Best of times, worst of times, yadda yadda yadda. Except it is just that, at least for a political blogger — with the accent on the yadda.
Every morning I wake up and read some tremendous news about how some pond-sucking incumbent is in trouble because the voters in his or her (eh, let’s just say its) district have finally woken up to the fact that they’re being represented by a pond-sucker. And then as you click through the links at Real Clear Politics or Instapundit or Drudge, you find even more good news about voter attitudes, or that the most-recent Stupid Pond-Sucking Bill is now about as popular as Extra Itchy Charmin.
But then, by the time you cuddle up in bed with your laptop for the night, you read the latest news from Washington. And it’s always the same: Obama or Pelosi or Reid (or all three) have decided to double down on Extra Itchy Charmin. Or that we’ve lost another kajillion jobs. Or that the deficit has blown past yet another record. Or that Congress has approved raising the debt ceiling, officially, up to levels where even your great-great-grandkids will need to use a hemorrhoid pillow just to sit semi-upright in a used Barcalounger. Or that, at long last, Barney Frank has finally figured out a secure method of taxing the heterosexual orgasm.
Then the next day is exactly the same, only the other way around.
It’s enough to give a blogger whiplash — and I don’t mean the fun kind you get when your tiny little Prius gets rear-ended by Virgin Galactic’s newest rocket plane.
On the one hand, we have spontaneous Tea Party protests that make you think the “heirs of Patrick Henry” are alive and well and living right next door. Or maybe even sleeping right there in your own bed.
On the other hand, we have an Administration so blatant in its mendacity and so unscrupulous in its incompetence*, that just when I ought to be blogging at my bitter best, I’m instead left speechless. Well, if this White House can be said to have a plan, maybe that’s it: To suborn us into speechlessness.**
So if it’s seemed lately that I haven’t had much to say, that’s the furthest thing from the truth. Except for those times when its been quite precisely the truth. Because we’re living in times so extreme and so extraordinary and so extremely extraordinary that you want to shout from the rooftops — only to find, after climbing up there, that you’ve been confused into near-incoherence.
What a short, strange trip it’s been.
But hang on tight, because from now until November promises to be an even more exciting ride. Just don’t get stuck in the downs or caught up in the highs. And whatever you do, don’t use the Extra Itchy Charmin.
*I might be the first writer, ever, to use the phrase “unscrupulous incompetence.” And it might not even make any sense. But what can I say — President Obama just effing inspires me.
**That phrase might not make any sense either, or at least it didn’t before January 20, 2009. Since then, I think maybe it makes all kinds of unfortunate sense.
Heh. You said “tiny little Prius.” Hehehe.
But goddess forbid that this administration raises (lowers?) its level of incompetence to scrupulous!
The very idea keeps me awake at night. Or it would if not for my precious.
As of late I’ve been thinking that things look very much like the last part of a normal Presidents “second term”. You know, that time in a Presidents time in office when he had hoped to work on his signature legislation while he looks towards his “legacy” but is instead beset by derailing of his administration; that time when his trusted colleagues and associates are rendered into bloody shreds by personal and political scandal; that time when the populace begins to look longingly at the calendar and think of the sweet liberation brought on the wings of a not to distant November election.
Then I stop and think that despite all that we see on display in the headlines every day today, right here and now, we still have to go through all of that other stuff when this particular experiment in democracy comes to an end. This time that we live in, is the Presidents basement, and he and his party have yet to even start digging the new basement beneath all of this.
And then I stop again and think “What happens if something goes wrong in the middle”? You know, something that seemingly comes out of nowhere, like say a jet into a skyscraper(which of course could never happen, right?).
Drink up my friend. The groundhog says its going to be a long winter.
Dude, I totally hear ya. I started a blog a while back because I felt I had to do SOMEthing about Obama, and in short order the Won reduced me to blithering disbelief; I even posted about it a month or so back. It got me to wondering how people have historically reacted to similar circumstances. I’ve got to go back and study literature and drama from the pre-WWI days and the decline of ancient Greece.
