Thursday, August 7, 2008

He never learns

Is Newt Gingrich joking about shutting down the government to get a vote on energy drilling? If so, it is both funny and well-executed. I guess because it worked so well the first time...
"Are [Democrats] really prepared to close the government in order to stop
drilling? Because I think the country will find that to be a suicidal strategy."

I'll believe him, because Newt knows a suicidal strategy to shut down the government when he sees one.
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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.