Mitt Romney is still clarifying his views on abortion and answering critics by pushing his views ever farther to the right.
The charge of craveness has been leveled against the former Viceroy of Massachusetts, that may weight heavily on him as the GOP primary process unfolds.
On the other hand it has been my observation that the right wing will make a deal with almost any useful halfwit or no talent geek in order to retain power.
And being essentially a political mollusk, Romney will happily say yes to almost any insane wingnut proposal if it'll keep the sordid likes of Grover Norquist and falangists like William Donohue on his side.
Mind you, that does not mean Mitt will actually follow thru with any of those promises, not if it occasions a serious threat to his popularity or political manueverability. We here in Massachusetts have seen him walk away from a dozen or so trivial to difficult fights these past four years...trust me if it is one thing Mitt is good at it is the art of bluster driven empty threats.
Ah but all that is for the future, right now Mitt's plan looks good on paper, raise a lot of money, wait for Guiliani and McCain to get into some savage death struggle and then hand-job the radical right into backing Romney.
Yup...looks tres formidable, except that it didn't work for John Connolly in 1980 or Pierre DuPont in 1988 or Steve Forbes in 1992, and it may not work for the Former Viceroy either.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
"Crazy Astronauts in Love"
solemn commentary on the Lisa Nowak scandal can be found at Channel Zero.
Chris Matthews on Imus in the Morning
I caught the tail end of Chris' call-in today on the way to Alewife Station just down the dirt road from the magickal village of Menotomy.
He was shilling for Rudy Guiliani's nascent presidential candidacy and slavishly praising the former Mayor of New York for cleaning up with city with "a pinch of fascism" thrown in for good measure.
My Ghod, just what does a fat pompous jerk-off like Chris Matthews know about fascism anyway?
The answer is patently nothing, to the Overclass and it's apologists like Chris, fascism means "safe streets" (in white neighborhoods of course). To the rest of us fascism means too much power in the hands of those with too few scruples.
If nothing else this beautifully illustrates the DC Punditariat's persistent haughtiness when dealing in the very real and dangerous issues of power and justice.
Don't let Matthews' Overclass bona fides fool you though, he is also capable of making all sorts of foolish pseudo populist noises a'la the Ambassador from Caucasiastan, Mike Barnicle. To hear Chris tell it, Rudy Guiliani will make all of America safe for guys in wife-beaters and the drinkers of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Insufferable and giddy that was Matthews on Rudy Guiliani.
***
But wait there is more, did I mention that Chris has turned against the war in Iraq?
That was a howl believe me.
Let us never forgetthat the day after Bush pranced neath' that big Mission Accomplished banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Matthews and Imus could be found on the air cackling like school boys about how "great" Bush looked in his borrowed flight suit.
They were both utterly repulsive Iraq triumphalists that day and now some three years later with the winds of chaos blowing ever hearder they've both drifted over to the anti-camp like tumble weeds.
Honestly I don't care if these yaps are conservative, falangist or even homicidal book idolators. The smug, the powerful, the primitive and the paranoid will always be with us their right to free speech cannot be denied.
What I do mind is the shameless opportunism of hacks like Chris Matthews who change their minds at the first change in the breeze and make great gusty pretense of being on your side all along!
In 2003, Chris Matthews would've happily cancelled democracy and crowned George Bush King-Emperor Pillar-of-Fire-on-Earth.
Never forget this, Chris Matthews is craven and untrustworthy he is a flatterer, a trimmer and a courtier not a newsman or even a pundit worth reading or watching.
He was shilling for Rudy Guiliani's nascent presidential candidacy and slavishly praising the former Mayor of New York for cleaning up with city with "a pinch of fascism" thrown in for good measure.
My Ghod, just what does a fat pompous jerk-off like Chris Matthews know about fascism anyway?
The answer is patently nothing, to the Overclass and it's apologists like Chris, fascism means "safe streets" (in white neighborhoods of course). To the rest of us fascism means too much power in the hands of those with too few scruples.
If nothing else this beautifully illustrates the DC Punditariat's persistent haughtiness when dealing in the very real and dangerous issues of power and justice.
Don't let Matthews' Overclass bona fides fool you though, he is also capable of making all sorts of foolish pseudo populist noises a'la the Ambassador from Caucasiastan, Mike Barnicle. To hear Chris tell it, Rudy Guiliani will make all of America safe for guys in wife-beaters and the drinkers of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Insufferable and giddy that was Matthews on Rudy Guiliani.
