Sunday Morning

So it’s Sunday, so I watch Meet the Press. General David Petraeus said a lot things I liked. Abu Ghraib continues to bite us in the ass. Guantanamo Bay should be closed. The field guide to interrogation given to them by Congress has proven to work. And implied that don’t ask don’t tell is no longer needed.


Next was the republican hopeful for the 2012 presidential race, Governor Tim Paw-lenty (hypen’s mine) of Minnesota. Besides being your general conservative butt-nugget, he tried to spin cutting state and city bus drivers’ future pensions was a good thing. Also the 12K jobs in his state didn’t mean much because they were mainly government jobs and that only means larger government – doesn’t he work for the government?


Finally, the round table that attempts to make some sense of it all. Meet the Press round tables are somewhere between Newshour and well I don’t know, it’s a notch over I guess in shouts. Besides the two congressmen, E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Peggy (I’m the rich bitch in the room) Noonan of the Wall Street Journal were on. E. J. is kinda cute, because he’s fair and his gray hair flops around slightly. And I fucking hate Peggy Noonan.


This is the type of republican that would never associate with the republican base – the base that is poor, uneducated, and white. Harsh, but it is not against the base, it is against Noonan. Noonan in her gold jacket, slow dramatic speech, and face that reeks of contempt, cannot see beyond her own reflection. In this case, the indistinguishable gentleman from some republican rhetorical state, who even received Noonan’s trademark head-shake of disapproval.



Final question – Are American’s tired of big government or a haphazard government?