Here is Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-OH) doing a one minute stand-up routine for the cameras of C-SPAN. His material may not be top notch, but you've got to give him points on delivery. Also, he is not entirely wrong.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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Give that man a situation comedy on NBC.
My favorite kind of Republican! The kind who dumps his wife for for an underling. I'm sure the 'mos are to blame.
Rep. Steven C. LaTourette (R-UH-OH)
Not entirely. I thought this comment on crookedtimber pretty much sums it up:
"I wonder how many people in Europe truly understand how completely fucked we are. The Democrats, being an incoherent mishmash ranging from center-left to center-right and also being addicted to corporate cash, are as if designed to be completely unable to execute popular policies; and when their popularity inevitably wanes as a result, the only alternative under our rigged electoral system is the insane fascist clowns who nearly destroyed the country already and who have gotten even MORE insane since then. It’s really, really difficult to be optimistic about the future of this country."
Yep.
European political parties don't have the Democratic party's fragmentation not because there's something wrong with the Democrats that Europeans do not suffer from, but because of proportional representation and coalition politics. So, a party for the farmers, one for traditional industrial labor, two or three tiny noisy ones for the overeducated ... The fragmentation is on the outside as it were. One party for what would correspond to each main fragment of our two parties, roughly. And no single party trying to pretend all the interests line up at any given time as a "liberal" or "conservative" bloc. -- It's got its points but it gives a lot of power to party central committees and ensures that most main decisions are taken behind closed doors. Me, I like the bickering to be public.
Fair enough. I should point out that the context of that quotation was a discussion of the failure of the European left to reap any advantage from the financial crisis, so it wasn't exactly celebrating European political systems in contrast to our own.
Still, regardless of intra-party bickering, what truly dooms us is that the Democratic party is addicted to huge donations from corporate lobbying groups and financial firms like Goldman Sachs. Hence their seeming inability to push through meaningful financial regulation, a public option tied to medicare rates, effective economic stimulus, etc.
I totally agree with this loon. I vote Democrat, but the dicks are standing around making excuses rather than a difference. Waaah!
Sandman never comes when you want him to.
LaTourette's Syndrome: causes people to make annoying "Whannnn!" noise to punctuate their speech.
Kucinich AND LaTourette...