Word: blunderer
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...such as Blockbuster Video and Wal-Mart.Robbins says he is unsurprised by the backlash the piece has created. “It should be offensive. Satire shouldn’t have friends on both political sides,” he says.“Iraq is just a tremendously huge blunder,” Robbins says, and that opinion permeates the show. It tells the story of a group of journalists embedded alongside war-time troops who are fighting in the fictional country of Gomorrah (named after a biblical city of sinners; here meant to resemble Iraq). Containing scenes...
...Sununu and Idaho's Larry Craig--opposing the bill, Democrats are willing to risk looking weak on national security in the hopes of delivering a win that could help mobilize their base in 2006. Meanwhile, G.O.P. strategists think they will benefit from what they say is yet another political blunder by the party that resisted creating the Homeland Security department before the 2002 elections. Said Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman: "It seems amazing Democrats would go down this road again...
...seriously. Washington needs to be more attentive to the root causes of America's massive current-account deficit: an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving brought on by open-ended budget deficits and a lack of personal saving. A protectionist remedy for America's homegrown problems would be a policy blunder of monumental proportions?taking the world down a very slippery and dangerous slope...
...agree with Samuelson that it would be bracing if Eisner took responsibility for his own blunder in hiring such a turkey for president of the company in the first place. But I don't see it happening. I hope that doesn't sound cynical. It's just that I know Eisner has had previous opportunities to end public relations calamities by paying up with his own money...
...troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is unnecessary and a tragic blunder. Yet to withdraw our troops now would compound the mistake we made in deciding to invade and would leave an unstable and volatile nation to fend for itself. So what should Americans do? We should support our troops until some sort of muddled conclusion allows at least a partial withdrawal...