gone-gone-gone like the wind for the entire month of August it seems, you'd think the Kolobian Viceroy was the Prefect of Paris or something.
In the meantime the battle for reform has been taken to some interesting places; Provo Utah, Athens Greece, Lake Winnipesaukee (where sadly no one could be found worthy of rescue from drowning) and then Nashua High School yesterday for a grovel event with his President.
Really the reform war seems to be going on everywhere but in Massachusetts...apparently our current job hemorrhage is small beers to a man seemingly bred to a heroic destiny...really any destiny as long as it is somewhere else.
You'd think Romney would at least ring up Bank of America to protest the layoffs at Fleet...nope it is more important to pretend to be a moderate GOP governor down in NYC right now.
Shawn Feddeman, the governor's grossly overpaid and insufferably insincere mouthpiece asserts that since Mitt doesn't actually accept his salary he is pretty much free to come and go as he likes. This is an entirely unique update of the old "divine right of kings" concept...Shawns argument being that since Mitt doesn't cash his checks he get to treat Massachusetts like an absentee landlord.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Monday, August 30, 2004
Cadillacs for Bush...
I must've been the only Kerry-Edwards drudge up in Nashua NH today who didn't know the President was in town.
All I heard was a big visibility was called for...and so off I went.
When humble Elias got there Bush, Romney, and whatever cheap bastard is currently serving as Governor of New Hampshire were all infesting Nashua High School trying to ignite a rally.
So far as I could see this was the big confab for Massachusetts Republicans, there must've been humdreds of them bused in from the Bay State.
The Cadillac revolutionaries were out in force as well...dozens of the damn things kept sweeping past us and down the road to the GOP event.
And then there was us out on the curb...several hundred Kerry-Edwards drones with a bunch of ACT-UP servitors sprinkled in for good measure.
I have to say, some of those ACT-UP guys have problems with courtesy and self control.
on the other hand the average New Hampshire voter's passion for verbal confrontation is as yet undimmed. I myself got accosted by some wrinkled old yob who was screeching away at me about abstinence education and how it will save my kids from being "infected an' diseased".
He was flailing around some book by Tammy Bruce....presumably her hymen and beyond are uninfected and undiseased.
And this is a fairly typical encounter in New Hampshire during an election year. The locals have always taken a gleeful delight in haranguing unwary campaign volunteers.
The Bush campaign didn't have much presence on the streets that I can see...but as I said they made up for it by calling us all sorts of jolly names as they drove by.
I felt bad for the cops who had to stand the watch in the hot sun today...those kevlar vests make things pretty toasty.
Oh yeah and the Secret Service was there...looking displeased as usual.
Just another typical day on the campaign hustings in the Granite State.
All I heard was a big visibility was called for...and so off I went.
When humble Elias got there Bush, Romney, and whatever cheap bastard is currently serving as Governor of New Hampshire were all infesting Nashua High School trying to ignite a rally.
So far as I could see this was the big confab for Massachusetts Republicans, there must've been humdreds of them bused in from the Bay State.
The Cadillac revolutionaries were out in force as well...dozens of the damn things kept sweeping past us and down the road to the GOP event.
And then there was us out on the curb...several hundred Kerry-Edwards drones with a bunch of ACT-UP servitors sprinkled in for good measure.
I have to say, some of those ACT-UP guys have problems with courtesy and self control.
on the other hand the average New Hampshire voter's passion for verbal confrontation is as yet undimmed. I myself got accosted by some wrinkled old yob who was screeching away at me about abstinence education and how it will save my kids from being "infected an' diseased".
He was flailing around some book by Tammy Bruce....presumably her hymen and beyond are uninfected and undiseased.
And this is a fairly typical encounter in New Hampshire during an election year. The locals have always taken a gleeful delight in haranguing unwary campaign volunteers.
The Bush campaign didn't have much presence on the streets that I can see...but as I said they made up for it by calling us all sorts of jolly names as they drove by.
I felt bad for the cops who had to stand the watch in the hot sun today...those kevlar vests make things pretty toasty.
Oh yeah and the Secret Service was there...looking displeased as usual.
Just another typical day on the campaign hustings in the Granite State.
Saturday, August 28, 2004
What is promised in Bush's notional second term?
The President will outline a lavish series of proposals at the upcoming RNC convention.
The can be boiled down to a simple easy to remember list:
More Spending
More Debt
Less Freedom
And More Lies....
Along the way he'll hang the queers, make voting a joke, reinvest the royal prerogative in the Bush Family, shoot the abortion doctors, sell off social security at flea market prices, and put the U.S. Senate behind barbed wire...if he can.
But those are the mere baubles...things to be grabbed off if the pickin's are easy as it were.
The main points of his program are neatly summarized above.
It is a pretty ugly stunted sort of a program, but that can't be helped...it is the times we live in that render the President's beloved doctrine a wan wasted thing.
