My Lesbian Man-Crush
Camille Paglia on Nancy Pelosi:
Whether or not her bill survives in the Senate is immaterial: Pelosi’s hard-won, trench-warfare win sets a new standard for U.S. women politicians and is certainly well beyond anything the posturing but ineffectual Hillary Clinton has ever achieved.
As for the actual content of the House healthcare bill, horrors! Where to begin?
And that’s coming from a fairly left-leaning liberal who basically agrees that there ought to be a lot more government interference with health care. Meanwhile, here’s what that other august intellect, Bill Clinton, had to say on the matter:
“The point I want to make is: Just pass the bill, even if it’s not exactly what you want,” Clinton told Democrats. “When you try and fail, the other guys write history.”
Go on and betray your conscience. Go on and pass bad legislation. Go on and do potentially irreparable harm to the country. Because if you don’t, somewhere, a Republican might look good.
Oh, horrors, indeed.
There are statesmen, there are politicians, and then there are cheap whores who would sell out their country for a vote.
And here I always thought Clinton was just a politician.
What comes below “cheap whores who would sell out their country for a vote”?
I’ve arrived at an axiom that I intend to use on my PUMA friends: There’s no such thing as gratuitous Clinton-bashing.
Joan –
My very first gig for PJTV, I came up with what I thought was THE funniest joke of the entire DNC in Denver last summer. But it never gained any traction. Too cruel, maybe? You make the call:
Q: What’s the difference between a PUMA and a cougar?
A: About three Cosmos at the Denver Sheraton Hotel bar.
I don’t care who you are; that right there is funny…
The perfect dinner party would include Paglia and Christopher Hitchens. Could you imagine the repartee at such a meeting?
Lesbian man-crush? ROTFL!
OMG! Bill Clinton is still a douchebag Peter Pan. What a backasswards mental midget.
Big shock there. not
Our country is being run by people who should be in straight-jackets and drooling on themselves in a rubber room where they can’t harm anyone.
OY!
2. Stephen Green:
AAAAGGGHHHHH! That’s hilarious! Ob my God!
(I made the call.)
Is it possible to be a politician without being a whore… even a little? There are very very few politicians who can afford to self finance a campaign. Theat means that for most of them there is a great deal of grubbing for money. Love em or hate em… they almost all have to do it.
just a thought..
Not as long as recipients of tax dollars still get to vote.
There are statesmen, there are politicians, and then there are cheap whores who would sell out their country for a vote.
And here I always thought Clinton was just a politician.
He’s a lawyer. I find it useful always to remember that the difference between a whore to whom you pay $100 and a lawyer to whom you pay $500 is precisely $400.
Should we really call politicians “whores”? Isn’t that an insult to all self-respecting prostitutes who sell nothing more than their physical selves for money? That doesn’t even come close to selling out all the rest of us for a bit of hard cash or a vote.
Not to mention, at least you get some pleasure from a whore.
I wonder if we should just start calling these scum Benedict Arnolds.
Camille is proof positive that one can be a liberal and sane. The Democrats in Congress & the White House? Not so much.
“Not to mention, at least you get some pleasure from a whore.”
And you probably know what the risks are. That’s more than you can say about elected officials.
Y’all forget the huge change all the campaign laws passed since the Nixon era have changed things.
The laws were well-intentioned, but backfired. Now it’s more complex, more expensive (gotta hire experts to guide you through the legal minefield), which means you need more money, which leads to the need for big-ticket players. Basically the reform laws made it that much harder for the typical Joe/Jane Citizen to run for office. One of the classic cases of the law of unintended consequences.
I still say dump ‘em all, and replace ‘em with transparency.
As for Slick Willy; for all we bust the man’s chops, I would rather have him in the White House than Barry.
Now it’s more complex, more expensive (gotta hire experts to guide you through the legal minefield), which means you need more money, which leads to the need for big-ticket players. Basically the reform laws made it that much harder for the typical Joe/Jane Citizen to run for office.
So the people who wrote the law made things better for themselves and worse for everybody else – and you think it was an accident?
There was a Bloom County comic strip many years ago in which one of the characters, Opus (a fictional penguin running for Vice President), declared himself to be a statesman rather than a politician. One of the other characters (I believe Milo Bloom) responds that “A statesman is just a dead politician,” followed by “Lord knows we need more statesmen.”
Maybe Clinton was just engaging in some political one-upmanship. Maybe he couldn’t resist proving he has more political clout that the current president. Oscar Wilde once said: I can resist everything except temptation. That seems to sum Bill up nicely.
The point is once they get socialized medicine passed, in any form, they can fiddle with the details until doomsday. It will never die, like the department of Education or Energy, PBS, or the NEA, it will be a money sucking vampiric haven for lefties forever.
bgates, I don’t doubt at least some of that was accidental, such as BCRA