The American Spectator : Where the Girls Are

Where the Girls Are

By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. on 10.29.09 @ 6:08AM

WASHINGTON -- These are vexed times. The country is at war on two fronts. Rogue states are edging towards acquiring strategic nuclear weaponry. We have been through a very serious recession from which we may not emerge into the bright morn of economic health for years. The dollar is frail. The future of national healthcare, finance, and corporate governance is in doubt. Yet that is not all. Over at the New York Times an issue that continues to torment the bien pensants is.... Well, let me quote the first sentence of a front-page tocsin that began the controversy on October 25: "Does the White House feel like a frat house?"

The proximate cause for this troubling query was that President Barack Obama had hosted "a high-level basketball game with no female players." Yet there was more. Apparently, there are anonymous women on the White House staff who feel uncomfortable in the presence of the President and his male associates even when they are fully dressed and not playing basketball. Reports the Times: "In interviews, five women who work in the White House or advised officials there described the culture with more of a collective eye-roll than any real sense of grievance or discomfort." The sentence is contradictory. The ladies collectively roll their eyes. Yet they have no grievance or discomfort? Are they having trouble with their contact lenses? What precisely is the problem?

One of the ladies, though still anonymous, gave a hint. Without wanting to sound "publicly critical" of the Obama White House, she confided to the Times' reporter that the "'sports-fan thing at the White House' could become 'annoying' and that her relative indifference to athletics could be mildly alienating." The Times elaborates, "sports bonding can afford a point of entree with the boss."

Would it have helped if the President had invited this troubled woman to play basketball? He is 6'2" and presumably those who play with him are of above-average size. What are they to do with an average-size woman on the court? Or is she quite large? Nonetheless Obama's basketball players must be pretty strong -- at least as compared to women. Yet maybe the eye-rolling women are pretty strong too, but as strong as these men? Is that likely? I know that men and women are equal (which to feminists means identical), but are women equal to men on the basketball court? Why are none of our female college basketball players playing in the NBA? Oh yes, and how did talking sports with colleagues become controversial and exclusionary? I thought there were a lot of women in the country interested in sports.

Subsequently Times columnist Maureen Dowd has attempted to explain the troubling atmosphere in the Obama White House. "Men have always craved private realms -- the golf club, men's club, garage, workshop, shed; a place to get away from the chatter and clatter of women and kids," writes Dowd, who has never been married and has no children. In fact, in an embarrassing book she has lamented over how difficult she has found it to be in close contact with men. Yet on she goes about men, explaining that Obama may need "a testosterone break from his estrogen nest," though testosterone does not break and estrogen does not nest. Temporarily off the topic of the Obama frat house, she then lets fall that President George H. W. Bush -- she calls him "Poppy" -- "liked racy humor." That is news to many of us who knew him pretty well. Moreover, "So male advisers bonded with him by telling dirty jokes" -- well, he had a lot of advisers. Some might have, but Dowd offers no evidence of dirty jokes.

Now if there is a serious point being made here amid all this girlish petulance it is that some of these White House women want to gain more influence in the White House by playing the gender card. In a party that has fragmentized itself with identity politics there is the gender card to play and the race card and who knows how many other divisive cards?

So what is Dowd up to? Aside from revealing once again why she has so much difficulty getting a boyfriend, she reveals that she wants to play Scrabble with the President. In her stupendously undignified column she admits it. Her colleague Tom Friedman was invited to play golf with the President in September. Now, she writes, "Since the President is finally willing to let women in on the games, I offered [?] up my own challenge, Scrabble." Whereupon she makes some gender related jokes about words that start with X and Y to challenge "the smarty-pants Y chief executive."

Sometimes one reads about the controversies such women have over the men around them, and one remembers how happy one was to get out of high school all those years ago.

Letter to the Editor

topics:
New York Times, Feminism, Maureen Dowd

drudge ette obama| 10.29.09 @ 6:25AM

Cognitive dissonance is what ails Maureen Dowd. She can't accept Obama is a male chauvinist pig and a sexist, too. Not her guy. She knows she can't win on this one, so she suggests Scrabble because she can compete there. Her article is really her way of begging for his attention by accusing him in an offhand manner of being sexist. She knows (or thinks) that this will challenge his liberal inclinations and he will respond positively to him, but may I remind Maureen Dowd that progressive socialists are historically men and have little use for women, ultimately.