A funny piece, and very true.
While Obama, Pelosi, Reed and Frank are all profoundly ignorant, arrogant, totalitarian nut-jobs who continuously lie, you forgot to add the following into the mix:
The self-righteous, self-important, profoundly dishonest, cult-like bunch of brainwashed fools known as the main stream media.
I don’t know what is more surreal any longer? The climate-gate in the nick’o'time? The scary nukes-in-waiting and rabid jihadists from within and without? The ‘we won’ crowd still rabidly obsessing over Palin like school-yard bullies? The US debt going over the cliff into la-la-la just-shoot-me territory? The friggin’ weather? The audoofity of the partying, self-pleasuring, self-pleasing, self-loving Barry the DOPE POTUS & Scary Spice FLOTUS? The crazies and cronies in the White House or the crazies who voted for the crazies and cronies in the White House who are now lamenting over at ‘HuffingStuff Post’ about what a sham ‘o’ is turning out to be and how they got ‘fooled’ by the fool? I guess that leftist purple drank done wore off!
Dang-ding-dong! If ‘O’ walked up to a podium stark-raving-naked, humped the leg of one of his teleprompters, began speaking gibberish, flipped everyone off and finally yelled over and over, “The King am I!” until being dragged away by men in white suits, I wouldn’t even bat an eye at this point. I think my jaw is permanently in ‘dropped-mode’.
To quote a certain interstellar freighter pilot and smuggler, Don’t Get Cocky, Kid.
Politicians might be useless lumps of flesh in the overwhelming majority of ways, but they do excel at one thing: shaping public perceptions. The Obamunists have several months yet to buy public support, whether in the Democrats’ traditional manner of special-interest bribes or by engineering popular perceptions through the Main Stream Media.
The Left has lots of allies. And those allies are unlikely to watch their rice bowls being overturned without trying to do something about it.
LOL @ Precious. I was always more of a Stoli guy myself. Headaches the next morning aren’t as bad… For the discriminating palate, might I recommend Appleton V/X rum? That’s the magic juice that keeps me from going postal from watching political news.
Oh, and sorry, there are no heirs of Patrick Henry living anywhere near me. Most people in my neck of the woods gripe and complain, but they can’t be bothered to do anything about it. “American Idol” is on, don’tcha know.
* “Unscrupulous incompetence” – phrase – description of ethical and intellectual prowess of NYS politicians presently infesting Albany like a horde of bedbugs. Sorry, but it does make sense, especially to the overtaxed denizens of the Empire State…
Gorgeous.
ADE
Could be!
Who knows?
There’s something due any day;
I will know right away,
Soon as it shows.
It may come cannonballing down through the sky,
Gleam in its eye,
Bright as a rose!
I make excuses when I read his name
On the side of some old dirty Napa train
It conjures up a taste of fantasy
I’ve been down so long it looks like up to me
I’ve been down so long it looks like up to me
On the one hand, we have spontaneous Tea Party protests that make you think the “heirs of Patrick Henry” are alive and well and living right next door. Or maybe even sleeping right there in your own bed.
And maybe, just maybe…the real “we”…in the “we are the change we have been waiting for…”
Arhooley, you may have hit on why I no longer “blog.” Popcorn butter makes my fingers slip and sikp all ovre teh kyboeard.
I gooogled . unscrupulous incompetence . And this showed up.
Results 1 – 10 of about 85,800 for unscrupulous incompetence. (0.26 seconds)
No you are not be the first writer, ever, to use the phrase “unscrupulous incompetence.”
However, that does not make you wrong.
Kill the Commies
# 4 arhooley;
I know what you mean.
In Douglas Adams’ “The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, the Guide states;
“There is a theory that if anyone ever figures out why the Universe exists, and what it’s for, it will instantly vanish, to be replaced by something even more bizarrely improbable.
“There is ANOTHER theory which states that this has already happened.”
