Maybe he’s talking about himself?

Doesn’t “wonk” imply knowing stuff? Doesn’t sound much like Ross. Wank, maybe.

Ha ha. He’s funny, ’cause he’s such a colossal shitstain upon an already bleak wasteland of corporate media.

Yeah, Daniels sounds like the kind of guy that Douchehat would be fond of:

In 2002, Daniels helped discredit a report by Assistant to the President on Economic Policy Lawrence B. Lindsey estimating the cost of the Iraq War at between $100–$200 billion. Daniels called this estimate “very, very high” and stated that the costs would be between $50–$60 billion.[11] In March, as Congress considered H.R. 1559, “Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003,” OMB was ordered to prepare an estimate for the defeat of the Iraqi Army and a six-month aftermath ending with the 2003 fiscal year on September 30.[12] Daniels’ estimate referred only to this period.[13]

WIkipedia doesn’t mention whether Daniels factored in the cost of the flowers that the grateful Iraqis would shower us with when we liberated them.

Nichter dismissen nay. Father figures are very much big time deal in anal and conservative circles. Douchehat may have hit on something we oughta watch…

A friend of mine who works as an adult education teacher really, really despises Daniels. He is gutting the education system of the state. She told me that that two people in the state education office are doing the work that took six people full time to do, and that these two people are looking for work elsewhere since Daniels refuses to hire anyone to help out. Last I heard from her was that there was an even chance that her adult education program would be terminated — she would, however, have to be hired on as an elementary school teacher which would mean that she would have summers off instead of filling out grant applications hoping to get money for the program.

For the first, last & only word on Mitch Daniels (If you don’t know, you’ve no excuse now!) I refer you to Doghouse Riley, specifically Midwestern States Governed By Surly Megalomaniacs With Napoleonic Complexes

Ross Douchebag, kingmaker?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Oooo…Daniels could pick Senator Mitch McChinless as his running “mate.” It would be:

Mitch/Bitch ’12! Yeah, that’s the ticket.

HTF is this supposed to work?

In 2005, Governor Daniels signed a bill allowing citizens to waive coverage for pre-existing conditions on individual and some group policies. With the barriers now removed, it’s easier for Hoosiers to obtain health insurance coverage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Daniels

Whatta ya do about ur pre existing breast cancer? WTF coverage do you get? Mitch is just another republiKKKan fony like Dick “Jackass” Thornburgh.

Great sense of ur party base, though, Rose. He’s got Syrian grandparents. No way a kkklass guy like say, Scott Brown, would ever go after that in a primary.

Seriously, if you harbor any, even slight, thoughts about the Napoleon of the Midwest, go ask Doghouse.

Sorry to blogwhore, but Mitch Daniels is objectively pro-auto fatality.

In a just world, Daniels’s record would make him the Tea Party movement’s favorite politician.

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His controversial decision to lease the Indiana toll road reaped $3.8 billion for the state.

Angry Ewok apparently doesn’t think that a toll road is a tax.

Mbouffant beat me to it. DoghouseRiley has the first, last, and bitterest words on the internet for Mitch Daniels. Douthat loves Daniels for all the usual reasons–if you knew nothing about his political history, or the economy and conditions of Indiana since he took the governating job, a right wing shill would always pick Daniels because he doesn’t seem to be publicly drinking the blood of babeez while calling for mass bombings of civilian populations. But if you *did* know anything about anything you’d know that he’s no different from the rest of right wing politicians and once he got into real power he’d fuck us all over just like Cheney, Bush, or any of the others.

The Douthatian conviction, or the Douthatian pretense, that somewhere in the cornfields is to be found an honest, thoughtful, humanitarian, conservative is just nonsense.

aimai

You need to update your photos of Ross as his outsides are matching his insides more better.

http://motherjones.com/files/images/recent-stuff-6.jpg
http://www.sadlyno.com/wordpress/uploads/2009/09/douthat_nutjob2.jpg
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http://www.washingtonlife.com/issues/2005-05/ross_douthat/images/ross_07.jpg

Doghouse Riley/Ross Douthat cage match! Please, please, please…

I wasn’t gonna get off the boat, but i thought the Douth was referring to that dreamboat Thaddeus McCotter.

His ideal approach to the deficit would look like Paul Ryan’s fiscal roadmap, all spending restraint and no new taxes.

Ryan’s fiscal roadmap consisted of privatizing Medicare, cutting the top tax rate to 25% and freezing all discretionary spending for five years. The CBO was unable to score Ryan’s plan because it was lacking in details.

The definition of “wonk” must have recently changed to “One who does not eat his boogers in public.”

So, I’m thinking that Douthat is the Kristol of his generation in that anything he (Douthat) says is exactly 180 degrees opposite of what actually should/is going to happen.

At 5’7”, the Indiana governor wouldn’t be the tallest man to occupy the White House

Douthat wanted a man of action and all he got was an action figure.

Oh, from your typing fingers to God’s eyes… Although for Doghouse it would be shooting crippled, finless fish in a teeny, tiny barrel with a 12-gauge sawed off shotgun. YAY! WANT!

God listened!!! Hooray! This is a must read!

I was so excited I linked to the site rather than the post, but on edit I can’t figure out how to fix that. Look for Doghouse going HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA and you’ll have it.

True, but as a member of the op-ed class being consistently wrong seems to actually be a career builder.

For a minute, I thought Douchehat was talking about the Hairless Hack. But he’s just running for the Senate…

To be fair:

First, this is the single most coherent article Douthat has ever written. Second, he doesn’t say one word about starbursts.

As for that last comment, I would think the rampant rumors that Mickey Kaus blows goats would work against him.

Agreed. In some way, it’s comforting. The sun rises in the east; McArdle makes a sweeping generalization that is pulled straight out of her ass; Douthat says exactly the wrong thing (a la Kristol). I can count on all three of these things. It warms my shriveled heart.

To those who linked to Doghouse Riley – thank you. Hadn’t read him before. Will now put him on my regular list. As a former Hoosier and Pennsylvanian (who once wandered in the desert of a Pa State Liquor Store), I’m loving both the Daniels/Douthat comments and the one above it.