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"Yet our presence didn’t seem to matter to anyone, creatively or otherwise. And anyway, Madison’s economy was humming along with unemployment around four percent, while back in fun, creative Portland, it was more than twice that, at eight and a half percent. This was not how the world according to Florida was supposed to work. I started to wonder if I’d misread him. Around town I encountered a few other transplants who also found themselves scratching their heads over what the fuss had been about. Within a couple years, most of them would be gone."
From "The Fall of the Creative Class," by Frank Bures. "Florida" is Richard Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class," who theorized that artists (and gay people and immigrants) cause economic growth, so a city that wants economic expansion ought to adopt a strategy of attracting artists.
Via Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
27 Haziran 2012 Çarşamba
"Doctors’ waiting rooms are absolutely brimming these days with women suffering from low libidos."
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"I have talked to a lot of young women about this, and they just don’t seem to do it any more.... Honestly, I suppose it’s because we all have so many other demands on our time now."
I tend to think that the reason people are doing whatever they are doing is because it's what they want to do. There's something irrational about saying I don't want to do what I don't want to do. Or, to turn it around, I want to want something. If you want it, you want it. If you don't, you don't. Start there. Too busy? Hopeless!
Many young women also feel guilty or distressed over their low libido....So... you're so stressed about work that you don't have sex, and then you're stressed about not having sex. Stress! Stress! Stress! What do you think about all this stress as the cause and the effect of not having sex? It strikes me as a shallow and lame explanation for things.
I tend to think that the reason people are doing whatever they are doing is because it's what they want to do. There's something irrational about saying I don't want to do what I don't want to do. Or, to turn it around, I want to want something. If you want it, you want it. If you don't, you don't. Start there. Too busy? Hopeless!
"Do you think that the man in line behind you and the lady behind him want to buy you your cigarettes?"
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The 65-year-old cashier who scolded the 20-year-old with the EBT card and refused to let him buy cigarettes.
By the way, were you familiar with the term "EBT card"? Do you know what the letters stand for? (I didn't.)
The next day, the 20-year-old’s “foster mother” showed up at the Big Apple to complain about how her “son” had been mistreated. Jackie Whiton talked back again.Whitton was fired.
“I told her, ‘Use the money you get from the state to buy his cigarettes.’ She said, ‘Absolutely not.’ ”...
“He was very capable of working,” Jackie said, “so I told him to get a J-O-B.”
By the way, were you familiar with the term "EBT card"? Do you know what the letters stand for? (I didn't.)
Did the Democrats give up on class warfare?
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Jonathan Martin (at Politico) says they did. He notes that Occupy Wall Street has evanesced and that Obama conspicuously avoided participating in the Wisconsin recall election.
When you get a few paragraphs into the long article, you'll see it's mostly complaints about the dynamics of campaign finance with lots of quotes from people Martin counts among the few "unapologetic populists" left in the party. But there's this nice summary:
Labor unions hoped to turn the Wisconsin recall election into a rallying cause for their ailing movement. But a Democratic president couldn’t be dragged off the sidelines for the fight.And let me add that even the Democratic candidate in that election avoided talking about labor union matters. Tom Barrett talked — with stunning blandness — about a restoration of civility and working together.
When you get a few paragraphs into the long article, you'll see it's mostly complaints about the dynamics of campaign finance with lots of quotes from people Martin counts among the few "unapologetic populists" left in the party. But there's this nice summary:
*The political infrastructure doesn’t exist. Class-based partisan appeals by Democrats in the early and mid-20th century were typically supported by a robust and well-organized labor movement. That doesn’t exist in any similar form these days.
*Even populist politicians need money. Conspiracy theorists who believe campaign contributions drive the agenda aren’t altogether wrong. It is virtually impossible to be a successful national Democrat without relying heavily on business interests, including the financial industry, for campaign funds.
*The president, a man comfortable in elite circles, is not temperamentally inclined for the kind of sustained, rough-edged partisan combat that true populist politics requires. So, while he is tempted by populist appeals on some days, he often turns ambivalent and changes his message the next.
*Most important of all, lots of Democrats simply do not support populism, on either ideological or stylistic grounds. Many upscale Democrats believe that Washington needs less combat, not more, and populist messages strike them as irrelevant at best, demagogic at worst. Even some working-class voters have their assets in the stock market, because of their 401(k)s and IRAs, making even the most traditional of Democrats believe their interests are more in line with Wall Street than opposed.
Facebook resets users' political views.
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A mere accident, purportedly. And it only affected Facebookians who failed to identify with a party or ideology that had its own Facebook page. So if you individualized your political orientation — calling yourself, say, "a recovering bleeding heart" or a "sniveling democrublican" or some such outré invention — that might have been obliterated.
I'm guessing Facebook is working on getting individual pages to link up in various "social network" ways within the Facebook website. I'm assuming it's all for the business interests of Facebook. But perhaps the company is trying to help political parties (and causes) organize and communicate. All this idiosyncratic nomenclature cuts off the pathways of power.
This makes me wonder what I have on my Facebook page. Oh, I see. I wrote: "read my blog." But now what it says is "Other" on a separate line before what I wrote. And "Other" is hot-linked to a Facebook page for "Other," where the content is lifted from the Wikipedia article "Other":
(By the way, I'm not looking for Facebook friends, so please don't ask.)
I'm guessing Facebook is working on getting individual pages to link up in various "social network" ways within the Facebook website. I'm assuming it's all for the business interests of Facebook. But perhaps the company is trying to help political parties (and causes) organize and communicate. All this idiosyncratic nomenclature cuts off the pathways of power.
This makes me wonder what I have on my Facebook page. Oh, I see. I wrote: "read my blog." But now what it says is "Other" on a separate line before what I wrote. And "Other" is hot-linked to a Facebook page for "Other," where the content is lifted from the Wikipedia article "Other":
The Other or Constitutive Other (also the verb othering) is a key concept in continental philosophy; it opposes the Same."Same" and "continental philosophy" are hot-linked to other Facebook pages. So lots of linkage, plus the insane idea that I have identified myself with some damned continental philosophy concept!
The Other refers, or attempts to refer, to that which is other than the initial concept being considered. The Constitutive Other often denotes a person Other than one’s self; hence, the Other is identified as “different”; thus the spelling often is capitalized.That's rich. And actually, accidentally sort of true, since I'm keeping out of all the established political identifications. But I don't need Facebook insinuating that I'm somebody else's not-self.
A person's definition of the 'Other' is part of what defines or even constitutes the self (in both a psychological and philosophical sense) and other phenomena and cultural units. It has been used in social science to understand the processes by which societies and groups exclude 'Others' whom they want to subordinate or who do not fit into their society.I am Facebook's Other! I am what Facebook wants to subordinate because I do not fit into its society/social network.