***
But wait there is more, did I mention that Chris has turned against the war in Iraq?
That was a howl believe me.
Let us never forgetthat the day after Bush pranced neath' that big Mission Accomplished banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, Matthews and Imus could be found on the air cackling like school boys about how "great" Bush looked in his borrowed flight suit.
They were both utterly repulsive Iraq triumphalists that day and now some three years later with the winds of chaos blowing ever hearder they've both drifted over to the anti-camp like tumble weeds.
Honestly I don't care if these yaps are conservative, falangist or even homicidal book idolators. The smug, the powerful, the primitive and the paranoid will always be with us their right to free speech cannot be denied.
What I do mind is the shameless opportunism of hacks like Chris Matthews who change their minds at the first change in the breeze and make great gusty pretense of being on your side all along!
In 2003, Chris Matthews would've happily cancelled democracy and crowned George Bush King-Emperor Pillar-of-Fire-on-Earth.
Never forget this, Chris Matthews is craven and untrustworthy he is a flatterer, a trimmer and a courtier not a newsman or even a pundit worth reading or watching.
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
The Senate GOP has blocked debate on a resolution
decrying our present policy in Iraq.
What we have here is a bunch of guys with approval rating mired in the low forties, defending a President with a thirty percent approval rating on behalf of a war policy that sixty eight percent of the electorate opposes.
Ahhh the sheer spectacle of Gordon Smith, John Sununu Jr and Norm Coleman all expending the last of their political capital on behalf of Bush's failed presidency is a wondrous thing to behold.
Two years ago, these assholes strutted around the country cracking their rhetorical horsewhips like they were plantation overseers.
Now look at them, hell bent for political immolation.
Well...the current situation isn't sustainable in any way, soon enough these guys will have to wake up to the fact that the President's policy will give them no political succor whatsoever...it is either that or go off a cliff in 2008.
If so, then so be it, they have brought the whole catastrophe down upon their own heads. Insufferable in victory and vindictive in defeat, so goes the fabled conservative monolith right off a cliff.
What we have here is a bunch of guys with approval rating mired in the low forties, defending a President with a thirty percent approval rating on behalf of a war policy that sixty eight percent of the electorate opposes.
Ahhh the sheer spectacle of Gordon Smith, John Sununu Jr and Norm Coleman all expending the last of their political capital on behalf of Bush's failed presidency is a wondrous thing to behold.
Two years ago, these assholes strutted around the country cracking their rhetorical horsewhips like they were plantation overseers.
Now look at them, hell bent for political immolation.
Well...the current situation isn't sustainable in any way, soon enough these guys will have to wake up to the fact that the President's policy will give them no political succor whatsoever...it is either that or go off a cliff in 2008.
If so, then so be it, they have brought the whole catastrophe down upon their own heads. Insufferable in victory and vindictive in defeat, so goes the fabled conservative monolith right off a cliff.
Monday, February 05, 2007
A question worth revisiting as we lurch towards
endgame with La Famiglia Arbusto...
Just when did a sitting Vice President of the United States obtain the authority to order US Armed Forces into action?
The constitution grants the VP no such power either in peacetime or in a military emergency...he gains such authority only if and when he becomes President.
Josh Marshall's post that I link to above delves more deeply into VP Cheney's inexplicable usurpation of authority on 9-11. It is well worth reading...and I'll only add this query...who has the nuclear launch codes? Bush or Cheney or maybe both?
The electorate have a right to have these questions answered honestly.
Just when did a sitting Vice President of the United States obtain the authority to order US Armed Forces into action?
The constitution grants the VP no such power either in peacetime or in a military emergency...he gains such authority only if and when he becomes President.
Josh Marshall's post that I link to above delves more deeply into VP Cheney's inexplicable usurpation of authority on 9-11. It is well worth reading...and I'll only add this query...who has the nuclear launch codes? Bush or Cheney or maybe both?
The electorate have a right to have these questions answered honestly.
Friday, February 02, 2007
Well...
What the Berdovsky Affair seems to have taught us is that the line between guerilla advertising, guerilla theater and actual guerilla warfare is so thin as to be indistinguishable.
