Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Dreaming

Lately I have been having the most vivid dreams. Not only can I dream a dream and remember it the next day, I can also wake up from that dream and go right back into it.

Last night I had a dream that I was in a golf foursome with George W. Bush. Can you believe that?

Anyway, when his turn came to tee it up, he could not hit the ball. He swung and he swung but could not hit it. It became almost painful to watch much like listening to him give a statement "on-the-fly". Finally, after about twenty tries we had to scratch him.

I have no idea what brought that dream about but it was good to see him standing there with egg on his face.

bc

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Media's False Equivilences

During the HRC debate and its subsequent passage many threats and intimidation tactics have been used against Democratic members of Congress. They were right to call them out and admonish their behavior. It is striking to me that the Republican leadership is cheering them on.

Yesterday we learned that a deranged individual posted a threatening video to Republican Congressman Eric Cantor and has since been arrested. Good. Violent threats to anyone are not to be tolerated. However, this morning on MSNBC's Monin' Joe all Mika Brzezinski wanted to talk about was this example of how the left is just as bad as the right on this subject. She nor anyone at the table ever said that this person also threatened many other people including Barack Obama. How can Ms Brzezinski claim that he is from the "far left"? Because he threatened a republican? This makes no sense.

I would bet dollars to donuts that by the evening news hour this guy is "far left" and that the right can now make the claim that both sides do it.

Thanks Mika. Great reporting there.

bc

UPDATE: The Rude Pundit has to be quoted here:

"'Cause, see, whenever anyone tries to make some kind of moral equivalence between the actions of leftist protesters in the 1960s and 1970s and those of the teabaggers (or, indeed, the militia movement), they are forgetting context. And context, as we know, will take your sad little rhetorical point and spank its ass until it begs context to stop."

I just love the last sentence.

Friday, March 26, 2010

Quote of the Day

"the GOP just had a premature political ejaculation. Obama, meanwhile, has just got his groove on."

- Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic's Daily Dish

For Alex

Rest in Peace