America Falling Apart
Is there perhaps an expiration date for Bushophobia after all?
What's that T.S. Elliot line? "This is the way the world ends...not with a bang, but a whimper."
The explanation is simple: Soros, for all his left-wing extremism, is evidently more billionaire than zealot, and was no longer willing to keep sending good money after bad:
Yeah - by all measures but the only one that mattered. Which is kind of like a baseball manager claiming that he has a strong hitting lineup when all they produce are singles and they strand all their baserunners every inning. To quote that not-so-old slogan, "Chicks dig the long ball."
And George Soros has taken his ball and gone home.
Not for good, probably. But in the interim, he will not be missed.
A year ago, the liberal group America Coming Together was on the cutting edge of national politics, spending tens of millions of dollars on a massive voter-mobilization project in every presidential battleground state.
The dream was that ACT - heavily funded by billionaire George Soros - would play a decisive role in getting Democratic nominee John F. Kerry elected president and then remain in business as a permanent force in liberal politics.
Instead, the group this week began sending e-mails to most of the 28 people who make up the remaining ACT staff warning that their paychecks would stop at the end of August. All the state offices have been, or are soon to be, closed.
What's that T.S. Elliot line? "This is the way the world ends...not with a bang, but a whimper."
The explanation is simple: Soros, for all his left-wing extremism, is evidently more billionaire than zealot, and was no longer willing to keep sending good money after bad:
Soros and his close associate - Progressive Corp. Chairman Peter Lewis - together put $38.5 million into ACT and the Media Fund. With this seed money, the two organizations collected $196.4 million, enough to set up voter mobilization programs in every presidential battleground state and to flood the airwaves with pro-Democratic commercials in the early spring of 2004 when Kerry's campaign was broke.
By all measures but one, ACT and the Media Fund were a great success, helping to turn out record numbers of new voters. But that one measure was the one that counted. After Bush's reelection and GOP gains in the House and Senate, Soros and Lewis pulled the plug on their support. [emphasis added]
Yeah - by all measures but the only one that mattered. Which is kind of like a baseball manager claiming that he has a strong hitting lineup when all they produce are singles and they strand all their baserunners every inning. To quote that not-so-old slogan, "Chicks dig the long ball."
And George Soros has taken his ball and gone home.
Not for good, probably. But in the interim, he will not be missed.
posted by JASmius at 9:42 AM
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