This is pretty much my opinion of the present POTUS and his entire crew. When you postulate the single most improbable and bizarre thing they could do, as a parodic “thought experiment”- you find out they’ve already done something at least twice as weird.
I’ve been comparing The One to the two young “supremacists” in Hitchcock’s 1949 film “Rope”- i.e., a callow youth who had been educated past his capacity for understanding. But if The One had been in John Dall or Farley Granger’s shoes, I’m sure that he would have pushed the victim off the balcony in plain sight of everyone at the party- and then dared them to try to do anything about it, on the grounds that he was smart, and they were stupid, and so whatever he did was right, and good.
The One, and his minions, oscillate between being high-minded fools and well-meaning extremists. (Remember, no one is a bad guy in their own mind.)
The trouble is, at no point do they succeed in actually making sense. Even by their own (limited) standards.
clear ether
eon
Okay, Steve, ordinarily I am exceedingly annoyed when someone writes with such cleverness. I hate being shown up. However, this time you get a pass. Warning, you’re making a habit of this.
6. Delia I think my jaw is permanently in ‘dropped-mode’.
Me too. Mine had dropped many times but reached that permanent stage during the health care speech when ‘o’ brought up that case of acne that was supposedly a pre-existing condition. I am not usually one to shout at the TV but this time I really wanted to but all I could do was sputter. THAT was when Joe Wilson should have shouted “You lie”.
I’ve been using the phrase “malevolent incompetence.” Or should it be “incompetent malevolence.” Which ever it is, this administration’s incompetence is the only thing saving us from its malevolence.
And I’ve finally learned how to spell malevolence. That’s about 20,000 jobs saved or created!
From now until November, we can count on:
1. Republicans to act stupidly and throw away their advantages.
2. Democrats to try to ram through more or their unpopular agenda and give Republicans more advantages.
3. The public to become even more disgusted with both parties.
4. Vodkapundit to give us more fun, insightful and slightly inebriated commentary. Keep up the good work.
Nothing will surprise me. (Except, of course, another photo gallery of Rachel Welch.)
What a short, strange trip it’s been.
Shouldn’t you be sucking off a conservative teet instead of some left wing drugged out rock ‘n’ roller? So sad to see conservatives stealing liberal properties in a lame attempt to make them look “hep.” You really should stick with your own points of reference, they’re so much more bland. Here’s an idea for your next column – “Sarah Palin – Are those two points of light I see or is it just cold out?” . . . or maybe “Kay Bailey Hutchison – A shining bitty on a hill” . . . “Scott Brown – an aspiring porn star to Palin”
There’s so much to work with. Try a little harder. Stay a little truer. Steal from your own.
If you had read as much dystopian SF
as I have, none of this would come as
a surprise; The down side is, it is
frighteningly clear what comes next.
Unscrupulous incompetence: Knowing that
one does not know what to do, and doing
it anyway. Compare to the Doctor’s rule0:
“First, do no harm.”
Joe Wilson shouting “You Lie.” By the standards of the “oh so mentally grand” everything that Obama has said that has not come true are lie after lie. Stimulus passes to keep below 8%. “Lie”… I could go on with the same logic as the left of what they think is a lie.
The problem is that the left has lied and corrupted what a lie is. So they toss it around as easily as the word Hi.
A lie is an untruth that a person must know it is not true, must intend to tell it, and must tell it anyway. So someone makes a point, does not make it a lie even though it may turn out to not be true later. It just makes it wrong only when it is proven wrong. It may have not been wrong at the time it was stated.
OMG look at the bilge put forth by the Global Warming people. It is not proven, data is everywhere but proven. Healthcare is one lie after another. Why? It is a manipulation to acquire 6 to 14% of the economy going straight to the government “For our own good, ROF LOL.” Cap and Trade is the same.
I believe these things. Does that make me a liar? I think it is a nice day, you do not, does that make one of us a liar?
I agree as the article states “But hang on tight, because from now until November promises to be an even more exciting ride. Just don’t get stuck in the downs or caught up in the highs. And whatever you do, don’t use the Extra Itchy Charmin.
