Now, I'd like to quote some Tacitus for you ig'nt folks at home...
Posted on 12/09/2004 1:28:13 AM PST by nickcarraway
WASHINGTON -- Do you know who Harry M. Reid might be? Frankly I did not know either until he was quoted in the newspapers as having said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Justice Clarence Thomas is "an embarrassment to the Supreme Court." He also asseverated that Justice Thomas's opinions "are poorly written." As he made these utterances recently on "Meet the Press" I concluded that the man must have some stature, unless, of course, the issue being treated on the show was small-town bigotry. Well, it turns out that this fellow Reid is a United States senator. In fact, he is the incoming Senate Minority Leader from Nevada.
Senator Reid will replace the ever-purring Senator Tom Daschle as Minority Leader after Senator Daschle's mishap on November 2. This should be amusing. On the same program he also said Justice Antonin Scalia would probably get his support if the President nominates him to be chief justice because Justice Scalia is "one smart guy." So Senator Reid is not a small-town bigot. Rather he is just another vulgar mind, raised to eminence by Democrats and emboldened to favor us with his crude thoughts. If in the course of "Meet the Press" he were to have wiped his nose on his sleeve I would not be surprised. Doubtless, he would have a morally-superior explanation if anyone questioned his etiquette. This is the consequence when liberalism's morally-superior mindset affixes itself on mediocrity.
The moral pretense of the American liberal is a thing to marvel upon. So is the intellectual pretense. The Nevada senator who pronounced on Justice Thomas's record and literary merit is a man of no intellectual distinction whatsoever. Having read over the transcript of his remarks on "Meet the Press" I can tell you he articulates woodenly. His thoughts are banal. How well he writes I cannot say with total confidence, but if he writes as well as he speaks he is -- after his first few simple sentences -- unreadable.
What would provoke such a born blank to pronounce on the intellectual capacities of either Justice Thomas or Justice Scalia? The incoming Senate Minority Leader believes he is part of that large gaggle of impostors who consider themselves liberals or "progressives," as they in their florid vanity would have it. They are confident that they stand in that long line of prodigies that goes back to the New Deal and beyond to the Progressive Era. Their forebears believed in the Bill of Rights, the right of laborers to organize, public health, internationalism, and other perfectly sensible matters. Today the Harry M. Reids believe in Vast Right-Wing Conspiracies, a government as good as Sweden's, and the United Nations as a monitor of American foreign policy. Oh yes, and they believe Justice Thomas does not write very well.
They also believe that they won the presidential election in 2000 and many believe that they won it in 2004. They doubt the outcome of the 2004 election because they approached Election Day absolutely confident that they were headed for a stupendous triumph. They believed that despite the fact that their presidential candidate was the most ridiculous presidential candidate since, well, since General Wesley Clark, who could not have been more preposterous if he had run as a nudist. Of course, if Franklin Roosevelt were resurrected and forced to enunciate the positions of today's national Democratic Party he too would probably have lost in 2004.
The problem with Harry M. Reid's party is that it is about 30 years out of date. Its economic position is that of John Kenneth Galbraith, without the wit. Its foreign policy is that of Warren Harding. Its social policy is that of Betty Friedan, without the charm. If Senator Reid does not know who Warren Harding is I suggest he call Justice Scalia, that "one smart guy."
Thirty years ago Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said all the "new ideas" were coming from the right. Off and on he tried to come up with some new ideas for the Democrats. Whether he succeeded or not, the Democrats paid no more attention to his ideas than they paid to the right. They slumbered contentedly in their conceit that they were the morally and intellectually superior. Now they are being lead by this preposterosity, Reid. And he thinks his judgments on Justice Thomas matter. He is in the minority and that minority will remain a minority for a very long time with him as Leader.
Byrd is the perfect example of a senile old fool. He represents his party well ;o)
Him and Teddy "The Swimmer" Kennedy are the perfect (im)moral exemplars for the modern Democratic Party.
Senators don't read, they talk...endlessly. Reading? That's for staff.
LOL. I keep on expecting to hear Dean Wormer telling Kennedy that "Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
Not even sure of the context when he's been quoted or shown on TV this past year, but he has been shockingly intemperate in his comments. VICIOUS is the only word that comes to mind.
When it come to Justice Thomas' opinions, Harry can't Read.
You know the answer to that. They will follow their masters at the DNC. No question.
The media virtually created Kerry. Not one old time media type ever asked him a hard question for over 16 months. Not one.
I was shocked, but not surprised, when Chris Mathews said the Swift Boat Vets "did not deserve to be heard." This loudmouth, who spent his Vietnam years in the Peace Corps teaching English and riding around on a motorcycle...and his own words "having a ball", dares to make a comment like that about veterans who served FULL terms w/the 3-month wonder (Kerry)and had medals to prove their merit, one even being a Medal of Honor recipient. Kerry's words and actions had impuned their HONOR...a word Kerry was and still is unfamiliar with.
Just so true. I don't recall ever seeing a candidate as propped up by the media as sKerry was. They gave him a total pass on anything and everything.
Just think how they'll shield Hillary.
I was just reading Peggy Noonan's article on Hillary as presidential candidate and how she's presenting herself as a moderate. The press will indeed give her a pass too.
Matthews has completely outted himself and I will not watch his spit and hate filled show.
I've had it w/rude, uninformed liberal pundits who constantly interrupt and in Mathew's case, even dismiss their invited conservative guest (Michelle Malkin). Neither can I stand the noise on H&C nor the know-it-all O'Reilly. In lieu of not watching them, I almost qualify as an interior decorator from watching so much HGTV. LOL
LOL. I know what you mean about Matthews, O'Reilly and others. Right after the election, I've taken a long break from most of the television news and instead just read FR. Much more relaxing.
Since we moved south and got the HGTV channel and I've loved watching it in the afternoon and occasionally at night when I can wrestle the remote control away from Mr. Peach.
Now, I'd like to quote some Tacitus for you ig'nt folks at home...
This is true! When confronted with one of life's many dilemmas, I often ask myself What Would Otter Do? :)
I WANT AN ALIEN FOR CHRISTMAS
A claim of human cloning? It's been done before - Raelians '78 announcement was ruled a fraud
Posted by MeeknMing
On 01/01/2003 5:47 AM CST
The Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2003 | The Washington Post Staff
A claim of human cloning? It's been done before '78 announcement was ruled a fraud; new case awaiting validation 01/01/2003 The Washington Post For all the speed with which science was progressing, virtually no one thought it would happen so soon. Yet there it was in huge block letters on the front page of the New York Post: The world's first human clone had been born. The next day, The Washington Post and other newspapers across the country ran with the story about the rogue scientists who had cloned a human on an undisclosed island. A spokesman connected to...
LOL
I'd suggest Cicero but he'd probably think that's a new rap music act.
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