Christine Flowers is a Synonym for “Stupid”.
THE first thing I did when I woke up Wednesday was to look out the window. The sun was rising in the east, the trash trucks were rolling down the street, children were waiting at the bus stops. I even heard a bird chirping.
It was all good, all normal.
This was a blessing because when I put my head on the pillow on Tuesday, I anticipated the Apocalypse. After 21 months of convincing myself that an Obama win would indeed bring change, only of a devastating nature, it was easy to think that life as I knew it would be over.
Really, is there anything more that needs to be said? Christine Flowers believed that Obama’s election was going to bring on the Apocalypse. That in itself is reason to put the woman in a straitjacket, deposit her in the rubber room, and throw away the key.
But life has a funny way of slapping you in the face and pushing you forward, even when you feel battered and bruised. So I’m moving forward. Slowly.
That’s how it is with the terminally stupid: they keep getting bruised by bumping into things and everything goes verrrrrry sloooooooowly.
I’m not happy. Nothing about the prospect of an Obama administration gives me hope that my worldview will be manifested in either the policy or the philosophy of the president-elect. He’s as far left as any politician in my lifetime, and is most likely even more liberal than he appears.
Christine Flowers’ worldview includes an amply-detailed deep seated hostility toward African Americans, the belief that unwed mothers are sluts and feminists are prudes, and that the best way to address violence is with more violence. I don’t think anyone, not even George W. Bush, has a worldview that completely insane.
Poor Christine is so dumb, she associates liberals with abortions and taxes. She doesn’t remember that it was the left that got us out of the Great Depression, and the left that won World War 2, and the left that insisted on the Clean Air and Water acts. She’s that dumb.
And yet, despite my sorrow and the unwavering belief that John McCain deserved us and we deserved him, I’m willing to give Barack Obama the benefit of the doubt.
For now.
Translation: next week, I’ll be calling him a closet Muslim again.
Everyone gets a honeymoon, and I’m willing to take a watch-and-wait attitude for a while. After all, Obama may not actually succeed in fulfilling some of the promises he made on the campaign trail, like signing the Freedom of Choice Act that would make it virtually impossible to put any reasonable limits on abortion.
To Christine, the only reasonable limit on abortion is no abortions at all. A review of her columns demonstrates that she’s a pro-life zealot.
Maybe he’ll rethink the ill-advised tax hikes that are likely to take money away from the productive sector and use it to underwrite a modified version of class warfare.
Christine Flowers must make more than $250,000 a year, probably because she’s never had to raise children, which is why she thinks she’s getting a tax hike. For someone who pretends to speak for the Everyman in Philadelphia, Christine sure makes a lot of money. Of course, the rest of us who aren’t fabulously wealthy immigration lawyers (as Christine apparently is) know we’re getting a tax cut. Hooray for us!
Oh also, Christine sees restoring tax cuts for the middle class as “class warfare”: what was it when Bush took them away?
If he’s wise, he’ll abandon his plan to pull our troops out of Iraq in a matter of months, heeding the advice of the generals on the ground and not the anti-war lobby that seems to be gearing up to cripple our national defense.
As a quick survey of Christine Flowers’ indicate, the woman is as bloodthirsty as Stalin. She loves the war in Iraq, she’s tried to incite race riots, and whenever there’s a chance to call for revenge, Christine’s all over it.
More embarrassing for the Daily News and their irresponsible op-ed editor Sandra Shea, who keeps Flowers on staff despite her hateful rhetoric, is that Flowers (as usual) is dead wrong: the Iraqis want us to leave. They have said so repeatedly and explicitly. The New York Times, a much more credible source than a harridan with an axe to grind, reports:
Barack Obama may have been elected only three days ago, but his victory is already beginning to shift the political ground in Iraq and the region.
Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward a new security agreement about American troops, and a Bush administration official said he believed that Iraqis could ratify the agreement as early as the middle of this month.