George Bush Jr. is the first U.S. President raised and indoctrinated from birth in the grand counter-revolutionary tradition of modern conservatism. The great irony of his administration is that he has come to power in a time of decline for conservatism as political theory. The great intellectual engines and solons of the movement have fallen at last into a particularly gross torpor. They haven't coughed up an original idea in over a decade...and the next ten years promises even less in the way of rigorous thinking on the right.
Oh they may well go on governing...the symbols and populist rage of U.S. conservatism are self perpetuating even as the intellectual wellsprings of the movement run completely dry.
The question then arrises for those of us who aren't inclined to sell the nation out to Reverend Moon or the thieves over at Halliburton...what next?
What is to be done...?
Sooner or later conservatism must hit the wall...just as liberalism outlasted it's welcome all those years ago.
Who will govern in their place?
Are WE ready?
I think not, there is some pleasing intellectual ferment on the left right now but nothing capable of unifying the nation and taking it forward.
What is to be done?
The can be boiled down to a simple easy to remember list:
More Spending
More Debt
Less Freedom
And More Lies....
Along the way he'll hang the queers, make voting a joke, reinvest the royal prerogative in the Bush Family, shoot the abortion doctors, sell off social security at flea market prices, and put the U.S. Senate behind barbed wire...if he can.
But those are the mere baubles...things to be grabbed off if the pickin's are easy as it were.
The main points of his program are neatly summarized above.
It is a pretty ugly stunted sort of a program, but that can't be helped...it is the times we live in that render the President's beloved doctrine a wan wasted thing.
George Bush Jr. is the first U.S. President raised and indoctrinated from birth in the grand counter-revolutionary tradition of modern conservatism. The great irony of his administration is that he has come to power in a time of decline for conservatism as political theory. The great intellectual engines and solons of the movement have fallen at last into a particularly gross torpor. They haven't coughed up an original idea in over a decade...and the next ten years promises even less in the way of rigorous thinking on the right.
Oh they may well go on governing...the symbols and populist rage of U.S. conservatism are self perpetuating even as the intellectual wellsprings of the movement run completely dry.
The question then arrises for those of us who aren't inclined to sell the nation out to Reverend Moon or the thieves over at Halliburton...what next?
What is to be done...?
Sooner or later conservatism must hit the wall...just as liberalism outlasted it's welcome all those years ago.
Who will govern in their place?
Are WE ready?
I think not, there is some pleasing intellectual ferment on the left right now but nothing capable of unifying the nation and taking it forward.
What is to be done?
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Owing to my low ratings....
I've decided to take a few days off in order to retool "The Chimes at Midnight" into something more attractive to christian fundamentalists and out-of-state wowsers of all persuasions.
:)
:)
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Awww...Dick Cheney has gone all bleedin' heart on us...
The Vice President has gone so far to the left as to assert that gay marriage ought to be left to the states to decide.
In this matter Cheney has lined up with such arid Stalinists as Senator John Forbes Kerry and Orrin Hatch!
I wonder why Cheney is kanoodling with the token moderates of the GOP?
You know, the Pataki, Arnie, and Rudy,that whole crowd. These are men with no power whatsoever over GWB's headlong flight to catastrophe-the same hapless meat puppets who will be extensively on display at the RNC in New York like captured Hottentots.
Has Karl Rove told Dick the campaign needs the votes of the three guys left in the Log Cabin Coalition who are standing by the President?
Have the margins gotten that slim?
Given his documented hold over the President you'd think Dick would have dummied up on the issue.
But no there he was spewing his "nuanced and complex" view of the issue....a shamefully equivocal pronouncement from an administration whose cries for blood and dynamite are the answer to seemingly everything.
What DO the wowsers make of this???
I wonder if this means that Dick is getting tossed overboard at the New York Convention?
I doubt it...GWB is famous for his cartoonish devotion to his alleged underlings.
On the other hand waiting in the wings rubbing his hands and smacking his lips with glee is Senator Rick Santorum a reliable homophobe and demagogue of the first rank...and Bush does stress loyalty, conmpatibility and slavery.
:)
maybe Bush just wants a Veep who won't call him "Georgie Boy".
In this matter Cheney has lined up with such arid Stalinists as Senator John Forbes Kerry and Orrin Hatch!
I wonder why Cheney is kanoodling with the token moderates of the GOP?
You know, the Pataki, Arnie, and Rudy,that whole crowd. These are men with no power whatsoever over GWB's headlong flight to catastrophe-the same hapless meat puppets who will be extensively on display at the RNC in New York like captured Hottentots.
Has Karl Rove told Dick the campaign needs the votes of the three guys left in the Log Cabin Coalition who are standing by the President?
Have the margins gotten that slim?
Given his documented hold over the President you'd think Dick would have dummied up on the issue.
But no there he was spewing his "nuanced and complex" view of the issue....a shamefully equivocal pronouncement from an administration whose cries for blood and dynamite are the answer to seemingly everything.
What DO the wowsers make of this???
I wonder if this means that Dick is getting tossed overboard at the New York Convention?
I doubt it...GWB is famous for his cartoonish devotion to his alleged underlings.
On the other hand waiting in the wings rubbing his hands and smacking his lips with glee is Senator Rick Santorum a reliable homophobe and demagogue of the first rank...and Bush does stress loyalty, conmpatibility and slavery.
