Rush Limbaugh often says that actions don’t matter for liberals, it is intent that matters.
If you don’t believe that statement read these back to back.
You know when Joe Scarborough said his line about Ted Kennedy not abusing his staffers being odd. I thought it was shocking about what it said concerning Congress. Little did I know that the shocking thing was his ignorance about the past.
BTW I saw this the day Ted Kennedy died and wrote it that day, but I scheduled the post for a week later out of respect for the dead.
…asks Mika on Morning Joe concerning Charlie Rangel?
I think she is smart enough to know the answer, he has a “D” next to his name, he is a personable fellow and a combat vet from Korea. He is a longstanding powerful black congressman.
All of these things preclude scrutiny from the MSN.
Obama’s day of reckoning has already come, here in the infancy of his presidency, as the polls each passing day attest. He could go through the pretense of being a centrist leader for a few precious weeks, maybe even months, but the real political center for him is so remote and so foreign that in the end the act of pretending would be as distasteful for him as his “normal” policies are for increasing numbers of Americans.
Oh he’s doomed DOOMED I tell you, Rasmussen has him at 46, Zogby at 42. Obamacare is dying. There is talk about re-taking the house in 2010.
I think if we take this stuff too seriously then we make the same mistake as the left was doing 7 months ago. It only takes one crisis, one mistake or one big issue to turn everything around. If his numbers can drop like that in 7 months they can just as easily rise back up.
Overconfidence is a dangerous thing. I know it’s only been two weeks or so since I said it before but it’s still just as true as ever.
I visited Jessica’s father Boris several times when I was in college. As most Soviet emigrés, he had strong anti-Communist views and great respect for then then-President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. And though the then-senior Senator from Massachusetts harshly criticized (and actively sought to thwart) the Gipper’s aggressive foreign policy, Boris refused to criticize Kennedy, always recalling how he helped secure his release.
He only had kind words for the late Massachusetts Democrat.
The full article is here concerning the sick little girl who was allowed to leave the Soviet Union due to Kennedy’s intervention.
I couldn’t help but remember this scene from Boomtown (my favorite 9th doctor story)
“…that’s how you live with yourself, that’s how you slaughter millions, because once in a while on a whim, when the wind is in the right direction you happen to be kind.”