As for “the advice of the generals”? Someone needs to tell Christine that “Gen. David H. Petraeus’s decision to withdraw another combat brigade six weeks ahead of schedule…” kin dof suggests that he’d like to get out too.
back to the dunderhead:
If he truly puts his Harvard degree to good use, he won’t try to refashion the Supreme Court in the image of a tribunal that takes its lead from the New York Times editorial page instead of the Constitution
This is either ignorance or deliberate mendacity: neither reflects well on Flowers or her irresponsible editor that obviously doesn’t require fact-checking. Alito and Roberts do not take their lead from the Constitution. They do not respect stare decisis or precedent, and are in fact “activist judges”:
Let me offer just a few examples. In Gonzales v. Carhart, the Court, in a five-to-four decision, upheld the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting so-called “partial birth abortions,” even though the Court had held a virtually identical state law unconstitutional seven years earlier. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rightly observed in dissent, the majority, which included Justices Roberts, Alito, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas), offered no principled basis for ignoring the earlier decision. The only relevant change was Alito for O’Connor.
In Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, the same five-justice majority held unconstitutional a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act that limited political expenditures by corporations, even though the Court had upheld the same provision only four years earlier. As Justice David Souter rightly observed in dissent, Chief Justice Roberts’s opinion offered no principled basis for disregarding the earlier decision.
In Hein v. Freedom from Religion Foundation, the same five-justice majority, in an opinion by Justice Alito, held that individual taxpayers had no “standing” to challenge the constitutionality of the Bush administration’s program of faith-based initiatives as violative of the Establishment Clause, even though the Court had held some forty years ago that taxpayers do have standing to challenge federal expenditures on these grounds. As Justice Souter rightly observed in dissent, Alito’s argument that the earlier decision was distinguishable because it involved a challenge to a legislative rather than an executive program has no basis “in either logic or precedent.”
In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, the same five-justice majority (with Justice Kennedy filing a separate concurring opinion), in an opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, held that the consideration of race by school districts in assigning students to public schools in order to promote racial diversity violates the Equal Protection Clause, even though the Court had unanimously declared more than thirty-five years ago that such a policy “is within the broad discretionary authority of school authorities.”
As Justice Breyer rightly asked in dissent, “What has happened to stare decisis?” Breyer correctly observed that Roberts had distorted the Court’s precedents, “written out of the law” a host of Supreme Court decisions, and disingenuously reversed the course of constitutional law. Whereas Brown v. Board of Education had held that government could not constitutionally assign black and white students to different schools in order to segregate them, Roberts had the audacity to cite Brown for the extraordinary proposition that government cannot constitutionally assign black and white students to the same school in order to integrate them.
I think this clearly demonstrates that Christine Flowers is totally full of shit on this issue. One wonders if she got her law degree through a correspondence course.
Back into the mire…
And if he’s prudent, he’ll make sure that his inner circle is purged of any clones of Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers and the do-gooders of ACORN.
One more time for the world! Obama repudiated Wright months ago, is not closely tied to Tony Rezko, and is not affiliated with Bill Ayers. Only crazy people care about crimes attempted forty years ago by an incompetent hippy who is so thoroughly rehabilitated he’s friends with the Annenberg family, and only people with an agenda bring up these red herrings to distract from substantive issues.
Obama isn’t dumb. He is, in fact, brilliant. If it were otherwise, this biracial kid from Hawaii wouldn’t be poised to sit in the Oval Office. He developed his plan to become president in much the same way Alexander the Great strategized his conquests – methodical steps fueled by flashes of genius.
We know he can win elections. We know he can organize communities. We know he can create alliances with the most disparate people, turning blood-red states blue in the process.
Christine does sometimes get a firm grasp on the obvious, before slipping into her miasma of DUH once again:
What we don’t know is if he can run a country where the average voter is at the very least modestly to the right of him on social and economic policy, where the major reason he was swept into office was anger at the current occupant, where he was, for many, the default candidate.
HAHAHAHAHA! That’s great, and so easily debunked, I’ll just cut and paste what I wrote yesterday, without the blockquote:
Fact: The Republicans and conservatives described Obama as “the most liberal Senator in the senate”.
