--"mongooselike tenacity"-- What a weasel!
Posted on 07/07/2007 10:22:52 PM PDT by Montana Headlines
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., told law enforcement officials Friday in Billings that he will continue to use "mongooselike tenacity" to secure funding for drug enforcement in Montana.
Baucus, who was honored at a luncheon attended by about 30 area drug enforcement officers and agents, said he heard their message that they need more personnel and continued full federal funding.
The tenacity, Baucus said, requires him to keep after leaders of various federal agencies and "just grab ahold of 'em until they say, 'Hey, let's do it and get this guy off our back.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at billingsgazette.net ...
You just can't make this stuff up.
Further commentary at Montana Headlines
In other news, Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont promised to stop mixing his metaphors.
Apologies to the Gazette — it should have been made clear that the title of this post was a send-up, and not the original title.
The title of the Gazette article was “Baucus vows spirited fight against drugs.”
Metaphors? What metaphors?
“mongoose” and “pipe dream.”
Put that mongoose in your pipe and smoke it!
--"mongooselike tenacity"-- What a weasel!
Sorry. Just being facetious.
In fairness to Baucus, the two comments weren’t originally mixed in the same sentence.
Just couldn’t resist putting it all in the same title.
Ping
I suspect at some point he’ll get taken aside and told something to the effect of “Look, the War on Drugs, even the War on Terror is a joke son, just a joke like border security”.
“A lot of guys here aren’t rich like you and need money from those guys down is South America, heck their just selling what the folks want, now let’s go to lunch and talk about that new training center in Missoula you’ve been wanting”.
Will Max stay true?
Tune in next year and we’ll see.
There is no “war on drugs” and there is no “war on terror.” There is only the ongoing fight against both. Using the word “war” to describe either conflict falsely implies a beginning, middle and end to these important battles.
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Rumor has it that next week, Max is going to come out strongly for apple pie. He is trying, however, to decide about just how strongly and in what part of the state he will back motherhood! What a man.
I’d much rather see that money spent on killing Islamofascists.
‘There is no “war on drugs” and there is no “war on terror.” There is only the ongoing fight against both. Using the word “war” to describe either conflict falsely implies a beginning, middle and end to these important battles.’
Goodness only knows what could have been accomplished if the treasure and manpower put into the wildly ill–conceived “War on Drugs” had been put to better use.
I concur that some drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine are dangerous and their use should be discouraged. The tactics we’ve chosen to try and achieve this have failed and have mostly resulted in vast loss of civil liberties and massive expenditure of capital. The federal government came to our area this year and pitched mandatory drug testing in high school. I can’t imagine anything more against the spirit of America (well possibly the amnesty bill, but I digress).
All that said, marijuana should be legalized immediately for growth and personal use.
Call it whatever you like... SECURING OUR BORDERS will help both of the “fights” you wish to rename!
LLS
The fight against drugs is a relatively new one. Fire Departments weren’t so effective during their first few decades, either. Right now we’re still in the “bucket brigade” phase of fighting drugs.
“The fight against drugs is a relatively new one. Fire Departments weren’t so effective during their first few decades, either. Right now we’re still in the “bucket brigade” phase of fighting drugs.”
Wow what a horrible analogy.
There is no equivalence between drugs and fire. No one wants a fire in their home. Drug users do so out of choice. It’s called “freedom”, and it means people should have the right to whatever they like as long as it doesn’t directly affect anyone else - whether other folks like it or not.
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