Texas, as it turns out, is one of the states with the most Norwegian-Americans. This is strange to most Norwegians - they'd be hard pressed to think of any place more unlike Norway than Texas, and a people more unlike Norwegians than Texans. A person more unlike the Norwegian ideal than Karl Rove.
Christopher Hitchens doesn't think that there's much to the Karl Rove scandal. Look, he says, Rove was right in leaking that Wilson was a weenie. And the law that prohibits someone from blowing a CIA operative's cover is silly. The administration had a weak case for going to war, perhaps, but this whole Karl Rove thing is much ado about nothing.
The Bush administration is now spinning the whole matter around criminal culpability. As if the presidential administration owes the public nothing more than staying on the right side of the law.
Everyone knows that Bush without Rove is like, well, the space shuttle without a single computer on board. It's hardly in the public interest to sever the administration's spinal cord. On the other hand, Bush, the Republicans, and Rove himself deserve to be punished severely for their moral decay.
I mean, what the fuck? Blowing the cover of a spy to get back at her husband?
Karl Rove, it should be remembered, is neither elected nor appointed with the approval of Congress. He's a civil servant serving at the pleasure of the president. He did nothing to earn the public trust; it was granted to him at the discretion of president Bush. The president not only has the right but the obligation to fire and disgrace anyone who abuses that privilege. That is, if “honor” means something at all. It doesn't matter whether Wilson was the biggest loser, his wife a third-rate paper pusher, and that Rove broke no law. What Rove did was inexcusable.
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Boy, that's some impressive liberal snivelling. Gonna cry for us too? Why don't you grab your nuts, or a friend's if you don't have any, and realise that bad people want to kill us and mommy can't make it all better with a bowl of granola and a bedtime story. Pussy libs disgust me.
Posted by: Lionballs | July 21, 2005 at 12:17 AM
...."and a people more unlike Norwegians than Texans."
You got that right. Thank God we aren't like Norwegians or we would have surrendered on 9/11 to the Islamofascists. Dhimmitude isn't our style. We also don't find the tolerance of Islamic intolerate a virtue. Norway will be Islamic in a few generations the Muslim birth rate and lack of desire to defend Western culture will take its course. Denigrating Americans who prefer to have a different destiny is a cheap shot.
And there is no scandal regarding Rove. He broke no laws or ethics. He uncovered no CIA agent. Her husband did. You don't seem to know or understand the details.
Also, sweetie, as you seem to have an opinion about Texas, have you ever been to Texas? Lived there? Talked to Texans across a wide spectrum? Have a clue as to American culture outside of Hollywood and European leftist papers?
Just curious.
Penny......a native New Mexican, almost as "notorious" as Texas and proud of it!
Posted by: penny | July 24, 2005 at 06:52 PM
Texans.
I'm a Norwegian who just visited Texas, having a great time. Texans didn't at all act like these warmongering rednecks writing dimwitted comments. The Houston Rodeo was far out by any standards (salute to the troops in Iraq, entering the stadium in a hummer - probably sponsored by the military, though), but most Texans were kind and helpful in every way. Too bad the general European public only get to see the Texan nutcases in the media...
Posted by: Roadkill | July 26, 2005 at 05:39 AM