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[Norquist Nemesis]

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August 31, 2004
LAURA BUSH SPEECH, 10:53 P.M.: One of many questions regarding Laura Bush's speech: What did you mean, Mrs. Bush, when you said of your husband, "His friends don't change"? With such repressive autocrats as Islam Karimov and Vladimir Putin among the president's close comrades, you might think that he'd want them to change -- encouraging democracy and all, you know.
--Jeffrey Dubner

Posted by mgoldberg at 10:55 PM
LAURA BUSH'S SPEECH, NBC, 10:49 P.M.: The Bushes just love celebrating large-scale voter fraud. For the second time in a day we hear a member of the first couple celebrating the registration of over 10 million Afghans to vote in a country of 9.8 million eligible voters. Take it away, Matt.
--Sam Rosenfeld

Posted by srosenfeld at 10:53 PM
CNN, 10:29 P.M.: You heard it here first: Jenna and Barbara Bush just lost the election.
--Jeffrey Dubner

UPDATE: Conservatives and liberals agree: "The girls must go"!

Posted by mgoldberg at 10:31 PM
BUSH TWINS SPEECH, 10:26 P.M.: Welcome to the Sweet Valley High Republican National Convention. Jenna and Barbara Bush took to the podium this evening and confirmed that, yes, they are too ditzy and inarticulate to help their dad on the trail. The twins managed to systematically embarrass each and every important member of the Bush team with their DOA jokes. No one, from Andy Card to Karen Hughes, was spared. The girls ragged on their “Gammy” Barbara Bush for being a prudish, un-hip, old lady who doesn’t appreciate Sex and the City. “You’re just not cool,” they giggled. Gammy wasn’t laughing. Neither was Dick Cheney. And neither was I.
Did anybody vet these girls? Karen Hughes told Larry King that she had worked on Laura Bush’s speech. Did she even glance at the girls’ prepared text? Was there one?

Even the folks over at the Corner were cringing. When that happens, you know it’s bad.

--Ayelish McGarvey

Posted by amcgarvey at 10:26 PM
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER SPEECH, 10:03 P.M.: The negativity has really gotten out of control. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a speech billed as capturing the American dream, attacks the Democrats in his second sentence. This after the much-heralded Michael Steele speech in which the audience chanted "but not John Kerry" along with Steele. (And this after Rudy Giuliani's speech, which included five separate moments of crowd jeers, and this after ... ) Call me naive, but I'm still amazed that the RNC sent people out to decry the Democratic National Convention's "overblown, negative rhetoric" knowing what was in store at their tactful, optimistic love-in.
--Jeffrey Dubner

Posted by mgoldberg at 10:17 PM