There's a new book at B&N, "Bushwhacked - Life in the America of George W. Bush", by Molly Ivins, the author of "Shrub - The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush". Molly, a graduate of Smith and Columbia and a three-time Pulitzer nominee, wanted to call the book, "If You'd Read Our First Book, We Wouldn't Have Had To Write This One", but the publishers talked her out of it. I have started it, and it details more moments of fun and frivolity in the life of our esteemed leader, and is again co-authored by Dubose.

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Molly's saving grace is that she's NOT Hilary. But then, neither are you, Dub.

Molly Ivins is a steaming pile of dung.

Molly Ivins is a better writer than Al Franken.

Molly Ivins stories make good kitty litter when shredded.

Of the limited number of writers that our state has produced, four are by far the most entertaining: Larry McMurtry, Dan Jenkins, Lynn Ashby, and Molly Ivins. I can understand that devotees of GeeDubya can't get past the content to appreciate the wit and style of Miss Molly, but they are truly missing a local treat.

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There's no doubt that she is a very witty liberal, and a good writer.

Dub, Jenkins is my hero. Bud Shrake has some strong liberal ties. You remember Billy Lee Brammer?

And I'd like to take this opportunity to say RIP, George Plimpton, a non Texan, good writer, huge sports fan and outstanding long time editor of The Paris Review.

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I hope you were given a copy of that book and did not spend your hard earned money on it. Molly is so far left and so irrelevant, I am afraid there may only be two of three out beyond her. I always chuckle at her inability to think past her nose as it is pointed so far up in the air that clouds are all she understands. That might explain her airhead solutions to everything she sees. Her ideals of liberal superiority really are really funny, but they are most unbecoming of a grand dame of Texas. As research and facts are not Molly's strongest suits, just about all of her books are co.- or tri.- authored by others trying to make sense of her tomes. Steve Fantina recognizes her along with Sidney Blumental as bastions of liberal idiocy. Even folks in Houston recognize her incompetence. Of course, she does base out of Ft. Worth so that may explain it.

BTHOtt Gig 'em.

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Yes, she is of the bang-you-over-the-head-with-my-Smith-and-Columbia-eastern-wit-that-most-Texans-are-too-ignorant-to-understand-but-I'm-out-here-in-the-hinterlands-pluggin'-away school of thought.

Molly Ivins is an idiot. I didn't know she was allegedly educated at Columbia, but it doesn't surprise me. I've had occasion to do a personnel review of a Columbia (honors) graduate, Art History or the like. She was a PC fool as well that couldn't cut it in the real world. I wouldn't generalize to every Columbia graduate, of course, but find it interesting that such boobish incompetence is linked by an alma mater.

Mikey - The corporate powers of our great state have banned her blasphemous, seditious writings from its two main newspapers, the Houston Comical and the Dallas Morning Republican News, but her columns can be found in some of the underground pinko communist liberal rags of Waco, Ft. Worth, and Austin. Worldwide, over 300 newspapers carry them to our enemies. The HC and the DMRN do provide us with the fair and balanced viewpoints of Michelle Malkin however, so not all is lost.

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Molly:


Michelle:


'nuff said

Mike, thanks for that hideous picture of the joker. That is horrifying. Nasty old hag.

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she is of the bang-you-over-the-head-with-my-Smith-and-Columbia-eastern-wit-that-most-Texans-are-too-ignorant-to-understand...

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Where was dubya educated at again? Can somebody please tell me which region of the US that school is located?

Molly belongs to Dub's generation, Michelle to ours.

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BQ -- we all know dubya went to Yale and Harvard. It's the attitude not the education.

I attended schools in Waco, Austin and Houston. I was educated by reading books.

Smith is in Massachusetts and Columbia is in NYC.

Michelle has the wit, analytical ability, and humor of a ball peen hammer, but at least she's conservative.

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I enjoyed some of her early books. After she started hitting the bottle pretty hard, her writing got pretty bad.

My friends refer to Ivins as Jabba The Liberal.

We get her stupid column in our paper here in Amarillo. Maybe her books are different, but her columns are so full of pinko-commie bull**** that they are unreadable. She loves trashing Bush's intelligence, but he has a way more impressive academic resume than she does.

That picture of her makes me want to

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Not exactly bastions of conservative thinking, especially the latter.

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Another photo of her highness:

A father of modern conservatism was the intellectual giant, William F. Buckley, a Yalie, one of my favorite political writers and speakers and the consummate debater of our time. He stood alone in the academic, intellectual, and journalistic communities as a voice for conservatism for years before Goldwater and others began implementing his views. I'm sure he is proud of the current heirs to his efforts.

The Eastern Schools have also produced Bill & Hilary, Shrub, Algore, #41, both Roosevelts, Ike, and all the Kennedy's. Truman didn't go to college, and the products of non-Eastern education include Reagan, Nixon and Lyndon Johnson. President-wise, it's a mixed bag either way.