(By the way, I'm not looking for Facebook friends, so please don't ask.)
25 Haziran 2012 Pazartesi
Pat Fish's Blog
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 Book Review: "In My Time" by Dick Cheney. Who Knew Cheney Was So Liberal? ============================== |  National Politics 2012-What Will Happen If Romney Governs Like a Rino; Fast & Furious-More national political gossip ============================== |
.jpg) Jenny McCarthy, 7 Men and 7 Women Seek Love in the Wild for 2012 ============================== |  Hell's Kitchen 2012-Review: Contenders Cook, Ramsay Yells; More Snark. ============================== |
 12 Interior Designers Begin the Competition for HGTV's Design Star 2012 ============================== |  The Intriguing Campaign of Alex Pires and Other Delaware News ============================== |
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 True Crime 2012-Zimmerman's Bail Revoked, Torture by Sesame Street, "Police! Drop That Big Gulp!" ============================== |  Duets 2012-New Singing Reality Competition Show. How Does It Compare to the Many Others of the Genre? ============================== |
 Bachelorette 2012 Emily Maynard Used to the Finer Things In Life ============================== |  America's Got Talent 2012, from Tampa to Austin, Weirdness Prevails; Acts to Watch For. ============================== |
 Book Rev-"Lady Blue Eyes- My Life With Frank" by Barbara Sinatra. He wasn't such a nice guy, SHE covered for him. ============================== | Food Network Star 2012-Giada Still Gorgeous, Flay Still Nasty, Alton Still Snobby. The contenders are great. ============================== |
 The Gardens of Serendipity Shore-Spring 2012-Uninvited Guests and Getting Them to Leave ============================== |  Bluebirds, Cardinals and Indigo Buntings. God Sends Me a Few of His Beautiful Bird Fellows for My Review. ============================== |
The Bachelorette 2012-Emily Dumps Brad, Seeks New Partner ============================== |  Fashion Star 2012 Has a Winner Both Contender and in TV Fashion Show Format ============================== |
America's Got Talent 2012 Begins-Howard Stern An Interesting Addition. Gossip, Thoughts, Snark ============================== | Food Network Star 2012 Begins; Let's Take a Look At How It Begins ============================== |
Ok, I'll Say It -- The New Judges Save/Sing-For-Your-Life Is Icky!
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As if it wasn't bad enough that America voted off the talented and lovely Alexis Grace on last night's American Idol, leaving the far less talented Michael Sarver in the competition and on the tour, the poor girl wasn't even allowed to exit the show with dignity. Instead, she was forced to "sing for her life," while the judges decided whether or not she was worthy of using their "save" on.
Gross!!!!!
Now, I can't say I disagree with the judges' choice not to use the save, but forcing Alexis to desperately make her case, just moments after being told she received the fewest amount of votes in the Top 11, was just wrong. What happened to the lovely send-off video and kind words from the judges? Gone. Instead, she had to plead her case to the judges via the very song they said they don't think she should have chosen, and then listen to Simon tell her "You were good, but not good enough."
I repeat -- gross!!
There's got to be a better way for the end of the show to go down, right? Right????
X-Factor's Danyl Johnson - Bisexual?
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Below is a video of X-Factor contestant Danyl Johnson, who Simon Cowell said gave the best first audition he's ever seen. I mean...it's good, sure, and the guy certainly has stage presence, but methinks Cowell overstates just a bit.
I'm more interested in a quote he gave to London's The Mirror, in which he declares he dates both women and men, and says, "I don’t like to conform or be put into one box or another and if I’m honest all the judges are good-looking. If I like someone’s personality it doesn’t really matter what they look like or what sex they are."
Looks like Adam Lambert is not the only singing contestant who likes the fellas!
Gay, straight, bisexual -- do you love this guy? And is he the next Susan Boyle? Let me know your thoughts.
SYTYCD's Will Wingfield Joins Broadway's "In The Heights"
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So You Think You Can Dance is taking over the world!
First Lacey Schwimmer, Dmitry Chaplin and Chelsie Hightower infiltrated Dancing with the Stars, Travis Wall returned triumphantly as a choreographer on the show, Kherington Payne got cast in the remake of Fame and Neil Haskell showed up Off-Broadway in Altar Boyz and on Broadway in 9 to 5. Now Season 4's Will Wingfield will be the new "Graffiti Pete" in In the Heights!
I saw Will, who was egregriously kicked off in the Top 8 of SYTYCD two seasons ago, this summer at City Center Encore's The Wiz, where he played the head monkey. Though he didn't have much to do, he danced fabulously, and certainly had more energy than star Ashanti. I mean...
Also coming to the Great White Way this fall is Season 3 runner-up Danny Tidwell, who will be a featured dancer in Memphis. Love!
Now we just gotta find a place for Katee Sheean and Janette Manrara!
Idol Thoughts Interviews So You Think You Can Dance's Nigel Lythgoe
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I just got off the phone with Nigel Lythgoe, and here's a few nuggets of information he shared about Season 6 of So You Think You Can Dance:
-Because of scheduling issues, the season finale episode will feature the Top 6, instead of the usual Top 4. This was to avoid starting with a "Top 18". By my estimations, this would put the finale on December 16, 2009.
-Adam Shankman joining the show does not mean the end of guest judges -- in fact, Jennifer Lopez, a big fan of the show, has expressed interest in joining the panel, and Nigel still hopes to get Paula Abdul from time to time.
-If the show is not successful in the fall Nigel expects it will return to the summer -- he can't imagine Fox would throw the baby out with the bathwater.
-Nigel thinks this past season was booooooooooooring, and though the dancers were technically adept, he thought they were seriously lacking in personality.
-He thinks Danny Tidwell is the best dancer the show has had, and thinks Travis Wall was a better dancer than Benji Schwimmer, and, in this past season, Brandon was a better dancer than Jeanine.
Episode 2 of the new season of SYTYCD airs tonight!
24 Haziran 2012 Pazar
12 Interior Designers Begin the Competition for HGTV's Design Star 2012
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There are 12 contenders competing to be the next Design Star on HGTV. This is one of my favorite reality competitor shows though few watch it and even fewer will read this Blog's updates.
It's not that I have any great talent, or even interest, in room design. I do hang pictures and the like in my home and I tend to lean toward "cute" in terms of my own home décor.
Home interior design are amongst my favorite shows and HGTV is, of course, the master of the genre. And though I'll likely never make light boxes out of coffee tables, much less burn up half a room to "tell a story", I do enjoy seeing the big "reveal" because if I know nothing, I know what pleases my eyeballs.
