{"id":2962,"date":"2002-10-21T08:18:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-21T08:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=361"},"modified":"2002-10-21T08:18:17","modified_gmt":"2002-10-21T08:18:17","slug":"ghhnhnhjnbnhnnbhjnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2962","title":{"rendered":"GHHNHNHJNBNHNNBHJNN"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, that\u0092s not a typo, that what comes out when I repeatedly bang my head on the keyboard.
\nDuring my allotted \u00be hour of blog reading this morning (I\u0092m not<\/u> an addict, I\u0092m not<\/u>!), Jeff Cooper<\/a> sent me over to Thomas Spencer<\/a>, someone I haven\u0092t read before.
\nAbout four paragraphs in, I started banging my head.
\nI\u0092m not going to do a graf by graf \u0091fisk\u0092 of him, that\u0092s so 1Q 02; I\u0092ll simply pull some quotes and make some general comments.<\/p>\n

W’s approval numbers are coming down. It’s time for some more war-mongering. But, wait, that’s not working. How about war itself? Surely that’ll work won’t it? It might get a few folks killed but, hey, who gives a damn about that, right? (Don’t you know Karl Rove has said something just like that to W recently?)
\nThe sniper thing in the D.C.-area continues. Of course, we all know it’s the gun control folks behind it all, right?
\nEven W’s Justice Department can’t ignore how Enron and the big energy companies were gaming the California electricity grid. I suspect they’ll try though. As we all know, the public’s watchdog was bought off two years ago by their buddies in the energy business. We’ll see I guess. Don’t hold your breath that “Kenny Boy” sees the inside of a jail any time soon.
\nHere is more proof that the Heritage foundation is just a mouthpiece for the White House’s war effort. Of course, we already knew that, didn’t we? Is there really such a thing as a “conservative think tank?” Thinking? Really? <\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On that note, I\u0092ll add \u0096 \u0091thinking, really\u0092<\/u>?? Tom, you\u0092re not a commentator, you\u0092re a cheerleader<\/u>. You need some pom-poms and a letter sweater with \u0091DNC\u0092 on the front. I hope your plan works, and the rhetoric gets you \u0091seen\u0092 and picked up by the party \u0096 those staff jobs can pay well \u0096 but even as partisan rhetoric, this makes me want to take a shower.
\nNow, other than damaging my delicate sensibilities, this matters for two reasons.
\nFirst, because the average American isn\u0092t a moron, and knows when they\u0092re being shilled\u0085and both parties are shilling like mad\u0085and the disgust of the voting class is palpable.
\nNext, because it conveniently ignores the culpability of his team (sadly, it\u0092s mine as well) in looting the public purse, and building Sky Boxes to keep the unwashed at bay. We are in an era when the entrenched political classes have sold their souls to powerful monied interests, to the clear detriment of the average American. From top to bottom, good people go into the system and venal functionaries rise to the top.
\nAs long as each party can blow enough smoke at the other guys as the cascade of scandal unfolds, they have some prayer that their own venality, self-interest, and corruption will get overlooked. Because I\u0092m a liberal, I\u0092m supposed to overlook the sins of \u0091my guys\u0092 and put a magnifying glass to the sins of the \u0091other team\u0092. Well, fuck it. They\u0092re all<\/u> sinners, and until enough of us are willing to stand up and point to the dirt on our<\/u> hems, this problem isn\u0092t going to go away.
\nThis isn\u0092t a sport, we aren\u0092t divided into teams, and my children\u0092s world is at stake.
\nSo good work, Tom, catch you later. And Jeff \u0096 what the hell<\/u> are you thinking?
\n[Update:<\/b> I went over to Tom’s blog<\/a>, and no, I don’t think I read it too carelessly. Tom, do me a favor: find three things you’ve said in the last 90 days that challenge any Democrat in remotely the manner you attack the Republicans…I’ll be standing by.
\nNow look, partisanship is a Good Thing. I don’t think we can, or should, all live in the mushy middle. And hardball politics has been a part of American politics (not to mention, say, Florentine poltics) for a long damn time.
\nBut as I note here<\/a>, the way it is being played now, it’s a loser’s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, that\u0092s not a typo, that what comes out when I repeatedly bang my head on the keyboard. During my allotted \u00be hour of blog reading this morning (I\u0092m not an addict, I\u0092m not!), Jeff Cooper sent me over to Thomas Spencer, someone I haven\u0092t read before. About four paragraphs in, I started banging my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}