Breaking News: Bolton Out
RedState's dog reports: "Details are sketchy, but
Fox and just about everyone else is reporting that
President Bush has accepted
John Bolton's resignation as the US Ambassador to the UN. He plans to leave his post when his appointment expires. I can only assume that means John Bolton is out, for good - and we can chalk-up one in the 'win' column for
Chris Dodd. Oh, joy!"
Check your AP style guide, folks, it's LDS -- not "Mormon" ...
Ivy Sellers of
Right Angle is getting sick of all the stories about
Mitt Romney's religion. She writes: "Being a 'Mormon' myself (which is just a nickname for members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and why I prefer to be called '
LDS' rather than
'Mormon,' check the AP style guide, folks) I'm amused by many of the posts because they are never completely correct (if not often completely false) and many times lack real information and research (when will all these media types actually ask a Mormon about Mormonism?)."
Full disclosure: I wanted to buy him a drink ...
A
Daniel Glover New York Times article about blogger disclosure has drawn controversy in the blogosphere. Poking fun at the hoops bloggers must jump through to fully disclose their biases,
Jon Henke of
QandO Blog writes: "I met
Patrick Hynes at the recent
VCAP Convention. During the course of a long conversation between Hynes, myself and another friend, I had every intention of paying for Hynes' drink, but he'd already done so. As far as I know, Hynes has never disclosed my intention to pay for his soda, making him the
David Safavian to my
Jack Abramoff. (we would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling journalists!)"
This would make Ali/Frasier look tame ...
The Corner's John J. Miller asks: "How about
Rick Santorum for the UN job? Yeah, there'd probably be a confirmation fight. And he may want to take a breather after 16 years in elected office. But it's worth thinking over."
Should we be worried about Hillary?
Conservatives aren't sure whether or stopping
Hillary is the most important thing in the world.
Patrick Hynes of
Ankle Biting Pundits writes, "... I really don’t believe (Hillary) is electable, but we often mistake our personal feelings toward a politician with that politician’s electability, so who’s to say?" In other news, a group of concerned citizens have launched
StopHerNow.com.
Right Angle's Rose Billings has noticed a surge in news stories about Hillary: "These stories are likely timed to try and knock the stories about Sen.
Barack Obama off the front pages, although his buzz will take more than a couple minor stories to kill."
Missed Opportunities for Dems?
AmSpec Blog's Paul Chesser writes: "Sure, Democrats are really happy with the election results and taking over Congress. But had they spent even just a few bucks, they could have had one more House seat: the one belonging to Rep.
Robin Hayes of North Carolina, who won by only 329 votes."
Conservative bloggers doing good for Christmas ...
OnTap's Marshall Manson notes a
Washington Post story about, "a man from Maine named
Morrill Worcester who had an idea — to adorn the graves at Arlington National Cemetery with wreaths for Christmas." More Manson: "... I just want to thank Mr. Worcester and his band of helpers. We would all do well to learn a lesson from their example."
Townhall's Hugh Hewitt also has posted a list of organizations "to serve the servicemen and women." And
Moe Lane of
RedState writes: Seeing as it's Christmas time, I thought that I'd open up the floor for people to post links to their favorite charities ..."
I heard it thru the grapevine ...
Tim Chapman of
TimChapmanBlog notes that "
John Hawkins has resurrected Conservative Grapevine, a conservative link aggregator. I am glad he has, it is a great site."
Isn't it ironic?
Regarding the
Rumsfeld memo,
Dan Flynn of
Flynn Files writes: "It's interesting that the same administration that has so resisted efforts to police America's borders would discuss placing 'substantial U.S. forces near the Iranian and Syrian borders,' or that an administration that calls itself conservative would debate 'a massive program for unemployed youth' (in Iraq, not the United States), or that a defense secretary once so optimistic about the Iraqi reception of U.S. forces would now call for bribing religious and political leaders within Iraq to become our friends. The ugly realities of war have a tendency of turning politics and principles upside-down."
What kind of liberal are you?
The Wistler at
Say Anything Blog has taken it upon himself to classify the types of liberals. The list includes, "The Punitive liberal," "The Self-serving Liberal," and "The Condescending Liberal."
Nancy Pelosi, political genius?
Wizbang's Joy Tea writes: "People often talk about
George W. Bush and
Karl Rove as an amazing team -- Bush the bumbling, incompetent, incoherent idiot and Karl Rove as the evil, diabolical mastermind behind it all. Pelosi somehow manages to combine both traits in one -- she is seen as a far-left, gaffe-prone loony embodying 'San Francisco values' while, at the same time, engaging in some of the most brilliant political maneuverings I've seen in a long time."
In praise of John McCain
RedState's Pejman Yousefzadeh opines: "... anyone who is brave enough to resist the bedlam of public opinion and announce his support for more troops in Iraq in order to achieve a successful reconstruction has my respect. Hopefully the rest of the GOP will draw courage from
McCain and other Republican Presidential aspirants will announce their support for engendering victory in Iraq."
GOPProgressers vs. RedStaters? Proper blog etiquette, please ...
Liz Mair of
GOPProgress writes, "... I'm not terribly impressed with some of the comments I've seen made," (on her blog), "... by who I assume are visitors from
RedState ..." According to Mair, the comments, "have shown quite a bit of disrespect towards users of this site who are part of the philosophical grouping for which it was designed ..."
