In the interest of good-neighborliness, this post has been removed by the administrator, who has learned several good lessons from it:
1) Do not post remnants of a conversation without permission from the other party
2) Be sensitive to the fact that, although you are definitely not playing the other party for laughs (rather, playing “New Yorkese” for laughs) what you write can be misconstrued in such a way as to hurt the other party’s feelings - which was never the intention
3) Make a sincere and public apology to said party (I am truly sorry; I never like to hurt anyone’s feelings) and promise baked goods.
I’ll be more mindful in the future.
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:15 pm
[...] The Anchoress reports on a conversation with a democratic friend [...]
December 23rd, 2005 at 1:16 pm
She has a nice mouth! I’ll bet she would say, “Balls, said the queen. If I had two I’d be king!” LOL But it is good to see some in NY have their eyes open and if they do in NY they do in other blue states as well.
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:46 pm
Wow, you NYers’ are suuuure something else. Where was it that i read *the senate has only two balls left- and they’re both attached to Joe Lieberman*?
What a great guy! I liked him when he ran before.
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People aren’t stupid, and I can be called a Bush whore forever and not change how I feel about our President. He may not be perfect, but he is sincere.
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:47 pm
Maybe the MSM and the Dems should just stick with their current plan then? The Democrats and the press chose the “Left” page long ago. The only way they will get the message that America disagrees is for them to lose all future elections. It’s hard work, but we’re up to the task!
December 23rd, 2005 at 2:58 pm
You need to get your neigbor to blog.
That said, she’s pretty much on the money, all the way around. It is about balls and getting the job done, not about ‘getting’ the president and distancing the country from the reality of 9/11 and what that really meant- as if wishing it so would make that day and go away, so that we woudn’t have to deal with our new reality.
As usual, great post.
December 23rd, 2005 at 4:28 pm
[...] The Anchoress has a pretty interesting conversation with the kind of Democrat I might have been, if I hadn’t cut my political teeth on September 11th. Congrats, Dems! You scared me off pretty early in the game because I wasn’t yet old enough to have gotten stuck in my liberal ways. I did, shamefully, lean left once upon a time in my late teens and early twenties. Ah, youth! (Not that I’m that much older now. 28, if you wondered.) [...]
December 23rd, 2005 at 5:04 pm
Wow! What a transformation for your neighbor! That’s my fervent hope, is that more and more people who actually are THINKING about these issues will, “wake up,” as your neighbor did!
December 23rd, 2005 at 6:44 pm
E-e-e-e-e-excellent!
I repeat:
E-e-e-e-e-excellent!
December 24th, 2005 at 4:34 am
Yep, I agree with the neighbor lady. There are times I feel like I’m living in a Bizarro world where eunuchs are praised as potent.
December 24th, 2005 at 10:57 am
Anybody can repent. If you have some time, and willingness to have your prejudices challenged rather than just confirmed, you might take a look here:
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http://www.republicansforhumility.com/
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I can’t say anything one way or another about Dr. William Frey’s balls. After all, real men keep them inside their pants in public. But I have no hesitation in affirming the existence and the quality of his brains.
-Someone once told me of a remark made to him by a Marine Corps Colonel, “All Marines are tough, son, but some of them are smart and tough. That’s what you ought to be.”
-Let’s all hope that in the future more of us can clear so high a bar.
December 24th, 2005 at 12:21 pm
from Barron’s, mind you, on FISA
Impeachment
“Surely the “strict constructionists” on the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary eventually will point out what a stretch this is. The most important presidential responsibility under Article II is that he must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” That includes following the requirements of laws that limit executive power. There’s not much fidelity in an executive who debates and lobbies Congress to shape a law to his liking and then goes beyond its writ.
Willful disregard of a law is potentially an impeachable offense. It is at least as impeachable as having a sexual escapade under the Oval Office desk and lying about it later. The members of the House Judiciary Committee who staged the impeachment of President Clinton ought to be as outraged at this situation. They ought to investigate it, consider it carefully and report either a bill that would change the wiretap laws to suit the president or a bill of impeachment.
It is important to be clear that an impeachment case, if it comes to that, would not be about wiretapping, or about a possible Constitutional right not to be wiretapped. It would be about the power of Congress to set wiretapping rules by law, and it is about the obligation of the president to follow the rules in the Acts that he and his predecessors signed into law.
December 24th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
That’s right! Stick with the meme…So far, the choir is convined…
A Merry Christmas to all, regardless! Even those that think “Adeste Fidelis” has something to do with Castro.
December 26th, 2005 at 12:00 am
Can I invite your neighbor for a nice, fun-filled Texas BBQ? She looks like she would like one of those!
December 26th, 2005 at 4:52 pm
She is on the way to freedom. Your conversation with your neighbor friend sounds like my journey to the GOP. It started on one gloomy day in 1986It was while I was watching C-Span that I understood the Democrats had only one thing on their mind: to impeach Ronald Reagan. I had never voted for him but I agreed with his decision on the Contras and was aghast that the Democrat senators had their knives out for him. I understood then, the my party was no longer deserving my support, or vote.
December 27th, 2005 at 3:10 pm
Oh-oh, your neighbor’s in trouble. She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s turned into a neo-neocon :-).
Interesting indeed. I find that I, too, am very angry about these latest leaks. It is quite apparent that the MSM and the Democrats have lost sight of the whole concept of protecting ourselves. The radiation monitoring story was in an especially egregious example of this kind of thing.
I’m glad your neighbor is angry. I only hope she’s representative of a larger group similarly incensed.
December 27th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
Sounds like you found a new friend! (Or at least a source for more fabulous material like this.) There’s a truly unpredictable element out there - and this woman is just one example - who are going to make 2008 very interesting. As another example, a caller to the local conservative talk show here in Boston a few weeks ago went on and on about how she was a ‘conservative’ and voted for Bush and supported the war on terror, but that she’d vote for Hillary in a second simply because she is a woman.
December 27th, 2005 at 7:06 pm
> You need to get your neigbor to blog.
Yeah, I could tolerate listening to her as a Leftie…
I might not agree, but I’d sure as hell respect the opinions, something that most of The Left can’t manage.
December 27th, 2005 at 7:17 pm
P.S., this is rather entirely too detailed for straight recollection… how much is close to “verbatim” and how much is your own reconstruction?
December 27th, 2005 at 8:29 pm
I never said any of it was verbatim - this is essentially what she said, as she said it - as I noted, I was paraphrasing - but she basically said all of it, one way or the other, particularly the “balls” remarks, which had me almost choking to death to keep from laughing. And yes, she loooooves Condi.
December 28th, 2005 at 10:26 am
[...] I was just pointed to The Anchoress’ latest post about both sides of the Congressional aisle. What a refreshing commentary by her neighbor! I sighed about some of the pathos she describes, and I howled about some of the pithy commentary she made: You people were idiots to get rid of Trent Lott. I mean, his hair was obnoxious, but at least he had balls. This man, Frist, he must take his balls off when he walks into the Senate and leave them in the cloakroom next to Teddy’s flask, or somethin’, because he sure as hell doesn’t bring them into the chambers with him… [...]
December 28th, 2005 at 6:52 pm
I took a “look at” the republicansfor humility.com website and all I can say is,”Oy vey”! It’s not a very convincing arguement.