Political Theatre category archive
The Lost Cause 2
Leonard Pitts, Jr., visits Gettysburg:
It was an attempt at moral equivalence, a pretense that both sides are equally valid, and it is not uncommon. When offered a chance to define what America means, some of us rush from judgment.
As long as the polity continues to behave as if the cause of the Secesh was an honorable cause, the Confederate States of America will continue to win the peace, even as they lost the war, and the Secesh will continue to plague the polity.
The Ratings Game 0
The Orlando Sentinal’s Scott Maxwell wanted to know what persons think of their elected representatives incongruously assembled. Not much, it turns out.
So I thought I’d turn to my fellow Central Floridians for perspective.
On a blustery fall afternoon last week, I visited Lake Eola and chatted with folks — young and old, black and white, liberal and conservative.
(snip)
Asked to rank Congress on a scale of 1 to 10, the average was 1. One person actually said 3, but he was offset by the two who refused to go higher than zero.
Gaming the Numbers 0
Bob Cesca:
But, because there’s an “Obamacare is a Failed Policy” script that must be serviced, the lowest number of the batch has to be quoted. That’s why you’ve been reading about 106,000 rather than 1.5 million.
Read the rest.
News, Ripped from the Ticker 0
The usual warnings.
The Secesh 1
“OilGunnia.”
These are folks who don’t realize that The Quick and the Dead was a movie.
A damned good movie, aside from being about 30 minutes too long, but still a movie.
Renaissance 0
When some are speculating that the Republican Party will go the way of the Whigs, who disappeared in the 1850s, the Whig Party is reborn:
“As neither a Republican nor Democrat, in a city with a reputation for electoral dishonesty, I am an honest broker in administering elections,” Bucholz said Wednesday in an email.
By the way, those who think the Republicans will follow the path of the Whigs are quite wrong.
They have already chosen to follow the path of the Know-Nothings.
Cooch Calls It 0
Heh.