Just ran across an awesome quote from Molly Ivins

[RazBerryBeret]

from 2004, someone posted it in a comments section of US News:

"Well, look at it this way: You cannot keep a dog that kills chickens, no matter how fine a dog it is otherwise.

My friend John Henry Faulk always said the way to break a dog of that habit is to take one of the chickens the dog has killed and wire the thing around the dog's neck, good and strong. And leave it there until that dead chicken stinks so bad the dog won't be able to stand himself. You leave it on there until the last little bit of flesh rots and falls off, and that dog won't kill chickens again.

The Bush Administration is going to be wired around the neck of the American people for four more years, long enough for the stench to sicken everybody. It should cure the country of electing Republicans.

I can think of nothing more likely to convince the people not to vote for Republicans again for a long, long time than four more years of George W. Bush."



I think the stench is beginning to sicken everybody!

[MoJoWorkin]

1. We always knew that GW was a stinking rotten chicken-hawk chicken.

Anything quoted from Molly rates a rec. I sure miss her. We would have been buoyed by her clever repartee every day.

I remember reading somewhere, that before she died, she had already seen something special in Barack. I will try to find it.

[peekaloo]

2. Rec#2 I miss Molly.

but we still have her words.

[tavalon]

3. That's from one of my favorite columns of hers

It was written on Nov 5th 2004, a day when I could barely get out of bed, much less think to write something so profoundly correct. Damn, I miss that woman terribly. There is something wrong with a world in which Molly Ivins dies early and Barbara Bush does not.

[BigBearJohn]

4. So poignant and effective. I'll never get that image out of my mind now.

[NM Independent]

5. Truer words were never spoken. n/t

[SeattleGirl]

6. Oh, dear Molly.

I miss you so much!

[trof]

7. Wow. Talk about predicting the future!

[Laelth]

8. That's brilliant! I've read most of her work, but somehow I missed that one.

I so miss the late, great Molly Ivins.

Here's to her: :toast:

The United States is a LIBERAL Country.

:dem:

-Laelth

[whatchamacallit]

9. Classic "Rulage" from Molly

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Hekate]

10. "Molly Ivins, Elvis and Obama"

http://blog.niemanwatchdog.org/?p=190
Myra MacPherson: Molly Ivins, Elvis and Obama

In December 2006, the ever-prescient columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins was asked whether or not Barack Obama should run for president. Her answer: “Yes, he should run. He’s the only Democrat with any ‘Elvis’ to him.” <snip>

And we were in for a new time. Sitting out there in Austin, away from the Beltway bloviators, dying of cancer, Molly Ivins nailed it better than anybody. Elvis began appearing in Obama the candidate and last night, before a crowd of 17,000 in Madison, Wisconsin, he victoriously thundered his most populist speech to date: “This is what change looks like when it happens from the bottom up. This is the new American majority!” <snip>

As far back as January 2006 — almost a year before her Elvis-Obama comment — Molly shocked women readers and friends and Clintonites by writing that no matter who ran she would not support Hillary. “Enough. Enough triangulation, calculation and equivocation. Enough clever straddling, enough not offending anyone.” Clinton’s inability to take a “clear stand on the war in Iraq” was enough to disqualify her, in Molly’s eyes. And her failure to speak out on the Terri Schiavo comatose case was another reason. Molly prophesied the kind of following Obama would get and early on pointed out Clinton’s vulnerabilities. Then the best columnist I ever knew died — a year and two weeks ago. The race was beginning to heat up, but Hillary remained way ahead in poll after poll after poll and in the minds of the pundits.

I wonder what Molly would be saying now. Whatever it would be, I am among the thousands who miss that marvelous voice of opinion that most always often got it right. <end>

[XOKCowboy]

12. She had great insight...

An innate ability to see through the bullshit. I wish she was here right now. She's be on fire, believe me.

PS that story about the chicken is old time country stuff. I've even seen it being done once. I've heard that it works every time.

[upi402]

11. Most "Democrats" are as conservative as Goldwater was

I think we really need an opposition party. And I'd like to see a 3rd or 4th party too. A little coalition building between 3 or 4 parties could do this political monopoly of money elites good.

The 2 party system would allow a 3rd if the 15% threshold is met. BUT! they only inclued the 2 parties in their threshold poling.

Rigged system? yep!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

13. It would be better to remove the dog,...away from the chickens.

Is that no longer a possibility?

Oh,...I forget from time to time that us Americans (the chickens) have no say about the dog that kills us. The corporacrats rule that dog.

So, what do we do to get the corporacrats to control the dog?

GET POOR AND/OR STOP SPENDING (while maintaining access to information *grin*).

I love/d Molly. However, rather than hang around the beasts' neck, I would rather STARVE THEM TO DEATH.

[bertman]

14. Yaaayyy Molly. Thanks Raz.