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To: LindyBill who wrote (9955)	9/30/2003 12:25:03 AM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

" Is Brook's quote from Chait reflect how you think? " This guy sounds like someone ready to either raise the white flag or go home crying to his mommy..boo hooo.. Those bad Democrats are starting to act like us during the Clinton years.... THAT'S NOT FAIR!!! THAT'S NOT FAIR!!! THAT'S NOT FAIR!!! Whaaaa Whaaaaaa Whaaaaaa........ I always knew the Republicans can dish it out,but I didn't know how little they could take when the going gets rough. PS: We have not yet begun to fight! WC......heh heh

To: LindyBill who wrote (9955)	9/30/2003 9:46:56 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793622

The problem with Brooks' column this morning is twofold. First, as he acknowledges, he doesn't take proper account of his own lack of commentary on this phenomenon when Clinton was president. But since he acknowledges that, it's not too serious. But the second problem is that because he doesn't take account of the right wing attack dogs, he misses the full extent of the problem. And, in my view, the worst manifestations. That is, in the right wing stuff there is, most wickedly manifest in Coulter, the notion that political opponents are not quite human, or the other side of some duality, rather than folk who hold different views of how politics should be organized. I think a good deal of Brooks' complaint is hollow, as well. Most of the criticisms of Bush are standard issue political criticisms of any president. What Brooks has done is try to take the most extreme examples and paint every one else in those colors.