Judas Priest. The furnace just clicked on. Forty-eight and raining outdoors, 67 and cranky indoors. Are we sure this is late May in Colorado? ‘Cause it looks more like February in Oregon to me.
Oh, well. So it goes. Baldilocks will have something else to complain about before the bears come home. Like your average House Republican, who could fall into a barrel of tits and come out sucking his thumb, I am never satisfied. The glass is neither half empty nor half full, but rather a scattering of shards in a filthy gutter, just waiting for a bare foot.
Elsewhere, the prez has tapped Judge Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter in the Supremes. She would be the Court’s second woman and its first Latina. The consensus among the parlor pinks I patronize — Kevin Drum, Steve Benen and others — seems to be that she will have little trouble winning confirmation.
Still, I have some small hope that the Repugs will insist on doing what they do best, which is acting swiftly on their worst impulses and in general behaving like spoiled children denied an undeserved treat. Hey, my pessimism knows some bounds.
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Sure, go ahead and dump on a Latina. They won’t be able to help it. Wanna bet Huckabee starts it out with a left-handed non-comment? Fer crissake, he plays cheap Yamaha basses!
Patrick,
Second woman on the court? Then I’m guessing either O’Connor or Ginsberg was really Jack Lemmon in drag?
Already heard one rumbling of a filibuster. Apparently the GOP wants to show how progressive they are by losing the ’12 election in ’09.
Winston Churchill once said that the U.S. could be counted on to do the right thing, once we exhausted all the alternatives. Unfortunately, the Repugs can’t be counted on to do even that. I suspect they will form a circular firing squad on this one that will make even the Clarence Thomas hearings seem civilized by comparison. God bless ’em, and give ’em all a can of Coke.
Steve — I should’ve been more specific; she is the second woman in this incarnation of the Supremes. Unless you count Scalia, who is a bigger bitch than Michelle Malkin.
Patrick, that was my guess, but any excuse for a “Some Like It Hot” reference, ya know.
I miss the old Rockefeller Republicans–the small group of insanely rich, well educated, East Coast types who were fiscally conservative and socially progressive. There were never enough of them to cause too much grief, they enjoyed a good drink, and they could throw a terrific party. When sober and not dying naked in their secretaries, they sometimes kind of reflected Lincoln’s values.
Once Reagan let in the Southern Sociopaths for Jesus into the tent and gave them a voice, we found out what 30% of this country really thinks. It still boggles the mind that 26% of my country believes the Bush 43 Administration did an outstanding job.
And while I’m completely bent about the Republican Party this morning, why in Hell are the mainstream news outlets (I don’t count FOX) giving Gingrich and Cheney a voice every Sunday? It’s not funny anymore. Their shows are over. Escort them out of the theatre.
I want Limbaugh, Hannity, Palin, et. al., to move to the head of the GOP. It makes it so much easier to identify their sect so the rest of us can keep an eye on them.
Right on Jeff. Just think of the shitstorm in 2012 if that party is defined by Cheney & Palin! Oh yeah, and Rush. Only thing that can get them elected again is a perceived “attack on America”.
Jeff,
I’m thinking PJ O’Rourke is the last of that breed, and he never wanted to run for office because doing so would interfere with the cocktail hour.
Funny (not so much) that the GOP had won the college grad vote every single year up until W’s reign. That’s Karl Rove’s legacy: dumbing down the GOP. His parents must be so proud.
P.J. O’Rourke is by far the funniest Repub’ out there (and by that I mean deliberately funny; others are funnier, but they do not intend to be). His best piece remains “How to Drive Fast on Drugs While Getting Your Wing-Wang Squeezed and Not Spill Your Drink,” originally published in the National Lampoon and reprinted in “Republican Party Reptile.”
PJ’s so funny, that even when he got cancer, he got cancer of the butt.
We did OK under those East Coast Republicans. Rockefeller was responsible for building SUNY up and SUNY Stony Brook into a fine university (present company notwithstanding) and he supported the infrastructure needed to make NYS a decent place. I think there actually was a social contract in those days. Then, we got the Contract on America, and its been downhill ever since for that party.
Alright, but wouldn’t those Republicans now be called “Libertarians?”
And Peej is the best American writer of humorous non-fiction since HST. In my opinion, of course.
James, don’t forget Roy Blount Jr. He first came to my attention with an essay titled, “I May Have Sung With Jerry Jeff,” from the book “Crackers,” and he has rarely disappointed since. Not nearly as caustic as either HST or Peej, but a solid hitter.
I’ve seen Jerry Jeff a couple of times, and met him once, long after he’d given up his redneck-mother ways, and anyone who could follow him around in his prime long enough to collect Walkerisms like “You’re older than I am, but I’ve been up more hours” is OK in my book.
WRT Judge Sonia Sotomayor, check out Ben Smith and Ezra Klein today.
Right now, most political gurus are slicing and dicing Sonia Sotomayor’s every word and statement, trying to determine whether she’s going to be an activist judge, centrist, or what have you. But two intrepid reporters are looking at the important issues: what does her kitchen pantry say about her jurisprudence?
Ben Smith: A Foodie Justice?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0509/A_foodie_justice.html?showall
Ezra Klein: Important Food Advice for Sonia Sotomayor
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/05/important_advice_for_sonia_sot.html#comments