Here are the facts: Obama never ran on a gender equality ticket. Obama is very paternalistic, probably stemming from his cultural background.
Obama is not the NOW president.

And here is the lesson for Maureen Dowd: if she didn't always look at the world through her biased made-up eyes and if she garnered the natural respect of people, including men, then she would be invited to play and wouldn't blame her lack of access on her size or boredom with sports or her inability to play an athletic game.

As far as why she has no love in her life, I don't know. I can guess that the answer lies in that people desire peace and normalcy at home after spending the days working with people like Maureen Dowd. Why the hell would you bring the fox into the hen house?

Ron Cole| 10.30.09 @ 11:04PM

Normally I cherish lovely redheads.
This one ain't normal.

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Appleby| 10.29.09 @ 7:11AM

Ms. Dowd needs to read The Greening of America, a pitifully worshipful book about Obama Types he called TheKids. What the men of the Revolution envision Chicks in the order of things is nekkid and supine, giving it up for all the guys. A behaviour that, in simpler days, they used to refer to as Balling Chicks.

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Anyone who has lived through the Original Sixties knows the pattern. Ms. Dows needs to study up.

sestamibi| 10.29.09 @ 2:45PM

Yes indeed. Maybe an urban legend, but if I recall correctly, Stokely Carmichael (later known as Sekou Toure) of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, upon being asked what the appropriate position of women in the civil rights movement should be, responded "prone".

J Stuart| 10.29.09 @ 4:17PM

The cow dowd will live out her elder years, coming very soon, as an angry cast off in the new multicultural Amerika that will have no further use for the useful idiots of the past. Maybe she can swing some ghetto dates since she is getting rather chunky and that doesn't matter much there. It's tough being an angry fat white chick.

LaneyB| 10.29.09 @ 7:38AM

Dowd is emblematic of the depths to which The NYT has fallen. That anyone with an IQ over that of a mature radish reads her is astonishing, or for that matter, bothers to comment on her childishness for any reason other than to illuminate how a once-great newspaper has descended into irrelevance is baffling.

Nick| 10.29.09 @ 12:54PM

I disagree.

The New York Slimes has always been a democrat rag.

Ned| 10.29.09 @ 8:11AM

Maybe they could invite some women reporters to play "Spin the Bottle." I bet President Clinton would have gone for that.

Roark| 10.29.09 @ 3:47PM

Sadly a game of spin the bottle with reporters would be most unsatsifying considering that OCarter would undoubtedly exclude the reporters that grace the Fox News Channel.

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czarface| 10.29.09 @ 8:48AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1L6YkHJts
There's a simple explanation for all of this and I found it. LOL

David Williams| 10.29.09 @ 9:17AM

I'm rather pleased this issue has gained some traction. It may be the only thing on which President Obama and I agree: who the heck wants to play basketball, golf or any other sport (well, maybe softball) with women. For that matter, I don't like playing scrabble with them either, because they usually win.

Doctor Right| 10.29.09 @ 10:54AM

Why dignify anything Maureen Dowd says or writes?

What a waste of a column...

PaytoPlay| 10.29.09 @ 11:12AM

The only reason I read the NY Times/Maureen Dowd and watch MSNBC is to hear the word "teabagger" it sends a tingle up my leg.

Roscoe| 10.29.09 @ 12:59PM

I thought Dowd & that adonis Tom Teepen were having a fling?

Jim R| 10.29.09 @ 1:59PM

Ms. Dowd is the reason that amateur bloggers are becoming so popular. At least they sometimes have something intelligent and interesting to write about. What a waste of an article.

-Z-| 10.29.09 @ 2:16PM

"I know that men and women are equal (which to feminists means identical), but are women equal to men on the basketball court? Why are none of our female college basketball players playing in the NBA?"

Seriously? A game of pick up is far from NBA level basketball. I'm a female and play pick up games with guys all the time. I only played highschool ball, not even college, but I can certainly hold my own against a bunch of guys at the gym or park. And could certainly do so if invited to an afternoon set of hoops at the White House.

I'm not sure how to even begin to comment at the rest of your article....taking stabs at Maureen Dowd's relationship status?

