Tuesday, April 13, 2010
I feel better already...
I know I haven't been blogging much, and I honestly don't know if this post means I'm going to be posting regularly again. I do have an excuse, though. You know, little guy, silly, working on coordination issues, kind of looks like me?
Guess again.
That's the guy.
Anyways, the other reason I haven't been posting is I'm not always sure what it is I want to say on things anymore. Truth is, I don't have an opinion on the health care reform whatthehelleveritis. I haven't read it, and unless someone wants to tell me that Congress planned for this to happen, I'm in fairly elite company. What I do have are opinions on the people who passed it. For instance, my Congressman, David Scott, is an ardent supporter of the recently passed bill. David Scott was also named one of the most corrupt members of Congress as recently as 2007. (Although in Scott's defense, he is not on the current list. Whether that's because of an improvement in his behavior or a deterioration in somebody else's is not immediately apparent.)
Which brings me to an ancillary point. When Republicans get more crap over sex scandals than Democrats, the claim is made that this is fair because Republicans trumpet "family values" as a key plank, which means that David Vitter's shenanigans are a far greater betrayal than, say, Eliot Spitzer's. OK, fair enough. But applying the same argument, the party that wants to get the government more involved has a higher obligation to keep their noses clean. Put another way, a party that brought their own pitchforks and torches to the doors of Charlie Rangel and Christopher Dodd years ago could tell me to put my faith in the government. A party that tells me to trust the government, but trusts these assclowns to run it, is basically David Vitter paying for erotic massages, only they're using my money, and there's no happy ending.
Oh, and I think David Vitter should be run out of the Senate on a rail. Even though he'd probably enjoy it.
Guess again.
That's the guy.
Anyways, the other reason I haven't been posting is I'm not always sure what it is I want to say on things anymore. Truth is, I don't have an opinion on the health care reform whatthehelleveritis. I haven't read it, and unless someone wants to tell me that Congress planned for this to happen, I'm in fairly elite company. What I do have are opinions on the people who passed it. For instance, my Congressman, David Scott, is an ardent supporter of the recently passed bill. David Scott was also named one of the most corrupt members of Congress as recently as 2007. (Although in Scott's defense, he is not on the current list. Whether that's because of an improvement in his behavior or a deterioration in somebody else's is not immediately apparent.)
Which brings me to an ancillary point. When Republicans get more crap over sex scandals than Democrats, the claim is made that this is fair because Republicans trumpet "family values" as a key plank, which means that David Vitter's shenanigans are a far greater betrayal than, say, Eliot Spitzer's. OK, fair enough. But applying the same argument, the party that wants to get the government more involved has a higher obligation to keep their noses clean. Put another way, a party that brought their own pitchforks and torches to the doors of Charlie Rangel and Christopher Dodd years ago could tell me to put my faith in the government. A party that tells me to trust the government, but trusts these assclowns to run it, is basically David Vitter paying for erotic massages, only they're using my money, and there's no happy ending.
Oh, and I think David Vitter should be run out of the Senate on a rail. Even though he'd probably enjoy it.
