Posted on 01/07/2009 1:20:11 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Sens. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Wednesday dusted off the reform mantle and formally launched their latest crusade: significantly curbing the use of earmarks in appropriations.
The funny thing is they have written laws for businesses to do just that through various methods, something they don’t do themselves.
Nothing John McNutjob interests me.
The man who ran a ruthless campaign against fellow Republicans turned into a pussy on the campaign trail against Democrats.
Yeah, he’s great. That’s why Captain Earmark didn’t make so much as a peep when the Senate loaded up with bailout bill with pork. Not a single word of protest from McCain. He suspended his campaign to roll over and play dead.
He has no credibility on anything.
Because he is, was and always has been a Soros stooge. He had no intention of winning the election. He was there to take a dive.
“The man who ran a ruthless campaign against fellow Republicans turned into a pussy on the campaign trail against Democrats.”
Funny how McLame took to attacking Romney. And how silent he fell against Obama. You could see the hatred in his eyes for Mitt, but with Obama, he was all Lovey Dovey.
But we somehow had a base dumb enough to fall for him.
He has never been worth a tinkers dam, and all his great plans have come to naught. He is a miserable failure, engaged in a Kerryesque desperate struggle for relevance. Somebody needs to take away the car keys.
I should say that I had a consulting partner who had a cap that said something similar... he was very proud of it because he had worked very hard to recruit a team with a great deal of drive and initiative.
Good point, he is very strong on kissing the nearest democraps arse..May he rot in hell for what he has done to the Republican party !!
Clearly that was the exception, not the rule.
McCain is such an idiot. He is after earmarks when this stimulus bill will have pork right up front. What a fool.
He hated Mitt for being a Mormon which made him an honorary FReeper in too many minds around here.
Well , in 2012, if it boils down to a choice between a MORMON and a RINOj... MORMON ALL THE WAY!
Due to open primaries, we had a lot of “moderate independents” who voted McCain to help Republicans lose.
I would agree that, in the context of what your consulting partner had accomplished, the saying reflects positively.
There’s a longstanding axiom of textual criticism that reads: text without context is pretext. The axiom obviates the extraction of a lofty phrase from a high-minded context for use in a dissimilar context, especially if — as is too often the case — the aim is to falsely project the high-mindedness of the known context into the current, dissimilar context, or to otherwise apply a shining veneer of nobility to that which is of lesser character, be it merely pedestrian, mildly ignoble, or utterly damnable.
Thus, your consultant friend would likely object to his favorite hat being worn by some poseur who had merely risen to the level of this own incompetence; like Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss, or his coffee-swilling co-worker, Wally.
In the same way, I think the phrase fits the McCain/Palin pairing. Yes, the pick was great in that she is a very strong Conservative who brought great credibility to the ticket, and to that extent McCain’s team deserves credit for a good choice, but the glaringly obvious result was that she forced him to run after her. Quite unintentionally, the “Leader” became the follower; the Head became the tail. Sarah Palin’s energy, and passion for Conservative policy (read that “the practical application of right-minded thinking, a.k.a. ‘common sense’) eclipsed his own; casting his comparatively dispassionate demeanor into such stark relief that he really had to scramble to try to hide the contrast. THAT effort was a flop, which only served to give legs to the idea that the entire McCain campaign strategy had — from Day One — included a final scene where the Senator would take a canvas nap in the final round so that America could have her first black President.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2160793/posts?page=14#14
“This is America-those men can stand wherever they want”.”
I would applaud McCain if pretty much the entire budget (and the entire “stimulus”) wasn’t one giant earmark in itself.
We literally waste hundreds of billions every year, and these clowns go on about saving hundreds of thousands, patting themselves on the back.
Now, theres a phrase that one does not hear much these days. Good job!
Why thank you, Bill. Hadn’t thought of that phrase for quite some time, and i don’t even really know what it means, but it certainly worked.
Heh. Love your juxtaposition of “shining veneer of nobility” with “canvas nap.”
Of course we’re both right. I used to describe Clinton’s politics as “the band is marching. I must hurry and get in front of it.”
To go back to my consulting career, I admire very much men and women like Mark who assemble a team and let them go do what they know how to do, while listening and removing roadblocks from their path.
I despise those who drive their team as a carter drives a team of mules and then, in the event of success, crows “look what *I* accomplished” and in the event of anything less attempts to blame the team and shirk responsibility. Unfortunately, the latter is what one encounters most in politics.
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