Appleby| 10.30.09 @ 7:21AM

When I was growing up and houses were so small and not binkiefied thta parents routinely tossed their five or six kids out the door in the morning and told them to find something to do until the street lights came on, my sisters and I were accomplished shinny players and, in the years when hockey players were short, squat and nimble, we could hold our own with the boys. (The joke was that a really good hockey player had a center of gravity near a good restaurant.) There were not enough of either gender to make a team, and generally a shinny game was made up of whoever showed up that day. We were pretty good at Spaldeen in the summer (in some precincts this was called Stoop Ball), and I personally spent lots of time in the garage watching and eventually helping Daddy work on the car and listening to the improving conversation of Saturday Night Dirt Track stock car racers. This eventually led to a broken engagement, as I diagnosed a serious problem with my fiances car -- he jeered at me that Girls Know Nothing About Cars, and then his mechanic told us that the problem was indeed a hole in the manifold that was allowing the air conditioner to suck carbon monoxide into the car, and in a rage he shouted that our relationship was over.

My folks, who typically welcomed Godzilla to the family if it looked as if he might marry one of us, said Good Riddance. The idea that some spheres of knowledge were restricted to men or women was considered a novel revelation of ignorance even in the early 1980s.

The No Girls Allowed Club is pretty big, but it is not universal. If you want a pick-up game you can generally find one, even today.

Etiquette Man| 10.31.09 @ 2:27AM

Dear Appleby,

Speaking of restaurants and hockey players, I really like your chain. "Chili's" is good, but sometimes only "Appleby's" will do.

This is a very good post. I especially like the bit about the broken engagement. The guy was a weenie. You're better off.

Most conservative guys know enough about cars, sports, and other "guy" things that they are not threatened by women who may exceed them in one or two areas.

In fact, most of us would be canny enough to turn the situation to our advantage, all the while earning brownie points for praising your skill.

E.g., I would have thanked you for your insight, and asked you to change the oil, too, when you had a chance.

Back on the block, girls used to play stickball with us--but only the ones that were good enough. We made the rest of them cry until they home. We were mean. We were boys.

We were equal opportunity offenders, though, as we shamed off the lousy boy players, too. We just wanted a good game.

We thereby avoided Title IX sanction by the Federal Oversight Board on Gender Equity in Stickball and Other Urban Sports (the well-known "FOBGESOUS," (pronounced "Fob-Ge-Seuss").

As everyone knows, FOBGESOUS was established via Executive Order in 1978 by Jimmah Cahtah, following daughter Amy's humiliating rejection by the "Penn Ave Avengers," a local street Jai lai team.

As much as I hate to admit to it, I agree with BHO on this one. Liberal women are namby little girly-girls (ugly, too). Give a tough conservative broad any day!

Who wants to play basketball with someone who moisturizes? Yecch!

The only decent female sports people would be the real women of Fox, and they've been banned . . . alas.

Best,
EM

Anita| 10.29.09 @ 2:34PM

Unbelievable....I don't know where to start to comment. Is your relationship status or your personal life part of this story, Mr. Tyrrell? How then can a "real man" like you stoop to talking about Maureen Dowd as someone "who has never been married and has no children. In fact, in an embarrassing book she has lamented over how difficult she has found it to be in close contact with men." How is this at all relevant? You don't agree with her, that's fine. Personal lives - or your sad defensive interpretation of someone else's life that you don't know about -- have no role in real commentary.

Tim| 10.29.09 @ 2:47PM

Anita Mann is that you?

-Z-| 10.29.09 @ 3:26PM

Eeeeegad! She's never been married! She has no children! She must be bitter, unfulfilled, and above all wrong in everything she writes!

Why is Maureen Dowd spending her time playing Scrabble when she should be pretty and passive so as to get a husband?!

Doorgunner| 10.29.09 @ 3:40PM

I don't know about bitter or unfulfilled. I don't care. And I'd like to know less about her personal life.

But she has been "wrong in everthing" she has written.

Tim| 10.29.09 @ 3:42PM

Has it occurred to anyone that maybe its MICHELLE who doesn't want him bonding with the women?

Alan Brooks| 10.29.09 @ 4:06PM

or maybe a gay (and I don't mean lezzie) intern has his jealous eyes on Barack?

Johnno| 10.29.09 @ 6:01PM

Tim, I've seen the 'women' who work in the White House--Michelle's got nuthin' to worry about.

-Z-| 10.29.09 @ 3:48PM

I wonder how much of "everthing" you have actually read, Doorgunner.

But I appreciate you noting that the writer of this article spent way too much energy focusing on the arbitrary.

Nick| 10.29.09 @ 9:26PM

The Painted Lady could use all the spackle she wants, she will never be "pretty."

