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Daily Kos —
... voters and near-unanimous rejection from Democrats. McCain, with his reputation for independence, was supposed to restore the GOP's competitiveness among swing voters. But to win the GOP nomination, McCain embraced Bush's core economic and foreign policies and then selected, in Sarah Palin, a running mate who waged the culture war with a zeal that made Bush and Karl Rove look squeamish. And I'm the guy who thought McCain won the first debate.. Gail Collins: Why doesn't Bush just resign and get the hell out of Dodge? Sophia ...
Moving up the inauguration
Political Animal —
MOVING UP THE INAUGURATION.... The New York Times' Gail Collins has a good idea in her column this morning: maybe Bush could do us a favor and just wrap things up now. Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that's crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush -- who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks -- hasn't got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the ...
NY Times Moron: Bush Should Resign Now
JammieWearingFool —
I find it hard to believe anyone takes this nitwit Gail Collins seriously. Really, what kind of idiotic fantasy land is she living in? First of all, George W. Bush's term ends January 20. Is he actually going to take advice from some childish columnist from the New York Times and leave office two months early? Is it any mystery why the stock value of the Times is virtually worthless? Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on ...
A President Who Will Never Do the Right Thing
TalkLeft —
... Gail Collins offers this fantasy of a Christmas miracle: For the good of the country, Dick Cheney resigns. Then George Bush resigns. These acts elevate Nancy Pelosi to the presidency until January 20. She immediately implements whatever agenda President-Elect Obama dictates. The Collins fantasy not only delivers immediate action to address the economic crisis, it gives the nation its first female president, if only for a month or so. ...
Bush Derangement Syndrome - Time for Him to Go
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
Damn, this lefty New York Times MORON cannot wait for President Bush to leave the Presidency.
Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.
Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet ...
The return of Pauline Kael
TigerHawk —
... of the out-of-touch Manhattan liberal. Until, perhaps, now. Kael's legacy is rather seriously challenged by Gail Collins, who has written what is quite possibly the most idiotic column ever published in the New York Times . George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, Collins suggests, should resign immediately so that Nancy Pelosi can serve the rest of the term. Because President Nancy Pelosi would prevent the collapse of the economy. No, really. Bush and Cheney would do this so as to improve their stature with future historians. There is only one reason why -- in my fantasies -- Bush ...
“Time For Him To Go”: New York Times Calls For Bush’s Resignation
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... the absolute bottom of the barrel…If Bush gives up doing nothing by giving up his job, it’s possible that someday history might elevate him to the ranks of the below average.”
-Gail Collins, NY Times
“Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page…”
New York Times:
Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really ...
The Profound Impact Of Bush/Cheney
Riehl World View —
One of Bush/Cheney's most profound and often ignored impacts is their ability to bring out the utter stupidity of today's media. For that alone Bush deserves to be considered a great President.
You can conclude one of two things from this New York Times editorial calling for Bush to resign and configure a way for Obama to effectively take office early.
Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would ...
Bad manners
Belmont Club —
Gail Collins of the NYT makes what she thinks is is a clever proposal: she wants President Bush and Dick Cheney to resign so that Barack Obama can take over right away. The Gateway Pundit has video of Chris Matthews proposing essentially the same thing. Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was ...
Just When You Thought The Times’ Op-Ed Pages Couldn’t Get Moonbattier..
Stop The ACLU —
Gail Collins tries to out-mo Mo Dowd: Time For Him To Go Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. I could probably stop there and let the Derangement wash over us. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world’s most important economies on the glories of free-market capitalism. Putting Barack Obama in ...
Just When You Thought The Times’ Op-Ed Pages Couldn’t Get Moonbattier..
Pirate's Cove —
Gail Collins tries to out-mo Mo Dowd: Time For Him To Go
Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning.
I could probably stop there and let the Derangement wash over us.
Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no longer care what he thinks — hasn’t got the clout, or possibly even the energy, to do anything useful. His most recent contribution to resolving the fiscal crisis was lecturing representatives of the world’s most important economies on the ...
58 Days
The Mahablog —
... Many pundits argue that the nation can’t afford to keep Bush in office for three more months, because we need effective leadership now. Good luck with that. We’ll be lucky if he doesn’t chain himself to the ...
