This cracked me up! Who would have thought that the LA TIMES would even allow it on their pages?? Quote Of The Week "Frankly, I don't know what it is about California , but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're number one. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The three of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words." --columnist Burt Prelutsky , LA Times
the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. pfff.... hahaha!
I like Boxer. I think she is one of the 8 least corrupt of the 50 US Senators. I will vote for Boxer over Fiorina. I think Feinstein is very corrupt and will never vote for her regardless of who her opponent is. In my opinion Pelosi is quite corrupt but is less corrupt than average particularly for a house speaker as the speakers need to be corrupt to win support themselves and get things done. In case you can't tell corruption is my main issue. I don't care if somebody is a hard core Libertarian like Ron Paul or a way out lefty of a hard core Christian fundamentalist as long as they don't support corporate Welfare at the expense of the American people.
Feinstein's a left wing dingbat? Where do these people come from, and how do they manage to get paid as professional writers? Seriously - the writing market is full of unemployed talent these days.
Every once in a while the liberal LA media will confess what we all know. We laugh about it in Malibu. No one takes them seriously.
I'm fairly certain any real hard core right wingers in Cali are doing time as political prisoners or have defected to free states. I don't care what they have, I'm not living there. $800 to renew tags on your car. Someone please tell me thats just a rumor. Heck a real penny pincher could relocate to a free state on $800.
Is Ms. Sheehan going to run against Pelosi? Which one would you vote for? One thing I have noticed, whether they are politically aligned or not, people generally agree that Dr. Paul is genuine, honest, and consistent. I'd probably throw Kucinich into that category. Why, I think if you merged Paul and Kucinich into one person, you'd have someone with a serious chance of getting into the WH. Maybe? BTW, what IS the latest tally on taxpayer-funded bonuses for execs?
We have strippers, porn "stars", and every scum of the earth running for public office. Gary Coleman was the funniest. NO ONE took his puny ass seriously.
considering some of the things he has signed of on for the use of his image I don't think he takes himself seriously
Ack! I can't relate to all this lunacy. My family has been here since before Washington. Virginia is 400 years of normalcy. We may be classified a fly over state, and that suits me just fine. Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip- Jeff Foxworthy
Or voting for various "initiatives" that have prevented California from governing itself, and made the wingnut right wing the characteristic visible political influence in California since Reagan was governor.
Pelosi represents San Fransisco minus the the most marginally conservative section of San Francisco. Jackie Speier represents than part of SF. Other than Barbara Lee's district is their a more liberal House district anywhere in the USA? Pelosi is probably significantly right of center in her district. But Cindy Sheehan is probably too far left even for Pelosi's district. I would vote for Cindy Sheehan just to strike a blow against corruption but I don't think she can beat Pelosi. I think Sheehan might be as rigidly blinded by her ideology as some of the House members on the right are. Something about Sheehan irritates me and I don't trust her emotional stability so I would not want her as president but the House could use more people willing to confront it's members with the ugly truth about their institutionalized corruption so I would would be happy to see Sheehan in the House. A merged Ron Paul and Kucinich would be a lot like Ross Perot (who I supported). That type of candidate could probably do very well in a national election. Ideologically I think that sort of candidate is what the American people would like. I perceive the Scott Brown election in Massachusetts as being the result of a desire for that sort of candidate, though I don't think Scott Brown is that sort of man. The status quo power structure would recognize the danger of that a candidate like that represents to them and would do whatever it could to stop that candidate. What you don't want is the looks and mannerisms of Ron Paul, Kucinich, Perot. We the idiot citizenry prefer that our male candidates to either be smooth like a movie star or to be rugged like the Marlboro man though ambitious men who look, act, and sound like geeks can do OK in when running for house seats or Senate seats in small states. My bet is that Obama would not even be talking about the executive pay if he did not realize how much the American people on both the left and right hated the Wall Street bail outs. A man like Obama that respects Geithner and Summers probably does not personally share America's outrage over the Wall Street bail out. I consider the Bail outs to be the problem and consider the fact that the Bail outs failed to solve small businesses difficulty getting credit to be the problem. To me how much corporate executive pay themselves is a different issue. For decades now many people and me have thought that American corporate executives were overpaying themselves at the expense of their stockholders. Once the corporation get the bail outs that becomes the stockholder's money. Stock holders have lost control of the corporate boards to the corporate executives. The rise of the mutual funds and the switch of investors from long term investing to short term investing had something to do with that. These failed executives are clearly not worth the sort of money they pay themselves but that is the stock holders money not the tax payers money. Just as Kings actually believed in the divine right of Kings, these executives actually believe they are stars and worth what they are paid but they are deluding themselves.
Burt Prelutsky is a humor and entertainment columnist, not op-ed. He's so minor that he doesn't even have a page in Wikipedia. So I'm not sure anyone meant for that column to be taken seriously. The L.A. Times isn't the magnificent journal it used to be. When I lived there, from 1960 through the early 90s, it usually made the list of America's top ten newspapers. Like most papers, it's fallen on hard times and it shows in the quality. The same thing is happening to the Washington Post, the paper that busted Watergate. I don't know which papers are the ten best these days, or if America even has ten really good newspapers any more. The democratization of journalism via blogs and forums like this one makes it so easy for people to find stuff that they agree with, so they're never challenged.
The charicatures of California continue to amaze me, even after all these years. Somehow the state that produced Nixon and Reagan, designed all our nuclear weapons, runs a debilitating private-prison-industrial complex complete with insane mandatory sentencing, hosts umpteen military facilities, etc. gets reduces to some 1960's San Francisco drum circle. Did nobody see the Dirty Harry movies? Or even Top Gun? Apparently Jeff Foxworthy has never heard of Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Boulder, Austin, Chicago, Madison or Florida. And to the "don't want to be hip" part: then why do all their children keep moving to CA and NY? Oh, right, that's why his audience is so sensitive to this question in the first place...
