Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Real arrogance

A few weeks ago on 30 Rock, uber-Republican Jack Donaghy made a joke about how Nancy Pelosi started the recession. Rep. Jeb Hensarling doesn't think it's a joke. From what I've read, Hensarling is a classic backlash/angry conservative, which makes sense considering that even his last name sounds angry--it almost sounds like "he's snarling", which I suspect he often is during congressional debates.

What has struck me most about this whole economic debate is the utter depths of arrogance that Republicans still display. It seems to have never occurred to them that they might need to rethink their assumptions on anything, and political dogma has taken on something of a religious tone. Par for the course when the religious right is your largest bloc of support, but I tend to think that, until Republicans honestly own up to their failures, they won't be trusted with any real power.

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.