Hillary, please...

One thing I can’t stand is arrogance. Can you believe Hillary Clinton? She lost 12 state contests in a row, she is behind in the popular vote and behind in delegates, in spite of finally winning three states last night. So what does she say: She’d consider Obama as her running mate! She also said she’s ready to debate McCain. Hillary, dear Hillary, please slow down. You haven’t won the nomination. You basically haven’t changed anything. You’re still behind in everything. I don’t think Obama is going to select you as his running mate, at least I hope not. I should think the last thing our new President would want would be you and Bill cluttering up the White House. By the way, when are you going to release your tax statements? I understand Bill has been pulling in some really big bucks from some odd places. Making hay while the sun shines?

Some bipartisan company named Knowlegis does an annual report on the relative power of states and Congresspersons. You will be interested to learn that Idaho, in terms of power, ranks 53rd out of 55 possibilities, behind even Washington D.C., the Virgin Islands, and Guam. Wowie, what clout!

Larry Craig who was something like 69th once has now slipped to 98th out of 99 (who in the world is the 99th?). In Congress our own Bill Sali is ranked 423rd out of 435. Out of 200 Republicans he’s ranked 189th. Way to go, Bill! Might I suggest once again that you vote for LaRocco and Larry Grant. As it is, “we don’t get no respect.” Thanks to the Mountain Goat Report for this information.

I think after seven plus years of Bush/Cheney we may have finally reached the point where there is no longer any difference between reality and nonsense. For example, we are now told that people voted for Clinton because she will be a better Commander-in-Chief. Can anyone really believe that bit of nonsense. What conceivable evidence is there that Clinton would make a better Commander-in-Chief? What experience has she had that would lead anyone to think this? Is this just another part of her almost grotesquely padded resume of experience? Similarly, what on earth would make anyone believe she would be better at answering the phone at 3:00 a.m. than Obama, or even Woody Allen, for that matter? If a President had to answer a phone at that time of morning I would think they had better find a much better staff. We are being fed utter nonsense all the time. The MSM has no interest in what would have to be considered “real news.” The real news is so uniformly bad for Bush/Cheney they wouldn’t dare report it.

There is a great article in Vanity Fair entitled “The Gaza Bombshell.” In brief, it tells how Bush and Condi Rice attempted to fund a Fatah- led coup to do away with Hamas, the legitimately democratically elected government of the Palestinians. You see, Bush and Rice are so committed to democracy in the Middle East that when a genuine democratically elected government emerged in Palestine they furnished arms to another faction in order to bring it down. Of course like everything they try in the Middle East it was an embarrassing failure. Bush is still saying there will be peace between the Palestinians and Israel by the end of the year, further evidence if any is needed, that he is at best borderline retarded and at worst absolutely insane (perhaps both).

So now that nothing is settled with respect to the democratic nomination it’s on to Pennsylvania, according to Clinton. You see, she doesn’t regard any of the other remaining state contests as important. She decides what is important, no one else. I think we are going to have to start addressing her as Queen Hillary, or perhaps “Your Eminence,” or, better yet, “Your Royal Highness.” What a shame. I used to like Hillary. I even used to send her money. But no more. I still think she is smart as hell, and in many ways probably the best candidate, but she’s a DLC Republican and now that she has said McCain would be a better candidate than Obama she has certainly lost any admiration from me, as well as given herself away. She and the Republicans will give Obama no mercy from now on. Soon they’ll be rumoring that he’s not actually an earthling but some creature from outer space sent here to steal their lawn chairs.

I think Rachel Maddow had the best line of the discussion last night. When told that Obama had called Hillary she said, “he should have waited until 3:00 a.m. to see if she’d answer the phone." I wish he had.

LKBIQ:
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn.”
Jane Austen