BWIR: The Reunion
Longtime panelists Glenn Reynolds and Tammy Bruce are back in the Blog Week in Review; they join host Austin Bay to evaluate the new Democratic majority in Congress. Are they delivering on their promise to "end the culture of corruption? They also discuss the new winds in Europe, where Tony Blair is stepping down and new France president Nicolas Sarkozy is joining Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel in a much less antagonistic position towards the US than their predecessors.
Produced by Ed Driscoll. Brought to you by Volvo USA.
May 24, 2007 - 11:05 am
The Reunion
Aaah. so that’s why Nancy went swanning off to Syria, she wanted to learn from Baby Assad how to run a less corrupt regime than dems usually manage. Perfectly understandable given the gutter-level low of the Clinton administration. I now realise that she was being quite pragmatic, after all Rome wasn’t built in a day. One step at a time Nance, once the dems are up to Syrian level probity they can graduate to learning from Kim il Song 2.
On Europe, a couple of points. Europeans don’t necessarily want to be free, that’s all a bit too frightening. They instinctively understand that freedom requires responsibility and they definitely don’t want that. They want to be looked after in their permanent extended teenage which is only ended by second childhood (soon to be the majority). The reason they are making slightly less anti-American noises is that, like any normal spotty teenager, they are worried that daddy might be about to get so pissed he cuts off the pocket money and kicks them out of the free house. Furthermore, if Europeans are free to follow their dreams, we must ask what are those dreams? Those with an interest in politics dream of deatroying western civilisition in the infantile belief that eutopia will miraculously rise, Phoenix-like, from its ashes. In Europe, everybody is a moonbat and if you’re not it’s better to pretend you are, otherwise your career, social and romantic prospects will suffer. Iknow, I live here. But hey, your naive optimism is one of the things I most love about Americans. Any chance I could get one of those new Zamnesty-visa thingies? I need beaming outahere.
One more thing. When you look at the total mess of the polonium trail, the three seperate dates (did they poison him three times?). The numbers and types of people involved (billionaire oligarchs, Chechen terrorists, various ex-spys and mafia), the huge value of the nuclear material,the number of people contaminated and ill, does it really seem consistent with a hi-tech professional assasination? Litvinenko was a nobody, why go to all that trouble? Why not just shoot him? It doesn’t make sense. Have you considered the possibility that this might have been a bungled nuclear smuggling operation in which they contaminated themselves. It fits the facts as far as we know them and incidently the British Home Secretary who is privy to state secrets requested the police to not issue the arrest warrant for Lugovoi. Does she know something we and the police don’t? Most worryingly, if they were smuggling the stuff, who could be the end user? Polonium 210 has very few uses but is often used in the trigger mechanism of nuclear bombs. I’m no fan of Putin but I’m disappointed to hear you parroting the assinine MSM in casting wild accusations without a shred of evidence linking him to the crime (yeah, yeah, I know, everybody just knows it was Vlad wot dunnit, just like everybody knows that America are about to visit environmental armageddon on the world). I’m keeping an open mind on this one.
I’m keeping an open mind on this one.
what would have been if you din’t ?
and the EU policy analyse is priceless
” I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”
“Faites chier la vache”
cf Monty Python