"Then, with an hour or so to kill before he had to catch the plane, we spread his drawings out on the table and pondered them for a while, wondering if he'd caught the proper spirit of the thing...but we couldn't make up our minds. His hands were shaking so badly that he had trouble holding the paper, and my vision was so blurred that I could barely see what he'd drawn.
"Shit," I said. "We both look worse than anything you've drawn here."
He smiled. "You know--I've been thinking about that," he said. "We came down here to see this teddible scene: people all pissed out of their minds and vomiting on themselves and all that...and now, you know what? It's us..."
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Huge Pontiac Ballbuster blowing through traffic on the expressway.
A radio news bulletin says the National Guard is massacring students at Kent State and Nixon is still bombing Cambodia. The journalist is driving, ignoring his passenger who is now nearly naked after taking off most of his clothing, which he holds out the window, trying to wind-wash the Mace out of it.
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On “Face the Nation” Bob Schieffer sat around the tack room shooting the shit with Representative Charlie Melancon (D-La), Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla), Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill) and Arizona GOP Senate Candidate Kookbar J.D. Hayworth.
Since the local CBS signal sucks, I can only assume they spent the half hour talking about hunch bettors vs. odds bettors.
On “Meet the Press” ...
Exclusive! Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Exclusive! Governor Charlie Crist
Exclusive! Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano
Exclusive! Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
Exclusive! Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Exclusive! Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)
Exclusive! Representative Mike Pence (R-IN)
Exclusive! Governor Bill Richardson (D-NM)
David Gregory: Look at my kickass new studio. Dig those crazy, high def wall sconces!
On “Fox News Sunday” Chris Wallace asks the musical question: Some people are saying…this is Obama’s Katrina?
driftglass: No, you’re saying it.
Wallace: But isn’t this…Obama’s Katrina?
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano: No. There is no comparison. Douche.
Wallace: So...Obama’s Katrina?
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar: Not even close. WTF are you even talking about?
Wallace: Obama’s Katrina: a personal failure, or the final proof that Socialism never works? The controversy continues.
Next...
Marco Rubio: Teabagger Conservatism = mainstream American thought!
Wallace: But according to your previous comments, you’re against a police state in Arizona. How can you claim to be a mainstream American and not hunger deep in your manly soul for a nice, tidy, Red, White and Blue Conservative feudalism?
Rubio: Mmmm. Tidy.
Wallace: What about the terrible situation down in the Gulf; that leak, and all those pollutants now spilling to the surface?
Rubio: I told you, I only used that credit card for legitimate political reasons.
On “This Week”
Jake Tapper invited Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar do their thing. As the did on every other station, they did an admirable job of explaining what is happening in the Gulf.
Then Katrina vanden Heuvel, Bill Maher and Al Sharpton beat the crap out of an old man and his whiny political catamite.
Poor George Will -- he got hit high, middle and low, tossing up “examples” of citizens being asked for ID (entering a secure building) which Sharpton just stuffed right back down his throat...and scuttling left and right, in an eerily rodentlike desperation to avoid answering legitimate questions.
Matthew Dowd: Both sides do it! Both sides do it! Why didn’t you damn Democrats love George Bush more!? (Breaks down sobbing.)
Like most Conservatives, Dowd's memory is either so short and hilariously selective that he should seek medical attention immediately (from three of literally hundreds of articles written during the period during which Dowd is all cranky about Democrats being insufficiently supportive of Dubya's immigration plan, with emphasis added here and there by me to catch the morning light)...
...or he's just lying.
From the USA Today:Bush, Kennedy join forces on immigration
Updated 5/16/2007 10:30 AM
By Kathy Kiely
WASHINGTON — As he presses for legacy-building immigration legislation, President Bush finds himself aligned with the same unlikely ally who helped enact his first major domestic initiative.
That would be Sen. Edward Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat who played a crucial role in crafting and passing the No Child Left Behind Act, the president's massive effort to overhaul education policy.
In a speech to the Associated General Contractors of America on May 2, Bush acknowledged Kennedy as a key player in the talks that are culminating this week, when the Senate opens an immigration debate. "I appreciate the leadership he's taken," Bush said.
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From Peggington Noonington at the Wall Street Journal:Open borders? Mass deportations? How about some common sense instead?