*I might be the first writer, ever, to use the phrase “unscrupulous incompetence.”
I think the phrase is perfect to point out the minipulation and un-truth, let’s be lasy and incompetent and even toss the “LIE” word out to let the left eat it.
One hopes that the American people won’t make it a long, strange trip by letting Palin take over from Obama.
River –
It’s hard to see myself voting for Palin. But as I noted on Scott Ott’s Trifecta segment on Tuesday, I was impressed that she endorsed the oh-so-libertarian Rand Paul as the Republican nominee in Kentucky’s US Senate race.
I was wondering if I was the only one who constantly hears the echo of “you lie!” whenever he speaks. He doesn’t seem to an American to me. At all. So I just stopped watching. I refuse to give him the ratings, expecially when he never says anything that is true or makes any sense.
If you are a libertarian, there is no whiplash. Lots of continuity between bush and obama. Increasing of surveillance state, escalating occupations of foreign countries, spending and debt increasing geometrically, and avery time the opposition wins an election with 51% of the vote, they claim a mandate for the old way of doing things.
The Obama Administration is stuck in an infinite do-loop:
1. Fuck up.
2. Spin and lie about it.
3. Go back to 1., and do over.
I think of it as Crap and Tirade.
I’m still dismayed at the number of people who call themselves libertarians (I won’t call them that) who voted for Obama.
Can someone explain that to me? I understand the frustration with the Bush admin. Not my favorite either. But Obama? Did they ever listen to anything he said?
The worst of times now but the best of times compared to what’s to come. There, I think that neatens it up.
The idea was floated in the 1980′s (if memory serves) that time travel was, indeed, possible. We knew that from all the scrapes that nearly got us into the Hot War: Berlin Airlift working, Cease-Fire in North Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis, and even such lovely things as ducks on the radar screen nearly causing a sudden decrease launch time. No matter what happened, how bad it got, we scraped by. So the meme went.
And now, after saving us so many times, we get put on the joke timeline… the one where we must find the most ignorant, sweet yet long-term malevolent people to guide us to oblivion. This is the practical joke timeline. If we must get an Anti-Christ could we at least get a competent one? But I doubt that we will even be that lucky… and those watching us will laugh and laugh and laugh… and the next time we will not be saved.
Life indeed is very surreal these days. I used to look at politics as none of my business. They all look alike Democrats, Republicans all seem to doing one thing: making sure that they get a piece of the pie by hook or by crook. And then suddenly I get the news that I am going to get laid off from work.
Yikes, 12% unemployment, mortgage coming due next month and the most wonderful news of all is that the divorce lawyer is going to be my best friend for the next month.
For what I am going through, vodka isn’t strong enough. Its the worst of times.
Anyone today who cares about American is in for the long haul. The BEGINNING of this New American Revolution starts in 2010.
These asshats, mendacious socialist, progressives and Marxists in the Democratic Congress, and the Congress are going to get their “clocks cleaned” in 2010 and 2012.
But that is just the beginning. We have to educate ourselves and our children about America’s History, the Constitution and Declaration of Independence for starters.
God Bless America and damn these bastards!
Why aren’t my comments posting?
#19 skeeziks – Normally, I just ignore the trolls, but this comment was just so offensive!
Do you not hear how petty and nasty you sound? Your jokes are purely ad hominem. Making fun of Palin’s breasts? Seriously? KBH is a bitty? Ugh. Such misogyny!
Why do the moderators not step in? Why do they allow such stuff to be posted? Why do they not ban such as skeeviks? He never offers dialogue; just sneers and insults.
This is the biggest problem I have with this site. There exists no ability to flag the truly offensive, and they don’t boot certain people. If I want to read such stuff, I could go to HuffPuffPo.
Well, if this White House can be said to have a plan, maybe that’s it: To suborn us into speechlessness.**
And here we all are. I keep telling myself that I’m witnessing the greatest heist on record, but I can’t figure out a way to make it stop.
