Tony Snow, yesterday:
Q: [Some senators] are talking about leaving [Iraq], because they want to start redeploying troops by the end of this year. That’s leaving, isn’t it?
SNOW: No, redeploying does not necessarily mean leaving.
Tony Snow, in November 2006:
SNOW: …If you’re talking about phased redeployment, it means we’re trying to get out. It looks like you’re trying to save face rather than finish the job.
All of a sudden, it looks like “redeployment” isn’t such a dirty word after all.
Gee, would Republican do a major league flipflop just to save their party from almost certain doom at the polls?
Hmmmm…
Shirting sand and euphemisms.
— No right being there. No excuse for staying. Apologize and get out.
What I heard this morning is that the GOP does not want the 2008 congressional elections to be about Iraq – they want something happening to end the occupation (my choice of word – theirs is “war”) so that it doesn’t drag them down like it did in 2006.
I swear, sometimes I think that Tony Snow’s job is to find ways to change the meanings of words so that no matter what happens, they always have a handy explanation for what something they said months or days ago “really” meant, and that if others thought it meant something else, well, too bad.
Snowflake is a nihilist.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.”
–From Romeo and Juliet (II, ii, 1-2)
Failure is, like every single thing the Shrub has tried in his life (whatever Snowjob calls it), FAILURE. FAILURE FAILURE!
Goalposts are moving not just for Snowjob, but even within the Democratic party. It’s truly amusing to watch…
For example, isn’t it amazing how Democrats ignored Russ Feingold’s withdrawal plan a year ago, and even a month or two ago, but now the EXACT same plan reborn as the “Levin/Reed” amendment with no credit for Feingold?
Snowflake is a nihilist.
Comment by JKap
🙂 He beliefs in nutting. Wingnutting.
Also, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
Can anyone remember when Tony Snow said anything that wasn’t crap, mendacious, patronizing or obfuscating.
It’s a total mystery why any news outlet pays people to listen to him. It seems that all the actual information we get comes by way of anonymous sources. Which is some kind of ethical lapse when done by anonymous bloggers.
Sometimes, I could swear that the entire “team Shrub” had been taking lessons from the same spin merchants (propaganda dept of the communist party) I did (in my late teens and early twenties). They still have a lot to learn, or, perhaps, they’re not entirely capable of learning (tin ear), but, in general, the tunes are the long forgotten ones and sound like “home”.
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