Doesn't seem like much, but it is an aphorism I often repeat to myself.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
There is something faintly disgusting about
Scot Lehigh's faith in Mitt Romney's craven opportunism as evidenced in today's Boston Globe column wherein the local pundit expresses a bizarre hope that the Former Viceroy will somehow morph back into his beloved Moderate Republican of 2002.
Of all the absolute rubbish to go spreading all over the public prints, this is the limit mah frenz.
But then this is Scot Lehigh we are talking about well into the summer of 2005, despite the Viceoy's oft voiced contempt for his home state, Scot went on and on trying to convince the Globe's readership of the Myth of Mitt's Moderation.
It was disgusting then, and it seems purely pathological now.
And there is something hypocritical about depending on Mitt's skeezy shamelessness to save the cause of Moderate Republicanism in the Commonwealth. He'd never let a democrat get away with such changeability, Lehigh would call it "indecisiveness" and go howling onto the streets brandishing his tomahawk.
Don't forget not seven months ago Scot poured scorn on the notional candidacy of Former US Representative Joseph Kennedy for his late uncle's vacant senate seat...A shopworn bill of particulars that didn't add up to a mere quarter of Mitt Romney's sins as a public figure.
Ah but this IS Scot Lehigh we are talking about just because he is god-damned dupe doesn't mean he stops being an insolent hypocrite.
Of all the absolute rubbish to go spreading all over the public prints, this is the limit mah frenz.
But then this is Scot Lehigh we are talking about well into the summer of 2005, despite the Viceoy's oft voiced contempt for his home state, Scot went on and on trying to convince the Globe's readership of the Myth of Mitt's Moderation.
It was disgusting then, and it seems purely pathological now.
And there is something hypocritical about depending on Mitt's skeezy shamelessness to save the cause of Moderate Republicanism in the Commonwealth. He'd never let a democrat get away with such changeability, Lehigh would call it "indecisiveness" and go howling onto the streets brandishing his tomahawk.
Don't forget not seven months ago Scot poured scorn on the notional candidacy of Former US Representative Joseph Kennedy for his late uncle's vacant senate seat...A shopworn bill of particulars that didn't add up to a mere quarter of Mitt Romney's sins as a public figure.
Ah but this IS Scot Lehigh we are talking about just because he is god-damned dupe doesn't mean he stops being an insolent hypocrite.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Somewhere in the life after this one...
Out on a perfect stretch of ocean seemingly off Cape Cod, a boat races thru the waters and Teddy Kennedy laughs.
Because waaa-ay down below, the late Senator's "successor", Scott Brown just found out people are really watching him and are gonna hold his bony ass accountable.
This is a slap in the face of our new Junior Senator who like Mitt Romney believes politics was easy, no one was watching and that populism is a convenient pose with which to fool the marks at election time.
And Scott wonders why Romney was never elected President....
***
Be that as it may, this "Scott Brown Republican" rubbish won't last til July, not with Mitch McConnell cracking the whip, between the pressure from below and the pressure from above look for Brown to assume the dimensions of a pancake before Labor Day.
Because waaa-ay down below, the late Senator's "successor", Scott Brown just found out people are really watching him and are gonna hold his bony ass accountable.
This is a slap in the face of our new Junior Senator who like Mitt Romney believes politics was easy, no one was watching and that populism is a convenient pose with which to fool the marks at election time.
And Scott wonders why Romney was never elected President....
***
Be that as it may, this "Scott Brown Republican" rubbish won't last til July, not with Mitch McConnell cracking the whip, between the pressure from below and the pressure from above look for Brown to assume the dimensions of a pancake before Labor Day.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
The new paradigm
The Boston Globe will fall over in a gleeful faint everytime Senator Scott Brown does something right.
Well this comes as no surprise, the Globe always seems to attach a profound significance to the least success on the part of the GOP both local and national.
For some strange reason Morrissey Blvd seems to live in perpetual terror of some almight witchburning conservative backlash.
Well this comes as no surprise, the Globe always seems to attach a profound significance to the least success on the part of the GOP both local and national.
For some strange reason Morrissey Blvd seems to live in perpetual terror of some almight witchburning conservative backlash.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Monday Thought...
