03.28.07
Posted in Politics at 6:11 am by JB
Term limits, term limits, term limits.
For the House, 6 years in, 4 years out. 6 in, 4 out.
For the Senate, 12 years in, 6 years out. 12 in, 6 out.
Serve the public, and then go do something with your damn life. For the House, 3 terms in, 2 terms out. You can do that forever. Same with the Senate. 2 terms in, one term out. Or, I’d even go along with after 2 or 4 you can run against your State comrade.
Go get on a few boards of companies. Go teach. Go start a business.
Professional politicians know almost nothing at all about real life in America. Give them some time to serve, and then send them packing for a few years. They can come back if they choose, but it should be from desire of service, not from the professional politician mindset.
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Posted in Politics, Media Morons at 5:56 am by JB
I don’t check the Puffy-Ho often, and I admit it. Life is too damn short. But does it bother anyone else that it is basically occupied by mindless celebrities and no-name, know-nothing scribes ? I don’t see any real debate. I see a buncha over-paid morons spouting. But it’s a lotta liberals, so I suppose that is redundant.
I read this thing a few minutes ago. I must warn you… it’s profanity laced, but in the cute “Hollywood” way. It makes no sense at all. And if you are allergic to metaphors, you will be in shock in the first paragraph.
I found it hilarious and very sad all at the same time. Here’s an actor who was awful terrible horrifically bad on one show, and has done exactly nothing else but hire someone to write blog posts for him. That must be a really sad existence, but he and his minions need something to do until the get the call from NBC that their show sucks donkey balls, is canceled, and Aaron Sorkin needs to get off the ’shrooms and get a real job.
Here’s a taste of the self-important Mr. Weber:
The Bush administration checklist of disgrace lengthens faster than the penis of a minister on crystal meth. I won’t go into my Cranky Liberal rant, moving down the list with a grease pencil, ticking off each egregious offense against the gullible, too-trusting American people. Instead I will offer my Cranky Liberal response to those who have said “Yeah, you’re mad.
Big deal. What do we do?” And keep in mind I have just finished a cool glass of white wine, so make of that what you will. Fuggit. It’s five o’clock here. I’m an adult, dammit. Here goes:
So what to do? First, triangulate your news sources. Since most of the news services are owned by Thomas Nast-like caricatures of swollen carpet baggers and cigar-sucking plutocrats, one must sift through the news like a grizzled miner panning for the bleak glitter that, once refined, can be turned into an ornate broach on the freckled bust of an aging dowager. Check and double check.
You really have to read the whole thing to appreciate the absolute and blithering idiocy. And I especially like the fact that he keeps having to mention the white wine he has consumed. Is that supposed to be an excuse for being a moron, or some sort of hat-tip to Hollywood chic ?
(Stevie, baby, real men don’t drink white wine except at dinner… if you were dining with Selma Hayek and had some chicken enchilada’s, I’d forgive you…. I bet you were swigging 75 dollar bottles of Pinot Grigio straight out of the ice bucket….. not something to brag about)
Ya gotta cool off the metaphors, buddy. I know you are getting almost painful pats on the back now that you have joined the stable of Arianna’s studs, but really…. there are two kinds of people who read that dreck, and I’ll give you a run-down on both.
There are people who have seen you act, and think you are great, and love every single word of it…. those people will finish reading your archives as soon as they get back from kindergarten or get the curtains put out from the unexpected bong fire.
Then there are those who have seen you act and are having a very serious internal struggle as to whether the character Lowell (Thomas Hayden Church) or the engine to the plane from Wings is smarter than you. To call your acting abilities untalented is an insult to the untalented, to call your pseudo-success unfathomable is an insult to the fathoms… To put your abilities from the pilot of Wings against your performance on the last episode of Studio 60 is to watch a career and ability growth that can only be matched by a mosquito. From .2 mm to about 2 mm, and over in a day.
Sorry- I read your dreck and I went metaphor happy. But at least I didn’t insult 80% of the nation with a cheap and disgusting “minister” crack.
Please let the rest of us know what your next show will be after the Studio 60 thing crashes and burns, so we know when we can schedule to be away from the TV. Although, personally, I’d like to see you on an 8pm eastern show, so I can see O’Reilley kick your ass directly. And I don’t like him either, but…. lesser of two evils.
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Posted in Politics, Media Morons at 5:25 am by JB
I don’t know why the WaPo thinks the government, which deals with millions of more important issues than Marion Barry’s latest escapades, thinks the accuracy should be better than this:
Headline: White House Spokesman’s Colon Cancer Has Returned
Later in the story: “‘Seventeen days after the diagnosis, we go in and take the whole colon out and throw it in a garbage bag,’ he told Cincinnati Gentleman, a magazine in his home town. He also received six months of chemotherapy.”