On the premiere episode, the Design Star contenders were charged with re-decorating their space. Said "space" being some sort of mansion somewhere, n o doubt loaned to HGTV just for this series. A complete design makeover is the payment for this provision of temporary quarters.
But I speculate.
The competition began with 12 contenders. Pay close attention to the BIO of one contender, below:
Rachel has been declared the winner of the first two design challenges thus far, the space renovation indicated above, as well as the white box challenge on the episode aired 6/5/12.
The so-called white box challenge involves putting up a bunch of white box type "rooms" that the design challengers must then decorate.
For the temporary living space do-overs, the contenders were put into 2-man teams. Each contender was supposed to add an element in the room that they brought from home, an item that would be an icon of sorts of their personal decorating stye.
Luca and Danielle were assigned the great room, which was decorated a really nice gray. Gray is not a color I'd normally choose but this was a pretty dove gray that was perfect for the big space.
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Hilari and Rachel were assigned a den. A white moose was centered on the wall with a black background. The holder for the tiny television was weird and ugly. Judge Yip loved the coffee table designed by Rachel.
Yuki and Stanley were assigned the Designers' studio and goodness me, Yuki came up with the ugliest collage any human being ever dared to call artful. The judges weren't crazy about the neon green and deep purple walls.
Mirera and Jordan decorated a bedroom, Mikel and Britany another bedroom and Kris and Bex yet another bedroom.
Decorative items included saw blades, lattice work, handsome ottomans and a giant matchstick.
Yuki was sent home, Yuki being the creator of the awful collage. Rachel was declared the winner of this challenge.
For the so-called white box challenge on the episode aired 6/5/12, the contenders were given a $1,000 budget for purchasing their decorative needs from a home and garden store. This was also the first camera challenge as these designers, if they want to win their own design show, need to present well on camera.
The submissions were interesting to regard and in my quick scan, I determined my favorite was submitted by guess who? Rachel. She combined pretty patterns on the wall and had a perfectly matched painting. My second favorite was by Danielle, who also had a very graphic bold design on her wall. My third favorite was a design that involved a PVC pipe, something I'd never use in decorating a room of mine, as submitted by Bex.
My least favorite was submitted by Jordan and had a sort of chinese theme but it was very attractive and sure didn't look comfortable. The red bamboo arch made no sense at all.
It would turn out that my least favorite was also the judges' least favorite and Jordon was sent home.
Also, my favorite was also submitted by Rachel and again she was the winner of the challenge.
To see the highlights of the white box challenge, click here:
Design Star can be seen on HGTV on Tuesday nights at 9pm.
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There are 12 contenders competing to be the next Design Star on HGTV. This is one of my favorite reality competitor shows though few watch it and even fewer will read this Blog's updates.
It's not that I have any great talent, or even interest, in room design. I do hang pictures and the like in my home and I tend to lean toward "cute" in terms of my own home décor.
Home interior design are amongst my favorite shows and HGTV is, of course, the master of the genre. And though I'll likely never make light boxes out of coffee tables, much less burn up half a room to "tell a story", I do enjoy seeing the big "reveal" because if I know nothing, I know what pleases my eyeballs.
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| Luca and Danielle's Great Room |
On the premiere episode, the Design Star contenders were charged with re-decorating their space. Said "space" being some sort of mansion somewhere, n o doubt loaned to HGTV just for this series. A complete design makeover is the payment for this provision of temporary quarters.
But I speculate.
The competition began with 12 contenders. Pay close attention to the BIO of one contender, below:
Rachel Kate
Age: 35
Hometown: Minneapolis, Minn.
Instead of joining the family motorcycle business, Rachel followed her passion for design, which she says began in the fourth grade while she was sketching fashion and interior designs for fun. In high school, she developed her natural talents by painting fabrics, sewing clothes and reupholstering chairs to sell to friends and family. Rachel has completed more than 50 home decor projects, 20 full remodels and 20 new-construction projects. Currently, Rachel is a mom who runs her own freelance design business and believes there are no limits with design. She characterizes her style as eclectic rustic, antique French and coastal beach house.
Rachel has been declared the winner of the first two design challenges thus far, the space renovation indicated above, as well as the white box challenge on the episode aired 6/5/12.
The so-called white box challenge involves putting up a bunch of white box type "rooms" that the design challengers must then decorate.
For the temporary living space do-overs, the contenders were put into 2-man teams. Each contender was supposed to add an element in the room that they brought from home, an item that would be an icon of sorts of their personal decorating stye.
Luca and Danielle were assigned the great room, which was decorated a really nice gray. Gray is not a color I'd normally choose but this was a pretty dove gray that was perfect for the big space.
Hilari and Rachel were assigned a den. A white moose was centered on the wall with a black background. The holder for the tiny television was weird and ugly. Judge Yip loved the coffee table designed by Rachel.
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| Yuki's "art". Yuki will NOT be the next Design Star |
Mirera and Jordan decorated a bedroom, Mikel and Britany another bedroom and Kris and Bex yet another bedroom.
Decorative items included saw blades, lattice work, handsome ottomans and a giant matchstick.Yuki was sent home, Yuki being the creator of the awful collage. Rachel was declared the winner of this challenge.
For the so-called white box challenge on the episode aired 6/5/12, the contenders were given a $1,000 budget for purchasing their decorative needs from a home and garden store. This was also the first camera challenge as these designers, if they want to win their own design show, need to present well on camera.
The submissions were interesting to regard and in my quick scan, I determined my favorite was submitted by guess who? Rachel. She combined pretty patterns on the wall and had a perfectly matched painting. My second favorite was by Danielle, who also had a very graphic bold design on her wall. My third favorite was a design that involved a PVC pipe, something I'd never use in decorating a room of mine, as submitted by Bex.
My least favorite was submitted by Jordan and had a sort of chinese theme but it was very attractive and sure didn't look comfortable. The red bamboo arch made no sense at all.
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| A TV surrounded by, well I don't know. But why? |
It would turn out that my least favorite was also the judges' least favorite and Jordon was sent home.
Also, my favorite was also submitted by Rachel and again she was the winner of the challenge.
To see the highlights of the white box challenge, click here:
Design Star can be seen on HGTV on Tuesday nights at 9pm.
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Hell's Kitchen 2012-Review: Contenders Cook, Ramsay Yells; More Snark.
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Hell's Kitchen on Fox began its tenth season this early June.
Ten seasons! That's very long for a reality series and it boggles the mind that a reality cooking show with the same plot and dynamic has survived for ten years. I am to understand that Fox has renewed Hell's Kitchen for another two years.
Hell's Kitchen was nominated for a People's Choice award for best reality series.
Just damn.
