MAUREEN DOWD really is D-U-M-B...

Take a look at her hit piece on Dick Cheney. It's amusing in that she uses the first three paragraphs to destroy whatever point she was trying to make against Cheney's candid talk as of late. It is akin to shooting one's self in the foot.

When Bush 41 was ramping up to the Gulf War, assembling a coalition to fight Saddam, Jimmy Carter sent a letter to members of the U.N. Security Council urging them not to rush into conflict without further exploring a negotiated solution.

The first President Bush and other Republicans in Washington considered this treasonous, a former president trying to thwart a sitting one, lobbying foreign diplomats to oppose his own country on a war resolution. In 2002, when Bush Junior was ramping up to his war against Saddam, Al Gore made a speech trying to slow down that war resolution, pointing out that pivoting from Osama to Saddam for no reason, initiating “pre-emptive” war, and blowing off our allies would undermine the war on terror.

Charles Krauthammer called Gore’s speech “a disgrace.” Michael Kelly, his fellow Washington Post columnist, called it “vile” and “contemptible.” Newt Gingrich said that the former vice president asserting that W. was making America less safe was “well outside the mark of an appropriate debate.”

I believe her goal is to enter a divide between Bush 1/ Bush 2 loyalists and Cheney loyalists. Of course, the obligatory unidentified sources are enabled...

"...said an official in Bush I."

and

"...said a Bush family loyalist."

In short, Dowd is the kind of opposition you want in a debate championship. She'll argue your side for you, and remain oblivious to those laughing at her from both sides.

Her royal Doltness..

He privately rolls his eyes at the way many in politics and government spend so much time preening and maneuvering for credit rather than simply doing their jobs. Yet with that detached and novelistic eye that allows him to be a great writer, he is also able to do a kind of political jujitsu, where he assesses the bluster and insecurities of other politicians, defuses them, and then uses them to his advantage.

These "Obamamites" are really and truly delusional. They are such unwitting contortionists of fact that they have resorted to "compliments" by way of...in my opinion...the consumate insult.

Maureen Dowd is hardly a cerebral thinker...but read the above and try and figure out what the hell type medication she's taking.

All Obama has shown us is "preening and maneuvering" when they will suffice over outright dishonesty and misrepresentation of the facts. I've read his book(s) and the last phrase I would use to describe the effort(s) would be "great writer." Instead, I would describe it as "vague, non-committal, and highly aloof."

More importantly, it is not very difficult to move other politicians around like pawns on the table when they have shown no backbone (in the case of wayward and appeasing Republicans)...as well as exploiting the all important necessity to remain in power (as the Democrats). Those that oppose his omnipotence find themselves out in the cold whether they be politicians, private industry, energy industry, or even journalists.

Dowd is about as bright as a three-watt lightbulb...which seems to be the next little effort from the Obama Administration (environmental wackery).