Posted on 06/29/2005 3:50:35 AM PDT by Molly Pitcher
What's wrong with them? That's what I'm thinking more and more as I watch the news from Washington.
A few weeks ago it was the senators who announced the judicial compromise. There is nothing wrong with compromise and nothing wrong with announcements, but the senators who spoke referred to themselves with such flights of vanity and conceit--we're so brave, so farsighted, so high-minded--that it was embarrassing. They patted themselves on the back so hard they looked like a bevy of big breasted pigeons in a mass wing-flap. Little grey feathers and bits of corn came through my TV screen, and I had to sweep up when they were done.
(Excerpt) Read more at opinionjournal.com ...
Superb. Thanks for posting.
Swamp gas. Washington, D.C., is built on a swamp and the emanations from the rotting vegetation eat away slowly at the human brain. This wasn't so bad back before the invention of air conditioning, when most District residents fled to more healthful climes during the summer, thus reducing their exposure.
"Mr. Obama said he keeps a photographic portrait of Lincoln on the wall of his office, and that "it asks me questions."
I'm sure it does. I'm sure it says, "Barack, why are you such an egomaniac?"
ROFLMAO! Good one peggy!
One of the best essays Ms. Noonan has ever written. Is she single {{sigh}}?
"'In Lincoln's rise from poverty, his ultimate mastery of language and law, his capacity to overcome personal loss and remain determined in the face of repeated defeat--in all this he reminded me not just of my own struggles.'Oh. So that's what Lincoln's for. Actually Lincoln's life is a lot like Mr. Obama's. Lincoln came from a lean-to in the backwoods. His mother died when he was 9. The Lincolns had no money, no standing. Lincoln educated himself, reading law on his own, working as a field hand, a store clerk and a raft hand on the Mississippi. He also split some rails. He entered politics, knew more defeat than victory, and went on to lead the nation through its greatest trauma, the Civil War, and past its greatest sin, slavery.
Barack Obama, the son of two University of Hawaii students, went to Columbia and Harvard Law after attending a private academy that taught the children of the Hawaiian royal family. He made his name in politics as an aggressive Chicago vote hustler in Bill Clinton's first campaign for the presidency.
You see the similarities."
I want to bear her children. Or something like that.
BTTT
LOL! I know, the article is a hoot. She should do this sarcasm thing more often.
She's absolutely correct, also. I too have been noticing the self-praise flowing from the pols lately. Sheesh, even the Hollyweird types feign modesty better than the DC crowd.
Excellent article. I am utterly disgusted with the pols patting themselves and each other on the back for their many and wonderful virtues.
Shut up already!
Good article
Maybe a lot of them aren't bothering to think. Maybe Ruth Bader Ginsburg is no longer in the habit of listening to arguments but only of watching William Rehnquist, and if he nods up and down she knows to vote "no," and if he shakes his head she knows to vote "yes." That might explain some of the lack of seriousness in the decisions. Local government can bulldoze Grandma's house because it's in the way of a future strip mall that will add more to the tax base? The Ten Commandments can appear on public land but not in a courthouse, but Moses, who received the Ten Commandments can appear in the frieze of the House but he'll be sandblasted off the Supreme Court? Or do I have that the other way around?
What are they doing? All this hair splitting, this dithering, this cutting and pasting--all this lack of serious and defining principle. All this vanity.
Perhaps Justice Ginsburg or Justice Stevens will retire soon and write a memoir: "Like Jefferson I held to principle, and like Lincoln I often lacked air conditioning. But in my intellectual gifts I've always found myself to be more like Oliver Wendell Holmes . . ."
I think Katie Holmes could render more clear-sighted decisions than either of these two.
Washington is no different. They ALL know better than you and are willing to send others with guns to "help" you.
Funny how when the MSM talks about average folk being fed up with government, they then put McCain, Biden, et al in our face. Funny how I am fed up with the kind of govt Peggy is fed up with, not the kind the NY Times is fed up with!
Good warning to Frist in this article. He may have made a political mistake diagnosing Schaivo by TV, but he had good intentions. But Peggy nails him on the appearance of pride in this one...
Brilliant!
Ever wonder what the outcome might be if we put a vote to Americans on the following question?: Shall all members of Congress be dismissed, ruled ineligible to run again for their position, and new representatives be elected to replace them.
Frist was comments were embarrassing, but not as distasteful as the Clintons sitting there waiting to be gushed over by
Rev. Graham. The two most disgusting people ever. The just think they are something.
I believe this describe a similar process for the Hollywood elite.
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