[Fwd: Dowd stabs Rumsfeld in eye with needle]

[Neil Schneider]

<http://nytimes.com/2004/12/19/opinion/19dowd.html?hp>
A Not So Wonderful Life
By MAUREEN DOWD

[Excerpt]

EXTERIOR BRIDGE OVER POTOMAC RIVER - NIGHT

CLOSE SHOT - Rummy is standing by the railing, staring morosely into
the water. The snow is falling hard. Feeling a tap on his shoulder, he
wheels around and wrestles an old man with wings into a headlock.

OLD MAN: Ouch! Tut, tut. When will you learn that force doesn't solve
everything?

RUMMY: Who the dickens are you?

OLD MAN: Clarence, Angel First Class. I've been sent down to help you.

RUMMY, squinting: You're off your nut, you old fruitcake. You can't
help me. I was a matinee idol in this town, a studmuffin. Now
everyone's turned on me - Trent Lott, Chuck Hagel and that dadburn
McCain.

CLARENCE: No more self-pity, son. I'm going to show you what the world
would have been like if you'd never been born."

-- 
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
                 -- Dr. John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)