Who Let the Snakes In?
I'm often sad, these days, that there are so many sibilants in Nancy Pelosi's name. People are so ready to hiss it, anyway, to express visceral hatred.
I, who still wish I could be Nancy Pelosi when I grow up, find this moronic. Nancy Pelosi is effective and attractive at an age when most women fade into a shapeless softness, saving their tongue-lashings for hapless daughters-in-law and wayward children. Nancy Pelosi, instead, is waging a daily battle to rescue a nation dragged almost into insolvency by a feckless President in the grip of mindless devotions himself.
George Bush betrayed the truth for a fantasy Christianity and a fantasy realpolitik of successfully being the biggest bully on the block. I'm so surprised no one but me (with my minuscule readership!) writes about the terrible internal inconsistency of those two. I guess secular commentators have made up their minds about the spiritual bankruptcy of a religion that blesses pre-emptive war. Such has been George Bush's Christian testimony.
Bush and McCain then went on, as our economy collapsed under the lies of the Unregulated Rich, to prescribe that fantasy nostrum as a cure: Tax cuts! Oh yes, the Rich having scuttled the ship with their bonuses intact, we should mortgage the future to make it safe for them to profit in new ventures! We being the middle class people without health insurance or retirement investments, journeying into old age (or raising young children) in a country the rich no longer feel allegiance to.
It does need to be said that true patriots would not have acted as the Lords of Finance did in the '90's.
The truth is that Nancy Pelosi is correct: It's time to save the rest of us from the destroyers of the Republican True Believer crew; and they will never forgive her for that. I admire her unwillingness to quail before them. The woman doesn't seem to know how to quail!
And while I do call on her to put her own financial house in order -- she, like all who became rich in the Lying Decades just past owes the rest of us a great deal -- I will give her time to figure that out.
Right now there is an emergency, and the hissing sibilants on the public scene are coming from the perpetrators, refusing to admit what they have done to the country (and some of them, to the religion) to which they say they are devoted.
Maybe we are blessed, after all, that the Speaker's name has sibilants. It brings out so clearly the true heart of the opposition she faces.
I, who still wish I could be Nancy Pelosi when I grow up, find this moronic. Nancy Pelosi is effective and attractive at an age when most women fade into a shapeless softness, saving their tongue-lashings for hapless daughters-in-law and wayward children. Nancy Pelosi, instead, is waging a daily battle to rescue a nation dragged almost into insolvency by a feckless President in the grip of mindless devotions himself.
George Bush betrayed the truth for a fantasy Christianity and a fantasy realpolitik of successfully being the biggest bully on the block. I'm so surprised no one but me (with my minuscule readership!) writes about the terrible internal inconsistency of those two. I guess secular commentators have made up their minds about the spiritual bankruptcy of a religion that blesses pre-emptive war. Such has been George Bush's Christian testimony.
Bush and McCain then went on, as our economy collapsed under the lies of the Unregulated Rich, to prescribe that fantasy nostrum as a cure: Tax cuts! Oh yes, the Rich having scuttled the ship with their bonuses intact, we should mortgage the future to make it safe for them to profit in new ventures! We being the middle class people without health insurance or retirement investments, journeying into old age (or raising young children) in a country the rich no longer feel allegiance to.
It does need to be said that true patriots would not have acted as the Lords of Finance did in the '90's.
The truth is that Nancy Pelosi is correct: It's time to save the rest of us from the destroyers of the Republican True Believer crew; and they will never forgive her for that. I admire her unwillingness to quail before them. The woman doesn't seem to know how to quail!
And while I do call on her to put her own financial house in order -- she, like all who became rich in the Lying Decades just past owes the rest of us a great deal -- I will give her time to figure that out.
Right now there is an emergency, and the hissing sibilants on the public scene are coming from the perpetrators, refusing to admit what they have done to the country (and some of them, to the religion) to which they say they are devoted.
Maybe we are blessed, after all, that the Speaker's name has sibilants. It brings out so clearly the true heart of the opposition she faces.
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