Weekly Jackass Number Forty-Three: Howard Fineman
Okay, we have a winner after all…
Here was Howard Fineman in the immediate aftermath of Katrina, practically salivating over the prospects of a crippled Bush:
…[J]ust after Labor Day, hearings will start in the Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. Expect the Democrats to drop their caution and go after him with all they’ve got. They’re coming to the conclusion that they have nothing to lose, and they are being pushed in that combative direction by a grassroots base furious at the congressional party for not having taken a tougher line against the president months if not years ago.
But now they sense blood in the rising water.
“Expect the Democrats to drop their caution and go after him with all they’ve got…now they sense blood in the water.” Dramatic stuff, eh?
Here’s today’s Washington Post, in an article entitled, ‘As Battlefield Shrinks, Democrats Mute Their Attacks’:
The first day of confirmation hearings for Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to become the 17th chief justice of the United States proved to be a tepid opening to what once was billed as a battle of monumental proportions between left and right.
…[W]ith Roberts’s confirmation seemingly assured, some of the fight appears to have gone out of the Democrats and they have been forced to shift their strategy.
As blown calls go, that’s a whopper. Don’t fret, though, Howard, at least you have your day job…oh, wait…this is your day job. Oh, well, cheer up: Weekly Jackasses come and go…
UPDATE 09/13/05 6:54 a.m. central: Many thanks to Leon H at Red State and Betsy Newmark for the links!…and thanks also to Gerry Daly of Daly Thoughts…
Very nice choice. It’s satisfying to expose the pathetic “got Bush” opportunism of the “disinterested” press–especially when they are proven dead wrong.
I hope EJ Dionne got runner up status for:
“Recent months, and especially the recent two weeks, have brought home to a steadily growing majority of Americans that President Bush’s government doesn’t work. His policies are failing, his approach to leadership is detached and self-indulgent, his way of politics has produced a divided, angry and dysfunctional public square. We dare not go on like this.”
Tell us what you really think, EJ–and while you’re at it, please explain how BUSH is responsible for the “divided, angry and dysfunctional public square.” How about he’s responsible because even when he’s in a bad patch he runs circles around you jokers and all you can do is respond with divided, angry and dysfunctional rants?
I’m really moved by how many concerned Democrats, both in and out of the press, are trying so hard to understand why those evil, greedy, vicious, stupid, lying, hypocritical, nazi Republicans insist on being so divisive.
[...] Mark Coffee chose Howard Fineman as his “Jackass of the Week”. It was the wrong selection. Not in a week that featured the vile bilge spewed by Steve Sailer. (Hat tip, John Hawkins– scroll down to read the crud) Filed under: Thread o’ the dayTrackback URI: http://dalythoughts.com/wp-trackback.php?p=4287 [...]
[...] Don’t tell Howard Fineman, though (he of the famous ‘blood in the water’ Roberts prediction). Fineman apparently hasn’t noticed that the Kos has no clothes, so to speak (ye gads! Bad visual!): If I am hearing Simon Rosenberg right (and he is worth listening to), a nasty civil war is brewing within the Democratic Party, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton—the party’s presumptive 2008 nominee—needs to avoid getting caught in the middle of it. [...]
E.J. has achieved Jackass-of-the-Week Emeritus status along with these other dim bulbs representing the left:
Ted Kennedy
Richard “Call Me Dick” Durbin
John Kerry
Paul Krugman
Frank Rich
Maureen Dowd
Helen Thomas
Joe “Hairplugs” Biden
Jon Conyers
rino sightings: hornitarian jihad
Feel the point of the horn, infidel extremists! Your Kool-Aid will stain the carpeted halls and Herman Miller walls of your party headquarters! It’s RINO Sightings, September 19 edition.
Speaking seriously now, I use the “jihad” ref…
[...] Good grief! He’s now Weekly Jackass Number forty three. [...]