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...
Just a Lot of Complaining
Democrats hate the graphic, right, which has been circulating around the “innernets” for five years now — since shortly after the Florida 2000 election melee. They can’t stand it. It offends them. You can tell this, because if you show it to them they’ll call you a pinhead, neocon, stupid idiot, jackass, Bushbot, and almost without exception they’ll go completely off-topic to bring up an example of Republican whining, to make the baby go away. Please, just make it go away.
Well, at this blog, which nobody ever reads, we never go out of our way to deliberately offend people. Because of that, we will never, ever use the baby-graphic until such time as it becomes centrally relevant to some current event.
3…2…1…Whoops! Time to pull out the baby!
Thanks to the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web daily, edited by James Taranto, my attention is drawn to this bizarre article in the Washington Post. Evidently, the Democratic party’s plan for the Iraq mission, or quandry, or conundrum, or quagmire or debacle or whatever you want to call it, is this: Nothing. You read that right, nothing. They don’t know what to do about it. There is no plan, and there is no plan to make a plan. There is no intention to rally around a single, blessed, party-position about what to do to solve the problem, not even later on when the midterm elections are in full swing. The official party position, is that it’s every Democrat for him- or herself.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said yesterday that Democrats should not seek a unified position on an exit strategy in Iraq, calling the war a matter of individual conscience and saying differing positions within the caucus are a source of strength for the party.
Pelosi said Democrats will produce an issue agenda for the 2006 elections but it will not include a position on Iraq. There is consensus within the party that President Bush has mismanaged the war and that a new course is needed, but House Democrats should be free to take individual positions, she sad.
“There is no one Democratic voice . . . and there is no one Democratic position,” Pelosi said in an interview with Washington Post reporters and editors.
Pelosi recently endorsed the proposal by Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) for a swift redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq over a period of six months, but no other party leader followed, and House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) publicly opposed her.
She said her support for Murtha was not intended to forge a Democratic position on the war, adding that she blocked an effort by some of her colleagues to put the Democrats on record backing Murtha.
Waah! Waaaaaaaah! Waah! Wah! Waaah!
Well really, am I mischaracterizing something? What else do Democrats have to say about the War in Iraq? I mean, really?
What do Democrats think elections are for? What is it that they disagree with me about, here: 1) Elections are for electing leaders, or 2) leadership has something to do with doing something besides complaining. I mean, both of those two premises seem pretty obvious, to me. There’s nothing partisan about either one of them, and yet, somewhere within these two links, the chain has been broken.
Ms. Pelosi, you want to run an election on just bitching and nothing else? Are you for real?
One of the things that is cool about writing for a blog nobody reads, is sometimes you get to sound like a broken record, and nobody will notice. Well, I’ve said this before: Democrats have things to fix, and some of their strategists are smart people. It’s a cinch to see that, if they want to fix something fairly easily, just taking a position on this would be a pretty good first-step.
Well, someone who wants Democrats to win, and who is strategically pretty smart, has figured out this isn’t worthwhile. If they did this, the Democratic party would gain two votes, and lose three, or something like that. Had that calculation not been done somewhere, Pelosi would not be articulating this now. They are beholden to someone, or think they are beholden to someone, who would stop voting for them if they were to form certain strategies.
So who are those people? And what are those strategies?
America deserves the right to know before Democrats are allowed to take control of an ice cream truck, let alone a chamber of Congress.
Damn. Just damn. Can both sides of the aisle, at least step up and come to an agreement that what Pelosi’s party is offering, is something that falls short of leadership? Seems obvious.
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