Katherine
Lily, I take that as a good sign. Those “libertarians” used to be “Democrats” until recently. They have now begun adopting – in large numbers – a label to distance themselves from what they wrought.
I must disagree. I think it is our duty to use the Extra Itchy Charmin. I am confident that it is extra itchy because it is unbleached, recycled and highly eco-friendly. Sure, it will leave you chafed and red, but if any liberal tries to question your commitment to the environment, you can simply turn around and show them your credentials.
@ Delia:
“Scary Spice FLOTUS” – you owe me a keyboard.
Can’t see myself voting for Palin for prez either (Why not? “Gov. Palin, which of the Federalist Papers do you regard as most important and why?”) but the way she incites monomania in the barking-mad left is nothing short of delicious.
To suborn us into speechlessness
If they are going to win, you and everyone like you, must be silenced. But it mustn’t look like it was their idea. It will be an attack from abroad? And very sorrowfully the silencers will not be able to repair the wreckage.
you’re a charming writer.
The Obama Shock and Awe Campaign of Folly can claim another success. I was an early casualty, stunned in speechlessness when (by the most charitable explanation) a man who couldn’t figure out TurboTax was not only entrusted with the treasury but also hailed as a financial genius. If you who have managed to last this long can just hold out for a few more months, some of us early causalities are beginning to recover and will soon be able to relieve you (as long as no one tries to convince me Githner has the faintest idea of what’s going on).
As it has been mentioned, ““unscrupulous incompetence.” does show up in google.
First ref I saw (non-Vodka related) was in this sentence from a 1939 book,
“It is true that in France the absoulte Mnarch was by the end of the seventeenth century apparently so firmly established that not even the disastrous effects of its economic incompetence as set out by Vauban and Boisguillebert, in there careful and penetrating criticism of the ruinous and UNSCRUPULOUS INCOMPETENCE of Louis XIV’s financial policy, could bring about a reform of government and finance.”
Sigh, not a good omen.
“Gov. Palin, which of the Federalist Papers do you regard as most important and why?”
Would that be a question Palin would need to have an answer to? If asked, my answer would be, “Don’t know,” and even I’d make a better president than Obama. (And would Obama be able to answer that question, if the answer weren’t on a teleprompter? Oh, sure, he could probably answer “Which of Marx and Engels’ points in the COMMUNIST MANIFESTO do you consider the most important, and why?”–but THE FEDERALIST?
I thought is was “unscrupulous in its mendacity and so blatant in its incompetence,” but your way makes even less sense which makes it even more appropriate for this administration
There have been some moments of happiness. The sound of scrapers in the night and the missing Obama stickers the next day. Kind of like the sound of crickets lately. The fading of that “I feel so virtuous because I voted for the first black president” glow as the recent kiss me I’m a liberal college grad looks for work. The weeping of my liberal sister-in-law as to why with majorities couldn’t he get anything done.
Of course if we loose a school, a shopping mall, or a city the laughter stops.
For every disaster there has to be one idiot to touch match to powder to set it off. He has found us for sure. We are all hell bound on the O Train down the Doubletalk Railroad. May as well stock up on beer, check my ammo and get ready for the ride. Gonna be a ride through hell like none other.
The pity will be that every politician in office today will disown any responsibility for the debacle. Just further proof of their perfidy.
When this is over, will we have learned anything?
I just recently noticed my own blog died a death of silence ’round about the first week of November, 2008.
“Unscrupulous incompetence” is a great phrase, and it is exactly what you would expect from an affirmative-action government official. Few are willing to object when the official ventures ever deeper into the gray area separating honest and dishonest government, hence the official becomes ever more unscrupulous; and few are willing to object when government duties are badly performed, hence the official becomes or remains incompetent.
I think the Dems are hoping the TEA partiers will form a third party and split the vote of the Repubs so that we have another Ross Perot event that elects Dems.
And please stop calling it the MSM….”Main Streem Media”.
The correct acronym is SMSM…… the Socialist Main Stream Media.
