March 25, 2010
— Ace I noticed the other day that Frum represented himself as a member of the conservative/capitalist American Enterprise Institute. That made me wonder about AEI.
Well, it made AEI wonder about AEI, too, and today, they terminated their relationship with Frum over lunch. Frum says in his "resignation" letter that it's a resignation, but, um, it seems to be one of those resignations that comes before a formal dismissal.
Dear Arthur,This will memorialize our conversation at lunch today. Effective immediately, my position as a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute is terminated. I appreciate the consideration that delays my emptying of my office until after my return from travel next week. Premises will be vacated no later than April 9.
I have had many fruitful years at the American Enterprise Institute, and I do regret this abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship.
Very truly yours,
David Frum
Thanks to DrewM.'s Twitter.
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I'm about to engage in some ultra-conservative vitriol here.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 25, 2010 11:21 AM (WvXvd)
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:21 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at March 25, 2010 11:21 AM (cniXs)
Posted by: di butler, unlicensed pharmacist at March 25, 2010 11:21 AM (S3xX1)
This butthole's income just tripled -- now he can do all the talk shows about how the right is destroying their own.
Posted by: bullfrog at March 25, 2010 11:22 AM (g+3Ca)
I appreciate the consideration that delays my emptying of my office until after my return from travel next week.
Riiight. Because that what you say when you "resign".
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 11:22 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: rockhead at March 25, 2010 11:23 AM (RykTt)
When someone says "give me a letter of resignation" it's not really a resignation-resignation.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 11:24 AM (XdlcF)
Congressman Stupak, you're such a piece of shit loser that even a chimp would not eat your balls and face. I hope you come home someday to ruptured water heater, you goofy little prick.
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:24 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: Slublog at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (qjKko)
Posted by: bulwark at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (PO/9k)
Posted by: Michael Steele at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (e8YaH)
Posted by: robtr at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (fwSHf)
Loose lips pink slips. Nice to see that AEI apparently didn't dig Frum moonlighting as a useful idiot.
Now David can dedicate himself to writing for principles again, not like that crass commercial Rush guy he trashed just prior to being shown the door.
Betcha wish you had a SleepNumber promo gig right now, Dave. Karma's a bitch.
Posted by: Societyis2blame at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (7ZyYf)
Posted by: tsj017 at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (4YUWF)
Too late. The Frumstain doesn't wash out. We all know what he is, and we didn't find out yesterday.
Posted by: oblig. at March 25, 2010 11:25 AM (x7Ao8)
Posted by: GarandFan at March 25, 2010 11:26 AM (6mwMs)
Posted by: AEI at March 25, 2010 11:26 AM (LKkE8)
Posted by: David Frum at March 25, 2010 11:26 AM (9B5OK)
Posted by: conscious and medically incoherent at March 25, 2010 11:26 AM (Vu6sl)
Na na na na na.....na na na na.....hey hey hey......goodbye!
Don't let the door hit ya on the way out!!
Posted by: Boots at March 25, 2010 11:26 AM (06JTY)
Posted by: maddogg at March 25, 2010 11:27 AM (OlN4e)
Posted by: nickless at March 25, 2010 11:27 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:28 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: Sometimes Malvert Pee Red at March 25, 2010 11:28 AM (IoIN4)
Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2010 11:29 AM (zMVot)
Posted by: The Chewbacca Defense at March 25, 2010 11:29 AM (YMZjg)
Oh, and his EMails, too. None of which of course is personal property.
Posted by: CUS at March 25, 2010 11:30 AM (wOGfT)
Posted by: VJay at March 25, 2010 11:30 AM (gQ+XA)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 25, 2010 11:30 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: RushBabe at March 25, 2010 11:30 AM (LKkE8)
Frum thinks he can shoot off his yap any way he wants to and bask in the glory of AEI, Stupak thinks he can vote any way he wants and still collect his pro-life award, Pelosi thinks she can crap out any kind of healthcare bill and still keep her gavel.....
Posted by: cthulhu at March 25, 2010 11:31 AM (u+gbs)
Posted by: David Brooks at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (RD7QR)
Effective immediately, "Frumforum.com" will have its name changed to "NewJobForMe.com"
Posted by: David Frum at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (FkKjr)
HAAAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAAA.
I'm not laughing with out, I'm laughing at you.
