The Ponderosa: Benedict Arnold Publisher "Pissed Off" by White House

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Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

--Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Benedict Arnold Publisher "Pissed Off" by White House

Bill Keller "Pissed Off" by "Disgraceful" White House

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"They pissed me off....I think the administration is genuinely distressed [The Ponderosa: A lot of us are distressed at your treason, Mr. Keller. ], that we ran the story over their objections. I think they were embarrassed by it [The Ponderosa: Embarassed? What are you a teenaged girl in a clique? ], by the fact that this most secretive of administrations has so much trouble keeping its secrets.[The Ponderosa: We wish that Keller and his fellow travellers in the MSM were as intent on prosecuting the leakers of this type of info as they were in the Rove -- er, Libby -- er, Armitage case. ] I think they were probably sincere in their anxiety that publicizing this program might jeopardize it. And, you know, that's all fair, but when they stir up a partisan hatefest [The Ponderosa: In a non-Bizarro World, it'd be a bipartisan hatefest. ]and impugn your integrity and patriotism [The Ponderosa: Can't impugn what ain't there. ], that is, to borrow a word from the White House list of talking points, disgraceful."[The Ponderosa: Disgraceful. Describes perfectly this this simpering little coxcombe. We watch with glee the too slow demise of the Times. ]

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Benedict Arnold Publisher "Pissed Off" by White House

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