The Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy parasitized the New York Times opinion page today. The courtesy was handed to Lawrence E. Joseph who has been relentlessly peddling books on apocalyptic disaster slated for 2012.
The latest Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy jag is the story of the angry sun.
The sun is waking up from a long period of quiet — which is true — and erupting solar storms and mass ejections may shatter advanced civilization, it goes.
Just like in “The Road,??? the movie nobody went to see (or maybe “The Book of Eli,??? another apocalypse-themed flop).
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You’ll see it everywhere because it panders to entrenched American extremist beliefs in tech superstitions and catastrophism. (Bubbling underneath are messages that white people will lose their piles to ravening hordes unleashed by the fall.) And the entertainment industry and parts of the corporate national security biz can monetize this by peddling titillation and fear, respectively.
And so it goes, the coming sun strike being far worse than Katrina, so give taxpayer money to the private sector so risk can be mitigated. What the various gobble-wallahs of the cult fail to add are that there are many pressing problems confronting the US right now, all as bad as Katrina, but that they are of our own devise, not the sun’s. And that the Cult of EMP Crazy is just another special interest posse raid on the middle class.
Here’s the standard line, repeated as necessary, in the newer Cult opinion pieces:
DESPITE warnings that New Orleans was unprepared for a severe hit by a hurricane, America was blindsided by Hurricane Katrina, a once-in-a-lifetime storm that made landfall five years ago this month. We are similarly unready for another potential natural disaster: solar storms, bursts of gas on the sun’s surface that release tremendous energy pulses.
Let’s imagine for a moment someone with the interests of the middle class at heart, besides Paul Krugman, writing similarly for the New York Times opinion page:
DESPITE warnings that the middle class was being systematically beggared and then destroyed by predatory financial policy and the sending of production to slave-labor countries, America was seemingly blindsided by this once-in-a-lifetime perfect storm of economic catastrophe. We are similarly unready for another even worse disaster: The putting down of the American way of life permanently when China puts the US in the rear view mirror as its economy passes ours in the coming decade.
Just for perspective, you see.
Last week, one of the chieftains of the Cult of EMP Crazy, Roscoe Bartlett in the US House of Representatives, was greatly dismayed when his legislation to protect from EMP doom was penciled out of similar legislation in the Senate.
And so the Cult of EMP Crazy quickly marshaled its forces. In the New York Times, it is warned:
Earlier this year the House of Representatives passed a bill that would allow the White House to require utilities to put grid-protection measures in place, then rip off recoup the costs from customers. Unfortunately, the companion bill in the Senate contains no such provision.
It’s not a lost cause, though; lawmakers can still insert the grid-protection language during conference.
Joseph uses [2012] prophecy as a starting point, but claims that his interest lies in more substantial scientific threats to the planet—including cracks in Earth’s magnetic field, the eruption of supervolcanoes and flareups of sunspot radiation. On the other hand, he also gives credence to planetary alignments and The Bible Code before veering into a rant about how the real problem is Christian fundamentalists who want to manipulate the Middle East into Armageddon. When he sticks to science journalism, Joseph is a lively tour guide, introducing readers to Mayan shamans and Russian scientists with equal aplomb. But when he encourages readers to start praying they survive the coming apocalypse, he comes off as exactly the sort of crackpot he claims to eschew. Still, there’s less kookery than in other 2012 books …
Good to know. So get it now, used copies for $0.77.
Ted Nugent loves to brag of his skills as a hunter. In interview, he regularly carps about how excellent he is as a steward of the wild.
And, very recently, he was named the favorite celebrity hunter in Outdoors magazine.
But if you’re read these continuing posts on Uncle Ted, you’ve come to see his true character. It’s a veritable banquet of serious flaws in demeanor and lapses in sound judgment. So readers will not be surprised to read this next item on the alleged mighty hunter:
Rock star and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent was fined $1,750 today in Yuba County Superior Court after pleading no contest to baiting deer on his hunting show “Spirit of the Wild.”
Yuba City attorney Jack Kopp, representing Theodore Anthony Nugent, 61, entered a no contest plea to Department of Fish and Game charges of baiting deer and not having a deer tag “countersigned” at the closest possible location, said Deputy District Attorney John Vacek.
Baiting deer is legal in some states but not in California, said state Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy.