Posted by: dogfish at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (GQwdV)
Posted by: sharrukin at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (593B8)
Doesn't AEI have that Dana chick? What's her last name?
Anyway, she's on CSPAN once in a while, and kinda talks funny. But I'd bang the stuffin' out of her. She's hot when she talks about policy and shit.
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (z37MR)
I appreciate the consideration that delays my emptying of my office until after my return from travel next week.
I hear Nancy Pelosi is stocking up with cardboard boxes for her former house members...
Posted by: RushBabe at March 25, 2010 11:32 AM (LKkE8)
David Frum is a Democrat Party infiltrator. His only purpose in the Republican Party and in Republican institutions is to push the Republican Party leftward toward Democrat Party objectives.
Mitt Romney is also a Republicrat. He signed ObamaCare while Governor of Massachusetts, the most liberal Democrat state in the nation which had no problem electing him. And he had no problem signing the laws the liberal Democrat Party legislature passed. Including individual mandates, fines and IRS harassment for anyone who doesn't buy health insurance.
These people must be expunged from our institutions. They are not Republicans. They are infiltrators.
Posted by: someguy at March 25, 2010 11:33 AM (VRJIW)
Posted by: Dan at March 25, 2010 11:34 AM (1jzSs)
Probably. I'm guessing we'll see articles in the NYT over the next few months detailing the way "I didn't leave the Republican party. The party left me." And we'll get to hear about how the extremist creationists are calling all the shots and how the party is in terminal decline.
His principles are pretty malleable, and he has to pay the bills. We might even see him on Huffpo, eventually, for "balance".
Posted by: Ace's liver at March 25, 2010 11:34 AM (XIXhw)
I think he recently became a US citizen. Now Andi Sullivan is still a limey cocksucker.
Posted by: polynikes at March 25, 2010 03:32 PM (m2CN7)
FIFY
Posted by: conscious and medically incoherent at March 25, 2010 11:34 AM (Vu6sl)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 25, 2010 11:35 AM (mR7mk)
Posted by: AEI at March 25, 2010 11:35 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2010 11:35 AM (zMVot)
Yeah, and that would make us part of a New Majority.
Try and keep up, teabagging racists.
Posted by: D Frum at March 25, 2010 11:36 AM (gQ+XA)
The man who threw the money at Parkinson Bob at the OH TEA Party protest has apologized. However, the media keeps reporting that Bob was a nuclear engineer -- his education (if we are to believe him) is in political economy.
http://tinyurl.com/yc379k7
Here's his bio according to We! magazine:
Robert A. Letcher, Ph.D. is a political economist who describes himself as "an academic without portfolio, writer, political activist, and Qigong practitioner who tries to help people learn".
His rants are found here in this "progressive" online magazine We!
http://www.wemagazine.org/author/robert-letcher/
No doubt he was trying to draw the TEA Party folks into some sort of confrontation. What's interesting is he didn't write a thing about his concerns about his Parkinson's and health care when he wrote for We!
Posted by: Phil at March 25, 2010 11:36 AM (L8jeB)
Over at FrumForum, they are seriously beginning to resemble glazed donuts. It's like LGF or something.
Oh, wait, now I get it...
Posted by: Michael Steele at March 25, 2010 11:37 AM (e8YaH)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 25, 2010 11:37 AM (NA96o)
Posted by: David Frum at March 25, 2010 11:39 AM (E5V01)
This will memorialize our conversation at lunch today.
Maybe he simply got fired for pretentious shit like this. Seriously, who the fuck writes like this?
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 11:39 AM (tWf3S)
We keep ignoring him, hoping he'll get the hint. He needs to get hit with the cluebat, seriously.
Posted by: The Barnyard Animals at March 25, 2010 11:39 AM (8kq7+)
Posted by: torabora at March 25, 2010 03:35 PM (zMVot)
I believe Frum is married to Jules Crittenden's cousin. On his blog this morning Jules gave a personal defense of him - not so much on the policy stuff. Basically he says that Frum isn't a sell out - he really believes what he says.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2010 11:40 AM (f5vi+)
Posted by: nickless at March 25, 2010 11:40 AM (MMC8r)
Posted by: Africanus at March 25, 2010 11:41 AM (wdR7U)
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 11:41 AM (IHbof)
Posted by: ErikW at March 25, 2010 11:42 AM (WYvfk)
Posted by: alexthechick at March 25, 2010 11:42 AM (8WZWv)
Congressman Stupak, may the souls of a million aborted babies haunt you every night. May your car run out of oil and cause the engine to sieze. May you eat someday eat a Filet-O-Fish with rancid tartar sauce. Asshole.
