I hate to ask stupid questions...

But what does that mean? I have seen it everywhere lately, but have no idea what it is supposed to mean.

"After me, the deluge" --French King Louis XV (among his final words)

or you could say, "Without monarchy you'll see your destruction."

Okay, thanks for the advice Bob.

i'm not sure what Dafydd meant in the Title, since no link was provided to this "Hit Piece" on W.

Apres moi, le deluge: Today is Memorial Day, a day to remember the dead. Coincidentally, today is also the anniversary of the 1889 Johnstown Flood, which, in just a few minutes, killed more than 2,000 people. SNIP...Literally "after me, the flood," and metaphorically "after I leave, all hell will break loose," the French phrase is attributed either to King Louis the XV or to his mistress, Madame de Pompadour. Regardless of which, if either, of the pair actually said après moi, le deluge, when you consider what happened to the French monarchy after Louis's reign ended, the allusion remains apropos in any language.

Frenchman or Frenchwoman, such predictions of doom and gloom, the End, Revolutions, etc. have been going on for thousands of years; however, since Dafydd used the French term, "Apres moi, le deluge!", humble me is going to guess that he meant 'Revolution'.

America's Left basically butchered Robert Bork, and America's Right stood by and either watched or participated in the butchery. America's Left tried to butcher Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Antonin Scalia managed to squeeze in before either Bork or Thomas were nominated.

America's Left would've basically *RAPED* Justice Janice Rogers Brown, and the Republican Senators would've watched.

Trying to get along with America's Left, the Democrat Party and *THEIR* Mainstream Media, is going to be W's downfall (if he has one...since he will not run again). Still, even with a Majority, the Republican Senators collapse faster that the "Twin Towers" under Attack.

The Republican Party has become the "*FAR* Left-Wing" of the Conservative Movement, in my humble Low and Ignorant Insane swamp hermit opinion. The Republican Party caves in to Threats faster than Jimmy "The Mullah" Carter did, and faster than Bill Clinton caved in to Saddam and Terrorism.

At this point, i shall agree with El Rushbo. Lady Harriet Miers might be great, but i have read that she doesn't really want to be *R*PED* on the Senate floor right in front of America!!! If the Republican Party's Senators had any back-bone at all, then they should insist that Robert Bork or Janice Rogers Brown be nominated now!!!

The so-called "Filibuster" is akin to a spoiled child holding its breath whilst having its way with its parents...so to speak of such needing a spanking or nuking.

Stealth might be fine for the Short-Term; however...

KårmiÇømmünîs†

All right, all right, perhaps a bit cryptic!

Don't overanalyze: all I meant was that Bork seems to be saying that since his advice was ignored by George W. Bush (or perhaps not sought in advance), the entire Bush administration, indeed the great edifice of conservatism, will now inevitably collapse into the wrack and ruin of unbridled left-liberalism, destroying the hopes and dreams of mankind.

This orgy of teen egocentrism permeates much (but certainly not all) of the most vocal opposition to Harriet Miers among judicial conservatives: "why didn't they listen to me?"

It may turn out to be a bad appointment, a missed opportunity; but it will not bring about the apocalypse. That is more likely to happen -- at least, electoral apocalypse -- if the Rebel Alliance manages to mobilize judicial conservatives to ally with the Left to destroy her, as they seem to be trying to do.

Rather than write all that, I content myself with the succinct apres moi, le deluge.

I didn't link it because it was in the Wall Street Journal, and I wasn't sure whether it was available to non-subscribers. If it is, you can read it here. Registration is required (but not subscription, I believe).

Dafydd

OK...

lukewarm

...is a "Hit Piece".

"Federalists tended to be Anglophiles, while Republicans tended to favor the French Republic."

Enough said...

;)

KarmiCommunist:

"Federalists tended to be Anglophiles, while Republicans tended to favor the French Republic."

Democratic-Republicans are not the same as Republicans. The former splintered in 1824, when James Monroe left office. The modern Republican Party did not come into existence until 1854, and was founded on opposition to slavery, which was heavily supported by the Democratic Party at the time.

The Republicans' first presidential candidate was John C. Frémont in 1856, but he lost to Democrat James Buchanan. Their second candidate was Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

The Republican Party of 1854 on has no connection with the French Republic; that was the Democratic Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson in 1800.

In fact, there was no "French Republic" in 1854: the Second Republic had been declared in 1848, following the death of King Louis-Philippe; but Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, whose mother was the stepdaughter of Napoléon Bonaparte, a.k.a. Emperor Napoléon I, was elected president; and in 1852, he seized control of France and declared himself Emperor Napoléon III.

France did not become a republic again until 1870, when Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was captured by Otto von Bismarck at the Battle of Sedan, during the Franco-Prussian War; the populace of France instantly deposed him, declaring the Third Republic. (The Third lasted until 1940, when the Nazis conquered France; after America and Britain liberated France, the French declared the Fourth -- and current -- Republic in 1946.)

So your history is somewhat off there, Karmi!

Dafydd

Dafydd, i am waiting patiently for you to say you are wrong.
Surely you read Patterico.
Why does no one listen to GW? He believes in social engineering (ID in schools, "bioethics" council, affirmative action, "culture of life") and HE SAYS MIERS BELIEVES THE SAME THINGS HE DOES!

This orgy of teen egocentrism permeates much (but certainly not all) of the most vocal opposition to Harriet Miers among judicial conservatives: "why didn't they listen to me?"

No, why aren't we listening to GW? He is telling us she's a social engineer with no constitutional scholarship. And i believe him.

So your history is somewhat off there, Karmi!

Dafydd,

Sorry that i upset you soooooooooooooo much. BTW, that was not my history, just a link. Also, let me know when you can make up your mind, because this "KarmiCommunist" and "Karmi" 'Thangs shows a lack of thought on yore part.

Karmi

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