President Bush is getting thumped by everyone these days. That the Democrats cannot find anything good to say is not surprising. But nowadays it is becoming chic for the conservative talk hosts to break with the party line.
A few months ago they would have been roundly criticized by their own for giving aid and sucor to the enemy (Lefties). Now that lockstep thinking is falling apart. The widening gyre of public opinion seems to be skewing against the party in power.
There is a general feeling of "They can't get the job done." This applies to a multitude of topics, from closing our borders to illegal immigration, to disaster relief, to Iraq, North Korea, Africa, space, etc. The daily news is a constant reminder of how poorly things are going in our diplomatic relations and foreign policy.
Today Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globes's pet conservative, wrote one of his best columns - which took the Republican-dominated governemnt to task for helping Bush blow the reality lid off of national spending. What happened to the Republican reverence for small government? Jacoby notes that the unrestained, unbalanced power of Republicans in congress and in the white house has resulted in the corruption and arrogance that lets them add 6,000 pork addendums to a recent highway bill.
This is not Haiti; this is the US Congress.
Clear thinkers on the Conservative bench are beginning to realize that this failure to live-up to traditional Republican values has shown the incumbants to be the same hacks and whores that they decry. And the voting public might just hold the Bush administration responsible. This could the way for a smart well-funded contender in 2008 who can easily demonstrate that she could not be any worse than the rascals who drove the deficit up by trillions of dollars.
This scares the hell out of them.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Monday, September 26, 2005
New Informative link
Clooney has been humping a right wing blog penned by former frat boy Dartmouth alumni who have the amazing talent for taking an interesting issue and making it tedious to read about. Check it out for yourself. I have removed the link to the one-trick pony blog of self-described comedian Andy Borowitz.
Show me a conservative who would post a link to a liberal leaning blogger. You cannot. This is the difference between the good guys and conservatives. We are better looking, smarter, and nicer. We don't mind letting you see what the other side is affirming as fact.
We know that when you realize that these people are on the same side as that moron Sean Hannity you will suddenly realize how vapid their thought process is.
Show me a conservative who would post a link to a liberal leaning blogger. You cannot. This is the difference between the good guys and conservatives. We are better looking, smarter, and nicer. We don't mind letting you see what the other side is affirming as fact.
We know that when you realize that these people are on the same side as that moron Sean Hannity you will suddenly realize how vapid their thought process is.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Descent into Hell
The stark images on the evening news often give us pause to be glad we are not there - wherever the disaster is taking place. We are comforted by the knowledge that our high standard of taxation has funded a rich infrastructure which can protect us from all but the worst natural events - or at least come and help us in any situation short of global thermonuclear war.
Or, maybe the self-serving bureacrats and shysters have used all the tax money on conferences and trips to Dubai. These folks - the dept of homeboy security and FEMA have aptly demonstrated that they can only perform well in well-orchestrated drills. These political hires were betting their careers on the hope that if a the Category 5 came ashore, it wwould be in Mexico or some boogerglob Island in the Carribean. They lost that bet and they shouild be fired, maybe tarred and feathered. Let us hope that this experience will serve as the wake-up call for those true dumpfucks charged with planning the safety of the citizens.
New Orleans never smelled good. If you have ever walked down Bourban Street in the Summer you had to breath through your mouth to avoid inhaling the rank odor of stale beer, rotting food and human piss. The downtown area has almost the same population as Boston. But the murder rate in NO is 10 times that of Boston. It is kind of ironic that the Hurricane is the most popular tourist drink - served in a glass that resembles a lantern shape.
The scenes from the so-called shelters in New Orleans - the convention center and the superdome arena are mind boggling. Hellhole defined. No Electricity, 90 degree heat, no water no plumbing and no food. Add 30,000 people. Now you have proof that God apparently hates poor people. One salient fact - everyone in New Orleans is either bone thin or Micky Dees fat - and most of them and their kids are fat. It did not require the skills of a trained systems analyst to notice that most of them are black.
