Friday, May 11, 2007
Republicans and Their "Big Tent"?
Surely we all remember when the Republicans swore they wanted to create a "bigger tent" to allow greater access to more varieties of voters.
And there it was last week. The presidential debate for Republican power-seekers. Ten wealthy white guys. They needed a big tent, all right, but for the number, not the diversity, of their candidates.
Can anyone say, "Business as usual under the tiny tent the GOP has had for years, with the tent stakes nailed down tight to keep out the people of color, the women, the grassroots heroes. Contracted by Halliburton."
Sheesh.
And there it was last week. The presidential debate for Republican power-seekers. Ten wealthy white guys. They needed a big tent, all right, but for the number, not the diversity, of their candidates.
Can anyone say, "Business as usual under the tiny tent the GOP has had for years, with the tent stakes nailed down tight to keep out the people of color, the women, the grassroots heroes. Contracted by Halliburton."
Sheesh.
Thursday, May 03, 2007
"Randy" Randall Tobias Does D. C.
My home state is a very red state to start with. In the past ten days or so, it has become even more red-faced.
First, it was our twit of a congressman, Mike Pence, who is clueless on just about everything except the need for a federal shield law, strolling through a market in Iraq and blithely saying it reminded him of any open-air market back in Indiana. I've been to open-air markets in Indiana, my friends, and never saw anyone wearing bulletproof vests and surrounded by armed troops and attack helicopters.
Now comes Randall Tobias, former Eli Lilly executive and point man for President's Bush's war on AIDS. Good ol' Randy, it seems, while touting abstinence and monogamy as the "cure" for AIDS, was himself using the services of high-priced "escorts" at his D. C. residence. He then made it even more humiliating for his home-state cohorts by invoking the "but I didn't inhale" explanation that worked so well for Billy Clinton by saying he was only getting massages, no sex. Yeah, right, to invoke the double positive equivalent of "I Ain't No Crook." I wonder if he asked the massagers to show their health cards?
If you are from another state and have a vacant room in your house, can I come stay with you for a while? Thanks from the state formerly known as the Crossroads of America, now the Heartland of Hypocrisy (and don't even get me started on its current imbroglio over "In God We Trust" license plates).
First, it was our twit of a congressman, Mike Pence, who is clueless on just about everything except the need for a federal shield law, strolling through a market in Iraq and blithely saying it reminded him of any open-air market back in Indiana. I've been to open-air markets in Indiana, my friends, and never saw anyone wearing bulletproof vests and surrounded by armed troops and attack helicopters.
Now comes Randall Tobias, former Eli Lilly executive and point man for President's Bush's war on AIDS. Good ol' Randy, it seems, while touting abstinence and monogamy as the "cure" for AIDS, was himself using the services of high-priced "escorts" at his D. C. residence. He then made it even more humiliating for his home-state cohorts by invoking the "but I didn't inhale" explanation that worked so well for Billy Clinton by saying he was only getting massages, no sex. Yeah, right, to invoke the double positive equivalent of "I Ain't No Crook." I wonder if he asked the massagers to show their health cards?
If you are from another state and have a vacant room in your house, can I come stay with you for a while? Thanks from the state formerly known as the Crossroads of America, now the Heartland of Hypocrisy (and don't even get me started on its current imbroglio over "In God We Trust" license plates).
