Friday Afternoon Roundup – Obama Wins the Budget Battle
The Tao Of Stupid
Sheila Jackson-Lee might be the dumbest person in congress. She might even be the dumbest person outside congress. If there were ever a global championship for idiots, the country could send her there. And leave her there; because unlike Lassie, she wouldn’t be able find her way back on her own.
When Enron wanted someone to use as a puppet, they picked Sheila Jackson-Lee. They wanted a woman who didn’t have a mind of her own. Enron executives described her as “agreeable”, which was a polite way of saying, “dumber than a bunch of rocks caught in the hubcaps of a slow bus going the wrong way on a one way street in the middle of a flood.”
That’s from my Front Page Magazine article, Sheila Jackson Lee: Racist and Moron. That was the polite title. Unfortunately congressional Republicans aren’t exactly outscoring her right now.
The amount of friendly fire by a circular firing squad is what you would expect after losing an election. And the blogs that specialize in shouting, “Fight, Fight” and then standing by and racking up hit counts by pushing more fights aren’t exactly helping.
After spending two months kicking around Newt Gingrich, the GOP 2011 has mishandled the budget standoff while learning no lessons from his tenure. Obama’s goals were fairly simple and so far he’s achieved most of them.
- Pin the blame for the impasse on Republicans
- Divide the Republican leadership from the grass roots
- Force through a “compromise” budget that gives him everything he wants and leaves the other side with nothing of substance that he can’t bypass.
The media covered the first part, with the aid of a GOP in communication breakdown mode. The GOP is now deep in circular firing squad mode which covers the second part. And the third is likely still to come.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
