Tuesday, March 25, 2008

No confidence in Reid

Seriously, the man sounds like a poor man's David Brent here. He's proven incapable of shaping public opinion or moving anything through the Senate, as opposed to Nancy Pelosi's excellent job of moving a lot through the House, including some impressive stick-to-it-iveness on ethics reform and telecom immunity. Unfortunately, it all dies in the Senate, and I'm well aware Senate rules make passing real reform difficult. I'd much rather prefer Dodd or any number of other people, and I hope that he's deposed in the event of a Democrat being elected president. He's been a nonentity who has proven completely incapable of the job: he's shown no imagination or creativity to try to capture the public's attention, aside from that lame all-night session of the Senate, and he has hardly been able to create the sort of issue framing and grassroots pressure to shift public opinion onto his side. He's not exactly a winner. Let's try someone else.

The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.