The left has a tendency to adopt the opposites of traditional values and pursue them with the equivalent of the moral fervor of crusaders. So do not be surprised at this administration: its watchword is merely the revised physicians maxim:
First, do no good!
and it is merely fleshing this out.
@ Delia, not to pile on but the one that did it for me:
audoofity
Coin of the Realm, that.
Too quick on crick.
Honorable mention @ Carolus: Crap and Tirade.
@#51 Daniel
Oooh, I like that, “First, do no good!” — very apt.
But wait, is it?
Problem is they are so scrupulously competent at doing no good. They’re really gifted, unrivaled even.
Vodkapundit, you’ll need to reconsider in light of new evidence proffered here.
This quote fits here.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
—C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock
Katherine
“*I might be the first writer, ever, to use the phrase “unscrupulous incompetence.” And it might not even make any sense. But what can I say — President Obama just effing inspires me.”
Google is your friend. The phrase “unscrupulous incompetence” returns only 22 results, one of which is you and a few are references to your post. But there are a few from the sixties, and a couple of others scattered about, so you’re one of very, very few.
An elite cadre, you might say.
Wow!
What breathtaking optimism!
I’m now convinced that things are not nearly as bad as I thought.
Thanks for the infusion of good cheer.
Of course this is coming from a person who tends to think chaos might be preferrable to the present situation.
Thanks!
Crouching America, Hidden Chinese Dragon, Part Two
Merriam-webster.com defines “crouch” as follows: intransitive verb 1 a : to lower the body stance especially by bending the legs b : to lie close to the ground with the legs bent 2 : to bend or bow servilely : cringe 3 : to stand at a low height transitive verb : to bow especially in humility or fear; bend
I posed a question at the end of Part One: “Is Obama’s crouching, bowing, and scraping to foreign leaders all part of our socialistic leader’s stated intent of wealth distribution not just to America’s needy but to the planet?”
Obviously, I don’t know the answer to that query. I can’t read the man’s mind, I can only judge him by his actions and words.
We do know, the world knows because we have witnessed it, that our president has an affinity for bowing to foreign leaders and potentates. Whether those actions merely reflect an innate humility–which is counterintuitive–or an abject sense of subservience–which is repugnant and unprecedented for an American president–is as yet unclear.
What we also know is that, despite his naïveté about the nuances of foreign relations, that Obama is a committed internationalist who implicitly trusts in the gentle graces of the most corrupt institution in the history of international bodies, the United Nations.
We know, too, that he inclines toward socialism and “sharing the wealth,” that wealth being the hard-earned wealth of Americans and America.
So, where do we go from here? . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1488)
Most incompetent people learn over time not to be too aggressive about anything for fear of screwing up, embarrassing themselves and harming others.
Over the past several decades, academia and the left/liberal movement has provided an environment where these extreme “progressive” concepts for running the country had to remain mostly theoretical and where everyone could play act without having to suffer any real world consequences and all the while emboldened by positive feedback from their own kind.
Then, somehow, a perfect storm of political conditions handed these same people the reins of government – with predictably awful results.
I have always preferred the term “aggressive incompetence”. Scruples or not, the dangerous ones are those who think they know best, have arrogant but totally unfounded belief in their capabilities and a very aggressive nature. Think about it: Obama, Pelosi, Frank and Reid ……
perhaps the strangest and weirdest thing about all of it and the sense of unreality that is pervasive throughout the land is that we have no president.
our president is missing. whoever is in the white house is not ours. i have known many american presidents in my lifetime, and you sir are no american president.
Google “Igor Panarin”. First I laughed, then I cried then I bought more guns.
55 Katherine:
Great quote! Quoting something my brother once wrote:
Isn’t it always the case that the progressive defenders of the people actually demonstrate such an amazing (and elitist) contempt for the very people whose interests they claim to defend? Aren’t the “ignorant” “rednecks” part of that class of underdogs they are supposed to be looking out for? Or must you belong to a properly “certified” victim class? I remember in 2004 hearing from Democrats surprised by what they saw as the people “who had voted against their own interests”. That’s why we need big, invasive government. Because we can’t trust the people (the “masses”) to know what is in their own interest. Those opposed to our society’s old patriarchal structures propose in its stead a new statist paternalism, complete with its own condescencion. At the heart of the progressive agenda, there has always been a deep suspicion of the very people this agenda is aimed at helping.