-Z-| 10.30.09 @ 11:11AM

Oh ho ho...while Doorgunner realizes how futile it is to be focusing on physical appearance and Dowd's personal life, Nick missed the point and had to get a dig in about The Painted Lady never being pretty.

Way to keep it classy, Nick.

I'd rather have a brain, than fulfill your standards of beauty any day.

Nick| 10.30.09 @ 1:44PM

Because the Painted Lady has never made a "dig" about anybody's looks, right?

What does that say about her class, and yours by the way?

Can you say "double standard"? I know you can.

Gina| 10.30.09 @ 2:12PM

"I'd rather have a brain, than fulfill your standards of beauty any day." Uh oh, someone must be a real looker!

Why can't you have both, libtard?

-Z-| 11.2.09 @ 11:38PM

Oh, Gina. Libtard? I see you're a proponent of positive dialogue and open minded discussion. What a classically defensive move, and exactly what we've been discussing! When you don't have anything concrete to say about anyone's actual politics, you insult them!

In this public forum, my appearance has nothing to do with our conversation, just like Dowd's shouldn't have anything to do with how we choose to critique her.

I still stand by my comment. And I may or may not be a "real looker", but it certainly shouldn't matter. Unfortunately, it matters to you, Gina. I sincerely hope you find a more significant point of critique than your speculation as to what I look like. Don't worry, if I'm lovely, you can always bring out the "libtard" dig again!

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 12:12AM

Care to explain your double standard?

-Z-| 11.3.09 @ 1:01PM

Sorry, Nick, I got all caught up. :)

I never claimed that Dowd hasn't made any digs on other people physically. Dowd's article in question, however, does not. The above author's critique of her article is solely based upon sexist opining on women's sporting ability, and Dowd's personal life.

I don't think that those kinds of digs promote positive discussion and dialogue. We can do better on both sides.

I don't think that's a double standard.

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 3:58PM

You wrote that I was being less than "classy" when I made a "dig" about the Painted Lady's looks.

So, to be intellectually honest, this means that Dowd is classless also, right? Why did you single me out? Or did you just spout-off without thinking your "dig" fully through?

I would bet on the latter.

And since you defended such a classless person, I had no choice but to question your classiness for so doing.

But now you claim "[...] you don't think those kinds of digs promote positive discussion and dialogue."
Gee, why don't I believe you?

Now, where are my cookies? And don't burn your bra while making them, ya' here!

-Z-| 11.5.09 @ 1:21PM

Nick,

My position in this entire exchange is that the personal digs the author (and those commenting) have made on Maureen Dowd's article have nothing to do with the substance of her article. I never claimed Maureen Dowd doesn't make her own digs on people. But does that excuse the above sexist remarks? Does it thereby make it okay to go eye for an eye? No.

When I infer that you are not "being classy" with your remarks, I am taking a position on your behavior, not your looks or your sex life. There is a big difference.

Nor have I retaliated against your insulting remarks about baking cookies or burning bras with further insults, though I obviously could.

And that has been the point of this discussion thus far. Taking the high road. Focusing on the issues, instead of on name-calling and insults.

Nick| 11.5.09 @ 6:58PM

In the words of B.O., "Let's be clear."

I made a very funny and insulting comment about the Painted Lady's looks. I did so because I have zero respect for her. I've read maybe 5 of her columns all the way through. She is a joke.

You IMPLIED, not "infer[red]", that I was not being "classy" with your insulting post. This makes you a hypocrite.

I never CLAIMED that you "claimed" that Dowd has never made a "dig" about other's looks. You seem to be missing the point.

I attacked and made fun of the Painted Lady, and continue to do so. She does the same to others. I'm not attacking her because she ATTACKS people. I attack her for the stupid REASONS she attacks people.

Quit trying to act like your being consistent and are above it all. How can you attack me for doing what your feminazi hero does? There is nothing wrong with making fun of someone, especially if they deserve it. Like the PAINTED LADY does.

Now, you should stop typing so much. You might break a nail, honey. Why don't you take some time off and cook your man a meal, okay babe?

ds80| 10.29.09 @ 10:18PM

One word, Anita: sarcasm. Pull your panties out of their wad and look it up.

drudge ette obama| 10.30.09 @ 6:25AM

When Maureen Dowd shows an ounce of humanity towards her victims, then people will stop focusing on her pathetic life.

Until then, everything is on the table. Including going after pseudo Dowd supporters like yourself.

