Back to their old tricks...


Joanie the phony Vennochi and Jeff Jacoby that laughing young senescence double teamed Kerry on the Op Ed page of the Globe yesterday.
So clearly Morrissey Boulevard is up to it's old tricks again.
I have to give them credit, they have recovered nicely from the Great Humiliation dealt them by John Forbes Kerry in New Hampshire.
I figured they'd be waddling around stunned and incoherent for a good two or three months...but no it's a bare three weeks later and the local punditariat is up and at Kerry again.
Captain Ahab couldn't be more mono-obsessive...it is inspiring really.
Joanie was hyping all those "troubling" questions about Kerry's "waffling"...insisting that the Senator had some splainin' to do.
Jacoby said almost the same thing with the usual proviso that Kerry wasn't evil per se merely a threat to us and all our progeny.
In sum, nothing new.
Of course the President's record of waffling and cupidity is always passed over in silence...at various times the Admin has suggested that Saddam could remain as President of Iraq under a tight proliferation regime, that Al Queda was hooked up with Baghdad, that "we knew" where the WMD's are, that it about "heeding" the screams of the tortured...pretty much whatever would get the necessary headline was the order of the day in the lead up to this war.
The mark of a neocon wannabe at the Globe is their firm belief that John Kerry that MUST be held to a very high standard indeed...a standard these jack-offs wouldn't DARE apply to George Bush Jr.
All around us we see the rubble of a republic fast falling to ruins.
Consensus is lost on preserving social security, expanding affordable health care, our troops are jeered and bombed all over Iraq...billions are wasted on inane budgetary priorities and jobs are shipped out wholesale to foreign countries.
The electorate is divided into bitter hostile camps and power and privilege are openly reckoned in the White House on the basis of the citizenry remaining fragmented and truculent.
This is the legacy of the President's stern simple-minded theology-tinged "leadership"....
Whatever John Kerry has "waffled on" or mulled over or whatever it pales into insignificance next to the series of disasters Bush has stumbled into again and again nigh these four years gone.
And for the record Kerry didn't think twice in 1968 when he joined the navy...no waffling there when something important was on the line.
But then neither did Bush, he made that one fateful phone call to Dad, slipped to the head of the line in the National Guard and went on a four year bender.
And all Joanie and Jeffy can do is prattle on about Bush's leadership style and "authenticity" that trumps all accusations of lying.
Honestly what pap.
Jeff's loathing for Kerry is entirely understandable, he is a conservative, Kerry is a liberal....what more needs be said?
Alas Joanie is part of that post-Howie Carr class of local columnist that insist success in the op-ed racket is a function of destroying some successful politician.
In horrible Howie's case it was Mike Dukakis, and the Herald's little hatchetman has dined out ever since on Mike's fall in 1988-1990.
Joanie and her colleagues hope to achieve the same power and status over the corpus liberalis of John Kerry.
A Kerry victory is therefore devoutly to be wished if for no other reason than the aggravation it'll cause the whole of the Globe's pundit line up.