Maureen Dowd: "Drapes of Wrath"

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Drapes of Wrath
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: November 11, 2006


(Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times)
Maureen Dowd.

The new Democratic sweep conjures up an ancient image: Furies swooping down to punish bullies.

Angry winged goddesses with dog heads, serpent hair and blood eyes, unmoved by tears, prayer, sacrifice or nasty campaign ads, avenging offenses by insolent transgressors.

This will be known as the year macho politics failed — mainly because it was macho politics by marshmallow men. Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability. They were ready to trade in the deadbeat Daddy party for the sheltering Mommy party.

All the conservative sneering about a fem-lib from San Francisco who was measuring the drapes for the speaker’s office didn’t work. Americans wanted new drapes, and an Armani granny with a whip in charge.

A recent study found that the testosterone of American men has been dropping for 20 years, but in Republican Washington, it was running amok, and not in a good way. Men who had refused to go to an untenable war themselves were now refusing to find an end to another untenable war that they had recklessly started....

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/11/11/opinion/11dowd.html?hp

[texpatriot2004]

1. Here's the 1st DU thread on this topic, it's on the greatest pg too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x245405

[MissWaverly]

2. thanks for posting, great article

when I see Nancy Pelosi's calm face, it gives me hope, it is not snarling,
she is not beating her fist on the podium advocating payback, or beating
down anyone who is not in tune with the judgments of those in power.
There is hope for the latinos, the islamic vendors, the librarians,
the traveler, the kids in headstart, there is hope in America at
last. We will no longer be bullied by street thugs who occupy the
highest offices in our government. We will not have our bank accounts
and our e-mails searched w/o warrants because we are democrats and are
therefore the "enemy." It is morning in America, again.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. And some quite fancied young lads.

[williesgirl]

4. K&R

[Joe Chi Minh]

5. Not so much testosterone-driven as Toblerone-driven. Like

Shaw's chocolate soldier. 'Cep he wasn't a chickenhawk. He just realised there were more productive activities than making war.

That is all.