:)
maybe Bush just wants a Veep who won't call him "Georgie Boy".
Monday, August 23, 2004
Bob Dole has a lot of god damned nerve
doesn't he?
Casting aspersions on John Kerry's war record like that.
Some patriot Dole turned out to be....
Did anyone try to dig up some war related dirt on Dole when he ran against Clinton in 1996?
Ohhhhh...Nooooo....BOB is part of the "greatest generation" and thus sacrosanct...duly blessed by that hopelessly inane fraud Tom Brokaw.
The modern GOP puts a premium on shamelessness; and now finally in his eight decade Bob Dole an otherwise inoffensive old golem has finally learned how to smear like a Newt Gingrich.
The creepy old bastard must be all proud of his vile self.
Not for nothing though, but hasn't Senator Kerry already released all his war records?
Not only is Bob Dole a shameless old hatchet man, he is also senile as well.
The GOP is utterly out of control in this country, they desperately need to lose campaign 2004 if for no other reason than to break the power of La Famiglia Arbusto and put some decent patriotic personalities in charge...
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Casting aspersions on John Kerry's war record like that.
Some patriot Dole turned out to be....
Did anyone try to dig up some war related dirt on Dole when he ran against Clinton in 1996?
Ohhhhh...Nooooo....BOB is part of the "greatest generation" and thus sacrosanct...duly blessed by that hopelessly inane fraud Tom Brokaw.
The modern GOP puts a premium on shamelessness; and now finally in his eight decade Bob Dole an otherwise inoffensive old golem has finally learned how to smear like a Newt Gingrich.
The creepy old bastard must be all proud of his vile self.
Not for nothing though, but hasn't Senator Kerry already released all his war records?
Not only is Bob Dole a shameless old hatchet man, he is also senile as well.
The GOP is utterly out of control in this country, they desperately need to lose campaign 2004 if for no other reason than to break the power of La Famiglia Arbusto and put some decent patriotic personalities in charge...
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Jacoby's column in today's
Sunday Globe is a minor masterpiece…pursuant to the hurricane damage in Florida Jeff actually attempts to argue that price gouging speeds the recovery effort.
This would be funny if the poor and the elderly weren’t paying thirty bucks for a bag of ice needed to keep one’s medication appropriately chilled.
Obviously Jeff just doesn’t see it in those terms.
High prices, he pontificates, will price in more commodities from merchants seeking a big pay off thus the hidden hand will soon be raising roofs in the trailer parks up and down Fort Myers Beach.
Exploitation is good sayeth the laughing young senescence.
This assumes of course that it is economic to send truckloads of ice and other necessities down the gulf Coast’s battered and shattered highways in search of a big pay off.
It may not be on grounds that a one hundred percent mark up in the price of chain saws is preventing anyone from clearing the fallen trees.
Oh I could go on this vein….but why bother?
If price gouging is so damn wonderful why not privatize FEMA and extract payment from the locals for every service rendered?
By Jeff’s logic this is exactly what we should do in order to rebuild the Gulf Coast in jig-time.
There is something about Jeff’s Sunday column that is especially dogmatic and hilariously narrow minded. It is like he has had two full working days to evolve an exquisitely inane defense of whatever he thinks is imperiling conservative theology this week.
There is however something desperate,humorless, and almost missionary about his constant defenses of the holy free market. No matter how irrelevant the situation there we will find Jeff Jacoby unashamedly down on his knees before the pagan idol of raw commerce, abasing himself in the most crude and servile fashion possible.
Sad really…no sorry it’s freakin’ hilarious.
This would be funny if the poor and the elderly weren’t paying thirty bucks for a bag of ice needed to keep one’s medication appropriately chilled.
Obviously Jeff just doesn’t see it in those terms.
High prices, he pontificates, will price in more commodities from merchants seeking a big pay off thus the hidden hand will soon be raising roofs in the trailer parks up and down Fort Myers Beach.
Exploitation is good sayeth the laughing young senescence.
This assumes of course that it is economic to send truckloads of ice and other necessities down the gulf Coast’s battered and shattered highways in search of a big pay off.
It may not be on grounds that a one hundred percent mark up in the price of chain saws is preventing anyone from clearing the fallen trees.
Oh I could go on this vein….but why bother?
If price gouging is so damn wonderful why not privatize FEMA and extract payment from the locals for every service rendered?
By Jeff’s logic this is exactly what we should do in order to rebuild the Gulf Coast in jig-time.
There is something about Jeff’s Sunday column that is especially dogmatic and hilariously narrow minded. It is like he has had two full working days to evolve an exquisitely inane defense of whatever he thinks is imperiling conservative theology this week.
There is however something desperate,humorless, and almost missionary about his constant defenses of the holy free market. No matter how irrelevant the situation there we will find Jeff Jacoby unashamedly down on his knees before the pagan idol of raw commerce, abasing himself in the most crude and servile fashion possible.
Sad really…no sorry it’s freakin’ hilarious.
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