Furthermore:
Nugent was originally facing a charge of killing a “spike” — an immature buck — on the program but the charge was dropped during negotiations between his attorney and the Yuba County District Attorney’s Office, said Foy.
A spike is a deer with two antlers that have not yet “forked,” Foy said.
A Department of Fish and Game warden saw the show in March and “just about fell out of his chair” when he saw Nugent with the buck, according to Foy.
A subsequent investigation led to the baiting charge.
If you grew up in a community of hunters, and DD did in Schuylkill County, PA, knocking off a spike buck is about the worst thing you can do.
First up, the senseless comparison to infamous murdering villains:
I find it painfully disheartening that the United States of America voted for Barack Hussein Obama, the leftist community organizer, in a time following the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. Would America have voted for a clueless, inexperienced man with an anti-American voting record with the name Adolf, Eichmann or Stalin following World War II? I think not.
Then the apoplectic run-on sentence, with slurs as the candy pieces in the teeming bowl of cereal:
It is unfathomable to me that such support exists for a man who was raised and abandoned by avowed Marxist parents, whose mentor was a self-avowed Marxist, who studied and preached Marxism and communism, who attended a radical, America-hating church led by a radical America-hating pastor, who had this radical, America-hating pastor baptize his children and marry him and his wife, who has appointed as czars a gang of flagrant communists, Marxists, socialists and America-hating, capitalism-hating, U.S. Constitution-hating radicals, who associated regularly with convicted homegrown terrorists and 1960s radicals and other such egregious violations.
Did he use the word hating enough while getting his hate on?
With absolutely no sense of self-consciousness, Nugent then writes:
Their mindless shoveling of massive barges overflowing with cash at the American education system has produced the dumbest group of dropouts in the history of mankind who can neither read, write, talk, spell …
Coming to a casino in Palm Springs, Nugent was interviewed by the local newspaper.
Palm Springs, CA, newspaper: Have you ever considered running for political office? What would your platform be? What kind of change do you think you could bring about if you were elected to Congress or the Oval Office?
Nugent: I have been prodded to do so for many years and it could still happen.
I would return America to a streamlined, dramatically smaller, absolutely accountable, open, transparent government for the people, by the people, about the people.
I would end all welfare except the benefits that have been earned and paid for, and those deserved by the hero warriors of the U.S. military. No able-bodied American would ever again get a handout.
I would reduce the fat, lazy, redundant bloated Fedzilla by 50 percent ASAP, and then work on another 50 percent of that.
I would not have an exit strategy for the war on terror. I would have a victory strategy and win fast and furiously. I would wage a real honest-to-God war on drugs and end that suicidal scourge once and for all.
There is much work to be done and it is all obvious as hell how to fix things. I would fix things.
It won’t come as a shock to anyone that lots of country music artists and their fans don’t like the president.
However, the country charts have largely shied away from this type of inflammation if we don’t include the short period after 9/11 when it granted a dispensation for those who liked the idea of getting our war on. (Chuck, you can correct me if I’m way off.)
These days there’s no political challenge in Country Music TV’s Top Twenty. And while any analysis of the country audience would come away with the idea that a profoundly anti-Obama song might move significant units, no one with a big reputation has tried to test it.
Until now.
Darryl Worley’s “Keep the Change” is just such a song, one the singer obviously hopes will set his career on fire. For those unfamiliar with him, Worley’s highest-charting number, the jingo and manipulative “Have You Forgotten,” benefited from the brief country music get-out-of-jail-free card given out after 9/11 to all redneck boors with hearts of gold.
The rest of the time Worley has been a nice-looking mild and well-mannered second-tier country artist, a philanthropic and genuinely decent man who gives money to cancer treatment.
Issued at mid-Summer in advance of an EP yet to be released, “Keep the Change” charted only briefly before being yanked at country radio.
In response, Worley has tried to mount a press campaign in protest of being shut out.
But first, it’s probably good to have a look at the song’s highest exposure on the Internet, at YouTube, where it was attached to an anti-Obama video.
It’s here and since embedding was disabled you’ll need to go out and view it to follow what a bit of this post is about.
It puts all the right red meat — Obama as “joker” taking half of your pile, your guns, smirking as he burns the Constitution, he’s not an American citizen, he’s like Hitler, worship the founding fathers, etc.
