H.L. Mencken
One of my very favorite authors, wrote about the insertion, by will of the people, of a total moron into the white house. Elisson reminds us of it here.
The left has been fond of using this comment to apply to W, and it shows the utter ignorance of the left when they do; W piloted, demonstrably, one of the most difficult planes in our air force, a feat that by itself is nearly impossible, but was also able to land one on a carrier AFTER he was president, long past his military days. W was notable for possibly the most dismal US presidency in republican history, but during his watch, there were no terrorist attacks on our soil after 9/11. He also took the war to the idiots instead of letting them take it to us, which was IMO the right move.
The Won probably can’t drive a car. He managed to get through school on a wave of affirmative action, and is now in the highest office in the land due to the action of- as Mencken so aptly puts it- the will of the people.
The people seem to be smartening up. I wonder if it’s in time? Pascal opines that the C02 bs- which is the way they will get Cap and Tax to pass, industries will prefer their odds under cap and tax to the whole C02 clusterfuck and thus it will pass- is the final straw. nah, it’s just another one. THis all started with the designation of secondhand smoke as a carcinogen. All of it is bone-numbing ignorance, but it is not the hill to die on.
It heartens me to see the sarcasm people are directing at Gloebull warmening and the sardonic way they are treating Algore- shit, even John Stewart is taking a swing.
Pascal (the original) made fun of the statist agenda and was able to make change. Everytime you stand in the parking lot at work while the snow pounds down and yell “Where’s my global warming, Algore?”, everytime the internet goes down and you say “Algore is gonna be pissed, you BROKE THE INTERNET!” every time you wait in line at the DMV and say “I cannot WAIT for healthcare to be JUST LIKE THIS!” you chip away at the cheap veneer of this administration, congress, and senate. Snark is a powerful tool, and the more we use it the better off we will be. Plus it’s fun!
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Og, clearly the most dismal Republican President in history was Herbert Hoover, not George W. Bush. While I wish former President Bush had done some things differently, he did not make his father’s mistake of raising taxes, and he did remarkably well with dealing with a post 9/11 world and dealing with an openly hostile Democratic opposition.
While he is certainly no Ronald Reagan, every comparison between him and his political challengers, Al Gore and John Forbes Kerry. President Bush was a better President than either of them would have been. Not only that, but he is a better man than either of those arrogant, rich SOBs.
Yeah, ill give ya hoover. And yes, w is a decent man. His spending annoyed me no end though.
Now that puts me in mind of a Russian dissident’s little story about ants in the bottom of a jar. . .
Blog fodder!
Whenever I hear “Do you want to die on this hill?” I want to answer, “No. I want the ENEMY to die on this hill.”
M
Good gawd, Mark, but that’s a cheery riposte, enough to hearten the weariest troop. Gotta love that kinda warrior!
Excellent point, mark. Problem is a lone individual will die and as often as not on the worst possible hill.
I like Patton’s quote about how war isn’t about dying for your country, it’s about making the other poor bastard die for his.
I find that snark gets easier the poorer I get.
I’ll bet there’S a shit load of folks shoveling the Global Warming off their driveways today.
BWWWAAAAAHHHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Righton for your conclusion and LOL for your agitprop.
Yes, I’ve gotten more serious ( ;) ) about my use of ridicule in the last month.
However, I’ve never come close to implying that CO2 was the last straw (though I may have said it’s propelled me a bit).
What will be the last straw for any person will come when they recognizes what The Pilot Program is expecting of him or her.
“The Won probably can’t drive a car.”
When he had the NASCAR drivers at the WH for some bogus award ceremony, they had Jimmie Johnsons car there. The Won looked at but didn’t even climb in.
I would have, you would have, even GWB would have. Won can’t drive.
Someone should ask The Teleprompter Messiah how much a gallon of milk costs.
Of course Obumble doesn’t know how to drive a car. Hell, he can hardly throw a baseball. Those are “dirty jobs”, and beneath what an exalted personage such as Himself should do.
Comrade Obamavich would just reply that however much milk costs, if the government owned all the cows it would be cheaper, or even free. And that farmers are greedy.
He owned a car, a pimp-daddy Chrysler 300. Its color was teal. Huff-Po gave him a big happy blowjob over not having “a giant, yellow, magnetic ‘I Support The Troops!’ ribbon – because he doesn’t, it’s obvious. But he wouldn’t climb into Jimmy Johnson’s car because he’s incurious about cars, like the Troops they are only tools for his advancement, a posture to adopt.