The media is having a field day spotlighting those camera flies like Jesse Jackson who want to call it racism, because the relief did not arrive fast enough to save everyone.
There are some real questions that need answering about the response, but I see that most of the people who are arriving to help are white. How is that racism?
Another interesting contrast. In the Mississippi coastal towns where the people are just as black and just as poor as the city folk, you did not hear the cry "Where is the government? They need to give us help." The Mississippians were saying, "We lost everything, but we are alive. We will just have to start rebuilding." It seems the independent spirit still survives in the rural towns and counties.
There is a big lesson in all this tragedy and loss. Most of us urban and suburban folk are are just a few days away from Hell - if the power goes off (no ice, no TV, no A/C), if the 7-11 runs out of milk or tonic water, if the weekly paycheck does not arrive, or the plumbing stops working. Many of us are - like the unfortunate folks in New Orleans - mostly dependent on a just-in-time infrastructure.
It is shameful that so many are in such a hurry to politicize this event. It's appalling to hear the usual gang of idiots rushing to exploit this tragedy to further a ideological agenda.
One thing I would add to FEMA's list of "To Do's" in preparation for the next major disaster: Shoot the first looters you see carrying anything but food. I guarentee this will stop looting before it get's to be a form of entertainment.
Or, maybe the self-serving bureacrats and shysters have used all the tax money on conferences and trips to Dubai. These folks - the dept of homeboy security and FEMA have aptly demonstrated that they can only perform well in well-orchestrated drills. These political hires were betting their careers on the hope that if a the Category 5 came ashore, it wwould be in Mexico or some boogerglob Island in the Carribean. They lost that bet and they shouild be fired, maybe tarred and feathered. Let us hope that this experience will serve as the wake-up call for those true dumpfucks charged with planning the safety of the citizens.
New Orleans never smelled good. If you have ever walked down Bourban Street in the Summer you had to breath through your mouth to avoid inhaling the rank odor of stale beer, rotting food and human piss. The downtown area has almost the same population as Boston. But the murder rate in NO is 10 times that of Boston. It is kind of ironic that the Hurricane is the most popular tourist drink - served in a glass that resembles a lantern shape.
The scenes from the so-called shelters in New Orleans - the convention center and the superdome arena are mind boggling. Hellhole defined. No Electricity, 90 degree heat, no water no plumbing and no food. Add 30,000 people. Now you have proof that God apparently hates poor people. One salient fact - everyone in New Orleans is either bone thin or Micky Dees fat - and most of them and their kids are fat. It did not require the skills of a trained systems analyst to notice that most of them are black.
The media is having a field day spotlighting those camera flies like Jesse Jackson who want to call it racism, because the relief did not arrive fast enough to save everyone.
There are some real questions that need answering about the response, but I see that most of the people who are arriving to help are white. How is that racism?
Another interesting contrast. In the Mississippi coastal towns where the people are just as black and just as poor as the city folk, you did not hear the cry "Where is the government? They need to give us help." The Mississippians were saying, "We lost everything, but we are alive. We will just have to start rebuilding." It seems the independent spirit still survives in the rural towns and counties.
There is a big lesson in all this tragedy and loss. Most of us urban and suburban folk are are just a few days away from Hell - if the power goes off (no ice, no TV, no A/C), if the 7-11 runs out of milk or tonic water, if the weekly paycheck does not arrive, or the plumbing stops working. Many of us are - like the unfortunate folks in New Orleans - mostly dependent on a just-in-time infrastructure.
It is shameful that so many are in such a hurry to politicize this event. It's appalling to hear the usual gang of idiots rushing to exploit this tragedy to further a ideological agenda.
One thing I would add to FEMA's list of "To Do's" in preparation for the next major disaster: Shoot the first looters you see carrying anything but food. I guarentee this will stop looting before it get's to be a form of entertainment.
