Aah, Fez man… Ya didn’t truly fess up…

…Polk is famous for establishing very crisply what he wanted to accomplish in his presidency, and then accomplishing it. And in order to do that, he brought a tremendous amount of concentration, effort, organizational skill and manipulative skill to bear. I suspect that Romney’s top aides look at him and see a man similarly focused given his business background and his success with the Olympics. I think they’re looking at all that and they’re saying – “This is a man who is forward moving, focused, organized, and he knows how to manipulate events and people to move things in the right direction and realize goals.”

Apparently, they’re both ‘manipulative’…! ;-)

You wouldn’t expect Romney to tell us who his real heroes are, would you? I’m thinking Midas and Caligula

Happy 9/11, everyone. Happy, happy, joy, joy.

I thought all Mormons’ heroes were Brigham Young and Martin Harris. I never would have thought that anybody could be too adulterous or too delusional to serve as heroes to a Republican Presidential candidate.

a day that will burn in the marrow of our souls

Mourning all,

The anniversary of the day the vaunted protectors, the republican packing big with the accompanying swagger, shot blanks for all their bravado and bragging that they were the best to defend the country.

One more failure while claiming success, The republican way.

Good morning, pups. Today we have Brooks, Cohen, Nocera and Bruni. Heaven help us, but Bobo has read another book. In “Why Men Fail” he ‘splains to us that a new book argues that the reason today’s women are having an easier time succeeding is because of their adaptability. Men are stuck in old mores. Right, Bobo. You keep on telling us what victims white men are. Mr. Cohen, in “Super Mario to the Rescue,” says one way to view Mario Draghi’s battle with the Bundesbank is this: A big idea (Europe) versus a smaller one (price stability). Mr. Nocera says “In Chicago, It’s a Mess, All Right,” and has a question: Will anything really change once this teachers’ strike ends? Mr. Bruni, in “Suffer the Children,” says in the Catholic Church and other institutions, old habits get in the way of preventing sexual abuse.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got apple cranberry muffins today. From the article above:

He was a man who had these goals, and he was not very flexible or warm and fuzzy in his dealings with people as he went about pursuing those goals. Number one, he wanted to reduce tariff rates, which is like reducing taxes today — it was a huge deal.

So, yeah — Mittens is the personification of Polk.

Thanks for the history lesson, it was educational. Never paid much attention to Polk before.

Boxturtle (Frankly, I’d have expected Mitt to pick Harding)

Number one, he wanted to reduce tariff rate

interesting enough, reducing tariff rates is exactly what the boston tea party was to PREVENT, that’s right, the king “wanted to reduce tarifff rates” and america was formed to prevent it

Fun fact: In January 1848, the U.S. House voted 82-to-81 in favor of a resolution that denounced the Mexican War as a war “unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the President of the United States.”

I do not expect either house of Congress to pass a resolution denouncing the invasion of Iraq. Ever.

Harding would make a bad role model for Mittens. He drank and caroused. Silent Cal would have been more his speed: an arch-conservative with a PR machine behind him.