Here’s a great article on liberal condescension:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020403698.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1&sub=AR
Because for many liberals, to be conservative means being ignorant and misinformed (by those evil minions on the right). Or worse, it means just being a stupid, fear-filled, supersticious racist…
According to Slate, our all-knowing Administration’s inability to resolve our current crisis has nothing to do with misarticulated, partisan, or poorly planned proposals. Rather, it’s because the public is “childish” and “ignorant”… http://www.slate.com/id/2243797/
I rest my case…
35. Marc Malone:
Until you complain about baal and bilgeman, you have no standing.
35. Marc Malone
I try to ignore them too but yes, that was way out of line. If it makes us feel any better, according to the Oxford dictionary a skeeziks is a “A good-for-nothing” so perhaps he is aptly named.
@ 43:
Why are the Federalist Papers important? They are a window into the minds of the Founders of our Republic. They were written to advocate the adoption of our Constitution.
Federalist #10, written by James Madison, regarding the individual right to and individual right to defense of property, isn’t important? Especially when debating the Obamaniacs?
Egad.
65. SMS:
I try to ignore them too but yes, that was way out of line.
What disturbs you so? That Palin has nipples? She does, you know. So does Todd. And yes, so do you! Perhaps you prefer that I call her a retard, assuming, of course that I say it’s satire.
I suggest you take a line from your Queen, “I’m not politically correct. I am not one to be a word police.” And if you can’t muster that modicum of maturity, then back to the nunnery with you.
Bah hah hah hah hah.
Great one Delia. Thanks.
Obama’s Winter Fall From Grace: Denial
President Obama’s embrace by a majority of American voters last November is fast deteriorating into an unforgiving bearhug as Americans come to realize Obama is not what he appeared to be.
As his numbers continue their downward trajectory, the effect on the president seems to be a slow realization that his presidency is rapidly collapsing around his very pronounced ears, an effect tantamount to a grieving lover’s sense of loss. In his case, it’s a loss of his presidency.
Any collapse is an incremental thing, occurring in stages large and small but when it begins it’s rarely reversible.
A politician’s collapse–in popularity, credibility, even in the constructive exercise of power–also can be gauged by increments and news stories. In Obama’s case, repeated stories are beginning to reflect the five stages of his grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
DENIAL
Despite the ears issue, Barack Obama is no Alfred E. Neuman of Mad Comics fame Neuman’s “What me? Worry?” mantra is more a “What worry?” with Obama. In other words, denial.
Coccooning, retreating into a state of uncooperativeness, is merely a variation on denial and no official news conferences in nearly 7 months is symptomatic of that denial.
He’s hiding.
Unlike Bill Clinton’s vapid declaration . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1494)
I was reading this morning an AP piece about the DOJ wanting to track cellphone locations withouth the bother of demonstrating probable cause. Notice I said the the “DOJ”, not “Obama’s DOJ”, like it would have said “Bush’s DOJ” or the “Bush administration. Nor did it say Eric Holder’s DOJ. In fact, no Democrat was mentioned at all, which is passing strange is it not, considering that they pretty much run the whole show in DC?
But it gets better. Guess what the Judge hearing the case had to say about the dangers of this to our civil liberties…
“Can the government assure us that it will never try to find out these things?” she asked. “Don’t we have to be concerned about this? Not this government right now, but a government?”
Well, of course not THIS government! Why, it would never occur to them to abuse such a priviledge – heavens no, they are just asking because they don’t want to be able to do it! But suppose some redneck snowbilly got to be President…
Skeeziks, you really need a heavier rock to hide under.
71. Clever Poltroon:
You don’t have nipples?