Let’s review, shall we? Recently I said that, in the wake of Joe Stack’s suicide plunge into an IRS building and resulting attention to his rambling political memo, there would soon be imitators. Now, scant days later, we have John Bedell, shooting up a metro stop outside of the Pentagon. He leaves behind writings full of anti-government bile. Now do you believe that there will be another? And another? Glenn Becks and Rush Limbaughs of the world take notice: your responsibility is becoming clearer every day.
What else? Exaggerated importance has been given to Sarah Palin’s stand up routine on Leno. Since we first saw her at the Republican convention in August 2008, has she ever given a speech that was anything other than a collection of one-liners? Wouldn’t you think by now that she would be better than the halting, unsure performer we saw the other night? Everyone seems pretty giddy over a bit that was short on real wit and long on amateurism. Since she abandoned the governorship for the green pastures of punditry I have said that she is so much less interested in public office than she is in making a buck. See anything that’s changed?
Logan Airport in Boston got a set of the new body scanners this week. Any bets on how long it will take before someone leaks images of attractive females?
Speaking of leaks, that powerpoint slide of Republican donation strategies has gotten the media pretty excited. Seems like some over eager planner described how they should go after regular folks vs the wealthy, by stoking fear and reactionary panic among little folks like you and me, while stroking the rich while handing them cheap, GOP-branded souvenirs. That they suggest doing these things is not the scandal of course, only that they were stupid enough to put it in writing. These are exactly the talking points they have been following so effectively since the good old days of Lee Atwater in the 1980’s.
Barack Obama finally told the Grand Old Party that he was going to move ahead on Healthcare Reform, without them if necessary. He enumerated how many items on their wish list had made it into the bill, and not surprisingly it’s still not enough for them. I guess he finally realized that they’re just not that into him. Maybe he should take the ones who got him there (progressives, that is), to the dance. And since they really want the public option, maybe that could be their corsage. Okay, this metaphor is starting to creep me out.
Finally, Karl Rove has just released a book in the same week that Alice in Wonderland came out. One of these is a fairy tale complete with unbelievable characters acting weirdly. The other one was written by Lewis Carroll.
this guy might be a tad elementary for you, but give him a listen anyway:
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if you feel like getting frothed up, on the other hand, i offer you this man:
http://www.victorhanson.com/
I cannot disagree with everything V.H. has to say, but it seems apparent that he has staked out the turf of being anti-Obama. Being President is not an art (at least since Roosevelt),, but an attempt to ride the beast without being thrown. Since Roosevelt, Barack has inherited the worst hands of cards, ever. By that, I have to include a Democratic congress which cannot act uniformly, and a Republican one which certainly can, even at the expense of the American public's interest. I also feel disappointment at some of Obama's actions and inactions, but he is too good and his potential is too great to simply condemn his every move, as V.H. seems committed to do.
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