DOWD: Mitt, aren’t you capable of better wit?
Mitt was a prankster in school and stone sober.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times Syndicate
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DOWD: Gingrich’s long list of exploding cigars
Maybe the ideal man to fix Washington’s dysfunction is the one who made it dysfunctional.
DOWD: Our choice—blockheads or the egghead
At the cusp of the 2012 race, we have a classic cultural collision between a skinny Eastern egghead lawyer who’s inept in Washington gunfights and a pistol-totin’, lethal-injectin’, square-shouldered cowboy who has no patience for book learnin’.
DOWD: Obama presidency might be one and done
The days of spinning illusions in a Greek temple in a football stadium are done.
DOWD: A tough judge shames Clemens’ lawyers
It was such a chuckleheaded move that no one was sure whether the prosecutors had forgotten the judge’s ruling or were trying to sneak the testimony through a back door.
DOWD: Sing out, Hillary, about rights of Saudi women
It would have been thrilling if Hillary 2011 had simply channeled Hillary 1995, when, as first lady, she made her bodacious speech in Beijing, declaring that “women’s rights are human rights.”
DOWD: More camels’ noses getting under the wheel
The prince made a point of hiring a woman, born in the holy city of Mecca, and training her to be the pilot of his private jet.
DOWD: No halo for scandal-plagued John Paul II
Not beatifying or canonizing John Paul would be hugely symbolic, a message far more powerful than the ad hoc apologies and payoffs to victims.
DOWD: Ayn Rand won’t go away and leave us alone
Rand is blazing back as an icon of the Tea Party, which overlooks her atheism, amorality in romance and vigorous support for abortion.
DOWD: Republican Party gone the way of Mad Men
When Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor and Republican presidential aspirant, dared to urge his party to “mute” social issues, he was smacked.
DOWD: Governor Brown redux … the iceman melteth
The shock of dark hair is gone, but Jerry Brown is still Jerry Brown. The prickliness, bluntness, questioning, calculating. That against-the-grain attitude; disdain for materialism, emptiness and politics as usual; that Jesuit-Buddhist outlook.
DOWD: Afghanistan plays worth a bottle of whiskey
“The question is,” says an American staff officer in the play, “are we on our ninth year in Afghanistan, or are we on our first year for the ninth time?”
DOWD: Are we ready for a gay commander in chief?
Former President Jimmy Carter is putting the out in outspokenness.
DOWD: Bush, Cheney, the way they were
Together again were the president and vice president who invaded, deregulated, overspent, created a climate of fear, and intensified the class divide with tax cuts.