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:42 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2010 03:40 PM (f5vi+)
So his defense is that Frum is just stupid?
Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 25, 2010 11:42 AM (dQdrY)
Posted by: Dan at March 25, 2010 11:42 AM (1jzSs)
True story.
Posted by: DrewM. at March 25, 2010 11:43 AM (9B5OK)
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 11:44 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: John Galt at March 25, 2010 11:44 AM (F/4zf)
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 11:44 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: XBradTC at March 25, 2010 11:44 AM (cB95w)
Posted by: AEI at March 25, 2010 11:45 AM (gLSaO)
It's about time this slimeball found a real job.
Posted by: Zimriel at March 25, 2010 11:47 AM (9Sbz+)
Posted by: HeatherRadish at March 25, 2010 11:47 AM (mR7mk)
This will memorialize our conversation at lunch today.
Maybe he simply got fired for pretentious shit like this. Seriously, who the fuck writes like this?
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 03:39 PM (tWf3S)
I use it all the time in sending confirmation letters after verbal discussions or agreements.
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at March 25, 2010 11:48 AM (F09Uo)
I believe Frum is married to Jules Crittenden's cousin. On his blog this morning Jules gave a personal defense of him - not so much on the policy stuff. Basically he says that Frum isn't a sell out - he really believes what he says.
I don't think we're attacking him on the basis of his hygeine or choice in dinner companions, are we, Jules? We're attacking him for being a doucheball DIABLO.
btw, Jules Crittenden is a "Northeat Republican" too... but he doesn't pretend to be anything other.
Posted by: Michael Steele at March 25, 2010 11:48 AM (e8YaH)
Posted by: CDR M at March 25, 2010 11:49 AM (cvmTR)
wow GREAT POINT just made on Howie Carr by a caller named Bob.
Bob says cities like Cambridge ignore federal law all the time with their so-called sanctuary cities. Why can't we set up our own sanctuary cities ignoring the Big Fucking Deal?
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: The Rogue Economist at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (8YgdQ)
I'm guessing we'll see articles in the NYT over the next few months detailing the way "I didn't leave the Republican party. The party left me."
I didn't resign from AEI, they resigned from me.
Probably has to do with selling Sleepnumber beds.
Posted by: Dave F. at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (XdlcF)
Wow so gets to play Jerry McGuire with Kathleen Parker playing Renee Z.....
"I'll go with you, Dave!"
Posted by: sven10077 at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (y3CTU)
This will memorialize our conversation at lunch today.
I use it all the time in sending confirmation letters after verbal discussions or agreements.
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at March 25, 2010 03:48 PM (F09Uo)
Do what we agreed or Bang-Zoom!
Posted by: Ralph Kramden at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (w41GQ)
Dave, if you're not busy you're welcome to hang out at my site and upding my comments
Posted by: Cahrsel Jhonsno at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (sYxEE)
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at March 25, 2010 03:48 PM (F09Uo)
I usually see it worded "To confirm our conversation of.....".
Posted by: Tami at March 25, 2010 11:50 AM (VuLos)
Yowser!
Frum is welcome to practice his brand of conservatism with, notably Parker, Noonan, Brooks et al.
Just not in our backyard.
Posted by: always right at March 25, 2010 11:51 AM (Wqfrr)
Good thing Sarah Palin isn't Veep, huh, David?
Posted by: Kensington at March 25, 2010 11:51 AM (aDdAT)
less pretentious?
"This letter confirms our discussion from earlier today"
Personally, I like pretension to a degree (when done properly and without a bunchj of malapropisms).
Posted by: s'moron at March 25, 2010 11:52 AM (UaxA0)
If someone told me to hit the road, I wouldn't even bother writing a termination letter.
Posted by: Kensington at March 25, 2010 11:52 AM (aDdAT)
lol, David Brock, Meghan McCain, David Frum, can all join the cast in my new tv show -- The Biggest Loser, with the rest of the people the Democrats have used and tossed out with the garbage.
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:52 AM (z37MR)
We already have what would amount to sanctuary cities from teh feds....we used to call them STATE!