Set to what is a frankly great melody, it’s painfully offensive and bigoted in the way of the Tea Party.”This video is for every American who were [sic] doing fine without the change,” reads the intro.
It has also had its audio disarmed by YouTube at least once, perhaps reinstated by being able to just upload new copy of the thing, overwriting any neutered file.
When Worley released it, he and his record company surely knew it would immediately be put to such use. In fact, DD bets they were banking on it.
However, Worley took another step, mounting a futile press campaign to insist his song wasn’t about the president.
Here’s one example, from an on-line country music publication:
“I have gotten into some pretty heated debates already with this song,” Darryl tells The Boot. “Before God, I swear to you, I believe this is a patriotic song. And it’s a patriotic song coming from, I started to say one guy’s perspective, but there were three of us. We all just happened to sit down and come from the same place for this particular song. I might go back and rethink it if I had to do it over again and change the title to something else, because they hear the song title, and they immediately think that we’re ripping and tearing into Obama’s campaign slogans (“Change We Can Believe In” and “Change We Need”). I’ve got tons of friends that voted for Obama, President Obama, and I say that respectively (sic). I went and sat with them and played them the song and asked them how they felt. And 90 percent of them said, ‘The bottom line is the nation is really angry right now, and we don’t think there could ever be a better time in history for your song.'”
“I may be stupid to think I can write and record a song that might be a wake-up call to people and just have people reevaluate,” Worley added, also telling the interviewer the song has been getting a great reception.
Except at country radio.
Another Worley observation:
“One of the things that the country-music industry and radio watches very closely is how something’s selling. And this is the kind of song that will sell some product.”
Indeed.
One of the interesting things about this, besides Worley’s nonsensical and not a little disingenuous insistence that the song is not about the president, is that he’s also protesting not being played on the radio. Of being stiffed by a broadcast industry which destroyed the career of the Dixie Chicks, not for any political song, but for just voicing an opinion and going negative on the President before an audience in England.
And so Worley rather calculatingly seems to believe, perhaps with justification, that if “Keep the Change” — because of its opposite political polarity — sells enough to white and worked up rural people who buy it because it massages their fear and loathing, country music will eventually be forced to play it, anyway.
For a Kalamazoo newspaper, Worley — it is told — “[is] concerned about the state of the nation and the overall emotional well-being of its people.” And that the song “transcends political ties” — which must surely be one of the biggest crocks you’ll read today.
“We (co-writers Jim ‘Moose’ Brown and Phil O’Donnell) pick song titles because we know they’ll stir up a stink,” Worley told the newspaper.
In the few articles Worley has been in the singer has also been careful to mention the honor of playing for the troops and that he’s patriotic.
This may very well be so but it’s also a common sound: The sincere whine of the Tea Party he’s-gonna-take-my-pile type who always sees him or herself as a patriot. And who also feels the compulsion to tell you, or anyone in listening distance, that they are.
Besides, have you ever actually met anyone who tells you straight off they’re unpatriotic and don’t support the troops?
Blocked at radio so far, Worley has taken it to Fox News, appearing on Hannity and Huckabee.
Here’s a video of Worley performing “Keep the Change” on the latter:
Memo to Darryl Worley:
The story that your song is not about the president makes you out to be a bad liar when you appear on Fox News to push it, the network owning the patent on pandering to the anti-Obama crowd.
And no one with any sense believes the crap about Uncle Sam taking fifty percent of Darryl’s money given one look at the website.
“Keep the Change,” in fact, has been an anti-Obama country song title of choice, of sorts, well before Darryl Worley thought of it.
Here are a couple selections from YouTube. Can you list the common characteristics and themes?
Today the Dubuque newspaper’s editorial board took the unusual step of rebuking Ted Nugent over his show at a local casino.
It reads:
It was bad enough that rock musician Ted Nugent made racially insensitive remarks on stage last week in Dubuque. What made it worse was that audience members cheered.
Anybody who thinks racism is in Dubuque’s past had better think again.
Nugent commented approvingly that he saw so many white people in the audience. He commended Dubuque for being a “white town.” The crowd — not just a few fans here and there — cheered. (That is not to say that everyone in the audience was a Dubuque resident and that everyone cheered. But no expression of disapproval was heard, either; hopefully, some were too shocked to respond.)
