Once, twice, three times a douche-nozzle, the three times winner of the "This Fucking Guy" award has walked her way on the finalist list for the Mount Douchemore.
What has she ever done to criticize with such disdain? I am yet again reminded of the Man in the Arena excerpt from one of Teddy Roosevelt’s speech:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Let’s hope that Harris is sure as shit NOT the second coming of Obama. Let’s trust that she will actually work for the things she promises. Let us HOPE she is not afraid of CHANGE, as Obama proved to be. Let is trust that she’ll be focussed upon working for the country rather than polishing her brand.
They only way to address the tragedy we have now due to one branch of government going full frontal theocratic is to have a TRIFECTA of the Presidency, House and Senate.
President Obama had that less 2 years and managed to get the ACA (Obamacare) through. After that, he was held in a box by the Republican House and had his SCOTUS pick unconstitutionally stolen by the Republican Senate.
We elected a Black man TWICE because there are more of us who believe in progress than there are of the up-in-our-crotches types on the other side but, the permission that the Republicans gave themselves to openly falsify news, hack e-mails and descend into school yard bullying was achieved without a revolution only because creepy racists and sexists came out of the woodwork to target our President over his skin tone and his potential successor over her gender. They were enabled to do this by tens of millions of Americans who let it go on without revoking their votes.
We need Constitutional reforms to give every American one vote in choosing the President. That’s will more appropriately align the balance of power. Rural people’s structural overrepresentation in both the Senate and the Electoral College is the root, not Obama’s lack of commitment to important causes and ideas that he has consistently promoted throughout his career an up to the present day.
I'm sorry. I realize I wasn't clear. Obama "lost" the House because Democrats used to sit out the midterms and in 2010, the MSM covered the Tea Party as a ground swell.
The Tea Party is funded by billionaires. If reporters had followed the money, the bs that average Americans were building this from the ground up would have been exposed.
AND (and this one still pisses me off) if MSM has explained that the IRS was not targeting conservatives as much as they were looking for scammers, a lot of voters might not have fallen for it.
I think you have to leave the Senate alone but certainly the Electoral College has proven itself useless.
I was a subscriber to the WaPo for over 40 years (I dropped it in 2021 after January 6th) and I can say that Kathleen Parker was an idiot as long as I read the paper.
Unless someone can find her claiming Obama would be the first black president in print before 2007, I'm calling that a lie.
Sixteen years later, she can claim to be an Obama fan. That was not my memory.
Misogyny 102: are either too ugly to be leaders, change their hair too much, aren’t fashionable enough or - the new one - are too good looking to be leaders.
"Trump circles the barn so many times, I can collect eggs from the henhouse and water the horses before he gets to it" The constant cliches in her piece is as annoying as she is. There is nothing of substance in her column. All sour grapes from an obviously frustrated hag. 🙄
So , I wonder, what’s behind these swipes at KH/TW? I guess Parker only knows but it seems she and many of her colleagues at WaPo and NYT have gone down the same path. Is it because Harris has ignored them (for good reason) and their collective egos feel slighted? KH can reach out to them when SHE wants and on HER terms. Maybe if they say “pretty please”. But I don’t think they know what those words mean and how to use them.
In Parker's case, I'm going to guess that along side, Harris is younger, smarter and vice president, Harris made Kavanaugh cry during his confirmation.
And Parker created an imaginary doppelganger to explain away the rape accusation.
And I’m so over Maureen Dowd. I kicked the Times to the curb 6 months ago. I hated their insipid obsessions and the annoying superiority of so many of their readers.
She is, as you are kind enough not to point out, an incredibly bad writer. Overused tropes. Silly jokey lines. Dull style. I see WaPo going onto my list of discarded sources when my subscription runs.
“near death experience”? Exaggerate much?
Yeah, and Kathleen Parker is NOT one of the writers I miss since I booted the Post in May.
Cee U Next Thursday, Kathleen.
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What has she ever done to criticize with such disdain? I am yet again reminded of the Man in the Arena excerpt from one of Teddy Roosevelt’s speech:
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Just more conservative flailing. Nothing to see here. Go back to your homes.
Kathleen Parker is so unremarkable.
The ultimate slam!
