In Al Franken’s 2005 book, “The Truth (With Jokes)”, Franken aptly defines the term “cautiously optimistic” with this blurb:
Cautiously optimistic? That’s not good. That’s an optimist’s way of saying, “We’re screwed.” I’ve instructed my wife that if a doctor ever tells her that he’s “cautiously optimistic” about my test results, she is to pull the plug immediately. (Source: “The Truth (With Jokes)”, p. 12)
Fast forward to the present. According to the Politico newspaper, Franken is now using that very same phrase to describe his chances in the recount.
Emerging from the meeting with Reid, Franken said that he was “cautiously optimistic” that he would prevail in the recount. (Source: Politico.com, Nov. 19, 2008)
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Pull The Plug Al!
Erick Brockway (Diary) Wednesday, November 19th at 4:38PM EST (link)It’s time to put your campaign out of our misery.
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Consistency is a hobgoblin that never haunts liberal minds (n/t)
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, November 19th at 5:30PM EST (link)Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Too Funny
Mike Friesen (Diary) Wednesday, November 19th at 5:32PM EST (link)ROFL
Best regards,
Michael
funny
havermeyer Wednesday, November 19th at 5:54PM EST (link)also, how painful was it reading his book? was that quote the truth part or the joke part?
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
You know, Al Franken is right
Abraham Loy Wednesday, November 19th at 5:59PM EST (link)“Cautiously optimistic” is just a way to say “We’re screwed”.
Since “Stuart Smalley” is “cautiously optimistic”, no doubt about it. We’re screwed.
Even if he somehow manages to lose the recount by the Minnesota officials having an attack of honesty.
There are enough RINO’s in the Senate, they already have the “filibuster resistant” Senate majority they need to pass the Obama agenda completely undigested.
So if Obama passes something...
izoneguy (Diary) Wednesday, November 19th at 6:05PM EST (link)conservatives don’t like…
We should protest like Al Gayda is doing in
Kalifornia!!!!
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.