It's easy to make fun of people who stand up on the speaker's box and demonstrate that they are idiots.
But it's sad, so very sad, to watch people who present themselves as potential US presidents- especially when it comes with a coquettish wink and a demand that the people summon her to greatness.
That is Mrs. Palin. Last night she obeyed the summons of her paymasters to be pimped out on Fox News.
The interviewer- I can't remember who it was, I was so gobsmacked- asked Mrs Palin, whose experience of government is bankrupting the mayoralty of Wasilla, part of a term on the Alaska Oil & Gas Commission and part of a term as governor- what the effect of a federal government shutdown would be.
Well, golly, she started out, slopping and flailing like a caribou she'd just shot with the aid of her team of five guys, her fashonista cammos, and a camera crew, eyes darting every which way, no notes on her palm.
Then she found her footing.
Well, she declared, that's what we're waiting for "them to tell us," what the effect would be. Maybe some bills get paid faster than others?
It's really pretty simple. When you hit your credit limit, you can't borrow any more money. Creditors demand way more security for future loans. Old people and veterans get the fetish payments Republicans gas on about protecting while out of the other side of their mouths promise to cut- well, thy don't just get cut, they stop.
Soldiers don't get paid their meager salaries. Military hospitals can't treat the hideous wounds the political class inflicted on tens of thousands in pursuit of made up, pointless wars.
God help us.
But it's sad, so very sad, to watch people who present themselves as potential US presidents- especially when it comes with a coquettish wink and a demand that the people summon her to greatness.
That is Mrs. Palin. Last night she obeyed the summons of her paymasters to be pimped out on Fox News.
The interviewer- I can't remember who it was, I was so gobsmacked- asked Mrs Palin, whose experience of government is bankrupting the mayoralty of Wasilla, part of a term on the Alaska Oil & Gas Commission and part of a term as governor- what the effect of a federal government shutdown would be.
Well, golly, she started out, slopping and flailing like a caribou she'd just shot with the aid of her team of five guys, her fashonista cammos, and a camera crew, eyes darting every which way, no notes on her palm.
Then she found her footing.
Well, she declared, that's what we're waiting for "them to tell us," what the effect would be. Maybe some bills get paid faster than others?
It's really pretty simple. When you hit your credit limit, you can't borrow any more money. Creditors demand way more security for future loans. Old people and veterans get the fetish payments Republicans gas on about protecting while out of the other side of their mouths promise to cut- well, thy don't just get cut, they stop.
Soldiers don't get paid their meager salaries. Military hospitals can't treat the hideous wounds the political class inflicted on tens of thousands in pursuit of made up, pointless wars.
God help us.
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