People who attend performances, whether they are stand-up comics or musicians or the like, might expect some political comments to be interjected during a show. But Nugent’s remarks crossed the line.
It’s impossible to defame Ted Nugent. The man’s image — in his columns and even more so when the voltage is high onstage — shows him to be a public face of crazy white rancor in a turbulent social climate.
Figuratively speaking, Nugent’s the old guy with the smirk on his face, shouting fire in a crowded room of anxious white people.
Paradoxically, Nugent and the Tea Party continually insist Martin Luther King , Jr., is an inspiration. More bizarrely, Nugent now regularly maintains from the stages of his summer tour, and in interview, that he has always been a soul man and, for instance, that he is “black enough,” unlike the President. His enemies, Nugent says, are soulless.
It’s not just a weird joke or WTF peculiar, it’s insane.
Why Nugent is the way he is now is virtually beyond explanation.
Is it his dwindling audience of bottom-out-of-sighters and a need to cater to the worst among them?
Is it because he believes his future is with the race-baiting demagogues on Fox News?
Is it because he bitterly hates unions and US auto companies in Michigan, and a black president saved them? (While Nugent chose to move to Waco, Texas.)
Cases can be made for all three but none tell us why he’s such a corrosive extremist, one who hypocritically laments the same stuff in newspaper interviews.
Observers can only tell that Nugent’s irreversible decline in music popularity has only been slightly offset by semi-literate success as a spewer of insults and hatred from the extreme right. And that his political views and beliefs are poison for killing what’s left of the middle class, the people who used to be his big audience in 1978. Even while he maintains otherwise.
Are there any bets among readers how long it will take Nugent to direct the same black bile against the new GOP enemy: Middle class “special interests,” like teachers?
Nugent has shown he can’t be underestimated or outguessed. Just when you think he can’t raise the bar on a wealthy white man’s resentment, that he’s gone as far round the bend as possible, he surprises you with something even more unpleasantly nuts and insulting.
However, Nugent is a good fit for the summer of 2010. He’s a perfectly nasty fellow for a perfectly nasty time.
And what about the economy’s future? Everything we know about economic growth says that a well-educated population and high-quality infrastructure are crucial. Emerging nations are making huge efforts to upgrade their roads, their ports and their schools. Yet in America we’re going backward.
How did we get to this point? It’s the logical consequence of three decades of antigovernment rhetoric, rhetoric that has convinced many voters that a dollar collected in taxes is always a dollar wasted, that the public sector can’t do anything right.
The antigovernment campaign has always been phrased in terms of opposition to waste and fraud — to checks sent to welfare queens driving Cadillacs, to vast armies of bureaucrats uselessly pushing paper around. But those were myths, of course; there was never remotely as much waste and fraud as the right claimed. And now that the campaign has reached fruition, we’re seeing what was actually in the firing line: services that everyone except the very rich need, services that government must provide or nobody will, like lighted streets, drivable roads and decent schooling for the public as a whole.
Once again, it’s worth emphasizing that Ted’s extremist politics are aimed at wiping out his old audience. He wants to live in a country where there’s no taxation, no government except for the military and absolutely no paying for a social contract or anything associated with a civilized western nation that has a middle class.
We’re heading toward Krugman’s vision. One to also include the pleasure of watching Ted Nugent on a summer tour of casinos, cursing out the bloodsucker and entitlement class enemies from a stage in Iowa, then going back to the hotel to submit an opinion piece on how all taxes for the rich need to be eliminated. And that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King are his inspirations.
Photo gallery of the Nuge’s show at the House of Blues — Chicago.
His obviously spreading middle on display, look close — around pic 2 — for a knee brace. Aging not optional, even for Ted.
And this home video from his tour is just baffling: Nugent doing his very average version of “Soul Man” — sort of like the Blues Brothers, only not quite as fair — at one of the House of Blues franchises.
Part of Ted’s shtick this tour is emphasizing how much the soul man he is. And how all his heroes are black. Before he jumps into a tired blues not nearly as good as the rest of the material in his set. If it were done before any other audience than the one here, 100 percent all-male percent bottom-out-of-sighters in baseball caps, it would be uncomfortably awkward.
