Yeah, yeah. I need a life. :-)
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Look at the facts: The White House has moved significantly in the direction of the Republican Party’s position in terms of spending and where the cuts should take place. While we may reasonably disagree on whether the current position of either party is acceptable or not, the fact is that the Democrats have compromised by reducing tax revenue demands and accepting certain cuts to key Democrat Party pillars such as Medicaid and Social Security. Has the Republican Party done the same? No. True, Speaker Boehner has tried, but the Tea Party faction has held him and the American economy hostage to that “economically ignorant and disgracefully cynical” path The Economist dislikes so much. [...] I’m overwhelmed by Minami Sanriku. I grew up in a town the size of this place, both geographically and in terms of population. When I try to think of the entire valley of my town destroyed and 10,000 people killed in the space of an hour, my mind goes blank and refuses. I can’t wrap my head around it, either intellectually or emotionally, so my brain just stops and it doesn’t start again until I think of something else. In the meantime, I just stand there and look at these piles of rubble the size of football fields, taking short, shallow breaths, almost hypnotized by the devastation of this place. There are no dead bodies around, but you know that many people died here simply because there is no way that many people could not have died. [...] It’s like the Alaska-Washington DC version of “The Beverly Hillbillies”, except instead of striking oil some old guy who had already sold out his beliefs in order to get reelected to the Senate finds himself in the race for the US Presidency and realizes that he has absolutely no chance of winning it except for the political equivalent of the Hail Mary pass. He throws this giant political football up to Wasila and hits an ex beauty queen in the head with it. After talking for 15 minutes they decide that their maverick team is exactly what America needs to reinvigorate the political DNA of the conservative party, re-instill those core American beliefs that made us such a great nation, and capture the spirit and imagination of people who have been wronged, lied to, and cheated by big government lefties. [...] We must remain rational in our decision-making, reasonable in determining how we will work through the difficulties ahead, and resolute in our belief that Japan has the strength of country and character to survive this ordeal and emerge even stronger. [...] |
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