I know, it’s a small thing, but it’s a sign of a bias…. it’s a sign of poor writing and even more poor editing. So lemme get this right…. Tony Snow had his colon removed 2 years ago, and now has colon cancer ? Does that mean I need to start looking for cervical cancer ? Or maybe ovarian cancer ?
All of those are terrible and dreadful diseases. I wish only the best, and long and happy lives for any woman suffering and living with those afflictions. But…. I’m not gonna check, because I have neither a cervix, nor ovaries. Tony doesn’t have a colon anymore. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have colon cancer.
He has cancerous cells that have metasticized to his liver. And yet, in typical media fashion, the story is about everything BUT Tony. It’s about Dana Perino and Elizabeth Edwards. It is really ok, guys, to sometimes just tell the story, and not try to twist it into your worldview.
Overall it’s not a bad story, but at the same time it stinks. It smacks of the liberal bias that the WaPo is famous for, and has lost so much ground in- the NYT eats your lunch every day in silly liberal bias.
Just write the facts.
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Posted in Politics at 3:43 am by JB
The Senate is famous for having self-aggrandizing schmucks- they all want to be president, and for a simple example, just look at how the 100 (almost in toto) want to micromanage the war.
Now, some are making their decisions based on their own political futures. But let’s be honest- there isn’t a single member of congress, house or senate, that has a chance of being president right now. And that is even more pointed on the GOP side.
If these people, men and women, want to direct the war, they should resign their posts in congress and run for the presidency. All 535 of them.
The Constitution is very clear on who is the Commander in Chief. And it is very clear on what powers the Congress has. This is a political….
I really try to be nice and civil on this site, but it’s time for some brutal truth. This vote, in the House and the Senate, is almost entirely party-line, and it is a political blow-job that the Dems are giving to the Code Pink, the Cindy Sheehan, the DailyKos wing of their constituency.
I am sick and tired of people that wake up in the morning, and go to bed at night, thinking that America is wrong. Always, all the time. America is always wrong. I don’t know why these people continue to think this way. It’s sad, and it’s…. look- I have a good life, but there are many many things that I don’t like about it. I do not wake up and lay down in misery. It would drive me nuts, which is what it has done, on the left. These friggin people are crazy.
The good thing for the left is that I didn’t pursue a career in politics. A few youthful indescressions made that impossible, and I’m not sure I’d want to do it anyway, now.
But I would not be a nice and cute as this administration is.
If you protest on The Mall, that’s fine. If you protest at congressional offices, that’s fine too. I am a firm believer in the freedom of speech, and the first amendment (unlike McCain and Feingold).
As has happened lately- if you attack a military recruitment office… well buddy, guess what. You aren’t a protester anymore. You are an insurgent in the US. You have committed treason against your country, and I’d ship your dumb ass off to Gitmo as soon as I could find you. You have, from within, attacked a military installation. Time for you to join Akbar and Muhammed in the glorious climes of Cuba.
This country is, thanks to the ridiculous media, talked itself into a suicide pact. And I just won’t stand for it. Most of the people of this country are so, to-the-bone stupid, that a normal conversation can’t even occur anymore. The lack of critical thinking has been so dumbed down, thanks to liberal schools and liberal media, that it’s impossible for most morons in this country to have a good discussion of issues.
The very idea. THE VERY IDEA !!! The very idea that Tom Tancredo or Hillary Clinton think they can run for president is just scary. The very idea that Ross Perot hurt two elections… the very idea that Pat Buchanan thought he could. Or Pat Robertson. Or Barack Obama. Or…
Where are the serious minds ? Where are the serious thinkers, who have examined these issues, and have knowledge, experience, and history of both fore- and hindsight gone ?
One of the reasons I like Fred Thompson is because he’s actually done something.
Chuck Schumer wants to be the first Jewish president. Chuckie ran for the NY house when he was 22. He’s been a politician his entire….. HIS…. ENTIRE…. DAMN…. LIFE !!!!
Hillary has never done anything at all, besides be married to a scumbag.
Pat Leahy- what scourge of humanity- talks about how… “When I was a prosecutor back in the 60’s, I did…” That was 1/2 a century ago. So we really need to listen to his ideas of modern America ?
Ted Kennedy. Robert Byrd. These guys, together, have served almost 100 years in the Senate. Do they not have any new ideas ? I know we have some of that on the GOP side also, but at least I smell a whiff of integrity and polity there. I don’t see that on the Dem side.
Jay Rockefeller has been a Senator for 25 years. And he’s the junior senator to a former Klan member. That’s just a stain on the now-almost-completely-paved West Virginia.
I do not always vote Democrat. When I lived in Arkansas, as I recall, I often voted for Democrats for the House. Not so much for the Senate, but I’d have to think harder about it.
And I have often been disappointed with my choices. My first presidential vote was for GHW Bush. Not thrilled about that. I voted for Tim Hutchinson. Not pleased with that either.
More later.
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