Let’s hope that Harris is sure as shit NOT the second coming of Obama. Let’s trust that she will actually work for the things she promises. Let us HOPE she is not afraid of CHANGE, as Obama proved to be. Let is trust that she’ll be focussed upon working for the country rather than polishing her brand.
Obama had to get things done while not spooking half the country.
Do you forget that he lost the House in 2010?
I'm pissed off at him at this moment because I think he could have gotten more done if had dumped Axelrod and listened to Biden, but that's hindsight.
(Note to Democratic leadership -- ignoring Axelrod is our best bet going forward.)
But we are able to talk about a Black president because Barack Obama made it not scary.
They only way to address the tragedy we have now due to one branch of government going full frontal theocratic is to have a TRIFECTA of the Presidency, House and Senate.
President Obama had that less 2 years and managed to get the ACA (Obamacare) through. After that, he was held in a box by the Republican House and had his SCOTUS pick unconstitutionally stolen by the Republican Senate.
We elected a Black man TWICE because there are more of us who believe in progress than there are of the up-in-our-crotches types on the other side but, the permission that the Republicans gave themselves to openly falsify news, hack e-mails and descend into school yard bullying was achieved without a revolution only because creepy racists and sexists came out of the woodwork to target our President over his skin tone and his potential successor over her gender. They were enabled to do this by tens of millions of Americans who let it go on without revoking their votes.
We need Constitutional reforms to give every American one vote in choosing the President. That’s will more appropriately align the balance of power. Rural people’s structural overrepresentation in both the Senate and the Electoral College is the root, not Obama’s lack of commitment to important causes and ideas that he has consistently promoted throughout his career an up to the present day.
I'm sorry. I realize I wasn't clear. Obama "lost" the House because Democrats used to sit out the midterms and in 2010, the MSM covered the Tea Party as a ground swell.
The Tea Party is funded by billionaires. If reporters had followed the money, the bs that average Americans were building this from the ground up would have been exposed.
AND (and this one still pisses me off) if MSM has explained that the IRS was not targeting conservatives as much as they were looking for scammers, a lot of voters might not have fallen for it.
I think you have to leave the Senate alone but certainly the Electoral College has proven itself useless.
I was a subscriber to the WaPo for over 40 years (I dropped it in 2021 after January 6th) and I can say that Kathleen Parker was an idiot as long as I read the paper.
Unless someone can find her claiming Obama would be the first black president in print before 2007, I'm calling that a lie.
Sixteen years later, she can claim to be an Obama fan. That was not my memory.
Parker has vagina envy.
Misogyny 102: are either too ugly to be leaders, change their hair too much, aren’t fashionable enough or - the new one - are too good looking to be leaders.
"Trump circles the barn so many times, I can collect eggs from the henhouse and water the horses before he gets to it" The constant cliches in her piece is as annoying as she is. There is nothing of substance in her column. All sour grapes from an obviously frustrated hag. 🙄
I think she’s a harridan, Susan!
Harridan. Such a great word.
OOooooohhhh.... A great word! Thanks!
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
"All you have to do is imagine her spoken words coming from a less-attractive package"
If you're having trouble visualizing this, just listen to Parker read one of her columns.
Meow, beyotch.
So , I wonder, what’s behind these swipes at KH/TW? I guess Parker only knows but it seems she and many of her colleagues at WaPo and NYT have gone down the same path. Is it because Harris has ignored them (for good reason) and their collective egos feel slighted? KH can reach out to them when SHE wants and on HER terms. Maybe if they say “pretty please”. But I don’t think they know what those words mean and how to use them.
In Parker's case, I'm going to guess that along side, Harris is younger, smarter and vice president, Harris made Kavanaugh cry during his confirmation.
And Parker created an imaginary doppelganger to explain away the rape accusation.
🙄
She’s a bad attempt at a low-rent Maureen Dowd.
Thats a great comparison.
And I’m so over Maureen Dowd. I kicked the Times to the curb 6 months ago. I hated their insipid obsessions and the annoying superiority of so many of their readers.
Lordy, I am so sad I didn't make that quip. Perfection!
Please feel free to use it 😀
She is, as you are kind enough not to point out, an incredibly bad writer. Overused tropes. Silly jokey lines. Dull style. I see WaPo going onto my list of discarded sources when my subscription runs.