francis jailed on contempt for 35 days — Alison sez the GirlsGoneWild founder’s sentence, if convicted, could be over 100 years.
Hugh @ 163
Can we get a translator please?
Can you just imagine having to sit through a two hour dinner with Laura Bush?
TeddySanFran @ 163
If he’d accidentally killed somebody, it would be more like seven years.
Kinda sets a bad example, huh?
Oklahoma kiddo @ 166
If she was not on her meds and I could feed her a few glasses of wine, I would love to have dinner with her.
Phule @ 108
How much would you be willing to pay as a taxpayer to see Bush go away for another 370 days? I’d pitch in at least the cost of a haircut.
Re Modo’s lisp, and getting it fixed:
I can say the “ess” sound seventeen different ways, due to three years of speech therapy, and I am MoDo’s age. My dad, the ex-Marine, wasn’t going to have a son who lisped.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 166
with her cell phone set to “vibrate” she’d be sufficiently distracted
SnarKassandra @ 164
“I think a certain administration needs to be destroyed” is as close as I came to understanding the original.
punaise @
158
I resemble that remark.
eCAHNomics @ 138
Sixteen years!!
Oklahoma kiddo @ 165
I’d need some X*n*x for that one, and it would still seem like three days in jail with a killer hangover and no toilet paper.
TSF @ 105, “allegedly” is the talking point I’m hearing. Snarled after hearing it once too often. Did any of the intrepid interviewers/reporters “allegedly” the Edwards’ haircut?
earlier, I thought the mention of Mexico City was someone being snarky – gonna do some googling and see how many in the majority were women
another reason why it matters . . .
Oklahoma kiddo @ 165
“So, Laura, how does it feel to kill somebody after running a stop sign?’”
“Don’t you hate how you can’t smoke anywhere these days?”
eyesonthestreet @ 153
Not pouncing. But PW’s response to MoDo’s sarcasm (if it was) is snark. Can’t you all take PW’s snark?
punaise @ 171
That is one scary pix.
Personally, I adore follicularly-challenged men…can;t resist the urge to kiss the bald spot.
TeddySanFran @ 134
I’d like to see Carol Lam take on anybody in San Diego. I don’t know where she lives, but taking any ground would be good. Even if she is still a republican. At least she can think and has some moral values.
montag @
175
eww.
i can’t do my own hair without a few hours to work with. And then, I’d need someone to shave my neck.
Huffington on Scarborough…
Oklahoma kiddo @ 166
Or having to listen to her while you cut her hair, even if it did net you $700?
itwasntme @ 180
Can you explain this urge? It might help explain Bush’s somewhat creepy tendency to do the same…. :)
itwasntme @
181
I just tell people my hair moved south for my ’stache.
CTuttle @
156
Right. Hmmm. I do think they would have the fight of their lives if they tried to establish that though with people like Waxman, Leahy, Feingold, etc., and all of us. They have truly brought the fight over here, haven’t they. They will not ultimately prevail. Even if SCOTUS backs them up. IMHO
Got here late but wanted to thank you for that. We need more truth to old vomit.
Maureen is old news – poor thing (Bless her heart!).
cbl @ 176
A childhood friend of mine almost died after a botched abortion. She lived in Mexico with her family at the time, and took an herbal remedy that didn’t work. Then came back to the states, and the family doctor did saline injections. She was in the hospital for a long time due to infections. After that she was never able to have children. This was all pre-Roe v Wade.
dakine01 @ 186
I can’t use that one any longer, since it’s pretty obvious that it’s going north, east, south and west. (It’s a bastid, but once it starts, it doesn’t stop.)
LS @ 188
I’ve said before, I don’t think SCOTUS will back them up. The recent ruling notwithstanding, I think Kennedy still has SOME vestige of honesty and propriety and respect for the Constitution. It may be a 5-4 vote but Kennedy joining Breyer, Ginsburg, Souter and Stevens.
Of course, I still believe in the tooth fairy so whadda I know? :})
FYI, new thread
itwasntme @ 181
Bless you itwasntme. Just got my haircut over the weekend. so little left that it’s done in 5 minutes. Paid $20 but it still bugs me to tip a barber who drives and Escalade while I’m getting around in a Ford on life support.