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 11:52 AM (rVJH4)
Posted by: Kensington at March 25, 2010 11:53 AM (aDdAT)
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 11:53 AM (rVJH4)
We already have what would amount to sanctuary cities from teh feds....we used to call them STATE!
excellent!
Posted by: This is Candygram...Plumber...Landshark at March 25, 2010 11:54 AM (z37MR)
Posted by: dulce at March 25, 2010 11:54 AM (HFdqI)
Any Nelson Muntz type comments will result in immediate banning.
Don't worry David, I'll triple the linkage to your site, and Meghan has promised to retweet you to her 500 million followers on Twitter
Posted by: AllahJohnson at March 25, 2010 11:54 AM (sYxEE)
Posted by: polynikes at March 25, 2010 03:51 PM (m2CN7)
Yeah, this basically what I use too. 'Memorialize' just sounds too pretentious - like something that would involve marble and eulogies.
Posted by: Mætenloch at March 25, 2010 11:55 AM (f5vi+)
Do what we agreed or Bang-Zoom!
Posted by: Ralph Kramden at March 25, 2010 03:50 PM (w41GQ)
Teh Winnah!
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at March 25, 2010 11:55 AM (F09Uo)
Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 25, 2010 11:55 AM (dQdrY)
Don't come sniffing around my turf, Frum. I will seriously f*ck you up.
And yeah, I haven't forgot about how you cockblocked me at Krugman's house- I was just about to get busy with K. Parker and P. Noonan in the hot tub when you sauntered in.
Posted by: Ross Douhat at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (cEXzj)
Don't worry Dave, I hear Andi Sullivan has some extra office space.
Just empty out the KY closet and put your stuff there.
Posted by: gus at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (Vqruj)
wow GREAT POINT just made on Howie Carr by a caller named Bob.
Bob says cities like Cambridge ignore federal law all the time with their so-called sanctuary cities. Why can't we set up our own sanctuary cities ignoring the Big Fucking Deal?
Answer #1: Because the IRS won't be needing the local cops to help them ram it right up your behind.
Posted by: Young Master David Frum III, esq at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (wgLRl)
Posted by: Michael Steele at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (e8YaH)
Congressman Stupak, may the souls of a million aborted babies haunt you every night. May your car run out of oil and cause the engine to sieze. May you eat someday eat a Filet-O-Fish with rancid tartar sauce.
May he and all his inside-the-beltway "conservatives" and their statist democrat idols become stricken with rectal shingles.
(Is that too violent?)
Posted by: Iamnotanalcoholic at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (UCFfQ)
Robert A. Letcher, Ph.D. is a political economist who describes himself as "an academic without portfolio
Academic without portfolio = failed academic
Since most academics are already losers, imagine a failed one.
Posted by: S at March 25, 2010 11:56 AM (ME+Yl)
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Please review your Ike Turner style guide and resubmit your letter.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 11:57 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: Sleepnumber Beds at March 25, 2010 11:57 AM (sYxEE)
I mean it only took stupak a day to go from pro-lifer to praising planned parenthood once the jig was up.
Posted by: Guy Fawkes at March 25, 2010 11:58 AM (7VvJB)
Somebody get a picture of me boogeying down with these staffers. We have to have something to put up on the website to counteract the huge loss of Frum!
Posted by: Michael Steele at March 25, 2010 11:58 AM (e8YaH)
Well, what else can you expect from a toothless, illiterate teabagger? All them sissified white-boy RINOs look alike, anyway.
Posted by: tsj017 at March 25, 2010 11:59 AM (4YUWF)
"Planet Gore" is effin great over there, though.
Posted by: Young Master David Frum III, esq at March 25, 2010 12:00 PM (wgLRl)
Posted by: Unclefacts, Purveyor of Fine Meteors at March 25, 2010 12:00 PM (erIg9)
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Please review your Ike Turner style guide and resubmit your letter.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 03:57 PM (XdlcF)
If I thought everyone would get the joke, I'd so do that.
Posted by: Jim in San Diego at March 25, 2010 12:00 PM (F09Uo)
This will memorialize our conversation at lunch today.
Maybe he simply got fired for pretentious shit like this. Seriously, who the fuck writes like this?
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 03:39 PM (tWf3S)
I use it all the time in sending confirmation letters after verbal discussions or agreements.
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Yeah, I have a better phrase.
"per our conversation at lunch...."
It has the advantage of being concise.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 25, 2010 12:00 PM (I/MqP)
If it is true that those that can, do and those that can't teach and those that can do neither go into politics, then this guy is going to run for office.