No WAIT!
I've been watching too much Hell's kitchen.
Because that's all the man does is cuss and the contenders do their share of cussing. But contenders come and go while Gordon Ramsay is always on the job.
Below, a synopsis of a Hell's Kitchen episode:
Contenders drug out of bed, told to report to kitchen.
Ramsay gives them a personal challenge, usually based on some kind of guest star, maybe grill an item if Bobby Flay were the guest.
While the contenders are prepping the dish, Ramsay talks to them. If he doesn't like something they're doing, he cusses. If he finds something bad in the final product he cusses. If the contender is too slow or dumb, he cusses.
Then comes the dinner service in Hell's Kitchen. I know there is an area of New York called Hell's Kitchen. I do think there is a restaurant called Hell's Kitchen but I think it's in Los Angeles.
The contenders are usually divided into teams, a red team and a blue team. Each team is responsible for providing a dinner service for Hell's Kitchen, usually different halves of the entire restaurant.
A meal comes out too late….Ramsay cusses.
A scallop is too tough...Ramsay cusses.
Meat is overcooked...Ramsay cusses.
Meat is undercooked...Ramsay cusses.
A contender doesn't clean the work space...Ramsay cusses.
When the meal service is done, Ramsay cusses.
When the contenders complain about other contenders, Ramsay cusses.
And so yon ladies and gems, that's how each and every Hell's Kitchen show goes, it never varies, the amount of cussing is way beyond anything normal people do.
I will not watch Hell's Kitchen ever again. I love cooking reality shows, but I've had enough cussing to last a lifetime.
My advice is for yon reader to watch Hell's Kitchen if yon reader really likes cussing.
Hell's Kitchen on Fox began its tenth season this early June.
Ten seasons! That's very long for a reality series and it boggles the mind that a reality cooking show with the same plot and dynamic has survived for ten years. I am to understand that Fox has renewed Hell's Kitchen for another two years.
Hell's Kitchen was nominated for a People's Choice award for best reality series.
Just damn.
No WAIT!
I've been watching too much Hell's kitchen.
Because that's all the man does is cuss and the contenders do their share of cussing. But contenders come and go while Gordon Ramsay is always on the job.
Below, a synopsis of a Hell's Kitchen episode:
Contenders drug out of bed, told to report to kitchen.
Ramsay gives them a personal challenge, usually based on some kind of guest star, maybe grill an item if Bobby Flay were the guest.
While the contenders are prepping the dish, Ramsay talks to them. If he doesn't like something they're doing, he cusses. If he finds something bad in the final product he cusses. If the contender is too slow or dumb, he cusses.
Then comes the dinner service in Hell's Kitchen. I know there is an area of New York called Hell's Kitchen. I do think there is a restaurant called Hell's Kitchen but I think it's in Los Angeles.
The contenders are usually divided into teams, a red team and a blue team. Each team is responsible for providing a dinner service for Hell's Kitchen, usually different halves of the entire restaurant.
A meal comes out too late….Ramsay cusses.
A scallop is too tough...Ramsay cusses.
Meat is overcooked...Ramsay cusses.
Meat is undercooked...Ramsay cusses.
A contender doesn't clean the work space...Ramsay cusses.
When the meal service is done, Ramsay cusses.
When the contenders complain about other contenders, Ramsay cusses.
And so yon ladies and gems, that's how each and every Hell's Kitchen show goes, it never varies, the amount of cussing is way beyond anything normal people do.
I will not watch Hell's Kitchen ever again. I love cooking reality shows, but I've had enough cussing to last a lifetime.
My advice is for yon reader to watch Hell's Kitchen if yon reader really likes cussing.
Nat'l Politics 2012-Fast and Furious-Complete Detail; What Will Happen if Romney Governs as a Rino
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I was going to begin this national political post with a happening and astute editorial about my theory of Romney should he govern like a RINO (Republican in Name Only). But later on this.
This week President Obama claimed executive privilege as pertains to the Justice Department known as Fast & Furious.
I've kept up with this debacle of our dysfunctional justice department closely and folks, this is not your mother's Watergate.
First of all, Watergate was a nothing-burger of a story but it happened in an era when the only access to mass coverage was the lying Lamestream. Even if you disagree and consider Watergate to have been one of the major scandals of our time, there's no denying one pertinent fact: NOBODY DIED DURING WATERGATE!
Because one American border guard died during Fast and Furious and some 200 plus Mexicans lost their lives, all by guns shipped to Mexico drug lords from our own justice department.
They had a plan. Like every plan this administration hatches, it was hare-brained. Remember please that Eric Holder, the WORST Attorney General this country has ever had, was the guy who was going to bring all the inmates at Camp Gitmo up to New York to try them in an American court. Even the Democrats howled and caterwauled over that not-so-brilliant idea. Not that the fact that the law firm Holder is affiliated with represented alleged terrorists captured by our military had anything to do with that attempt, perish the thought.
The idea was for guns to be shipped by the Bureau of Tobacco,Firearms, etc. and arrangements to be made to deliver them to Mexican drug cartels. This concept was began, in a fashion, under the W. Bush justice department, then called "Wide Receiver". It was a way to track Mexican drug gangs that were buying American guns to keep in their dangerous business. Under Dubya, guns were offered for sale to Mexican drug gangs. Once a representative of a drug lord showed up to pick up the guns, a sting was made. It also was intended to capture American gun dealers selling guns to Mexicans. Wide Receiver was a sting operation co-ordinated with Mexico and the whole thing was stopped once it was determined the whole thing was too dangerous and with too many loopholes that tracking it was not worth the results.
You can believe, however, that the Democrats are out and about and saying, as I hold my arms high in that manner of a conductor leading the group…."BUSH DID IT"!
Just like the Bush administration operated a homeland security department or exported illegal aliens, the Bush administration ran government operations and the sale of American guns to Mexican drug lords was a problem. The Bush administration had absolutely nothing to do with this current Fast & Furious scheme. Please don't let the liars get away with it.
Fast & Furious was a cockamamie idea hatched by- well hell I'm a Blogger and speculation is my forte-I'm guessing it was something Valerie Jarrett, Obamer himself and probably Eric Holder, who came up with the idea.
See, the communists and liberals-but I repeat myself- do not want Americans to have guns. Citizens with guns are less able to be oppressed by those who want to control than citizens WITH guns. Duh.
The best actions to take away the guns of those rabid Americans involve a good public relations scandal. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan was the backdrop of the last great successful attempt to disarm America. John Brady was shot in the head during that incident and America was shocked and horrified.
The Democrats, not a political party known for preserving the constitution and with little common sense, used the public horror to push through the Brady bill, an attempt at gun control that turned the term "assault rifle" into something it's not.