Phule:
$405,479.44 in salary alone.
Elizabeth @ 189
So where in the south are you from Elizabeth? :})
Oklahoma kiddo @ 149
OKK, Know what cha mean!!
OfT:
Arnold saying on the local news that meatpacking plants in Caleefoneeah are “self-regulating and doing a great job.”
TeddySanFran @ 198
Ah, more of that “voluntary compliance.”
It’s worked so well elsewhere….
montag @ 191
Same here, but with a large handlebar, it kinda keeps all the stray hairs from the focus.
TeddySanFran @ 198
So is he recommending the steaks well done?
realworld @ 201
And, underneath his breath, “uh, go easy on the processed lunch meats.”
Hugh @ 172
Google: Cato Carthage—-dumus is latin for bush
Rob Zuber @ 162
Fortunately, there are many fine Doctors in Mexico for Americans that need them until this nonsense has been rewritten in law.
dakine01 @ 196
Taxus.
Born in Brooklyn, bred in NJ, stuck here now ’cause I love him.
Like knee surgery, if you are fortunate enough to have a choice, say no to moving here.
Thanks for asking. :)
eyesonthestreet @ 198
The point of dissing her is that she does, in fact, use intelligence, writing ability, and a high profile print medium to undermine serious issues by means of petty character assassination.
Elizabeth @
207
Well, call me an idiot, I moved here on my own (San Antone)…
lilybelle @ 204
to apply a lawyerism, MoDo “opened the door” to this line of inquiry by the ultra petty superficiality that is her consistent MO.
dakine01 @ 209
Well, call me an idiot, I moved here on my own (San Antone)…
Oh darn. Sorry. :(
Margot @ 190
If you go to a good hospital in Mexico, many physicians were trained in the USA. Panama has a wonderful health care system.
I won’t link to the troll, oddmommy. I’ll just quote Bob Somerby, who was right about the MSMedia being in the tank for the Republicans long before the rest of us caught on:
You can’t get dumber than Maureen Dowd—which helps explain why we’re in Iraq.
Brilliant, Phoenix Woman! More like this. Please.
eyesonthestreet, you’re an *****. Is that you, Maureen?
Edited by Mod.
Consider this a polite warning.
Four hundred is a lot to mere mortals, but not to a multi-millionaire campaigning for President and about to go on television. Under those circumstances, it was absolutely an appropriate campaign expense. For the same reason Mr. Romney probably does not personally pay to maintain his well-coifed looks, the ones Mr. Giuliani wishes he still had. And for the same reason that CoulterCow doesn’t pay for hers when she appears on O’Really? or attends a book signing.
Ms. Dowd’s venom is misplaced. It’s as if her other resources are drying up, and Mr. Edwards is the closest object at which she can throw a tantrum.
Worst of all, Ms. Dowd validates the hypocritical Republican story-line that nuance or sensitivity is effeminate, like a limp-wristed cowboy. The kind the good ole boys in Texas ‘n Wyoming know how to drag behind the F100. As if Shrub-in-Boots were a real man.
Ms. Dowd is doing no one favors, nor is she adding to the public debate, just ensuring that the phone calls at home will become fewer and fewer.
FYI dakine, meant sorry that I offended you. I know there are good and bad everywhere. Just surrounded by downers lately.
Ms. Dowd’s column was a gilt-edged invitation to criticize her motives, her focus, her own aging, and her implied lackluster personal life. Just as did her dress and demeanor at the White House correspondents dinner. She looked as unhappy as her column about Edwards.
These comments are as logical an outcome of Ms. Dowd’s writing as observing that the five Justices voting to restrict abortion were all staunchly conservative Catholics. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, sometimes it’s more useful.
Dowd always, and only, wants to be “right,” as in the sentence “I was right all along”–a sure recipe for mindless and vacant columns, often rather surly.
For obvious reasons, she’ll end up supporting a Democrat in the Presidential elections. And while she may indeed find Edwards’ message very appealing, she still has to flame him along with the other candidates at this stage of the game–if, that is, she ever expects to support the eventual candidate without having backed a “loser” in the primaries beforehand.
So she flames the man’s haircut.
Don’t let me walk down the stairs ahead of this chick.
