Fisking A Lush
Ted Kennedy sent out a fundraising letter for the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee today. And if donations were solicited on the basis of number of hoary, old, hackneyed partisan cliches per paragraph, the DSSC could be flush overnight:
"Reckless abuse of power" means "being in office," in case you were wondering....
Wait a minute - I thought it was the U.S. Supreme Court that did that. Remember? Then-Secretary of State Harris certified the election results for Bush, but the Florida Supremes overruled her, and the SCOTUS finally had to step in and stop them from rewriting not only the Florida constitution, but the federal constitution as well. Hence the by-now quaint old chestnut "selected, not elected."
I wish Uncle Teddy could make up his mind. Or lay off the sauce long enough to recover full use of what non-pickled neurons he's got left.
Of course he doesn't - because he has no "particulars" to cite.
Of course, this letter is just playing to his own crowd. And it's not as if that crowd has to be persuaded of these boilerplate mendacities. The thing is, there's little real doubt that the black sheep of a family of hootch-runners whose father was an admirer of Nazi Germany truly believes all this toxic propaganda waste just as feverishly. And he'll drum up plenty of cash, and his party will become even more beholden to this crowd - mob is more like it, in more ways then one - and its electoral fortunes will continue to deteriorate in more or less direct proportion.
Not exactly a news item, but definitely another mile-post on the Democrat highway to political perdition.
Senator Ted Kennedy has sent out a shrill fundraising letter accusing Republicans of posing an "imminent danger to the nation.” He even accuses President Bush, along with Dick Cheney and Karl Rove, of "poisoning” the water and air.*Yawwwwwn* Wasn't Bill Clinton using that line over a decade ago?
The letter, which seeks contributions for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, begins: "The reckless abuse of power by George Bush and his right-wing allies is an imminent danger to the nation and must be stopped.”
"Reckless abuse of power" means "being in office," in case you were wondering....
The letter singles out for defeat Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Katherine Harris, "the notorious GOP state official who gave George Bush the presidency in 2000,” who is running for the Senate from Florida.
Wait a minute - I thought it was the U.S. Supreme Court that did that. Remember? Then-Secretary of State Harris certified the election results for Bush, but the Florida Supremes overruled her, and the SCOTUS finally had to step in and stop them from rewriting not only the Florida constitution, but the federal constitution as well. Hence the by-now quaint old chestnut "selected, not elected."
I wish Uncle Teddy could make up his mind. Or lay off the sauce long enough to recover full use of what non-pickled neurons he's got left.
Despite the significant progress that has been made in Iraq, the letter states that the administration’s "claims of progress bear no relation to reality.” Kennedy cites no particulars.
Of course he doesn't - because he has no "particulars" to cite.
Of course, this letter is just playing to his own crowd. And it's not as if that crowd has to be persuaded of these boilerplate mendacities. The thing is, there's little real doubt that the black sheep of a family of hootch-runners whose father was an admirer of Nazi Germany truly believes all this toxic propaganda waste just as feverishly. And he'll drum up plenty of cash, and his party will become even more beholden to this crowd - mob is more like it, in more ways then one - and its electoral fortunes will continue to deteriorate in more or less direct proportion.
Not exactly a news item, but definitely another mile-post on the Democrat highway to political perdition.
posted by JASmius at 4:45 PM
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