All right, it was a joke. I'm a joke. I've lapsed back into my addiction. I can't resist this from Frank Rich in the NYT on the Republican meltdown and blame game:
In defeat, the party’s thinking remains unchanged. Its leaders once again believe they can bamboozle the public into thinking they’re the “party of Lincoln” by pushing forward a few minority front men or women. The reason why they are promoting Palin and the recently elected Indian-American governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, as the party’s “future” is not just that they are hard-line social conservatives; they are also the only prominent Republican officeholders under 50 who are not white men. The G.O.P. will have to dip down to a former one-term lieutenant governor of Maryland, Michael Steele, to put a black public face on its national committee.
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The only other widespread post-election conservative ideas are Bush 2000 retreads (market-based health care and education reform). Jindal offers generic gab about how the party must offer Americans “real solutions” and “substance,” but he has yet to offer a real solution to his own state’s gaping $1 billion budget shortfall. Indeed, the only two “new” ideas that the G.O.P. is pushing in defeat are those they condemn when practiced by Democrats: celebrity and identity politics. Palin’s manic post-election publicity tour, which may yet propel her and “the first dude” to “Dancing With the Stars,” is almost a parody of the McCain ad likening Obama to Paris and Britney. Anyone who says so is promptly called out for sexism by the P.C. police of the newly “feminist” G.O.P.
It's about Louisiana's main man, Gov. Bobby Jindal. How could I resist? It's also quite funny. Jindal is careful about his political career. If Obama has a fairly successful presidency, I predict that Jindal will not run in 2012 against a sitting president. He'll wait until 2016.
Glad to have you back. Just so you know "meltdowns" are pretty common.
ReplyDeleteI had one last week.
There is just too much great stuff awaiting your comments - you are not the joke -- thanks for keeping on. But take a break when you need one.
ReplyDeleteBut, both of you are made of STEEL...one Magnolia one Girder...nobody leaves the room, we ALL still need your strengths, inspirations, no nonsense tactics until touchdown...we´re not going anywhere, somebody has to keep the door open and keep the light on (and be sure the light bill gets paid).
ReplyDeleteBesides, you´re both too good to be true and I can´t take my eyes off of you!
Do you realize that you're a bunch of enablers?
ReplyDeletesomething about ¨doing unto others...¨ (ofcourse we don´t want anyone in recovery if we´re still try to justify our own obessions...wouldn´t do).
ReplyDeleteMimi, you had us scared.
ReplyDeleteMimi, it was the mere act of "giving yourself permission to take off" that did the trick. It reminds me of a funny story of my late grandmother....
ReplyDeleteGranny, when we took car trips on vacation, would INEVITABLY get constipated. I think she just had a thing about pooping in her own toilet instead of all the strange toilets who God-knew-who sat upon.
After a couple days of this, she would say, "I have to buy Ex-Lax." Ok, so we would find a Walgreens or something and she would buy some. But she NEVER had to take it. It was the mere act of BUYING it that would end her constipation, just knowing she COULD end it by taking the laxative.
When she died, I think there were like 25 boxes of unused, unopened Ex-Lax in her medicine chest. Now why she just didn't BRING last year's box on vacation is beyond me, but I decided it was the purchase of it, not the presence of it!
Basically, you just bought a box of Blog-Lax and voila! No more blog constipation!
Knew it all along - you're another one of David Heron's multiple personalities.
ReplyDelete[Where did the live traffic feed go?]
Lapin, what live traffic feed?
ReplyDeleteThe "creepy thing" in the sidebar that shows when space aliens from Raceland are lurking.
ReplyDeleteLapin, scroll down on the right sidebar. I'm from Houma, LA, today.
ReplyDeleteBoy, you don't mess about when you make up your mind do you?
ReplyDeleteDP, how many more days must I flog myself, before I regain my reputation as a prudent, eminently sensible old broad?
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