Posted by: CUS at March 25, 2010 12:00 PM (wOGfT)
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 03:39 PM (tWf3S)
Professional political speech writers, apparently.
Posted by: always right at March 25, 2010 12:01 PM (Wqfrr)
And I believe Townhall dumped her last April.
Posted by: Kensington at March 25, 2010 12:02 PM (aDdAT)
Went over to AEI to see what's up. They have a very nice blog
Posted by: dagny at March 25, 2010 12:04 PM (ClTG+)
P.S. I don't think dear Kathleen Parker is at NRO.
Oh, yeh, she was. Or is. Last year when she was screeching about Palin, they sort of implied they couldn't get rid of her, but it got a little difficult to find her writing on their site.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 12:04 PM (XdlcF)
I have had many fruitful years at the American Enterprise Institute, and I do regret this abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship.
"abrupt and unexpected conclusion of our relationship"--yeah, that's what I've always written in my resignation letters when I've left a job. Sounds more like he got the boot, and it caught him by surprise. Couldn't have happened to a better person. Enjoy your Funemployment, David, you douche!
Posted by: runningrn at March 25, 2010 12:04 PM (CfmlF)
Oh that's right. Didn't she and Frum both jump ugly on Palin over at NRO? I get the faux-conservatives mixed up sometimes.
Posted by: Young Master David Frum III, esq at March 25, 2010 12:04 PM (wgLRl)
Posted by: runningrn at March 25, 2010 12:05 PM (CfmlF)
Couldn't have happened to a more obnoxious concern troll.
I just would hope that Senate Republicans McCain, Graham, Cornyn, McConnell et al also see that being a doom-saying, can't-we-just-all-get-along, compromising a##hole may get you invited to after hours parties with your liberal buddies 'across the aisle' but it can also get you FIRED!!
Posted by: jakee308 at March 25, 2010 12:05 PM (WY0Sv)
If it is true that those that can, do and those that can't teach and those that can do neither go into politics, then this guy is going to run for office.
Nah. He'll do something like become the spokesman for ACORN.
Posted by: Iamnotanalcoholic at March 25, 2010 12:05 PM (UCFfQ)
Posted by: Jack Burton at March 25, 2010 12:07 PM (YxJoH)
I doubt they will be doing an Alaska cruise.
Posted by: Young Master David Frum III, esq at March 25, 2010 12:08 PM (wgLRl)
The Camden Commie now writes for the Washington Post and none of the conservative sites are linking to it.
Posted by: Vic at March 25, 2010 12:08 PM (QrA9E)
These scurrilous rumors spread by disgruntled conservatives about my personal life and work ethic is entirely fabricated to damage my public persona.
Sure, I may have been in a few gay bars, but that doesn't mean I am homosexual. Also, just because I held one in my mouth on one occasion, that also doesn't indicate I have an affinity for men.
The only matter that can be considered questionable is the weekend I spent with Congressman Barney Frank in Maine. During this vacation, I did awaken on one occasion and find Barney's undulating hips compressing against my straining buttocks.
If any of these actions are considered gay by you petulant penisphobes, then you right wing nut-jobs can go fuck yourselves.
Posted by: David Frum at March 25, 2010 12:09 PM (M5t+h)
Please SC voters, send this Quisling packing
Posted by: kbdabear at March 25, 2010 12:10 PM (sYxEE)
Posted by: dagny at March 25, 2010 12:12 PM (ClTG+)
Even though I've been known to use an expletive or three, that's an interestingly ironic way to make your point.
Posted by: Christoph at March 25, 2010 12:14 PM (0fq7b)
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Please review your Ike Turner style guide and resubmit your letter.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 25, 2010 03:57 PM (XdlcF)
If I thought everyone would get the joke, I'd so do that.
Yo Bitches!
WTF?! I get ready to go on vacay and you're piling boxes outside my office. Wha's wit dat S&*T? You not down wit how I roll no more? Where'd the love go, baby? If dat's the case, my ass is grass by April 9. I'll be audi.
I had some great times, for sure at AEI, those were some wild parties and all, but I'm pissed that we endin' this way. I jus may burn your mutha effing house down, cause I'm seriously pisssed.