The idea was, using the public relations model, to ship guns to Mexico under the guise of yet another well-intentioned justice department attempt to stop American guns from flowing into Mexico. As these things go in Mexico, sooner or later some bad guys, AND some innocent Mexican citizens, would get killed with these American guns.
That's when NBC would be summoned to capture the tears of the mother sobbing over the loss of her little bambino due to those nasty American guns, why can't America control its guns she screams. Sobs. Drama. Sound and sight bytes.
The communists/liberals, they don't govern by reason. They govern by emotion. Liberals love their emotions and sure enough they'll demand that America control the guns by, well I don't know, they'd come up with some new gambit, maybe require that gun-buying Americans must report to the local gun bureaucracy-much like Monty Python's Bureau of Funny Walks- and show that they still have the gun they bought and it's not in Mexico. See, every obstacle you put up for buying a gun the less Americans will want to bother. Then, boom, the communists/liberals can take over the country without bother of the nastys with guns.
It was modeled roughly after the Wide Receiver idea but with a twist. For once the BATFE arranged for American gun dealers around Arizona to get these allegedly marked guns that would track who got them.
Gun dealers, wanting to stay in business and everything and mostly law-abiding citizens, were getting these guns and noting the serial numbers as required. The dealers were trying to track to whom the guns were sold but BAFTE agents were telling them not to bother, to go ahead and sell the guns to the Mexicans who wanted to buy them.
It was an insane idea, wrought with possible failures. Sure enough a BATFE agent became a whistle-blower, much because of the Arizona gun dealers who didn't want to get into trouble for selling these guns to what they knew were thugs.
Then an American border agent, Brian Terry, was killed by what was determined to be one of those guns used for Fast and Furious.
It was a whistle-blower in the department of justice who brought this matter to the attention of congress. Congress, being an arm of the U.S. government with as much power as the Supreme Court and presidency, acted, in the form of Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
He did what he was supposed to do and did not, as is the case with many Republicans who've been in D.C. too long with a concurrent loss of testicular fortitude as the years progress, ignore the tricky issue that would have the New York Times lambasting them for daring to question their hero, Barack Obama.
Eric Holder, that magnificent Attorney General whose first action on the job was to excoriate Americans who had just elected a black president as being too cowardly to discuss race matters, was called before the House oversight committee and he lied like a rug each time he opened his mouth.
The oversight committee, with a Republican majority, threatened to slap Holder with the charge of lying before congress, much like they did with Roger Clemens, not that congress needs to get involved with baseball, dear lord, what with our justice department killing border agents and everything.
So out of the blue, Obama claims executive privilege.
I'll just not go into the legalities of executive privilege save to appeal to the common sense of yon readers. Come on. Congress is asking Eric Holder, the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, for information. What's this with the President asking for executive privilege?
It's like the cops go to arrest my next door neighbor and I go out and hire a lawyer. On the surface, it has nothing to do with nothing.
Which shocks because the logical conclusion is that the documents congress requests probably contain references to presidential involvement.
I suppose Obama could be claiming executive privilege to protect Eric Holder, goodness, but that's not what executive privilege is all about. Heck, Obama could give anybody executive privilege if the mood suits him using that concept.
This is not Watergate, ladies and gems. It's nowhere near as mild as Watergate. An American died because of Fast & Furious, maybe two as is speculated.
Even the Lamestream media can't ignore this atrocity.
What Will Happen if Romney Governs Like a Rino
I've been speculating right along about Mitt Romney and the problems so many conservative types have with his candidacy.
See, us boobs out here in la-la land who carry this country on our backs, have gotten tired of Republicans we elect who do not represent us. My own former representative in America's House, Mike Castle, is a good example.
Instead of working to present their case, or standing on conservative principles, too many elected Republicans become Democrats light.
We got sick of it here in Delaware and threw Castle out, God bless Sussex county, home of the free, the brave, the neanderthals who dared to toss he who was so deserving of a lifetime of sucking on the public teat without even representing us properly.
We call them RINOs, Republicans in Name Only.
It was a contentious GOP primary battle, featuring Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum. One by one they fell and Mitt Romney is now the likely Republican nominee and now we have no choice but to push his candidacy.
What's our alternative? Obama? Please.
So we bite our fingernails out here in la-la land and believe that here in the swamps of Delaware we are not at all happy about Romney, who instituted a public health insurance mandate if only on a state level, whose record is checkered with very liberal positions, whose known the world over as an expert at flip-flopping.
I predict something and want to record my prediction right here, for posterity, on my own Blog which will probably be disallowed should Obama get re-elected because contrary opinions will likely be outlawed.
Us Tea Party types, we're still out here. We carry the country on our backs and we watch this election shape up with wary eyes. We will be watching Romney as he governs and we're not going to accept this reaching-across-the-aisle silly Maverick type mentality.
For lo these past few years there's been mentioned the formation of a third party but wiser heads prevailed. A third party, say, hmmm, The Tea Party, would only siphon off voters from the Republicans and would likely not change the dynamic of the RINOs who want cocktail party invites and nice mentions in the press, conservative citizens be damned.
I really think that if Romney starts reaching across the aisle, making ridiculous deals with the Democrats, oh...something like the stupid No Child Left Behind Act, well hey, Romney's got four years to govern.
If he reverts back to typical RINO behavior, you know that behavior perpetuated by Mumbles McConnell and dear lord that awful last Republican candidate John McCain, I believe that across the nations, in bastions such as Sussex county Delaware , disgruntled Republicans will begin to form a third party.
I believe this.
Because at some point you got to face facts. And the facts are we've got a political class in this country and RINOs are stellar members.
America doesn't have kings and elected politicians have no inborn right to keep their office.
God Bless America and its citizens. Because we will have four years to form our new party and hey, let the RINOs have their own party, good luck and God bless.
To those disturbed by Romney's candidacy and his history of being a RINO, take some cheer. We'll have plenty of time and we'll put an end to this political class.
Ending With a Smile
I was going to begin this national political post with a happening and astute editorial about my theory of Romney should he govern like a RINO (Republican in Name Only). But later on this.
This week President Obama claimed executive privilege as pertains to the Justice Department known as Fast & Furious.
I've kept up with this debacle of our dysfunctional justice department closely and folks, this is not your mother's Watergate.
First of all, Watergate was a nothing-burger of a story but it happened in an era when the only access to mass coverage was the lying Lamestream. Even if you disagree and consider Watergate to have been one of the major scandals of our time, there's no denying one pertinent fact: NOBODY DIED DURING WATERGATE!
Because one American border guard died during Fast and Furious and some 200 plus Mexicans lost their lives, all by guns shipped to Mexico drug lords from our own justice department.