NYT columnist needs to read the Constitution
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Do the editors of the New York Times’ opinion pages ever exercise editorial control over their content? I missed Gail Collins’ ignorant and obtuse entry yesterday while traveling, but it’s worth highlighting for its sheer stupidity. She wants George Bush to resign now so that Barack Obama can start running the country before the inauguration: Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously. We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a ...
Deluded Liberals Think The Mere Presence Of Obama In The White House Will Cure Economic Woes
Say Anything —
... First it was Gail Collins calling on Bush to resign in order to hasten the injection of a liberal leader into the White House. Now ...
Brainster's Blog —
The World Can't Wait The New York Times has now published not one, but two OpEds suggesting that Bush should step down now, and not wait until Obama's inauguration. Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn’t impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We’re desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she’d defer to her party’s incoming ...
Can They See The Writing on The Wall?
Confederate Yankee —
Can They See The Writing on The Wall? Gail Collins and now Thomas Friedman of the New York Times have both asked President Bush to step down early, ushering in a new era of hopechangegood prior to Obama's January 20 inauguration. Both offer daft if different excuses for their need to hurry Bush into history, but perhaps they simply want to be able to write about Obama while still a columnist with the fast-failing Times , and they aren't exactly convinced the Old Gray Lady will be above ground when the scheduled transition occurs.
Right, Let's Ditch the Constitution
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com —
I kept waiting for the "Ha, I'm just being facetious" moment in Gail Collins' column from Saturday, but, unfortunately for her, it never came. She is completely serious apparently: Putting Barack Obama in charge immediately isn't impossible. Dick Cheney, obviously, would have to quit as well as Bush. In fact, just to be on the safe side, the vice president ought to turn in his resignation first. (We're desperate, but not crazy.) Then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would become president until Jan. 20. Obviously, she'd defer to her party's incoming chief executive, and Barack Obama ...
N.Y. Times Can't Wait! Bush and Cheney Should Resign, Make Pelosi Prez
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... Count New York Times editorial page editor Gail Collins in the Chris Matthews camp: she very seriously wants Bush and Cheney to resign right away, for the sake of the country, and that way, Nancy Pelosi can help the incoming president save the economy: ...
Two presidents
BuzzMachine —
Barack Obama says we have only one president at a time. That, apparently, is why Gail Collins and Tom Friedman want the old one to leave office now, which is silly if understandable wishful thinking.
What we need instead is, indeed, two presidents. And we’re beginning to get that. Barack Obama is revealing his path and is taking action. The fact that the stock market can reach orgasm just on his naming a Treasury secretary - and not a particular superstar at that (see Andrew Ross Sorkin’s leavening of the exuberance today) - shows ...
'Advanced Media Dementia' at Epidemic Levels?
The New Editor —
... "Sunday, former New York Times editorial page editor and current columnist Gail Collins called for Bush's resignation in her column, and then today, ...
Loony liberal watch
Sister Toldjah —
... On Saturday, the NYT lovingly published a column by Gail Collins in which she talked about how Bush-Cheney should go ahead and step down now and allow Nancy Pelosi to take over the presidency until Barack Obama was sworn in as president in January … all for the “benefit” of the economy, of course. We don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution anyway. ...
It’s Called ‘Transition’ For a Reason
Pajamas Media —
In a political - and religious - season that calls for patience and reflection, some just can't wait. [image] In a career low that spoke volumes about the impatient nature of her generation — and hinted, strongly, that she had daydreamed her way through her high school civics classes — New York Times editor Gail Collins recently suggested that President Bush resign his “does-everything-wrong” presidency with all haste, so that Barack Obama may begin his “does-everything-right” presidency immediately and save America from its ...
"Katrina without all the water"
sisu —
... he pauses in his observations for a little introspection.
Excerpts from that imail conversation: She: I went into a convenience store to buy some bread, and they were SOLD OUT! The store looked like a Soviet grocery. Nothing on any of the shelves. I crossed the bridge to Newburyport, and the local White Hen Pantry was BULGING with wares. Panic is an awful thing.
We: Bush's fault! Obama will fix it. Why can't we just make him president NOW?
She: I've heard several ...