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AmarilloSkim - You lost all credibility with this:

She (Molly Ivins) loves trashing Bush's intelligence, but he has a way more impressive academic resume than she does.



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Molly's critical thinking goes something like this: analyze all the various ways one might view an issue; determine the most liberal possible view; then take a position slightly to the left of that and try to make a joke of all other opinions.

Some liberal pundits have good points, just not this one.

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There's a new book at B&N, "Bushwhacked - Life in the America of George W. Bush",

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Could someone tell me, seriously, how bad their life has become in "Bush's America"???

Look, I'm not saying I'm thrilled with everything Bush and R's have done. I'm not. But listening to the loony left you'd think we resurrected Stalin, that millions of American citizens were being taking away during the night and we were eating dust ala Great Depression.

If GeeDubya's polls turn, sucked down by the quagmires of the Middle East and the world economy, I wonder if the R's will follow the suicidal example of the D's in fawning over a leader from their extreme wing or try to move to the middle.

The parties seem to be polarizing more and more, with little or no consensus since the early nineties.





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Urban - Some pundit said that a recession was when your neighbor lost his job and a depression was when you did. Consider that most in my generation have lost huge amounts in the last two and one half years in their savings and retirement plans and that true unemployment and underemployment is worse than it was prior to GeeDubya's election. Then consider that he will win or lose on the middle ten percent of the electorate. He lost the popular vote by 500,000 last time. Good things that can happen for him are:

A turnaround in the economy and a real increase in the number and quality of jobs.

A turnaround in the situation in the Mid-East.

Another terrorist attack on America.

A war.

Barring one or more of those happening, the D's can win if they avoid their extreme wing. Something needs to happen. He's in trouble right now.

And yes, I and most people I know are in significantly worse economic shape than we were two and one half years ago, as are the cities, states, and the federal budget.

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AmarilloSkim - You lost all credibility with this:

She (Molly Ivins) loves trashing Bush's intelligence, but he has a way more impressive academic resume than she does.

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I guess this was directed at me. Let's compare the 2 shall we?

Molly Ivins - BA Smith College
- MJ Columbia
- studied a year at the Institute of Political Science in Paris (figures)

George W. Bush - BBA Yale
- MBA Harvard

Tell me which resume is more impressive.


Some people love to downplay Bush's intelligence, but the funny thing is, he is smarter than 98% of the people who do so including Molly Ivins. Good news though guys, Molly Ivins is banned from the A&M campus, so we never have to worry about her fat, alcohol-saturated ass blocking the view when we return for a visit.

Do you know anything about economics LonghornDub? The current recession has to do with 9/11, the bursting of the .com bubble, and CLINTON. The economic downturn started before Bush ever reached office. The sad thing is, many people who know nothing about economics are going to associate the tax cut with making the situation worse when if fact it was the right thing to do. Putting money back in the hands of the consumer coupled with slightly increased government spending will bring us out of this mess.

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Dub, Lynn Ashby was one of the fathers of my Indian Guides troop (which was the subject of many of his columns). That man knows one hell of a lot of Texas history, and he is a very entertaining storyteller. Many a van trip to Rockport was shortened by listening to him tell stories of the Alamo, San Jacinto, etc.

Can't wait for Molly's next book entitled "Secret Love Affair With Ann Richards...My Years Inside Her Briefs"

Amarillo - The electorate has very short memories and will consider the President responsible for the situation after four years in office. Fairly or not, the sign Harry Truman had on his desk still applies, "The Buck Stops Here".

Especially in election year.

GWB was admitted to Yale to the surprise of his advisor at his eastern prep school, who was familiar with his grades and convinced him to complete his application to UT as a backup even though his credentials as a legacy were impeccable. His grades at Yale were admittedly abysmal even as a history major but the Ivy League schools graduate virtually everyone who attend their classes. After intermittent attempts at jobs provided by family friends, he applied to UT Law School during the Viet Nam War when admission was much easier than now, and was turned down. Afterward, he was admitted to the Harvard MBA program, still at a time when grad schools were begging for admissions, and was admitted.

The above information is available in the book, "George and Laura", at B&N. It is a generally sympathetic book about both of them and their families.

I have no direct knowledge of Molly Ivins' grades, but consider that she certainly did not have the kind of clout to be admitted on the basis that George was to both undergrad and graduate selective eastern schools, and she was employed by the New York Times, the most effete and elite of journalistic employers around, implying significant academic accomplishment as a student.

And you were saying?

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Invictus - The Indian Guides were certainly a frequent topic of Lynn's columns in the Houston Post. I, too, was an Indian Guides and Princesses leader in my turn. He was the only Texas columnist (non-sports) to equal Molly's ability, and he was a centrist. His frequently written contempt for the Houston Chronicle probably prevented his reemployment after the demise of the Post. He currently writes a column for a little weekly insert in the local suburban papers that are delivered free here on Wednesdays.

BTW, the Indian Guides programs of the Y are under fire by the PC crowd of some Indian tribes. It never ends.

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