Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 General Betray Us, eh?<\/p>\n
While we’re at it, let’s call everybody in the political sphere a name, taking off a rhyme of their real name.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, Oregon has a Senator Gordon Smith that is up for re-election in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 It is something like pick-up opportunity number 5 or 7 for the Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s his remarks:<\/p>\n
Sen. Gordon Smith, one of the few Republican senators who supports legislation ordering troop withdrawals, told reporters Thursday he thought Petraeus’ testimony and the MoveOn.org ad were the two biggest factors in keeping Republicans from breaking ranks with the president: Petraeus’ testimony because it was persuasive and the MoveOn add because it went too far by attacking a popular uniformed officer.<\/p>\n
So.\u00c2\u00a0 Um.\u00c2\u00a0 Senator … Lard And Filth?\u00c2\u00a0 That… kind of rhymes?<\/p>\n
Yeah, there you go.\u00c2\u00a0 Like you have anything better!<\/p>\n
New Hampshire has incumbent Endangered Republican Senator #1.\u00c2\u00a0 Senator.\u00c2\u00a0 Sununu.\u00c2\u00a0 Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 Senator… Your Mumu.\u00c2\u00a0 But that doesn’t strike me as an insult.\u00c2\u00a0 Damnedit!<\/p>\n
George Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 Um.\u00c2\u00a0 I think I’ll mock him by calling him… George Bush.\u00c2\u00a0 Dick Cheney I’ll mock by referring to as… yes, Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n
No, I should really stick to Northwest politicians.\u00c2\u00a0 You know, it’s been a while since I mentioned the Congressional critter of my old home — Doc Hastings.\u00c2\u00a0 He popped up in the CREW list of “Most corrupt members of congress<\/a>” — admittedly a bit of a partisan affair that CREW, but a bit of a surprise nonetheless because the strange conventional beltway wisdom had it that the man was an honorable man what with his great handling of an ethics subcommittee that dealt with the James Traficant.\u00c2\u00a0 But never mind.\u00c2\u00a0 The listing fits well enough Representative Wastings.<\/p>\n Gawd I’m stupid.\u00c2\u00a0 I should really think of something that rhymes with “Doc”.<\/p>\n ………………………………….<\/p>\n Explanation for the Conventional Beltway actions and reactions<\/a> in the Senate toward that moveon.org advertisement.\u00c2\u00a0 Understand something: I have no real opinion on the ad itself, but am insulted by the existence of this reaction.\u00c2\u00a0 The propaganda is being laid on thickly<\/a> — thou shall not insult this man.\u00c2\u00a0 The storyline that follows in the Conventional Beltway does not translate into the real world, and I’m thinking there is work still to be done by that nebulous entity called the “netroots” and the non-netroots grassroots to get to that point where this type of sideshow does not overwhelm our stuffed beltway critters.<\/p>\n The point that Kevin Drum makes in that post, about it being a sign of desperation on the part of the Republican Party — and the Usual Suspects visa vie Fox News,\u00c2\u00a0 would make sense, except this is a type of technique used over and over again.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s being used when the Republican Party is down, as it is now, just as it was when the Republican Party was up — Desperation has nothing to do with the matter.\u00c2\u00a0 Frankly, I think that this show we have been inandated with is as good a vindication for moveon.org’s stupid ad as anything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hm.\u00c2\u00a0 General Betray Us, eh? While we’re at it, let’s call everybody in the political sphere a name, taking off a rhyme of their real name.\u00c2\u00a0 For instance, Oregon has a Senator Gordon Smith that is up for re-election in 2008.\u00c2\u00a0 It is something like pick-up opportunity number 5 or 7 for the Democrats.\u00c2\u00a0 Here’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doc-hastings-and-the-4th-congressional-district-of-washington-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}