"... many consider the GOP’s imperialistic unilaterists less loco than the narcissistic anarchists."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/dowd-a-mad-tea-party.html
With 78 percent of Americans feeling blue about the country being on the wrong track, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, many consider the G.O.P.s imperialistic unilaterists less loco than the narcissistic anarchists. As grandiose delusions go, global domination makes more sense than self-annihilation. If I was in the Senate now, Id kill myself, Chris Christie said on Friday.
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Ben Smith of BuzzFeed reported that the roast sponsored by Rupert Murdoch and others featured Rumsfeld, Joe Lieberman and Scooter Libby, known as Cheneys Cheney until he was convicted of lying during a federal leak probe. Lieberman, a guest told BuzzFeed, said it was nicer to be at the Plaza than in cages after a war crimes trial. There were pardon jokes about W., whose relationship with Cheney was shattered over not giving Libby one. Libby said W. sent a note: Pardon me, I cant make it.
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In his memos and homilies, Rumsfeld will say things that are just contradictory, as though by saying everything, youve covered all your bases, Morris continued. Its deeply anti-rational, as if theres no deep reflection or thought. You have no evidence? Well, the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, as Rumsfeld said about W.M.D. in Iraq. Taken to some crazy conclusion, you can justify anything that way.
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When Morris asks Rumsfeld about the confusion that linked Saddam to 9/11, he answers brightly, I dont think the American people were confused about that, adding, I dont remember anyone in the Bush administration saying anything like that, nor do I recall anyone believing that. Holy mushroom cloud.