John Edwards should up the populist ante and promise that if elected president he'll conduct warrantless surveillance on all corporate executives who oppose his health care plan and blackmail them into endorsing progressive change.
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19 Dec 2007 11:52 am
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Emulating Dick Cheney doesn't seem like a winning agenda to me.
I'll stick with the original plan, thank you very much.
...and torture them until they agree.
PS: Petey, you're generally spot-on with your NBA analysis...so why wouldn't you want a losing team to try the tactics that have helped the GOP go undefeated for seven straight years?
"PS: Petey, you're generally spot-on with your NBA analysis...so why wouldn't you want a losing team to try the tactics that have helped the GOP go undefeated for seven straight years?"
The Spurs were able to take over without having to emulate the Lakers. They knew that just being the best Spurs they could be would be enough to win it all.
Same deal with Edwards.
Bush has won a couple of elections, but his administration has been a disaster for his party. It's not to be emulated. We can win by playing our own style of ball at a high level.
Fifty million overweight Americans without health insurance - That's a national security threat.
What would we do if we found out that the obesity epidemic was the result of a plot? That high fructose corn syrup was invented in Tehran and is placed in the food supply?
Edwards should elevate it into a war -
The Clintons are like Shaquille, an incredibly dominant machine.
Obama is like Kobe, a great natural talent who can soar.
Edwards is like Tim Duncan, not flashy, but executes like a dream on both ends of the court.
I know who I'd take first if we're picking sides.
"Edwards should elevate it into a war"
It's time to be patriotic about something other than war.
Anything that John Edwards does to those corporate executives that in any way harsher than saying "please" and "thank you", offering them a luxury condo on the Upper West Side, and treating them to dinner every night at Per Se, would be considered TORTURE, and thus John Edwards would be an international war criminal subject to be strung up immediately. Moreovoer, I will personally appeal for habeas corpus rights for those corporate executives all the way above the Supreme Court to the International Court of Justice, and I'm sure the ACLU, Human Rights Watch, and every other leftie organization will applaud me along the way.
Also, that warrantless surveillance would inevitably release greenhouse gasses, so would be prohibited in accordance with the Kyoto treaty, to which John Edwards would surely adhere.
Threatening to veto legislation unless its got what you want in it and nothing else? Gee, where did he get that idea?
Petey -- Yeah, but the Dems are like 0-and-200 gazillion with their current leadership, team, and strategy, and they haven't got The Big Fundamental.
"and they haven't got The Big Fundamental."
Well, that's why the next 6 weeks are such a big deal.
We've got a chance to draft Edwards as our franchise player.
No kidding!
Isn't Yglesias' "idea" exactly the "bitter confrontation" that the Great-Wise- One Krugman is claiming that Obama lacks because he lives in a "fantasy world."
Methinks Yglesias is slyly making fun of this "idea" in order to tell us who is actaully living in a fantasy world.
Edwards is like Tim Duncan, not flashy, but executes like a dream on both ends of the court.
I know who I'd take first if we're picking sides.
Technically Edwards is the guy saying,"Pick me and I'll play like Duncan. Yesterday, when I played like Darko was a fluke - I had NC flu or something.
More importantly who is the KG in the race?
More importantly who is the KG in the race?
Rudy. Ready to win his first Championship.
Which would make Huckabee Dwight Howard. Yikes!
BTW, it's pretty clear that Democrats = Western Conference, Republicans = Eastern Conference, no?
Rudy is more like Kirilenko. Had a big rep. Everyone now wondering where it went.
No one's saying he doesn't have talents, but...
(And there's an infidelity joke in there somewhere too, with AK's birthday privileges and all.)
OK, to finish off the Republicans, I've got McCain = Chauncey (been around for a while, but whose reputation is greater than his ability), Fred Thompson = Vince Carter (a lot of potential, but no passion for the game), and Romney = ?? Ben Gordon? Luol Deng?
"BTW, it's pretty clear that Democrats = Western Conference, Republicans = Eastern Conference, no?"
In 2008, without a doubt.
Obama is LeBron -- the guy to build a team around.
Edwards is Kyle Korver -- pretty hair, no inside game, useless.
Hillary Clinton is Kobe -- no shot at winning on her own.
Romney is Shawn Bradley -- tall, stiff Mormon.
"McCain = Chauncey (been around for a while, but whose reputation is greater than his ability)"
But both very solid players.
"Fred Thompson = Vince Carter (a lot of potential, but no passion for the game)"
That's too funny, Al.
"Romney = ??"
Willard's a flip-flopper, so I'd go with Manu.
"Which would make Huckabee Dwight Howard. Yikes!"
I actually like this one a lot.
They're both bona-fide monsters. And they both have no chance of winning it all this year.
McCain'd have to be Dirk -- since you can't mention McCain without pointing out that he's a "maverick" and has international experience.
I have a better idea. He emulates Doctor Doom in "Doom 2099": he calls in all the corporate heads and tells them that he's nationalizing all their corporations - and to show his power, they get to pick one of their number whom he will kill right there in front of them.
That will get their attention.
'Course Doom was deposed shortly thereafter by those same corporate heads, so maybe not.
With this bold new plan, Matt embraces his inner liberal fascist. :-)
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Heads in the Sand
Better --- waterboard them.
Posted by goethean | December 19, 2007 12:06 PM