Neanderpundit

Too damned hot to do much outside, anyway. And not showing signs of letting up soon.

Finished my day at the gas station, filling up across the pump from another heat-annoyed Explorer owner. Next pump in the line, a woman pulls up on a Vespa wearing a Herve Leger A-line dress. There has been some rain but not enough to do more than dampen the pavement, and there’s a strong wind. She has on a half helmet and as she lifts the seat to fill the fuel tank she drops her keys. “The day is about to get a whole lot better” I say to my companion at the opposite pump. “And hotter” he responds. She bends to pick up the keys, evidently oblivious to the fact that her skirt has blown up around her waist for a moment of time too small to be measured, but which seems like about an hour.

We stare in silence.

The time dilation effect subsides, and I say “Well, that explains why she’s got a towel wrapped around the seat”. We finish pumping gas and drive away, in my case at least, sitting a bit more uncomfortably than before.

Let’s crucify Holder and as many as we can get him to roll on after november. Meanwhile, it’s the economy.

said on Roe and Roeper yesterday that the whole F&F obfuscation is smokescreen to keep focus off the economy.

He may very well be right: might I suggest to the dorks in DC, and what minuscule media we can influence: It’s the economy, stupid. Stop fucking with thise deck chairs. After we win the election we can clean Holder’s clock for him, preferably involving rope.

Update: From comments at John Venlet’s pace, just so it doesn’t get lost:

The mainstrem media has been touting the “recovery” for ages now, and won’t stop. Even when it’s obviously in the toilet, they still use the word “Recovery”, as in ‘Stalled recovery” or “Slow recovery” so as to make sure all the apparatchiks know that it is, in fact, a recovery, and that it is Obama’s recovery. As far as they’re concerned, things are going well, and always have been.

Indeed, all the conservative outlets have been doing as they have been instructed and ignoring the economy in favor of the Holder story, and the white house will keep waving that red herring as long as it gets play. Last several days it has been all Holder, all the time, and not one commentator has said bubkhis about the economy.

By now Holder et al would have had plenty of time to hide whatever they had that was incriminating. What has happened, I’m willing to bet, is they have found some feeble and tenuous link back to the previous administration, somehow. And it will be released at the moment when they can use the media thats completely in the tank for them to make all of conservatism look petty and partisan.

In the meantime, it’s doing exactly what the White House wants it to do, which is to make conservatives see red and completely ignore the Economy, which is what will get Obama thrown out.

I’m all for seeing justice done, and I’m all for seeing these people lined up against a wall, and the more the merrier. We have to keep our eye on the first principle, which is to get rid of Wingnuthead. Once that is done, we can leisurely drive Holder and his clan into the ground, and hopefully really pressure him to take as many with him as he can. If we don’t concentrate now, on getting rid of Obama, this will never, ever happen.