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...gothic journey into the partisan excesses of American politics, was all about what the Bush Administration has become. The President chose to campaign for two of the more skeevy candidates offered by the Republicans this year, the adulterous Pennsylvania Congressman Don Sherwood and the macaca-stained Virginia Senator George Allen. One might legitimately ask, Why on earth would he do that? The answer, I suspect, is twofold. Bush, ever antsy, was desperate to campaign somewhere, hoping to replicate his stunning late-campaign successes on the stump in 2002 and 2004. But there aren't too many Republicans in the really...
...about that war: "We will stay on the offense," he said at the Allen fund raiser in Virginia. "We will keep the enemy on the run." This, on a day when Major General William B. Caldwell IV issued the starkest assessment of the carnage to date: that our Operation Together Forward-the half-baked attempt by Iraqi and U.S. forces to secure Baghdad-had failed. Privately, high-ranking military officials were saying that the situation on the ground in Iraq was now dire. Indeed, Bush's Iraq project and his Republican Party seemed to be spinning out of control simultaneously...
...Everything seemed to be going wrong for Bush last week, even the metaphors. On the way to the Allen fund raiser, we stopped for a photo op at a picturesque farm stand outside Richmond. There was a pile of pumpkins sitting on a flatbed truck, and both Allen and Bush tried to hoist an aesthetically pleasing pumpkin by the stem. Both stems snapped. "If you break it, you pay for it, Mr. President," said Richard Keil of Bloomberg News, echoing Colin Powell's famous rule at the outset of the Iraq war. Bush didn't seem to get the joke...
...sitting room of his official residence last Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney sat down with TIME's Mike Allen and James Carney for a rare print interview. Excerpts...
...MUCH CHARACTERS AS CARICATURES President Bush celebrates National Character Counts Week by headlining fund raisers for two of the G.O.P.'s biggest characters: macaca-tastic, pork-eating, sorta-Jewish Senator George Allen and Representative Don Sherwood, who has admitted a five-year extramarital affair with a woman who later accused him of choking her. He said it was just a back rub. Voters, too, aren't sure whether they're being strangled or massaged...