Since hearing of her death earlier this week I keep meaning to write a post about how much I loved Molly Ivins. I have been waiting for a chunk of time when I could sit down and really put some thought into it. Since work is really putting a cramp in my leisure time I will just say that she was the most kick ass columnist ever and link to a great tribute from the Rude Pundit Atrios linked to this morning.
Prescient (and right) as ever, Ivins said in a February 11, 1998 column about the crazed House of Representatives speaking in session: "Next up, several members decide to demand that if we use air strikes against Iraq, we take out Saddam Hussein. In the first place, murdering foreign leaders is not a proper tool of foreign policy, for the sensible reason that you never know what you'll get if you do. One of the most famous hypothetical questions of history is: What if someone had managed to murder Adolf Hitler early on? Suppose someone did, and then the Nazi movement had been taken over by, say, Albert Speer, who was a lot better organized than Hitler?"
I wish she would have gotten to see the end of this evil administration. At least she saw them get their ass's kicked in the mid-terms.
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