What happens when Westboro Baptist Church pickets a Ron White (Blue Collar Comedy Tour) show? According to The New York Times, on Saturday evening the President of the United States used a thoroughly disgusting gay-baiting slur to refer to people that previous presidents might have called “My Fellow Americans”. Speaking with congressional Democrats, our situationally unaware, amateur-night chief executive asked,This was pretty much the standard response -- “The lop-eared grinning ninny that’s bringing all this ‘hope and change’ to our country is immature, inexperienced, and in over his head. ‘Teabaggers…’ What a stupid, political clown comment!” -- except that other comments featured more generous use of madrassahs, czars, communists, and street thug.“Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?”
ResistNet -- Home of the Patriotic Resistance -- expresses its displeasure with the man who cast the lone Republican vote for the House’s healthcare bill, Louisiana’s Joseph Cao.In the saturation coverage right after the events, the “expert” talking heads are compelled to offer theories about the causes and consequences. In the following days and weeks, newspapers and magazine will have their theories too. Looking back, we can see that all such efforts are futile. The shootings never mean anything.It’s a violent world. America is a violent country. If the criminals don’t get you, the nutters will. And if the nutters don’t get you, the zealots will.
Forty years later, what did the Charles Whitman massacre “mean”? A decade later, do we “know” anything about Columbine? There is chaos and evil in life. Some people go crazy. In America, they do so with guns; in many countries, with knives; in Japan, sometimes poison.
We know the emptiness of these events in retrospect, though we suppress that knowledge when the violence erupts as it is doing now. The cable-news platoons tonight are offering all their theories and thought-drops. They’ve got to fill time. I wish they could stop. As the Vietnam-era saying went, Don’t mean nothing.
RIP
In NY-23, Conservatives WinNot quite sure how long Erickson worked on this paradigm since he clearly forgot about a third possible outcome -- the GOP loses with a conservative -- which is just what happened when Democrat Bill Owens bested Conservative Doug Hoffman and won the seat from New York’s 23rd Congressional District. Owens will be the first Democrat NY-23 sends to Washington since the first term of President Ulysses Grant.
The race has now been called for Democrat Bill Owens.
This is a huge win for conservatives.
“Whaaaa. . . ?” you say.
There are two big victories at work in New York’s 23rd Congressional District.
First, the GOP now must recognize it will either [a] lose without conservatives or [b] will win with conservatives. In 2008, many conservatives sat home instead of voting for John McCain. Now, in NY-23, conservatives rallied and destroyed the Republican candidate the establishment chose.
Q. What are “American values”?##
A. Lying and cheating. There’s nothing better.
Q. During the 1970s, Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, and producer Robert Evans were celebrated for lifestyles of sexual extravagance.
A. Well, they’re all virgins, every last one of them. I can testify to that. And the last one you mentioned, he’s a super virgin.
President Bush’s bold, ebullient personality and bias for action helped bring together Democratic and Republican elites to fundamentally reform American public schools. This may be his greatest legacy. The President’s boldness in Afghanistan seemingly succeeded, though his disdain for details limited the scope of that success.##
Finally, on the signature decision of his administration, President Bush’s tendency to make quick decisions, reluctance to admit error, disdain for details and experts, inability to entertain dissenting opinions, and tendency to categorize opponents as enemies, meant that his administration did not sufficiently plan the invasion of Iraq. Further, he failed to systematically review occupation policy even as countless voices both inside and outside of the administration urged such a review. [orig emph]
You know what their weakness is? A fastball between the eyes.