Billy M.| 10.29.09 @ 3:35PM

"What you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response, were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."

Anthony| 10.29.09 @ 4:14PM

Yep, ole MoDo sure does know a lot about us guys. When last we saw ole Mo, she was channeling that bad boy Congresssman Jones. I guess when you experience auditory hallcinations like MoDo does on a regular basis, you get all sorts of inside dope on us guys. She does, after all, get to hear our most intimate thoughts. Hmmm maybe that's why she never married. She didn't like what her men were really thinking.
And now we find out that MoDo likes to play scrabble. Hey Mo, what's a four letter word for a woman who is a....... What's that you say, I should keep my vulgar thoughts to myself? I will if you will. You first, starting with your gig at the Times.

Miriam| 10.29.09 @ 4:55PM

Sounds like you all got stood up at the prom. Dowd is bright and she addresses the issue that women sometimes feel excluded during sports-talk with a dash of irony. Note the quote from her friend: "Will every game now have to have a certain number of Asians, atheists, vegetarians and public-option hard-liners?" I think you all need to remove yourselves from the middle ages. Women are allowed to express their opinions. If a woman does not get married, that doesn't mean she's unlucky with men. I think that you, Mr. Tyrrell, are afraid that a woman may outshine you, and instead of simply working to produce a better column, you simply lose all sense of respect and write smut. Talk about never leaving high school.

Gina| 10.29.09 @ 6:05PM

"Woman are allowed to express their opinions."

So are men, honey.

Nick| 10.29.09 @ 9:30PM

Miriam,

You're a funnier writer than the Painted Lady.

You actually read her tripe? And took the time to cut and paste it?

scythe| 10.29.09 @ 9:49PM

May we have an eyeroll please?

Miriam| 10.30.09 @ 12:12PM

Oh yes, because men have had it so tough. I never said men didn't have the right to voice an opinion. You all sit here and refer to an outspoken woman like Ms. Dowd as a "FemNazis" instead of simply disagreeing with what she has to say. Did any of you know that she got her start as a sports reporter? What she was saying wasn't that Obama needs to curtail his past times to include more "female friendly" activities, she was criticizing those people who do think that.

When it comes to articles like this, I just think that criticism of Ms. Dowd should reflect an opinion on her writing rather than her sex life. Yes, I do read her writing. I also read all of the other columns -- most of which are written by men. Would Mr. Tyrrell have written such things had the opinion in question been expressed by a man? No, he wouldn't, although I'm sure there would have been an inappropriate reference to the columnist's sexuality. I think that Ms. Dowd -- and any other columnist, male or female -- should be given a little more respect, whether or not you all agree with her.

And cut the crap with the feminism thing. Yes, some women definitely take the notion way too far, but that doesn't mean that every woman should be accused of being on her period every time she speaks out for gender neutralism.

Nick| 10.30.09 @ 1:40PM

You still seem to be under the false impression that conservatives give a hoot-in-Hades what the Painted Lady has to say.

Too bad HD came along, I notice she doesn't come on television anymore.

Now, go shave your legs and bake me some cookies, Miriam. Ha-ha!

SoCon| 10.30.09 @ 2:00PM

Miriam, I can see you're not the sharpest tool in the shed; "FemiNazi" referred to YOU not the thin-lipped, pasty-faced ice-queen, Maureen Dowdy.

Go paint your nails or fix your hair--or burn your bra (oops! you probably don't wear one); your whining is tedious.

-Z-| 11.2.09 @ 11:43PM

Ha!

Way to prove Miriam right, SoCon and Nick.

She put together a well thought out and articulate argument, and the two of you had nothing to counter with but some dusty old anti-female mumbling. I pity the women in your lives.

Congrats on your bloviating, but maybe next time try something coherent.

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 12:19AM

Come on Z, I told Miriam she was funnier than the Painted Lady, didn't I?

What more do you want from me?

Now go shave your legs and bake me some cookies!

-Z-| 11.3.09 @ 1:07PM

That intelligent response isn't coming anytime soon, is it Nick?

I won't wait up.

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 3:37PM

As long as your legs are shaved and my cookies are ready, I could care less!

To what exactly was I supposed to respond?
You asked no questions.

-Z-| 11.5.09 @ 1:24PM

To Miriam's intelligent post.

Try and keep up. :)

Nick| 11.5.09 @ 7:02PM

I did that days ago, babe.

You try to keep up, sugar!