They had a plan. Like every plan this administration hatches, it was hare-brained. Remember please that Eric Holder, the WORST Attorney General this country has ever had, was the guy who was going to bring all the inmates at Camp Gitmo up to New York to try them in an American court. Even the Democrats howled and caterwauled over that not-so-brilliant idea. Not that the fact that the law firm Holder is affiliated with represented alleged terrorists captured by our military had anything to do with that attempt, perish the thought.The idea was for guns to be shipped by the Bureau of Tobacco,Firearms, etc. and arrangements to be made to deliver them to Mexican drug cartels. This concept was began, in a fashion, under the W. Bush justice department, then called "Wide Receiver". It was a way to track Mexican drug gangs that were buying American guns to keep in their dangerous business. Under Dubya, guns were offered for sale to Mexican drug gangs. Once a representative of a drug lord showed up to pick up the guns, a sting was made. It also was intended to capture American gun dealers selling guns to Mexicans. Wide Receiver was a sting operation co-ordinated with Mexico and the whole thing was stopped once it was determined the whole thing was too dangerous and with too many loopholes that tracking it was not worth the results.
You can believe, however, that the Democrats are out and about and saying, as I hold my arms high in that manner of a conductor leading the group…."BUSH DID IT"!
Just like the Bush administration operated a homeland security department or exported illegal aliens, the Bush administration ran government operations and the sale of American guns to Mexican drug lords was a problem. The Bush administration had absolutely nothing to do with this current Fast & Furious scheme. Please don't let the liars get away with it.
Fast & Furious was a cockamamie idea hatched by- well hell I'm a Blogger and speculation is my forte-I'm guessing it was something Valerie Jarrett, Obamer himself and probably Eric Holder, who came up with the idea.
See, the communists and liberals-but I repeat myself- do not want Americans to have guns. Citizens with guns are less able to be oppressed by those who want to control than citizens WITH guns. Duh.
The best actions to take away the guns of those rabid Americans involve a good public relations scandal. The attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan was the backdrop of the last great successful attempt to disarm America. John Brady was shot in the head during that incident and America was shocked and horrified.
The Democrats, not a political party known for preserving the constitution and with little common sense, used the public horror to push through the Brady bill, an attempt at gun control that turned the term "assault rifle" into something it's not.
The idea was, using the public relations model, to ship guns to Mexico under the guise of yet another well-intentioned justice department attempt to stop American guns from flowing into Mexico. As these things go in Mexico, sooner or later some bad guys, AND some innocent Mexican citizens, would get killed with these American guns.
That's when NBC would be summoned to capture the tears of the mother sobbing over the loss of her little bambino due to those nasty American guns, why can't America control its guns she screams. Sobs. Drama. Sound and sight bytes.
The communists/liberals, they don't govern by reason. They govern by emotion. Liberals love their emotions and sure enough they'll demand that America control the guns by, well I don't know, they'd come up with some new gambit, maybe require that gun-buying Americans must report to the local gun bureaucracy-much like Monty Python's Bureau of Funny Walks- and show that they still have the gun they bought and it's not in Mexico. See, every obstacle you put up for buying a gun the less Americans will want to bother. Then, boom, the communists/liberals can take over the country without bother of the nastys with guns.
It was modeled roughly after the Wide Receiver idea but with a twist. For once the BATFE arranged for American gun dealers around Arizona to get these allegedly marked guns that would track who got them.
Gun dealers, wanting to stay in business and everything and mostly law-abiding citizens, were getting these guns and noting the serial numbers as required. The dealers were trying to track to whom the guns were sold but BAFTE agents were telling them not to bother, to go ahead and sell the guns to the Mexicans who wanted to buy them.
It was an insane idea, wrought with possible failures. Sure enough a BATFE agent became a whistle-blower, much because of the Arizona gun dealers who didn't want to get into trouble for selling these guns to what they knew were thugs.
Then an American border agent, Brian Terry, was killed by what was determined to be one of those guns used for Fast and Furious.
It was a whistle-blower in the department of justice who brought this matter to the attention of congress. Congress, being an arm of the U.S. government with as much power as the Supreme Court and presidency, acted, in the form of Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
He did what he was supposed to do and did not, as is the case with many Republicans who've been in D.C. too long with a concurrent loss of testicular fortitude as the years progress, ignore the tricky issue that would have the New York Times lambasting them for daring to question their hero, Barack Obama.Eric Holder, that magnificent Attorney General whose first action on the job was to excoriate Americans who had just elected a black president as being too cowardly to discuss race matters, was called before the House oversight committee and he lied like a rug each time he opened his mouth.
The oversight committee, with a Republican majority, threatened to slap Holder with the charge of lying before congress, much like they did with Roger Clemens, not that congress needs to get involved with baseball, dear lord, what with our justice department killing border agents and everything.
So out of the blue, Obama claims executive privilege.
I'll just not go into the legalities of executive privilege save to appeal to the common sense of yon readers. Come on. Congress is asking Eric Holder, the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, for information. What's this with the President asking for executive privilege?
It's like the cops go to arrest my next door neighbor and I go out and hire a lawyer. On the surface, it has nothing to do with nothing.
Which shocks because the logical conclusion is that the documents congress requests probably contain references to presidential involvement.
I suppose Obama could be claiming executive privilege to protect Eric Holder, goodness, but that's not what executive privilege is all about. Heck, Obama could give anybody executive privilege if the mood suits him using that concept.
This is not Watergate, ladies and gems. It's nowhere near as mild as Watergate. An American died because of Fast & Furious, maybe two as is speculated.
Even the Lamestream media can't ignore this atrocity.
What Will Happen if Romney Governs Like a Rino
I've been speculating right along about Mitt Romney and the problems so many conservative types have with his candidacy.
See, us boobs out here in la-la land who carry this country on our backs, have gotten tired of Republicans we elect who do not represent us. My own former representative in America's House, Mike Castle, is a good example.
Instead of working to present their case, or standing on conservative principles, too many elected Republicans become Democrats light.
We got sick of it here in Delaware and threw Castle out, God bless Sussex county, home of the free, the brave, the neanderthals who dared to toss he who was so deserving of a lifetime of sucking on the public teat without even representing us properly.
We call them RINOs, Republicans in Name Only.
It was a contentious GOP primary battle, featuring Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum. One by one they fell and Mitt Romney is now the likely Republican nominee and now we have no choice but to push his candidacy.
What's our alternative? Obama? Please.
So we bite our fingernails out here in la-la land and believe that here in the swamps of Delaware we are not at all happy about Romney, who instituted a public health insurance mandate if only on a state level, whose record is checkered with very liberal positions, whose known the world over as an expert at flip-flopping.
