posted on March 7, 2004 02:31:52 PM new
Could he be suffering a severe attack of conscience? The conflicts and hypocrisy necessary to be a flaming fascist must tear your gut up.
posted on March 7, 2004 02:48:37 PM new
gravid - While I clearly understand how you and Reamond feel about Ashcroft, and the reasons for those opinions, I just cannot believe that the two of you appear to be so happy about his illness.
posted on March 7, 2004 02:56:25 PM new
It's kinda like Scrooge & the ghost of Christmas Yet To Come. He discovered just how thrilled all the people he screwed over were that he was dead. Maybe Ashcroft, like Scrooge, will take this opportunity to change his ways....
....but I doubt it.
``If there is any person in the town, who feels emotion caused by this man's death,'' said Scrooge quite agonised, ``show that person to me, Spirit, I beseech you!''
The Phantom spread its dark robe before him for a moment, like a wing; and withdrawing it, revealed a room by daylight, where a mother and her children were.
She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.
At length the long-expected knock was heard. She hurried to the door, and met her husband; a man whose face was careworn and depressed, though he was young. There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
He sat down to the dinner that had been boarding for him by the fire; and when she asked him faintly what news (which was not until after a long silence), he appeared embarrassed how to answer.
``Is it good.'' she said, ``or bad?'' -- to help him.
``Bad,'' he answered.
``We are quite ruined?''
``No. There is hope yet, Caroline.''
``If he relents,'' she said, amazed, ``there is. Nothing is past hope, if such a miracle has happened.''
``He is past relenting,'' said her husband. ``He is dead.''
She was a mild and patient creature if her face spoke truth; but she was thankful in her soul to hear it, and she said so, with clasped hands. She prayed forgiveness the next moment, and was sorry; but the first was the emotion of her heart.
``What the half-drunken woman whom I told you of last night, said to me, when I tried to see him and obtain a week's delay; and what I thought was a mere excuse to avoid me; turns out to have been quite true. He was not only very ill, but dying, then.''
``To whom will our debt be transferred?''
``I don't know. But before that time we shall be ready with the money; and even though we were not, it would be a bad fortune indeed to find so merciless a creditor in his successor. We may sleep to-night with light hearts, Caroline!''
Yes. Soften it as they would, their hearts were lighter. The children's faces, hushed and clustered round to hear what they so little understood, were brighter; and it was a happier house for this man's death! The only emotion that the Ghost could show him, caused by the event, was one of pleasure.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on March 7, 2004 03:27:02 PM new
Is Dick Chenney in the hospital bed next to him?
The only time I ever hear Dick Chenney mentioned during Bush's presidency is either when he was sick or the scandal involving the companies used in the rebuilding of Iraq.
Will Dick Chenney even survive another 4 years in the White House?
Marriage is a Human Right not a Heterosexual Privledge.
posted on March 7, 2004 03:46:32 PM new
I hope that the entire group will soon be out of office. The country and the world cannot survive another four years of the Bush regime.
posted on March 7, 2004 05:51:45 PM new
No joy at it - but I would welcome him taking the opportunity to remove the stress of his office so he can recover.
I seriously don't see how these people can look in the mirror to shave.
posted on March 10, 2004 12:50:31 PM new
America, land of the Ashcroft-haters
Michelle Malkin (back to web version) | Send
March 10, 2004
Those oh-so-compassionate liberals could hardly contain their glee upon hearing the news that Attorney General John Ashcroft is suffering from a severe case of gallstone pancreatitis.
"He has it coming. He is utterly sub-human and evil. Suffer, bastard," gloated an Internet user on the DemocraticUnderground.com Web site. "(T)he world would be better off without him," responded another writer on the forum. "I hope he is in the most severe pain a human being can suffer, and after that, I hope he remains in constant pain with no hope of relief," chimed in yet another bleeding-heart Democrat.
Out in Hollywood, comedian Bill Maher echoed these unsparing sentiments during his HBO talk show monologue, speculating that Ashcroft contracted his unimaginably painful and potentially deadly illness from "wiping his (expletive) with the Bill of Rights." The audience roared with laughter.
It is not the incivility of the Ashcroft-haters that galls me. It is the unmitigated insipidity and apathy they display toward what this man and his department have done to protect their right to be free, safe and stupid.
On the day he was admitted to the hospital last week, for example, Ashcroft was scheduled to speak at a Justice Department news conference. He was set to announce the convictions of three jihadists who trained in Virginia on behalf of the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET), a Pakistani terrorist group. The defendants spun their usual "woe-is-me/Islam is a Religion of Peace/I'm an innocent victim of racial profiling" tales for their tearful relatives and a sympathetic media. But the Justice Department didn't buy their stories. And neither did U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema, a Clinton appointee, who blasted the terror cell members' cover stories for traveling abroad to wage holy war as "incredible" and "simply implausible."
posted on March 10, 2004 03:20:42 PM new
God has sent Ashcroft a message, he has smited (sp?) him for his evil sins against the Constitution and humanity.
I am still trying to figure this christian god out. If something bad happens to a liberal or the WTC victims it's god's wrath, but when it happens to a conservative boob there is silence from the religious right.
So I'm just trying to do the christian thing and point out that it must be god's wrath visited upon Ashcroft for his sins. He better repent and mend his ways.
You'll also note that Cheney's heart has been doing OK since he disappeared and started keeping his mouth shut in the press.
But just wait. As soon as he starts bad mouthing Kerry, he will have more heart problems, possibly a fatal heart attack.
It is god's will. Beware. Repent. Be a liberal like Jesus.