Liberals want power in a democratic context, so that they may govern liberally and for the good of the people and nation. If successful they'll take credit, that is pretty much the goals and intentions of most liberals I know.
To be sure, conservative want to govern conservatively and reap credit if success crowns their efforts, so far as that goes they do not differ from liberals in any way.
But...They also have this "destroy liberalism, destroy liberals" fetish as a concurrent ideological goal. Any one of a number of serious name conservatives out there truly believe that movement conservatism can only set up it's Utopia once liberalism has been somehow wiped out.
Now this is a childish notion on the face of it, it is shocking to think grown men believe such rubbish.
Nevertheless front talk radio to the Potomac Think Tanks up to the Halls of Congress, they all writhe in their chairs with sick ecstasy at the thought of doing any sort of damage to the cause of liberalism even if it costs them politically as conservatives.
It is appallingly self destructive to believe you can accomplish such a wholesale ideological expropriation and colonization and still live in a democracy.
But movement conservatives in the US go on believing it all the same.
So in a weird way, we are faced not with one opponent but two, with mere conservatives there can be dialogue but this anti-liberal jihadism thing cannot be negotiated with in any way. Thus we are handicapped in that when we debat we only face half of our opponents, the rest have go to ground to stoke up their resentments anew.
Think about that as we segue into a new round of debate regarding healthcare...
To be sure, conservative want to govern conservatively and reap credit if success crowns their efforts, so far as that goes they do not differ from liberals in any way.
But...They also have this "destroy liberalism, destroy liberals" fetish as a concurrent ideological goal. Any one of a number of serious name conservatives out there truly believe that movement conservatism can only set up it's Utopia once liberalism has been somehow wiped out.
Now this is a childish notion on the face of it, it is shocking to think grown men believe such rubbish.
Nevertheless front talk radio to the Potomac Think Tanks up to the Halls of Congress, they all writhe in their chairs with sick ecstasy at the thought of doing any sort of damage to the cause of liberalism even if it costs them politically as conservatives.
It is appallingly self destructive to believe you can accomplish such a wholesale ideological expropriation and colonization and still live in a democracy.
But movement conservatives in the US go on believing it all the same.
So in a weird way, we are faced not with one opponent but two, with mere conservatives there can be dialogue but this anti-liberal jihadism thing cannot be negotiated with in any way. Thus we are handicapped in that when we debat we only face half of our opponents, the rest have go to ground to stoke up their resentments anew.
Think about that as we segue into a new round of debate regarding healthcare...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Confirmed, Al Haig is deceasedwise...
Ah but Al was an original, pathetically ambitious and as devious as a Renaissance Cardinal, only the army could contain and channel a spirit like that, in any other line of work he'd a blown himself sky high from the git-go.
In fact looking back, Al fell to pieces as soon as he put on civies.
Nonetheless, it seems to me that the Former Secretary of State's achievements fall into four categories:
1.) He successfully managed the unprecedented transition from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford without any unpleasantness. There were about a hundred different ways that situation could have gone wrong and Al managed to avoid them all. No less a Solon than Tip O' Neill paid tribute to Haig's subtle political skills.
2.) It is likely that Al Haig spoke the worst political english since the imperial high noon of Warren Gameliel Harding, "caveat" as a verb for example. The mind truly boggles what marvels he would have inflicted on the Washington lexicon if he had become President.
3.) For all his political acumen, he stumbled badly when Reagan was shot and he suddenly proclaimed all was well, "The Constitution" authorized him to act until the Vice President returned to DC. The relevant law was the 1947 Presidential Succession Act that left the Secretary of State nowhere near the action by statute. In one fell swoop he did the near impossible took a near Presidential assassination and exacerbated the situation tenfold by making the US Public nervous about the legitimacy of the presidential succession with his immortal cry "I'm in charge here!"
Truly it was the civies that did him in, if he'd stayed in full dragoon regalia he'd a never have indulged such undignified behavior.
