Monday, August 17, 2009

Carville

James Carville is clever; the once and future master of spin. Spins like a top. Round and round he goes. There's two sides to every argument. The problem with James Carville is that nothing is absolute with him; everything is relative.

In a recent report by Mike Allen on Politico, he quotes Carville as saying:

“Put a bill out there, make them filibuster it, make them be
what they are, the party of no,” Carville said. “Let them kill it.
Let them kill it with the interest group money, then run against
them. That's what we ought to do.”

Carville wants to trap his opponents; he's more interesting in outmaneuvering folks than trying to win an argument of ideas with meritorious logic and sound policy.

He is the Schemer, the Corruptor, the Devil whispering in our collective ear. Get thee behind me Satan.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Chairman O

This is too easy. Obama doesn't know when to duck. Senator Cornyn of my home state, Texas, takes to task the White House that wants Americans to email them about "misleading" health care publications. (The Senator's most salient observation is that had W done something like this the media, et al, would be calling for his head...even more than usual.)

This is probably the most bone-headed directive to ever come out of the White House. Dumber than anything W could have done. The problem is that O doesn't get it. He doesn't see that he is turning Americans against Americans.

By virtue of his attempts to squash free speech, I have to say Chairman O doesn't believe in the First Amendment of the US Constitution. This man is so completely wrong for America that it staggers the mind.

To be perfectly clear (something the big O says quite frequently), it has nothing to do with the color of his skin and everything to do with the merit of his ideas.