You'll be hearing from my Lawyers,
Ike "David" Turner
Posted by: Ike "David" Turner at March 25, 2010 12:14 PM (CfmlF)
Posted by: Fritz at March 25, 2010 12:16 PM (GwPRU)
Yeah, sign Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, David Frum, Christopher Buckley, etc. up for the Obama Love Boat. Geez, throw Lindsay Graham on there too, he kind of looks like Gopher.
Posted by: Ike at March 25, 2010 12:17 PM (CfmlF)
Lopez is insufferable. She writes about exactly two topics: Passive-aggressive mash notes to her boyfriend Mitt Romney, and creepy cultlike paeans to the diktats of the Catholic Church.
If she had an objection to Kremlincare other than the relatively-trivial-in-the-grand-scheme-of-being-enslaved-by-communists abortion loophole, I didn't see it.
Posted by: VJay at March 25, 2010 12:18 PM (gQ+XA)
Posted by: sherlock at March 25, 2010 12:18 PM (xqzGc)
This will memorialize our conversation
Used all the time in legal correspondence. I don't just want to recall the conversation, I want to solidify that it was the exact content of the conversation so that going forward, unless challenged upon receipt, my assertions are THE assertions of record.
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 12:19 PM (rVJH4)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2010 12:21 PM (tJF9l)
Maybe it is a little pretentious, but do you have a better phrase?
Looks like a number of folks have beaten me to the punch here.
I generally go with "confirm." "Memorialize" makes it sound like it's just the most important conversation EVAH and must be memorialized for all time.
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 12:21 PM (IHbof)
Posted by: thebronze at March 25, 2010 12:22 PM (1C9ME)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2010 12:27 PM (h0rZ/)
Posted by: dagny at March 25, 2010 12:28 PM (ClTG+)
@polynikes
Could be regional. Or the lawyer that trains the newer lawyer. I was trained to use it for all confirmations of nearly all unrecorded converstations.......I certainly don't see anything pretentious about it. The bottom line is FRUM IS HASH now and gone! YAY!
Posted by: rightzilla at March 25, 2010 12:28 PM (rVJH4)
Even though I've been known to use an expletive or three, that's an interestingly ironic way to make your point.
What a surprise! Use the word "pretentious" enough and it magically summons the the Queen of pretentious douches himself
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 12:28 PM (IHbof)
178 Wow. That is a powerful word. We are magic.
Let's use "verify" a lot and see if we can get Reagan back.
Posted by: dagny at March 25, 2010 12:31 PM (ClTG+)
Posted by: Jean at March 25, 2010 12:35 PM (OlnxK)
Even though I've been known to use an expletive or three, that's an interestingly ironic way to make your point.
What a surprise! Use the word "pretentious" enough and it magically summons the the Queen of pretentious douches himself
Posted by: wiserbud at March 25, 2010 04:28 PM (IHbof)
+1
Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at March 25, 2010 12:40 PM (wgLRl)
I just made a great ascii art plane flying a banner that says "BEAT IT!" that flew over Frum's luncheon.
"David, enjoying your lunch? Look up!"
"Don't forget the check..."
Can't post it. Oh well...
Posted by: Johnny I at March 25, 2010 12:41 PM (x9okW)
I tried in 2008. I voted FOR his opponent in the primaries and I stood in line in the rain to vote FOR Palin and against him on Nov 2.
He controlled the primaries because he latterly runs the Party in this State.
Since them local Republican party councils have censured him three times. That is where that stupid line about him being as much of a RINO as Ronald Regan came from.
We have until 2014 to live with him now unless the Vince Flynn version of "Term Limits" is implemented.
But I personally am not advocating that.
Posted by: Vic at March 25, 2010 12:46 PM (QrA9E)
What was AEI thinking of when it hired him in the first place?
I mean, what's Frum's salient intellectual achievement that merits him a place at a pretty prestigious wonk-factory like AEI?
Posted by: Steve the Pirate at March 25, 2010 12:46 PM (W54Uh)
Posted by: Jack Burton at March 25, 2010 04:07 PM (YxJoH)
So, you guys care if I hang out here a while?
Posted by: Barney Frank at March 25, 2010 12:51 PM (DZgJg)
Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2010 01:10 PM (KdA1d)
It would be considerate also to get a copy of his hard drive. And any space he was using on the network. Just for backup purposes, you know.
Oh, and his EMails, too. None of which of course is personal property.