Earl: Do you think troll should continue to misrepresent MoDo’s column?
She didn’t criticize Edwards for a false portrayal as a common man.
She critized him for being a Breck girl.
DOWD (4/21/07): Whether or not the country is ready to elect a woman president or a black president, it’s definitely not ready for a metrosexual in chief.
Using an example ($400 bill for tv appearance prep) that could just as easily been applied to Bush or any other Republican getting made up for TV.
So, as a note to the mod(s), maybe you should do your job by cleaning up the troll crap.
Using an example ($400 bill for tv appearance prep) that could just as easily been applied to Bush or any other Republican getting made up for TV.
lemme tell ya what, eyesonthestreet. I sent MoDo an e-mail asking her to discuss how much she spends on HER haircuts in her next column. Don’t think I’ll hold my breath; will you?
We are drowning in the quicksand that this abomination of a presidency has wrought on us. One of its many reprehensible features is 24/7 hypocrisy. Do you have any reason to believe that the cost of Edwards’ haircut means he is insincere about helping poor people????
It might be worth remembering that the mods are volunteering their time and do an excellent job in keeping the threads as clean as they are.
Honey, instead of vinegar, might get better results in the future.
Talk about being out of touch. I wonder when the last time MoDo actually had to pay an electric bill was.
400 dollars for electricity for a whole year. She must be getting some of that good deregulated Enron electricity….
RBG @ 230
Pardon my incivility. Could some brilliant and caring mod clean up the troll poop?
I promise to be good and also extra generous on Act Blue next Saturday.
eyesonthestreet @ 231
The “political machine”? Guess that’s Maureen……and you.
Blub @
23
Go Mountaineer!
oddmommy @ 221
You got it, Odd Mommy.
I spent several hours finding all the links for this post — links that, if anyone read them, would show the reader just how bogus the “haircut attack” is — and yet there are a couple of people here who either didn’t click on the links or have serious reading-comprehension issues.
And they fall for the same bogus garbage that La Dowd is getting from her buddies at the RNC. Bob Somerby was right when he asked why people go after Ann Coulter when Maureen Dowd spews the same garbage and reaches more people, and in a “respectable” forum — namely, the pages of the NYT.
RBG for President!
I know it’s later than even I think…
But has anyone here noticed MoDo’s m.o. with her relationships?
She adores ADDICTS.
For example… sex addict Michael Douglas and global all-purpose universal addict and grandiose hack Aaron Sorkin…
Who she breathlessly considers the O’Neill of our time.
I think Maureen has spent too much time playing in her Norma Desmond mirror.
And so, in tomorrow’s NYTimes, she takes after Obama’s wife for cutting him down to size in public.
She’ll do this to every Democratic candidate from now till the party’s Convention, after which she will announce that the candidate, for all his or her weaknesses, is (alas!) the only choice we have in the face of a Republican meltdown.
She’s false-a false person. She affects to think about politics, but writes like a gossip columnist who wandered over from the Post’s “Page Six”…. Meeting, it seems, the needs and standards of her employer: maybe she only exists to reassure the readership that the paper doesn’t take Krugman to heart–that he just hangs there like a Christmas tree ornament.
ifthethunderdontgetya @
79
Don’t forget that this woman, who wrote a book bemoaning the lack of eligible males, also wrote an entire column judging Howard Dean’s marriage and finding it sadly deficient.
No wonder she was so openly envious of Wonkette at YearlyKos. At heart, she’s nothing more than a gossip columnist.
I just wish she’d stop playing her Sex and the City neuroses out in the pages of the NYTimes. It’s a waste of column inches.
eCAHNomics @
86
Of course they have to fly the guy out and he needs a hotel and he might need to use the google and stuff. It gets expensive but who cares? Let’s get off the repigs talking points. Every one go get a cup of scotch or your favorite whatever and lets talk about the perfect storm; Dual resignations for coke-head and shooter; no ability to pardon; fraud and treason indictments.;cleaning out Justice and Energy and ridding them of Libery University pukes; The Terd Blossom Hog March., etc. Now that is my idea of reality TV.
Well, amigos, as long as we are yet bagging on Mo-Dodo, I theenk that I am justified een trotting out thees leetle goody for one last speen around the blog, no?
so.