I predict something and want to record my prediction right here, for posterity, on my own Blog which will probably be disallowed should Obama get re-elected because contrary opinions will likely be outlawed.
Us Tea Party types, we're still out here. We carry the country on our backs and we watch this election shape up with wary eyes. We will be watching Romney as he governs and we're not going to accept this reaching-across-the-aisle silly Maverick type mentality.
For lo these past few years there's been mentioned the formation of a third party but wiser heads prevailed. A third party, say, hmmm, The Tea Party, would only siphon off voters from the Republicans and would likely not change the dynamic of the RINOs who want cocktail party invites and nice mentions in the press, conservative citizens be damned.
I really think that if Romney starts reaching across the aisle, making ridiculous deals with the Democrats, oh...something like the stupid No Child Left Behind Act, well hey, Romney's got four years to govern.
If he reverts back to typical RINO behavior, you know that behavior perpetuated by Mumbles McConnell and dear lord that awful last Republican candidate John McCain, I believe that across the nations, in bastions such as Sussex county Delaware , disgruntled Republicans will begin to form a third party.
I believe this.
Because at some point you got to face facts. And the facts are we've got a political class in this country and RINOs are stellar members.
America doesn't have kings and elected politicians have no inborn right to keep their office.
God Bless America and its citizens. Because we will have four years to form our new party and hey, let the RINOs have their own party, good luck and God bless.
To those disturbed by Romney's candidacy and his history of being a RINO, take some cheer. We'll have plenty of time and we'll put an end to this political class.
Ending With a Smile
Book Review: "In My Time" by Dick Cheney. Who Knew Cheney Was So Liberal?
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I read this entire book and I read it thoughtfully, slowly and with great concentration.
For I've lived through all the events/incidents/occasions that Cheney mentioned in the book and I wanted to savor and learn how it all came down from the INSIDE.
First, some overall impressions of the book, some generalizations.
Note that the book is co-authored by Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth. I suspect that Liz was correcting her father's harsher words, softening his assessments, re-writing his edgy narratives of events.
If not than Dick Cheney is a bigger wuss that I would have ever suspected.
Perhaps I've been reading too much Ann Coulter. Perhaps I've been hanging around too many tea party types. Perhaps my tongue is too sharp and my keyboard even sharper.
For Dick Cheney is entirely too kind in recounting his stories of the many assholes who've crossed his path through the years.
During the lead-up to the Iraq war, for example, a supreme asshole, Brent Scowcroft:
Bullshit. Brent Scowcroft was an asshole, full of himself and I suspect he was pocketing some foreign funds.
Dick Cheney walks entirely too softly around the jerks in his surround.
Consider this summary of the worst president ever before Barack Obama:
I should think Cheney would have been red, hot, livid, throwing things angry.
It's like throughout the book and let me now say that I understand that people like Dick Cheney have to be nice, have to effect a sort of parlor politeness in order to be part of the political society in which he consorts. Cheney's daughter, Liz, has a bright future in front of her and, of course, it wouldn't do for Dick Cheney to go damning unkindly those with whom she might have to work.
I really do understand this.
But I was frustrated by how Cheney kept providing kind excuses for all the screw-ups around him.
On his famous energy study:
I recall it was the foaming Democrats who carried on about the VP interviewing various players in the energy market and how those silly left wing dolts tried to make it sound like something dirty and nefarious was afoot when Cheney was trying to formulate an energy policy and was, duh, talking to all involved in the production of energy. Yet many of the "staff" (this has Karl Rove, a fellow filled with air between the legs, written all over it) wanted Cheney to release the names of who he was talking to.
There are many instances of this malady that seems to affect so many Republicans up there in D.C. The longer they've been in D.C., the greater the viewing range between their emasculated legs. Cheney told his stories, he didn't avoid any subject, but he was nice and provided "nice" reasons for truly absurd and cowardly behavior. Let me assure that many of those anecdotes Cheney recites involved President George W. Bush.
He treats President Bush very kindly but if one could truly read between his polite lines, it does appear that very often, particularly toward the end of the Bush/Cheney term, Bush and Cheney were seldom on the same page. In fact, one thing Cheney does NOT discuss in his book is the Valerie Plame joke. His Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby was found guilty of some lame crime and I'm quite sure this angered Cheney to no end. Cheney did mention Scooter quite a bit in the book; it was obvious he liked and was fond of his colleague. I think Cheney's not mentioning this incident speaks volumes. I'd even go out on a limb and daresay I bet it cause George W. and Cheney to be very cold to each other post-administration. I know I'd be furious at what happened to Scooter Libby and the cowardice of George W. for allowing such an injustice to happen. My suspicion is that Dick Cheney too is a principled man and he would never have allowed such a thing to happen to, say, a Karl Rove.
But I speculate.
Cheney deals with his personal issues handily, not dwelling on them but putting it out there. On the lesbianism of his daughter he tells the story of them two sitting alone when she tells her father about her homosexuality. Cheney says he told his daughter he just wanted her to be happy and I'm reading and thinking….seriously, that's all there was to it?
Yes it speaks well for Dick Cheney that he wants his lesbian daughter to be happy. Of course he would want that. But it was mentioned in a sentence then it was over?
Same thing with his famous shooting incident and his military service, or lack of. Cheney spends no more than a paragraph on any of these incidents.
Not that he lies, I hasten to insert. Not that the verbiage seems to try to avoid it. It's just kind of sudden, swift and short. If someone were to say to me "what more do you want, Pat", I'd have to say nothing, Cheney covered it well.
I sometimes forget that I'm out here in la-la land where every MSNBC hate-monger spends many hours hating and despising Dick Cheney, where CNN pundits rant on about this crazy VP who shoots people and holds secret meetings, where the Mainstream media launches into screeds on the evil that is Bush and Cheney and the man gently sums it up in a paragraph and damn, it almost seems like an anti-climax.
There was one big surprise to me in this book, one person that Dick Cheney seems to so dislike, even in this very nice and kindly memoir of his time in the public eye.
Condoleezza Rice.
By Dick Cheney she was a real dim bulb.
Color me shocked.
To all the world Condi seemed to be so bright, so intelligent, why I recall a time of serious talk of her being a Republican presidential nominee.
Dick Cheney doesn't seem to think highly of her. You'll have to read the book to find out why but Cheney makes a good case.
I consider "In My Time" to be about as fair and honest a political memoir as any ever written. Don't go expecting diatribes and rants about the really awful people, even the Democrats. Cheney doesn't even write bad about Al Gore and what a zero-burger that guy is.
I did so enjoy this read as it all happened "in my time" which means I am almost as old as Dick Cheney.