Friday, May 25, 2007 12:01 A.M. EDT
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Naturally I hope the new immigration bill fails. It is less a bill than a big dirty ball of mischief, malfeasance and mendacity, with a touch of class malice, and it's being pushed by a White House that is at once cynical and inept. The bill's Capitol Hill supporters have a great vain popinjay's pride in their own higher compassion. They are inclusive and you're not, you cur, you gun-totin' truckdriver's-hat-wearin' yahoo. It's all so complex, and you'd understand this if you weren't sort of dumb.
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Oh, Peggington! How that sweet-sweet nectar of Wingnut box wine forgetfulness has soured for you these last couple of decades.
And the New York Times:President’s Push on Immigration Tests G.O.P. Base
By JIM RUTENBERG and CARL HULSE
June 3, 2007
WASHINGTON, June 2 — President Bush’s advocacy of an immigration overhaul and his attacks on critics of the plan are provoking an unusually intense backlash from conservatives who form the bulwark of his remaining support, splintering his base and laying bare divisions within a party whose unity has been the envy of Democrats.
It has pitted some of Mr. Bush’s most stalwart Congressional and grass-roots backers against him, inciting a vitriol that has at times exceeded anything seen yet between Mr. Bush and his supporters, who have generally stood with him through the toughest patches of his presidency. Those supporters now view him as pursuing amnesty for foreign lawbreakers when he should be focusing on border security.
Postings on conservative Web sites this week have gone so far as to call for Mr. Bush’s impeachment, and usually friendly radio hosts, commentators and Congressional allies are warning that he stands to lose supporters — a potentially damaging development, they say, when he needs all the backing he can get on other vital matters like the war in Iraq.
“I think President Bush hurts himself every time he says it is not amnesty,” said Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, referring to the bill’s legalization process for immigrants. “We are not all that stupid.”
This week, after Mr. Bush’s suggestion that those opposing the Congressional plan “don’t want to do what’s right for America” inflamed conservative passions, Rush Limbaugh told listeners, “I just wish he hadn’t done it because he’s not going to lose me on Iraq, and he’s not going to lose me on national security.” He added, “But he might lose some of you.”
Such sentiments have reverberated through talk radio, conservative publications like National Review and Fox News. They have also appeared on Web sites including RedState.com and FreeRepublic.com, where postings reflect a feeling that Mr. Bush is smiting his own coalition in pursuit of a badly needed domestic accomplishment, and working in league with the likes of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a co-author of the legislation.
White House officials said it had led them to engage the blogosphere in a concerted way for the first time, posting defenses on liberal and conservative sites.
The tensions, which have rippled through the Republican presidential field, are intensifying just as the Senate is preparing to renew debate on the measure next week. Opponents are seeking significant changes — or outright defeat of the legislation — and raising the specter of a filibuster. The battle has pitted the White House against a group that includes even Mr. Bush’s reliable supporters from his home state of Texas, Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn, both Republicans.
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Bill Maher: I would never say or imply that all Republicans are racists. That would be silly and wrong. I am saying that, these days, if you’re a racist, you’re probably a Republican.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: It would be nice if the media would pay the same kind of attention to the massive immigration and Wall Street protests that they lavish on six people on a street corner in pantaloons yelling about fucking Socialism.
On ”The Chris Matthews Show”
Everybody gibbers meaninglessly about the Supremes for awhile and then it becomes That 70s Show.
Amazing how little Conservatives have changed in 40 years.
3 comments:
I knew it was HST when I got to the word "blowing."
You are a work, not even in progress any more, Dg.
Priceless.
And dead on the moolah.
S
Huge Pontiac Ballbuster blowing through traffic on the expressway.
it was actually entertaining to watch This Week. something that could even pass for debate was happening there.
Seeing George Will getting bitch slapped by everyone else was simply priceless.
Something big has apparently gone wrong either with my ISP locally, or with Blogger/Google regionally or generally. I can no longer access my sites, any Blogspot sites, Blogger few other stalwarts from any location, and sites like YouTube choke halfway thru loading and stop. Yahoo, Bing, Google seem slowed but unaffected.
More here: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=blogger+%22is+down%22
FYI, http://www.getpastwebsense.com/ gets me around whatever it is, but runs like a drunk boar on rollerskates trying to climb a hill, so password paranois aside, fuggetabout using it for posting.
Adieu.
-- driftglass
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