4.) No one wants to admit it, but Al Haig was the first real practitioner of Bush Hatred in public life, he all but called Forty One a wimp to his face during the GOP Presidential debates in 1988. The Former NATO CinC exuded an air of a man who'd happily forego the US Presidency if he could just smack George Bush Sr in the nose with a role of quarters.
Sheer bipartisan prophesy on his part sez Humble Elias.
In fact looking back, Al fell to pieces as soon as he put on civies.
Nonetheless, it seems to me that the Former Secretary of State's achievements fall into four categories:
1.) He successfully managed the unprecedented transition from Richard Nixon to Gerald Ford without any unpleasantness. There were about a hundred different ways that situation could have gone wrong and Al managed to avoid them all. No less a Solon than Tip O' Neill paid tribute to Haig's subtle political skills.
2.) It is likely that Al Haig spoke the worst political english since the imperial high noon of Warren Gameliel Harding, "caveat" as a verb for example. The mind truly boggles what marvels he would have inflicted on the Washington lexicon if he had become President.
3.) For all his political acumen, he stumbled badly when Reagan was shot and he suddenly proclaimed all was well, "The Constitution" authorized him to act until the Vice President returned to DC. The relevant law was the 1947 Presidential Succession Act that left the Secretary of State nowhere near the action by statute. In one fell swoop he did the near impossible took a near Presidential assassination and exacerbated the situation tenfold by making the US Public nervous about the legitimacy of the presidential succession with his immortal cry "I'm in charge here!"
Truly it was the civies that did him in, if he'd stayed in full dragoon regalia he'd a never have indulged such undignified behavior.
4.) No one wants to admit it, but Al Haig was the first real practitioner of Bush Hatred in public life, he all but called Forty One a wimp to his face during the GOP Presidential debates in 1988. The Former NATO CinC exuded an air of a man who'd happily forego the US Presidency if he could just smack George Bush Sr in the nose with a role of quarters.
Sheer bipartisan prophesy on his part sez Humble Elias.
Friday, February 19, 2010
According to Senator Scott Brown
when a bunch of Saudi Extremists seize some jetliners and perform kamikaze attacks up and down the Eastern Seaboard, that is terrorism.
When some cracker blows his stack at the government, crashes his private plane into an IRS office and kills three people, that is old fashioned voter frustration.
Below is the transcript of Brown's appearance on Neil Cavuto last night in which he discusses yesterday's kamikaze attack on the Austin TX branch of the IRS.
Well it's certainly tragic and I feel for the families obviously being affected by it.
"And I don't know if it's related, but I can just sense not only in my election, but since being here in Washington, people are frustrated. They want transparency, they want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I'm not sure that there's a connection, I certainly hope not. But we need to do things better.
Cavuto: Um, you know invariably people are going to look at this and say, well, that's where some of this populist rage gets you. Isn't that a bit extreme?
Brown: Well, yeah, of course it's extreme."
I don't necessarily mind Brown's almighty narcissism, but his blockheadedness and dangerous naivete' is an affront to the Commonwealth.
Here is a link to the video.
Honestly, right now, CPAC is hard at work clapping so hard for this dumbass porch climber that they will literally weaponize his ego in one fell swoop.
When some cracker blows his stack at the government, crashes his private plane into an IRS office and kills three people, that is old fashioned voter frustration.
Below is the transcript of Brown's appearance on Neil Cavuto last night in which he discusses yesterday's kamikaze attack on the Austin TX branch of the IRS.
Well it's certainly tragic and I feel for the families obviously being affected by it.
"And I don't know if it's related, but I can just sense not only in my election, but since being here in Washington, people are frustrated. They want transparency, they want their elected officials to be accountable and open and talk about the things that are affecting their daily lives. So I'm not sure that there's a connection, I certainly hope not. But we need to do things better.
Cavuto: Um, you know invariably people are going to look at this and say, well, that's where some of this populist rage gets you. Isn't that a bit extreme?
Brown: Well, yeah, of course it's extreme."
I don't necessarily mind Brown's almighty narcissism, but his blockheadedness and dangerous naivete' is an affront to the Commonwealth.
Here is a link to the video.
Honestly, right now, CPAC is hard at work clapping so hard for this dumbass porch climber that they will literally weaponize his ego in one fell swoop.
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