Fact: these same groups said Obama was even farther left than that. “He’s a Marxist!” “He’s a Socialist!” “He’s a radical leftist!”
Fact: Obama beat George Bush’s 2004 “mandate” by a long shot.
Fact: The socialist liberal marxist Democrats have practically taken over the electoral map…
… reducing the GOP to what Republican Tom Davis calls “a regional party, basically become a white, rural, regional party, and not a national party.”
After you’ve reacquainted your conservative pal with the facts of the matter, ask them the following two questions:
If the country is so “right of center” how come Americans (now including North carolina) overwhelmingly voted for the most liberal senator who is widely identified as a Marxist, a radical leftist, and a socialist?
If the country is so “right of center” how come the radical leftist, Marxist, socialist Democratic party as a whole ran roughshod over the red states, picking up seats in the House and the Senate?
“Center-right”? IN YOUR DREAMS.
Just dumb! The woman is just plain old garden variety DUMB. That’s why I get so critical of Sandra Shea for publishing Flowers: her opinions are worthless because they’re based on misinformation, ignorance, and conventional wisdom. I’m not talking about topics I disagree with her on, like abortion. I mean the woman does not check her facts, she just writes down whatever she’s thinking at the moment and brands it as truth. The “center-right” nonsense is a perfect example.
IHOPE he doesn’t view his “landslide” as approval for a radical agenda. I hope he uses his magnificent intellect to really do what he said he would – develop inclusive policies that won’t make those of us who voted for McCain and wept when he lost feel like strangers in our own land. After all, “hope” was a big part of his campaign.
Here, Christine tries to purvey the myth that Obama didn’t get a broad mandate. Wrong again: in 2004, when Bush won with barely more than 51% of the vote, the conservatives and republicans were all over the news announcing Bush’s mandate. Well, Obama got 52.4 percent of the vote, “a 7.4 million difference, more than twice the lead Dubya had on Kerry.” If 51% is a mandate, than 52.4% is an even BIGGER mandate. Obama promised CHANGE and the people responded enthusiastically. Nothing Christine Flowers lies about can change that.
On Wednesday morning, someone e-mailed me and asked how it felt to finally be on the outside.
Well after your opening paragraph, which indicates you thought the world was going to come to an end, your pal probably thought you’d spent the week hiding in the root cellar. Or maybe you got raptured.
It was a question from someone who despises George Bush and believes Karl Rove was born with horns, enjoying the fact that conservatives had seemingly lost their place in the brave new scheme of things.
Now why would ANYONE despise George W. Bush and Karl Rove? They only lied the country into a war that can’t be won, killed thousands of our kids, raided the treasury, instituted socialism for the wealthy, ignored warnings that bin Laden was going to strike in the US, lost the world trade center, let new orleans drown losing a major American port, let bin Laden escape, lost Afghanistan, angered our allies, presided over the collapse of our economy, presided over the collapse of the housing market, nationalized the banks politicized the Department of Justice, pitted American against American in a culture war, interfered in the private personal affairs of the Schiavo family, and tried to stack the court. Am I missing anything?
As David Brooks pointed out weeks ago, the GOP has lost anyone of substance: the doctors, the lawyers, the investment bankers, the teachers. Conservatives HAVE lost their place in the new scheme: they abdicated it. The only people left in the GOP are nativists, neo-nazis, and know-nothings. Which one are you, Christine?
Some gloating is to be expected. But President-to-be Obama said we are neither blue states nor red states but the United States. Let’s see if he meant it.
Here’s “hoping” he does.
He meant it all right: that’s why he was supported by Colin Powell, Chuck Hagel, Ken Adelman, Paul O’Neill, and a variety of old-line republicans.
The problem is people like you, Christine, who exist to divide Americans by race, by class, and by any other wedge issue you can think of to stop progress.
Not gonna happen this time. Sandy, when will you remove this fool from your pages?
November 7th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
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November 7th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I simply love it when you take Christine Flowers to the mat. It’s so much fun to watch. I wonder if either her, her editor, or even both of them read this.
I hope so.