JANUARY
22, 2006 --
New
York Times columnist Maureen Dowd compared "24's Jack
Bauer to Republicans, January 18 and, January 21, hoped that
Vice President Cheney was not ogling her googling.
LPR's "back room" showed a google search under "maureen down
jack bauer republican."
As of this writing there are some 12,000 entries under this Google search and
LPR is number 7 on the list. This is to assure Ms. Dowd that LPR did not originate
this search and is not part of a campaign to ogle her googling.
"Lacerating"?
In her January 21 column, Ms. Dowd refers to the vice president as Torquemada.
LPR has another hunch -- a variation on Rev. Norman Vincent Peale's, "The
Power of Positive Thinking," -- perhaps there is power in positive communication.
This notion occurred to LPR before Karl Rove called for more political civility,
speaking to the Republican National Committee, January 20.
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The New York
Times story, January 21, reported that Mr. Rove went on give "a
lacerating attack on Democrats," criticizing Democrats for
being against tax cuts, the Alito nomination the the Supreme Court
and their positions challenging Administration policy on warrant-less
wiretaps, and Iraq.
The Times also quoted Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican
National Committee: "Public
service is a sacred trust and we cannot allow it to be sullied by anyone, Republican
or Democrat."
Allowing for the likelihood that "anyone" is a category broader
than Republicans
and Democrats, LPR would wish Mr. Mehlman cite Federalist 57 as a Founding
source for the notion that public service is a public trust.
What better indication of the sincerity of reform than reference to the people
who gave us our legacy of liberty?
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