SoCon| 10.29.09 @ 6:03PM

The FemiNazis have spoken. Take that RET!

Your Mama| 10.30.09 @ 9:57AM

So clever! Way to go. Did you think up that one on your own?

SoCon| 10.30.09 @ 2:02PM

Yes, I did; unlike your affirmative actioned azz--I can actually think.

Your Mama| 10.30.09 @ 2:31PM

Oooh, good one. Yes, you can think and I cannot. Is somebody sad they didn't get into Chico State because of the big bad affirmative action?

SoCon| 10.30.09 @ 4:43PM

Attended Stanford, loser; you a Chico State affirmative action baby? I'm sure it's the only way you got in.

What was your major, Big League Whining? You're putting it to good use, moron.

Your Mama| 11.2.09 @ 11:24AM

I know! I am such a stupid loser! You "allegedly" managed to obtain a Stanford degree and all you can come up with are baseless insults?

Simpsons, take it away:

Lisa - "Thanks a lot everybody, now I'll never get into an Ivy League School."
Bart - "You're going to Stanford, you're going to Stanford!"
Bart + Homer - "You're going to Stanford, you're going to Stanford!"
Lisa - "Take it back! Take it back!"
Homer - "Stanford!"

Your Mama| 11.2.09 @ 11:39AM

What kind of child did I raise? I should have told you long ago that you have the IQ of a toad, and the movie about the 40 year-old virgin was based on your life story. Instead, he pretends that he got into Stanford.

Your Mama| 11.2.09 @ 12:35PM

No response to my poor attempt at satire? I really don't have any sense of humor and probably shouldn't be trolling around here anymore anyway. Bye bye.

PublicOption| 10.29.09 @ 6:44PM

Dowd's writing is so predictable. .... George Bush, WMD, Cheney, organ music, Rummy...get some new material MoDo, your act is like Letterman, outdated...but at least he was gett'n some.

Bydand76| 10.29.09 @ 7:07PM

Basketball, scrabble, Maureen Dowd and a possible.....gender gap....ummm,
This is what we are choosing to talk about?

Who CARES what Maureen Dowd thinks.

She is a liberal wanker! Nothing more, Nothing Less

SoBe Conservative| 10.29.09 @ 8:36PM

Our President has a male "Body Servant" (google it folks) and appears to enjoy male companionship. Besides the intimations that go with the afore mentioned cultural aspects of "marxist menfolk" and and the unmentioned islamic africa, women are better off with whatever board game strikes their fancy in the harem. This is almost as entertaining as the Clinton years.

SoBe Conservative| 10.29.09 @ 9:52PM

Not as easy to google as I thought it would be:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.....es-listed/

scythe| 10.29.09 @ 9:44PM

Maureen Dowd. It's tough being a gar-goil.

Shoshanna Moser| 10.30.09 @ 12:52AM

Should anyone make the mistake of assuming Ms. Dowd's views on this matter to be in any way representative of those of American womanhood, he would have to be forgiven for inescapably concluding it was most unfortunate that we were ever given the vote.

Robert| 10.30.09 @ 1:03AM

Maybe Obama is trying to "toughen you up", Maureen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFBkfH4MIv0

Just Wonderin'| 10.30.09 @ 10:00AM

Do all conservatives seem so miserable and angry as you all?

SoCon| 10.30.09 @ 2:08PM

Imagine a world without Leftists! What a happy place this would be.

Unlike you humorless liberals, we have a SENSE OF HUMOR! Pinched panties and all, you folks could shoot bullets out of your butt.

Nasty, humorless and dull--you liberals are a bore.

Just Wonderin'| 10.30.09 @ 2:33PM

Yes, all liberals are humorless! Isn't that a truism if there was ever one before. Do I sense some anger there?

Larry| 10.30.09 @ 8:39PM

Liberals are so uptight, if you stuck a lump of coal up their butt, in three weeks you'd have a diamond

Gina| 10.30.09 @ 8:58PM

HaHaHaHa!!! Probably wouldn't take that long, though.

SoCon| 10.30.09 @ 4:46PM

No anger; just disdain, butt bullets.

Richard Baker| 11.1.09 @ 10:30AM

Maureen Dowd: 'at girl ain't right.

Albert Frevele| 11.3.09 @ 2:19AM

Maureen who? Seriously, does anyone really read her column? Why? To know what the other side is thinking? Dowd's column is not based on any thinking.