All right, this claptrap is going from being simply absurd to truly pathological. The Republicans have mounted an objection to President Obama allegedly not meeting with the Dalai Lama during his current trip to the US because he is appeasing China. Boy, that Obama just likes to appease everyone, doesn’t he?! From terrorists, to Nazis, to the combination of the two (i.e. Republicans), to the Russians and naturally to their communist brethren the Chinese; he’s just a natural born appeaser, isn’t he?! It’s merely too bad he isn’t a natural born citizen.
In the most recent episode of Mad Men, the protagonist’s wife is assigned by her women’s community group to ‘lobby’ a state government official to halt the construction of a local reservoir. Incidentally, said official is a Republican and thusly bestows upon her this gem of political wisdom: “When you have no power, stall…” While the program may be fictional, this strategy employed by the GOP is anything but. What makes their stalling tactics even more egregious is that not only do they technically have no power, they literally have no ideas. And I hope you will forgive me for believing that across the board opposition to any and everything does not quite qualify as being an idea.
So back to the Chinese; what Obama is engaging in here is a little something called diplomacy. I realize this word is not included in the GOP dictionary, or at least is buried very deep within, so I suppose it is understandable yet by no means acceptable that they are so bewildered by this concept. In case they forgot, those little ditties called the ‘Bush tax cuts,’ the ‘Wars in Afghanistan & Iraq,’ ‘TARP,’ etc. are all on our Chinese Express credit card and it would greatly behoove us not to blatantly tick them off lest they decide to say, foreclose on our country. Some members of congress have already taken it upon themselves to “build trust and confidence" in China and inform them that the US will not be able to pay them pack. In any event, their favorite punching bag will be in Beijing later this year and will meet up with the Dalai Lama at that point in time. Despite some understandable concern his people have already said “no hard feelings.”
Finally, since when are the Republicans such vocal supporters of the Tibetan freedom movement, anyway?! I’m pretty sure Tibetans don’t believe in the wonders of free market capitalism and last I heard have not yet taken Jesus Christ to be their lord and savior. Yet any group of oppressed people, regardless of their ardent opposition to materialism, who can be used as a bludgeon against Herr Obama is obviously all right by them.
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Sunday, October 14, 2007
Earth to Mr. Brooks
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/12/opinion/12brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
I am not sure what to make of David Brooks’ column on Friday, for he seems to be genuinely shocked that the modern-day Republican Party is a mere shell of the party that once called such great Americans as Hamilton (actually a Federalist) and Lincoln members (not to mention the populist Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher). Surprisingly, there is no mention of the second-coming himself, Ronald Ray-Guns (see photo below and of course, to the right) Gipper, for I guess summoning his holiness to appear in the same article as such abominations as John McCain or Mike (I heart) Huckabee is way beneath him. Brooks has somehow managed to deceive himself into believing that it is the “ambitious working-class parents who are the backbone of the G.O.P.” Dave, what are you smoking and where can I get some?! He goes on to say that the G.O.P. “has lost intimate contact with the working-class dreamer who longs to make good.” Dave, methinks you need to take a walk outside of your log cabin and experience intimate contact with reality. Very unfortunately, Barry Goldwater is no longer with us and his brand of conservatism has been replaced with Republican ideals that are far from conservative, if not outright extremist. At the same time, he seems to be equally blown away by the fact that Democratic presidential candidates have considerably more cogent and concrete plans regarding both foreign AND domestic policies! Here is perhaps the biggest mind-blower of all: many if not most of Hillary Clinton’s policies are more Republican-esque than they are populist! HOLY COW! I find it perplexing that an op-ed columnist for arguably the best daily newspaper in the nation could be so painfully out of touch. I mean if he wrote for say, The Washington Times, that would be one thing – but this is The New York Times, man! I know I’ve done my fair share of trashing it in the past, but it is one of the few real American news sources left that has at least a shred of integrity left (sans David Brooks). I realize that he is the token Republican much like how Alan Colmes is the token Democratic on Fox News; the supposed member of the opposition party that is at least somewhat sympathetic (mostly just pathetic though) to the generally representative views of the outlet. I guess everyone on the left has to take at least one shot at Davey B. – well, this has been mine.
I am not sure what to make of David Brooks’ column on Friday, for he seems to be genuinely shocked that the modern-day Republican Party is a mere shell of the party that once called such great Americans as Hamilton (actually a Federalist) and Lincoln members (not to mention the populist Prime Minister of Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher). Surprisingly, there is no mention of the second-coming himself, Ronald Ray-Guns (see photo below and of course, to the right) Gipper, for I guess summoning his holiness to appear in the same article as such abominations as John McCain or Mike (I heart) Huckabee is way beneath him. Brooks has somehow managed to deceive himself into believing that it is the “ambitious working-class parents who are the backbone of the G.O.P.” Dave, what are you smoking and where can I get some?! He goes on to say that the G.O.P. “has lost intimate contact with the working-class dreamer who longs to make good.” Dave, methinks you need to take a walk outside of your log cabin and experience intimate contact with reality. Very unfortunately, Barry Goldwater is no longer with us and his brand of conservatism has been replaced with Republican ideals that are far from conservative, if not outright extremist. At the same time, he seems to be equally blown away by the fact that Democratic presidential candidates have considerably more cogent and concrete plans regarding both foreign AND domestic policies! Here is perhaps the biggest mind-blower of all: many if not most of Hillary Clinton’s policies are more Republican-esque than they are populist! HOLY COW! I find it perplexing that an op-ed columnist for arguably the best daily newspaper in the nation could be so painfully out of touch. I mean if he wrote for say, The Washington Times, that would be one thing – but this is The New York Times, man! I know I’ve done my fair share of trashing it in the past, but it is one of the few real American news sources left that has at least a shred of integrity left (sans David Brooks). I realize that he is the token Republican much like how Alan Colmes is the token Democratic on Fox News; the supposed member of the opposition party that is at least somewhat sympathetic (mostly just pathetic though) to the generally representative views of the outlet. I guess everyone on the left has to take at least one shot at Davey B. – well, this has been mine.
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