William S. Burroughs' conjured with this notion back in the 1960's in his little known unpublished manuscript "The Real Boy Scout Manual". Herein Burroughs advocates a variety of unique guerilla tactics for the aspiring Jefe Maximo, from the compilation of fictitious lists of fellow travelers that would prod police repression to the recruitment of street gang youths as de-facto praetorian guardsmen.
He also discussed the efficacy of faux bomb threats and other malevolent stunts.
Curiously appropos would you not say?
On an unrelated note, I have to say that Berdovksy and Stevens' churlish and inane performance at their arraignment yesterday probably doomed any hope of holding Interference Inc or Turner Broadcasting accountable for their entirely questionable advertising tactics.
A simple apology would have left the two of them forgotten and send the press hounds baying after Turner Inc et al...but no the camera's little red light came on ands Berdovsky started braying like a jack-ass.
Given the outrage the two artists have attracted they are worth treble their money for the attention they've taken off their employers.
William S. Burroughs' conjured with this notion back in the 1960's in his little known unpublished manuscript "The Real Boy Scout Manual". Herein Burroughs advocates a variety of unique guerilla tactics for the aspiring Jefe Maximo, from the compilation of fictitious lists of fellow travelers that would prod police repression to the recruitment of street gang youths as de-facto praetorian guardsmen.
He also discussed the efficacy of faux bomb threats and other malevolent stunts.
Curiously appropos would you not say?
On an unrelated note, I have to say that Berdovksy and Stevens' churlish and inane performance at their arraignment yesterday probably doomed any hope of holding Interference Inc or Turner Broadcasting accountable for their entirely questionable advertising tactics.
A simple apology would have left the two of them forgotten and send the press hounds baying after Turner Inc et al...but no the camera's little red light came on ands Berdovsky started braying like a jack-ass.
Given the outrage the two artists have attracted they are worth treble their money for the attention they've taken off their employers.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
Thoughts While Bathing...
Peter Berdovsky had better hire himself a damn good lawyer that is all I can say.
We ought to print up some black tee-shirts with the legend "Dinesh D'Souza says I'm a traitor". Copyright the phrase...put it everywhere...sell the damn things for big bucks.
Television is amazing, it permeates our lives and yet it still demands attention like a needy five year old, this is how Mr. Berdovsky,dreads, soul patch and allmisc ended up working for Turner Broadcasting.
I don't think Meehan is gonna jump to ULowell...this is a naught but a Massachusetts' congressman's idea of a mid-life crisis. For the next two years Nancy Pelosi's House will be where the action is, he'd be crazy to give that up.
Molly Ivins is dead...the heaven's do shake.
I'll know Deval Patrick is on the right track on the day that Joanie Vennochi breaks with him. So give it about say...two more weeks and then we can breath a sigh of relief.
Hillary Clinton for President? If I wanted a dynast with high name recognition I'd be out there banging the pots like a drunken porch harpie for ex-congressman Joseph P. Kennedy to get back into the game.
Saa-ay come to think of it....
(Old codger voice) When I was twenty-nine I smart enough to realize that making fools of the staties and the BPD Bomb Squad never ends well...kid's today!
Usually everyone signs off on fluffy posts like this with an admonition as to where to find the best coffee...but of course, Humble Elias doesn't drink coffee.
We ought to print up some black tee-shirts with the legend "Dinesh D'Souza says I'm a traitor". Copyright the phrase...put it everywhere...sell the damn things for big bucks.
Television is amazing, it permeates our lives and yet it still demands attention like a needy five year old, this is how Mr. Berdovsky,dreads, soul patch and allmisc ended up working for Turner Broadcasting.
I don't think Meehan is gonna jump to ULowell...this is a naught but a Massachusetts' congressman's idea of a mid-life crisis. For the next two years Nancy Pelosi's House will be where the action is, he'd be crazy to give that up.
Molly Ivins is dead...the heaven's do shake.
I'll know Deval Patrick is on the right track on the day that Joanie Vennochi breaks with him. So give it about say...two more weeks and then we can breath a sigh of relief.
Hillary Clinton for President? If I wanted a dynast with high name recognition I'd be out there banging the pots like a drunken porch harpie for ex-congressman Joseph P. Kennedy to get back into the game.
Saa-ay come to think of it....
(Old codger voice) When I was twenty-nine I smart enough to realize that making fools of the staties and the BPD Bomb Squad never ends well...kid's today!
Usually everyone signs off on fluffy posts like this with an admonition as to where to find the best coffee...but of course, Humble Elias doesn't drink coffee.
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