House of Eratosthenes

This isn’t quite as funny as Politico’s story last week in which reporters blamed Governor Palin for their eccentric bathroom habits, but it’s pretty close:

Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) wrote on Tuesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis regarding “serious concerns about the use of federal resources in conjunction with the ‘One Nation’” bus tour.

“Many of the press accounts of stops included in this tour, which provided personal and political benefits to former Gov. Palin, suggest that National Park Service resources were made available to an extent beyond that which an average American family would receive,” Blumenauer wrote.

He cited media reports of Palin and her family receiving a private guided tour of Mount Vernon, early admission to the National Archives and a 10-person escort involving park rangers and New York City police officers at the Statue of Liberty.

Wow, this Congressman really ought to be pissed that his colleague went to tour the Statue of Liberty crown:

Speaking of colleagues, I wonder what the democrat leadership in the House thinks about this. They all care about protecting the public purse, don’t they? How come it’s up to this guy whose name is new to so many of us?

I think I can answer that question: This inquiry is extremely hazardous. Rememer what Mom said, you point a finger at someone, three fingers curl back around and point at you. National Park rangers are doing their jobs. The celebrity status Sarah Palin has — argue however you will about whether she should have it or not, but she has it — demands some extra time out of them. Her name is easily recognized and she can’t do anything about that. So the park rangers have to put in some extra time and therein lies the scandal…

…but then, they have to put in the time responding to the Congressman’s questions. And then talking to the press about it. And then the people working in Congressman Blumenauer’s office need to work on the letter. And then they need to talk to the press about that. This is supposed to be about excessive expenditure of federal resources, in terms of time put in. The result is, well…silliness. You have to be rabidly biased or just plain stupid, or both, to take this inquiry seriously.

It’s about making sure Palin enjoys no access to the National Parks beyond what an ordinary citizen would so enjoy? Well, it cuts both ways: Can’t keep her out just because she’s Sarah Palin.

Nobody with a reputation or name worthy of preservation or defense would so inquire. And that is why it falls to the Blumenauer guy. It’s a trial balloon. “You make this demand, and if it goes over like a pregnant high jumper, you own it. But if it actually works, it’ll be a great feather to stick in your cap, there, Earl.”

This is why these people shouldn’t manage anything. Even at the most basic and fundamental so-called principles upon which they want decisions made, nevermind the decisions themselves — they’re complete liars. Equal access to the parks? Equal everything! Hey, we’re all equal equal equal. But what are we looking for as we enforce this equality: These people over here are geniuses and wise and sensitive and should be able to dictate every little nuanced detail of every little thing…you can’t criticize them or think badly of them even when they’re caught texting pictures of their genitals and then lying about it…Those people over there are thick and stupid and should not have any influence on anything.

They do the discriminating they supposedly don’t allow anybody else to do. They discriminate against huge, giant segments of the American populace, in a single stroke, thoughtlessly. Best example lately: Palin herself is “unqualified” to run for President. Not “going to lose”; but, don’t even enter her in. And why, exactly? Annoying voice, certain unnamed other people don’t like her, and she’s from Alaska. Know what? Lots of people live in Alaska. Your certain unnamed other people seem to be crabby, perpetually aggrieved, foppish snots who can manage to drum up some dislike against all sorts & classes of their fellow citizens, over entirely inconsequential things…and nobody sounds as good as they themselves think they do. How many other states are to be geographically disqualified from offering their favorite sons or daughters for nomination to the presidency? Ten? Twenty, maybe? Which states are those?

These people do not want a level playing field. It is the biggest lie, I daresay, in the entire history of American politics.

Always looking for a way to spin anything to make their enemies look bad, even if it’s bogus “investigations” like this one, or the ones taking advantage of that unique Alaskan law that would force anyone but a multimillionaire to think long and hard about whether they could continue and be effective … OR solvent.

And, of course, the flip side is that they’ll always look for a way to spin how they’re such awesome people.

You know what? Palin’s tour COULD be considered bonus PR for the National Parks. How ’bout that for spin, mmmm? And it’s probably true. Maybe that’s why you don’t hear the Park Service bitchin’ about it.

The Left would probably like to spin that she, like all Republicans, would like to shut them down, brutally murder all the animals, then flood the land with toxic chemicals laughing like Snidely Whiplash all the while.
- philmon | 06/08/2011 @ 08:25
Ten? Twenty, maybe? Which states are those?

DUH….all the red ones. Do you have to ask?
- cylarz | 06/08/2011 @ 19:19

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