Brains To Done

[elfs]

"The Senate is Constipated. This legislative body needs a laxative."

It's so nice to hear Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) confirm what Americans have always known: our laws are crap, and our legislatures exist only to chew up cash, digest time, and excrete, uh, laws. (via Stephanie Miller)

Management by McCain

Isn't the image painted in today's stories -- of McCain as a kind of passive bystander to decisions being made on his behalf by his staff -- sort of more damning?

Obama as a Manager

Obama began this campaign with a clarity of purpose and a transformative vision for American politics. He wanted to be a game-changer. The team he built had little experience electing a president and that was exactly the point. He assembled the next generation of stars – creative, diligent and, above all, hungry operatives who did not, like Clinton strategist Mark Penn, believe that they knew how to elect a president based on past successes. Far from being groomed or prodded into fitting someone else's mold of a candidate, Obama built his own team, one tailored to his strengths and capable of compensating for his weaknesses."

Before the truth gets its boots on.

What the McCain campaign doesn't want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was...wait for it...using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that's political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents – a lie.

Comments

[solarbird]

I'd be more impressed if Sen. Grassley hadn't voted party-line on things like FISA. Fuck him. (eta: I haven't actually checked the record to verify his every vote, but it was a bloc vote, so even if he just didn't show, I still say fuck him, because he's still part of the fucking problem.)

[gromm.livejournal.com]

I prefer a quote made by Jack Nicholson in the first batman movie.

"This town needs an enema!"