Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Roger’s Rules » Will Nancy Pelosi be Flying Commercial Again Soon?
The world awaits the answer to this pressing question. Although Madam Speaker has little time for the U.S. military, we all know how much she likes to avail herself of its aircraft when traveling from point A (California, say) to point B (Washington, D.C.). It costs the taxpayers a bundle, but, hey, what are taxpayers for if not to keep their leaders living in the style to which they’ve become, or would like to become, accustomed?

But will hoi polloi soon be welcoming her back in the airport security lines please-remove-your-shoes-and-jacket-m’am? Who knows?
Works and Days » Doing Penance
Words and Deeds?

This is a very strange time, in which loud public protestations of liberal morality are supposed to suspend memory itself-and override all past and current behavior.

We are in a sort of medieval mode in which the suspect wine-bibbing, fornicating priest cleverly launches a general inquisition against the use of alcohol and sex to escape scrutiny. As a general rule of thumb, the more one hears or reads about a fanatically angry official or pundit on a moral crusade, the more likely they were involved in just the sort of behavior they are railing against. We saw this on the Republican side with a Larry Craig, Duke Cunningham, and Mark Foley, but the liberal establishment has taken it to new heights.
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Money Really Is Green

Al Gore is angry at the recent Cheney appearances. Fair enough-but oddly he objects to the idea of a Vice President emeritus entering the public fray. But if anyone were to collate Cheney’s public appearances with Al Gore’s frenzied attacks against Bush in 2002-3-when he almost seemed rabid in front of the cameras, screaming slurs and accusations of lying-then Cheney seems the paragon of sobriety. Meanwhile the media suggests at every occasion that Cheney was a Halliburton pawn, but I would be willing to bet that the net worth of Al Gore from his various entrepreneurial activities, meshed with and predicated upon his vehement advocacy of global warming and substantial government contacts and relationships, have made Gore both the wealthier man, and the more ethically suspect. After all, he wants the nation to embark on a radical agenda of green promotion-which thus far has turned Gore into a capitalist worth over $100 million.

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