However, “Unlike the President, I’m black enough,” Ted informs. There can be no doubt, he’s the antic card of the party.
In an abject example of how music journalism is the home of cream puffs, a recent interview for Goldmine magazine has the reporter asking Nugent what he thinks of all the “rancor.” Without pointing out those Ted columns showing him to be among the most rancorous.
Goldmine: Let’s talk politics a bit. You’ve never been afraid to express your political views. What do you think of the rancor and division in our nation today?
Nugent: It is heartbreaking and totally unnecessary, really. The line drawn in the sand is a direct result of the curse of apathy and the cluelessness that results from intentional, lazy disconnect. Those who are not interested in doing anything for their country, but rather demand a shopping list of bloodsucking demands from America have the perfect president and gang of czars for their sheep-like, self-imposed dependency. It’s embarrassingly soulless, really. On my side of the line drawn in the sand are ass-kicking, hard-working American families who don’t want the government to do anything besides protecting our borders and enforcing our laws, and to basically get the hell out of our way to be the best that we can be. The criminality of the Mao Tse-Tung fan club in the White House will go down as one of the most bufoonish, ignorant crimes in the history of the world. Damn shame. Sadly, we get what we ask for. I fight it every day of my life. And I shall win.
And Ted really likes to repeat how he’s the soul man while maintaining that his enemies are soulless.
After covering Ted Nugent’s “racially tinged” show at the Mississippi Moon Bar, the local newspaper took an unusual step. It published another article today, one underlining his race-baiting at the venue.
“Managers at other venues agree that Ted Nugent’s racially tinged remarks likely would not stop a show,” reads the Dubuque paper today. “Their contracts with entertainers often don’t address contentious comments.”
Musician Ted Nugent made racially tinged remarks throughout his show Thursday night at the Mississippi Moon Bar in the Diamond Jo [Casino].
Within a few minutes of starting, Nugent commented on the race of his audience and the city of Dubuque.
“There’s a lot of white people in this crowd — I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town.”
Nugent also pointed out at least one audience member and questioned his race.
The entertainment manager of the casino told the newspaper the business doesn’t yank the plug on entertainers during a show. He added an implication that the Nugent crowd certainly knew what it was coming to see. And approved.
Which is probably entirely accurate.
DD notes that this blog’s Nugent ticker ran a longer piece on the infamous rocker getting thrown off the bill of the Muskegon (Michigan) Summer Celebration in 2003. For allegedly racist comments made on a radio show, remarks which had the announcers yank him.
Nugent sued the Muskegon Summer Celebration for defamation and breach of contract. He won only his $80,000 guarantee.
Scroll down through the Nugent tab to see the longer piece.
With a touch of irony, it’s also worth reprinting Nugent’s latest howler, from the WaTimes today:
My hero, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus, thereby spitting in the face of racist and dumb laws.
This — in another of his columns railing on illegal immigrants and Arizona.
This blog has followed Ted Nugent through his summer tour of firetraps, casinos and brokedown fairgrounds in the hinterlands. They seem like a century’s worth of downfall away from 1978 and headlining status at California Jam II. It’s even a long trudge from when DD saw him with Damn Yankees at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
The Dubuque newspaper sent someone to his latest, a performance in that town’s “Mississippi Moon Bar.” The journalist notices Ted can’t control his contempt for people not like him, so this particular gig warms his heart.
“Some fans flock to see Ted Nugent not only for his music but also his in-your-face, sometimes racially tinged commentary,” reads the newspaper’s subhed.
“There’s a lot of white people in this crowd — I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town.”
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Many of the concertgoers sported cowboy hats and camouflage.
In Ted’s last two columns for the WaTimes — no links — he has furnished no less than four paragraph-long run-on sentences.
It’s Nugent’s anti-talent.
And the best way to describe it is to say the man uses run-ons as a delivery system for name-calling his enemies. Every last one he can think of, like pouring out a teeming bowl of Lucky Charms cereal with slurs substituting for the pieces of candy.
Lo!
This president’s overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al.