Wow.
I read this entire book and I read it thoughtfully, slowly and with great concentration.
For I've lived through all the events/incidents/occasions that Cheney mentioned in the book and I wanted to savor and learn how it all came down from the INSIDE.
First, some overall impressions of the book, some generalizations.
Note that the book is co-authored by Cheney's daughter, Elizabeth. I suspect that Liz was correcting her father's harsher words, softening his assessments, re-writing his edgy narratives of events.
If not than Dick Cheney is a bigger wuss that I would have ever suspected.
Perhaps I've been reading too much Ann Coulter. Perhaps I've been hanging around too many tea party types. Perhaps my tongue is too sharp and my keyboard even sharper.
For Dick Cheney is entirely too kind in recounting his stories of the many assholes who've crossed his path through the years.
During the lead-up to the Iraq war, for example, a supreme asshole, Brent Scowcroft:
"On invading Iraq, former National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, argued it was unlikely that Saddam would provide WMD to terrorists, overlooking the fact that Iraq had already provided safe haven, training, and material support to terrorists. Brent went on to argue that we could rely on the UNSecurity Council and international inspections to contain the threat posed by SaddamCome on. First, did Scowcroft really believe that claptrap above? The UN Security Council would contain the threat posed by Saddam? The same security council which had issued 15+ votes to do something about Saddam but never did? A point Cheney does not hesitate to point out but he does it entirely too kindly. It was an astonishingly dumb thing to say in front of the world yet Cheney goes into some sob story about respecting the guy, how he was stuck in a pre-9-11 mindset.
Bullshit. Brent Scowcroft was an asshole, full of himself and I suspect he was pocketing some foreign funds.
Dick Cheney walks entirely too softly around the jerks in his surround.
Consider this summary of the worst president ever before Barack Obama:
"My biggest frustration with President Carter arose while I was serving as secretary of defense. President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker were working to get U.N. Security Council approval of a resolution authorizing the use of force to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait in 1990-1991, We found out that former President Carter was actively lobbying against the U.S. position. He had contacted heads of government with seats on the Security Council and urged them to oppose our resolution. His intervention was ineffective-and also totally inappropriate for a former president."Frustration? Cheney only felt "frustration" as a former president goes behind his back, stabbing not only the sitting and elected president (bearing in mind that Carter was summarily UNELECTED like no president before) in the back, but betraying the United States of America?
I should think Cheney would have been red, hot, livid, throwing things angry.
It's like throughout the book and let me now say that I understand that people like Dick Cheney have to be nice, have to effect a sort of parlor politeness in order to be part of the political society in which he consorts. Cheney's daughter, Liz, has a bright future in front of her and, of course, it wouldn't do for Dick Cheney to go damning unkindly those with whom she might have to work.
I really do understand this.
But I was frustrated by how Cheney kept providing kind excuses for all the screw-ups around him.
On his famous energy study:
It's that old Republican lack of gonads again. Cheney cites numerous instances of this peculiar place of nothingness between many Republican male legs and I recall the story of Cheney's energy meetings he references above."all we were doing was creating a real political headache for ourselves by refusing to give them up. But I believed something larger was at stake: the power of the presidency and the ability of the president and vice president to carry out their constitutional duties.."
I recall it was the foaming Democrats who carried on about the VP interviewing various players in the energy market and how those silly left wing dolts tried to make it sound like something dirty and nefarious was afoot when Cheney was trying to formulate an energy policy and was, duh, talking to all involved in the production of energy. Yet many of the "staff" (this has Karl Rove, a fellow filled with air between the legs, written all over it) wanted Cheney to release the names of who he was talking to.
There are many instances of this malady that seems to affect so many Republicans up there in D.C. The longer they've been in D.C., the greater the viewing range between their emasculated legs. Cheney told his stories, he didn't avoid any subject, but he was nice and provided "nice" reasons for truly absurd and cowardly behavior. Let me assure that many of those anecdotes Cheney recites involved President George W. Bush.
He treats President Bush very kindly but if one could truly read between his polite lines, it does appear that very often, particularly toward the end of the Bush/Cheney term, Bush and Cheney were seldom on the same page. In fact, one thing Cheney does NOT discuss in his book is the Valerie Plame joke. His Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby was found guilty of some lame crime and I'm quite sure this angered Cheney to no end. Cheney did mention Scooter quite a bit in the book; it was obvious he liked and was fond of his colleague. I think Cheney's not mentioning this incident speaks volumes. I'd even go out on a limb and daresay I bet it cause George W. and Cheney to be very cold to each other post-administration. I know I'd be furious at what happened to Scooter Libby and the cowardice of George W. for allowing such an injustice to happen. My suspicion is that Dick Cheney too is a principled man and he would never have allowed such a thing to happen to, say, a Karl Rove.
But I speculate.
Cheney deals with his personal issues handily, not dwelling on them but putting it out there. On the lesbianism of his daughter he tells the story of them two sitting alone when she tells her father about her homosexuality. Cheney says he told his daughter he just wanted her to be happy and I'm reading and thinking….seriously, that's all there was to it?
Yes it speaks well for Dick Cheney that he wants his lesbian daughter to be happy. Of course he would want that. But it was mentioned in a sentence then it was over?
Same thing with his famous shooting incident and his military service, or lack of. Cheney spends no more than a paragraph on any of these incidents.
Not that he lies, I hasten to insert. Not that the verbiage seems to try to avoid it. It's just kind of sudden, swift and short. If someone were to say to me "what more do you want, Pat", I'd have to say nothing, Cheney covered it well.
I sometimes forget that I'm out here in la-la land where every MSNBC hate-monger spends many hours hating and despising Dick Cheney, where CNN pundits rant on about this crazy VP who shoots people and holds secret meetings, where the Mainstream media launches into screeds on the evil that is Bush and Cheney and the man gently sums it up in a paragraph and damn, it almost seems like an anti-climax.
There was one big surprise to me in this book, one person that Dick Cheney seems to so dislike, even in this very nice and kindly memoir of his time in the public eye.
Condoleezza Rice.
By Dick Cheney she was a real dim bulb.
Color me shocked.
To all the world Condi seemed to be so bright, so intelligent, why I recall a time of serious talk of her being a Republican presidential nominee.
Dick Cheney doesn't seem to think highly of her. You'll have to read the book to find out why but Cheney makes a good case.
I consider "In My Time" to be about as fair and honest a political memoir as any ever written. Don't go expecting diatribes and rants about the really awful people, even the Democrats. Cheney doesn't even write bad about Al Gore and what a zero-burger that guy is.
I did so enjoy this read as it all happened "in my time" which means I am almost as old as Dick Cheney.
Wow.
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