Haven't talked about Monsieur IOZ for a while. No real reason, I was busy and kind of forgot. Well, given the uselessness of the press, the mainstream political process, the administration and the military-industrial complex, I guess I should visit more often. IOZ reminds me of Montaigne, who was more engaged than people like to think, but less so than the Hobbits of France; of Boethius, who figured out the wheel of fortune en route from the seat next to the emperor to the rack; of an effete and gay but really pissed off Johnny Cash doing Woodie Guthrie songs. IOZ at Folsom Prison would be a strange concept album, but shit, it would fit the current Zeitgeist well, a strain of hopeless elitist populism...
Look, the election in Massachusetts had everything and nothing to do with Obama. The average guy who's been screwed over by the last two years isn't a factory worker --they've been savaged for the past 30 years. The average guy screwed over is a single mom in Boston, working at an insurance company for $60K a year and paying entirely too much for a two decker in Southie; the average guy is a longshoreman in Fall River or New Bedford, wondering if any ships are ever going to come in; the guy working in maintenance shop for a college in Worcester, wondering if they're going to outsource the work to students so they can pay their tuition, and will their daughter have to join the Army to get any chance of not having to limit her aspirations to working for State Mutual out on Route 9. Jobs, banks, and opportunities -- and instead, the only thing they've heard anyone talk about for months is how well the banks and insurance companies have done and how bad the health care situation is in lower slobovia and how poor the job market is in California. They didn't think that anyone in power cared about them. Now, the new Senator is not all that reassuring, but he cares about the people of Massachusetts, if only because he wants to sell his daughters to another Bay Stater.
As I commented at IOZ, if all the President wants to do is make speeches solidifying his position as leading American most-modern Ironist-politician, Brownie and his ilk will do well. Someone needs to set fire to the Democrats. Kick Lieberman out, and declare war. Start quoting Jesus a little bit, the stormy North side, not the wussy "let's reason together side," which isn't really anywhere. Jesus didn't have any patience with the bankers, Pharisees or Sadducees. He was far more: "Be ye hot or cold but not lukewarm, or I will spew ye from my mouth..." Obama may be hot or cold, but the Democrats have been lukewarm at best, and Massachusetts is signaling their fate if they don't raise the temperature on the malefactors and lower it on the traitors within. Lieberman, Nelson, Lincoln and Bayh would all look nice as Republicans...
Look, the election in Massachusetts had everything and nothing to do with Obama. The average guy who's been screwed over by the last two years isn't a factory worker --they've been savaged for the past 30 years. The average guy screwed over is a single mom in Boston, working at an insurance company for $60K a year and paying entirely too much for a two decker in Southie; the average guy is a longshoreman in Fall River or New Bedford, wondering if any ships are ever going to come in; the guy working in maintenance shop for a college in Worcester, wondering if they're going to outsource the work to students so they can pay their tuition, and will their daughter have to join the Army to get any chance of not having to limit her aspirations to working for State Mutual out on Route 9. Jobs, banks, and opportunities -- and instead, the only thing they've heard anyone talk about for months is how well the banks and insurance companies have done and how bad the health care situation is in lower slobovia and how poor the job market is in California. They didn't think that anyone in power cared about them. Now, the new Senator is not all that reassuring, but he cares about the people of Massachusetts, if only because he wants to sell his daughters to another Bay Stater.
As I commented at IOZ, if all the President wants to do is make speeches solidifying his position as leading American most-modern Ironist-politician, Brownie and his ilk will do well. Someone needs to set fire to the Democrats. Kick Lieberman out, and declare war. Start quoting Jesus a little bit, the stormy North side, not the wussy "let's reason together side," which isn't really anywhere. Jesus didn't have any patience with the bankers, Pharisees or Sadducees. He was far more: "Be ye hot or cold but not lukewarm, or I will spew ye from my mouth..." Obama may be hot or cold, but the Democrats have been lukewarm at best, and Massachusetts is signaling their fate if they don't raise the temperature on the malefactors and lower it on the traitors within. Lieberman, Nelson, Lincoln and Bayh would all look nice as Republicans...
Y'know..... Fuck the Dems. If they haven't figured it out by now -- well, you don't expect schnauzers to apply to Yale, do ya?
Posted by: sglover | 21 January 2010 at 07:18 PM
Yeah. Only if they are legacies...actually, these guys are more like poodles, and not the big, full-sized brave and smart and loyal hunting poodles the Seals liked to use as war dogs, but the miniature types that have their perms permed and colored flattering shades of blue and pink with Rhinestones.
Posted by: Crusader AXE | 21 January 2010 at 09:36 PM
SEAL's use poodles?!?!? Are you funning me?
Posted by: sglover | 22 January 2010 at 04:22 PM