Or this one, which would leave ya wiping the spray of spittle from your goggles if the man were standing out front delivering it:
Each and every conservative and liberal American who knows that we cannot spend and tax our way out of debt, who knows that an exit strategy instead of a victory strategy is the same as surrender, who knows Fedzilla is criminal in its refusal to be accountable with our hard-earned tax dollars being blowtorched with unprecedented and insane wastefulness, that a federal government suing Arizona for simply implementing constitutional law is treasonous, and who fails to communicate this with everyone we know is actually complicit with this bizarre, fundamental transformation of the greatest country in the history of humankind.
Note: I’m sorry, Bonze. I know these hurt the eyes.
Here. Wait for your WM Player to come up. QuickTime version here.
This country doesn’t make stuff for everyone anymore. No jobs. It’s kaput.
Now — if you can qualify for a gig designing electric cars or high-end custom shop guitars for the super rich (or 3-D blockbuster movies or flying robots for assassinating people in other countries), we can really get somewhere.
Bob Graham and Jim Talent, a bioterror defense lobbying duo, are the very definition of nuisance astro-turfers.
For the last two years, they have regularly bashed the Obama administration with the same story:
Bioterror catastrophe of biblical proportion is coming. So heed our advice and fund the building of a new biodefense vaccine and nostrum facility at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
[Two billion dollars has] been sitting in the treasury for several years, without any active industry partner against which to obligate the funds. As former senators, Graham and Talent know that the money ought to be used against current priorities if it’s not being obligated, but their desire to front for Big Pharma overwhelms their common sense.
The Graham-Talent bioterror defense industry lobby is upset because the Obama administration wants to spend money on the middle class. It wants to use two billion dollars from Project Bioshield to save middle class jobs in this very bad economy.
Project Bioshield has been around since the beginning of the war on terror. It has had a good long run and not produced much of benefit. But it has been considered a private inviolable fund by a very small and ineffective segment of the bioterror defense industry. A segment which Graham-Talent represents.
And for two years the Graham-Talent lobby has been allowed to masquerade as a bipartisan advisory group on opinion pages of newspapers. When it is nothing of the sort. It is just a sock-puppet for a very specialized industry.
This is not an rash accusation. It’s backed up by the record of the Graham-Talent lobby.
Their dirty laundry list is here. It is an accounting of all the opinion pieces and newspaper stories in which they proclaim catastrophe is coming if money isn’t spent the way they they think it ought to be spent. The two work under the directive that the truth of a thing is determined by how many times you plant a frightening scenario pertaining to it in newspapers.
And they continually distort and exaggerate what is known about bioterror capabilities for the purpose of advancing their recommendations. It’s manipulative and deceptive.
So, in today’s Washington Post, they pull the same odious trick they’ve been doing for … well, for way longer than the country deserves.
“Our nation failed to heed the warning signals that preceded the financial collapse in 2008 and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill,” they write.
And they tell readers, “Information has since come to light [since Dec 08] about the possibility that one or more nation-states may choose to provide sophisticated biological weapons to terrorist groups.”
No such information has come to light.
And it is the very height of deceit and fear-mongering to conflate theoretical catastrophic bioterrorism with two very understandable and now well understood man-made disasters of OUR own making.
Using Graham-Talent’s lousy logic, one can justify spending for any pet project just as long as one has the stones to write or say “it would be as bad as” something we’ve already gone through. Just plug in your favorite special interest and add water.
Bob Graham and Jim Talent have no shame. They continually try to rig the game by massaging opinion pages of newspapers nationwide.
“So who are these guys trying to fool?” asks Sigger at AG. “You, the general public, and Congress … ”
It’s accurate and fair to say they’ve had more than a good opportunity to voice their opinions. If their advice has been judged unsound or no longer appropriate to current needs, that is also fair.
They are nothing more than fixers for the bioterror defense business. And they continually work to get their favorite thing — more money — for this small private industry.
When the Obama administration tries to ignore them or do something good, they refuse to get out of the way. Even though there is no public support for anything they want to do.
But Graham and Talent always want to turn up the volume and generate more opinion pieces and one-sided news stories, anyway.
Or lash together a group of toady congressmen, easy to do in 2010, to make the case that spending on the insular bioterror defense industry they work for is very good.
As opposed to spending that money on the nation’s general welfare, on immediate tangibles — like saving teaching job. Because everyone knows that would eat up some of their precious special pie.
They never stop dancing, never stop trying to call in favors, for their industry.
Graham-Talent’s contrived lobbying is bad in every sense of the word.