Oh no worries they will. I work in IT and as far as the emails go, every email you send through the work network has to be kept a minimum of 10 years. Its federally MAN-DATE-ED. And im sure they have a mirror of all their network activity on an off site co-location NOC. Every big business does.
Posted by: co2 emitting conservative at March 25, 2010 01:11 PM (SebJz)
Posted by: George Orwell at March 25, 2010 01:13 PM (r7tiD)
I guess the folks at AEI didn't appreciate douchenozzle's misrepresentation of their helath care positions (from two decades ago) constituting "building blocks" of this idiocy currently being foisted on the country.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 25, 2010 01:13 PM (B+qrE)
But we don't want him back, maddog.
Posted by: andycanuck at March 25, 2010 01:15 PM (KdA1d)
Posted by: Rat Patrol at March 25, 2010 01:16 PM (dQdrY)
From the Jules Crittenden post defending David Frum:
Regarding my cousin as polite company, I have to say he is in fact some of the most polite and genteel company IÂ’ve ever had the pleasure to find myself in. Considerate, curious, always eager to engage and never offensive.
Well, if that's the case, it says something. Frum has said that Sarah Palin made it to the top through sex; that Rush Limbaugh is a fat liar who only espouses conservative ideas for cash; that conservatives who disagree with him are unpatriotic; and I'm not exactly sure what point he was trying to make about Mark Levin, other than that he hated him.
So if Crittenden's post is true, and I have no reason to doubt it, then David Frum is a shit-talking pussy who says things behind people's backs that he lacks the balls to say to their faces.
Posted by: Ken at March 25, 2010 01:21 PM (EawMs)
Posted by: Mike Myers at March 25, 2010 01:21 PM (ktYjH)
@195: the "big tent" was a crock to begin with.
The term was never used until after George W. Bush became President, when the GOP had won three straight elections--1980, 1984, and 1988--with respectively 52%, 59%, and 53% of the vote. Under the Big Tent strategy, that fell to 37% in 1992, rose slightly to 41% in 1996, and went up to a whopping 48% in 2000.
In 2004 the GOP finally got a majority of 51% again--but that was in a year when Bush II was differentiating himself from Kerry, and actually distancing himself from the Big Tent strategy. In 2008, the GOP went back to BT and dropped to 46%.
Clearly, every time the Big Tent is used, the number of people actually in the tent shrinks. Maybe it should be called the Empty Tent instead.
Posted by: Ken at March 25, 2010 01:30 PM (EawMs)
FWIW, I actually think there is a subtle difference between David Frum and David Brooks. Frum is actually worse.
Brooks seems to be content to be the pet canary for the left-wing news media, and to more or less parrot their views while trying to sound moderate. (Yeah, I know, a mixed bird metaphor).
Frum, however, actually seems to have some kind of megalomaniac idea of taking over the conservative movement. Thus, where Brooks mostly just talks about how smart and stylish he and his hero Zero are, Frum devotes almost every article to cheap shots against conservatives.
What's really funny here is that, even if he weren't a backstabbing pussy, Frum could no more lead any political group than he could quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. He's not leader material. He couldn't inspire people in Hell to chip in for an air conditioner. He's a loser.
Posted by: Ken at March 25, 2010 01:43 PM (EawMs)
196:
To steal a Rand-ism, for such "pennies and smiles" from Crittenden and its other liberal pals, FrumBrooksNoonanParker sold out on whatever Conservative principles it once had.
Get over junior high - your fucking country's more important than what elitist snob poseurs say about your friends in the papers.
If you agree with them already, why bother with the right-wing pose ? If you don't agree with them, how does it feel to be a suck-up-buddy to the "cool kids" when you hate them and you know they really don't like you ?
Posted by: Societyis2blame at March 25, 2010 02:07 PM (7ZyYf)
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Posted by: JThunders at March 25, 2010 02:24 PM (bv8PV)
Time to once again dust off my favorite lyrics from The Queers:
"See you later, fuckface,
See you later, fuckface,
See you in the funny pages,
Fuck you!
See you later, fuckface,
See you later, fuckface,
We hate you."
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Posted by: Stillwater at March 25, 2010 05:23 PM (qUdDE)
Posted by: Stillwater at March 25, 2010 05:49 PM (qUdDE)
Frum, however, actually seems to have some kind of megalomaniac idea of taking over the conservative movement.
Heh...yeah...
Now that he's got more free time he's going to start a Legion of Doom with Rob Dreher and Andrew Sullivan.
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