Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Politico. File under “Feeding on their own”:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi bashed White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Tuesday night, even as the president’s top spokesman continued to backpedal from his assertion that Democrats could lose control of the House in the November election.
The fusillade from Pelosi and other Democrats at a closed-door meeting escalated an already fiery clash between the White House and its own party in Congress. During the tense evening meeting, the speaker grilled the top White House aide in attendance, senior legislative affairs staffer Dan Turton, about the impact of Gibbs’ comments.
“How could [Gibbs] know what is going on in our districts?” Pelosi told her members in the caucus meeting in the basement of the Capitol Tuesday night. “Some may weigh his words more than others. We have made our disagreement known to the White House.”
Then she turned to Turton and asked him to acknowledge that Gibbs’ comments had been damaging to the Democratic cause, Democratic insiders said. Gibbs was not in the room for this meeting.
Ah…really, when you think about it, it’s impossible for Gibbs’ comments to have been “damaging to the democrat cause.” Unless, that is, the democrats have been marketing themselves — and some have suggested for quite awhile that this is the case — to people who are unintelligent and/or are altogether missing any kind of working memory.
The democrat party loses favor with voters here and there, now & then. In 2000, 1980, 1968, 1952, 1920. We fire them when we figure out their policies don’t work. The same thing happens with the GOP.
If they were simply able to separate themselves from this “People’s Revolution” nonsense, it wouldn’t be so damaging. But they can’t separate themselves from it. Every single campaign has to return to the same kids’ fantasy:
America has been held hostage because of the dirty ol’ so-and-so’s who get erections over the idea of war, want to give tax breaks to the wealthy, build more prisons and guns, turn American into a theocracy, and — worst of all — remind brittle hostile women with daddy issues of their dads. We have an election, the democrat party wins, and the streets turn to gold and candy and marshallows and the unicorns are freed and the chains and leg irons melt off our bodies and sunbeams trickle on down and gas is free and…and…and…Puppies. Kittens. Rainbows.
If they’d just tear themselves away from the “Our Election Is The Beginning of Nirvana” craze, they wouldn’t have to answer that most awkward of questions: If they fix everything and make life all perfect, how come we keep getting sick of ’em?
Cross-posted at Cassy’s place.
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- Cassy Fiano » Pelosi Rips Gibbs | 07/13/2010 @ 20:28Morgan, it’s like you said. Liberals are always one revolution away from happiness. It’s always “over the next hill” or “around the next corner.”
Don’t you see? The fact that the stimuli did nothing or actually made unemployment worse – well, that’s because in the beginning that’s going to happen. Eventually all that borrowing and spending is going to take us to 100% employment.
Health care “reform” actually reducing access to health care. “Immigration reform” actually increasing the numbers of illegal aliens crossing onto US soil. “Gun control” actually causing an increase in violent crime. “Energy reform” actually increasing unemployment, or causing a net loss in jobs despite the ‘green jobs’ we’re supposed to be creating.
On and on. When their policies fail, they always say the same thing: “This was bound to happen. It was part of our strategy all along. The problems will get worse for a little while, then they’ll get better tomorrow or next week or next year. You’ll see. Just hang in there.” Except tomorrow, next week, or next year never comes. The situation – whatever the issue on the table – stays the same at best or often makes the problem worse. Finally the public gets impatient and throws the Democrats out of power, and puts our guys back in.
Who in turn, promptly forget why they were sent to Congress, who make deals with the Left and spend too much and do the bidding of lobbyists…and get thrown out again when some charismatic snake-oil salesman arises on the Left and hoodwinks enough voters into putting him and his party in power. And so the cycle repeats itself.
- cylarz | 07/13/2010 @ 22:46