Friday Notes:

Since the National Cathedral is crammed with...

A-list conservative celebrities plus sundry notables...where do you suppose Mitt Romney has been placed for the Reagan Funeral?
My guess is one of the family members prevailed on him to man the tee-shirt concession outside...as a favor to the bereaved.
And they keep calling him "Mitch" as well.
As reported by the Romney is a fraud blog, the Kolobian viceroy blithely signed off on a state holiday today after spending much of campaign 2002 railing against the excessive number of paid holidays available to state workers.
Which is why I shot into work at warp speed today untroubled by traffic.
:)

Sadly the whole thing has turned into a week long victory lap larded up with all usual political narcissism we've come to expect from that fast expiring saurian known as movement conservatism.
Ideologically bankrupt, movement conservatism and it's President are desperate to extract as much secular benefit as they can from a sick old man's funeral.
Sad isn't it?
These we the guys who were gonna privatise the universe and blow up everyone who got in their way...look what they've come to:
Bereft of coherent ideology, short on accomplishments and mired in an unnecessary war, a battered George Bush Jr. has glommed onto Reagan's last roundup as means to bolster his own candidacy.
The Bush-Cheney website is suddenly sodden with Reagan pix and the usual worshipful piffle.
Frankly, I don't think the current President compares well with late Great Communicator in any way...the comparisons will only serve to put Bush's many short comings in a harsh light in due course.
There is mourning music in the air today, but it's not just for Reagan it is for the entire ideology he bequeathed to the likes of La Famiglia Arbusto who has made a royal botch of the doctrine in grand style.
Ghod no wonder Nancy Reagan seethes so...