New Year’s Report From Washington
Washington area residents should take caution. It will soon be January and Congress will be back in town. It is a good idea to lock up your daughters and your portable valuables. Come to think of it, this is the Amerkun Congress. Better keep an eye on your livestock and little boys, too.
Our youthful Emperor Georgie II will have to do without some of his wisest counselors for the time being. Lady Hillary and Sheik Obama are traveling on important government business. However, trusted advisors Lady Condolease and the Prime Minister, Richard, Lord Blackwater, are, as always, at the Emperor’s side. And Prince Teddy in the Senate will lead for the administration on increased immigration, universal health care, the problem of nuckler weapons, and other vital issues of Global Democratic Capitalism.
In the interest of balanced reporting, we note that one of our earlier reports has been officially denied. According to a source close to the matter, it is not true that Lady Hillary is often privately referred to by her retainers as “Lady Macbeth.”
You may be sure that our noble congresspersons will soon be devoting their individual and collective wisdom and experince to the guidance of the nation in these troubled times: the next suitcase full of unmarked bills, sweet contracts for the brother-in-law, getting on the fact-finding cruise to Aruba or Bangkok, the next opportunity to hit on a society slut or a page boy, and if possible a photo-op with some Legionaires returned from the Mesopotamian front. Not any of the disabled or disfigred ones though.
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FIAT IUSTITIA NE PEREAT MUNDUS
Like me, you're a bitter old man, God bless you.
Was it Harry Hopkins who said, "Tax and tax and tax; spend and spend and spend; elect and elect and elect"?
The GOP has dispensed with the tax part to a degree, preferring to indenture our grandchildren to the gnomes, formally of Wall St. and Zurich, now of Beijing. Otherwise, it's the same old thing. Perpetual war for perpetual peace, big subsidies for the fat cats, crumbs for the proles.
Pour me another bourbon, will ya?
"According to a source close to the matter, it is not true that Lady Hillary is often privately referred to by her retainers as 'Lady Macbeth.'"
Ha ha ha ha! I love it!
If you were to put Frum, Podhoretz, and Kristol in drag they would be perfect for the role of The Wyrd Sisters.
I like "Richard, Lord Blackwater" best
Hahaha, interesting parody as always Prof. Wilson. Always so negative....keep up the good work !
Professor Wilson, I beg you to run for President in 2012. You can run for Democrat nomination (noble Yellow Dog that you are), and just speak truth to the power in the debates. You won't win, but at least you should skewer these dolts on national television.
I join you in a bit of bourbon to the "Grumpy Old Men Of The World", that sees through "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace"!..........Not even Lincoln's big memorial impressed the patrons of hell!
If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve.
Not so much bitter, I think. Having spent much of my life in familiarity with the first generations of American statesmen, I cannot be other than sad and angry (not bitter, I think) at the failure of the republican promise.
But don't you know there is no higher calling that public service?
Besides poets, farmers, builders, mothers, engineers, plumbers.....
I have often compared William Jefferson Clinton to Ahab and Hillary Clinton to Jezebel; yet, it seems that the historical Jezebel had enough physical beauty to be vain. I would be nigh to a lie to say that Hillary had a modicum of physical beauty; however, as President, she will likely be able to intimidate her current critics into seeking hiding places in the desert, especially when she use the elements of the Patriot Act, which her predecessor and his henchmen in the Congress and in the courts have given her, to her advantage.
Speaking of Legionnaires returning from the Mesopotamian front, I wonder if the members of Congress ever contemplate that even the Romans could not completely defeat Parthia; and the Romans we ain't!
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Mr. Wilson, I've just read an article giving an overview of why the republican promise failed.
http://distributist.blogspot.com/2007/02/founding-fathers-vs.html
(Hint: it has to do with the Protestant and Enlightenment ideas the Founding Fathers believed in.)
"If nominated I will not run. If elected I will not serve."
You are also welcome to use my stock response to inducements to run for office:
If nominated I will run to Mexico. If elected I will fight extradition.
Professor Wilson,why oh why would you quote that arsonist and pillager!
Dr. Wilson Sir, I remember the first time I said to Forrest McDonald (in 1978, I think) that we did not have a Revolution, he replied, "Of course not. We didn't have a Paris." Did you know that John Witherspoon wanted to prohibit the post War for Independence Congress from even discussing the creation of a national capitol? Isn't it a lovely thought...no Washington, D.C.?
Mr. Collins, in order to blame our decline on Protestant and Enlightenment ideas, it woiuld be necessary to establish that non-Protestant and non-Enlightenment regimes have done any better---which I dont think is the case.
Good point, Dr. Wilson. I just got so excited after reading that article that it didn't occur to me that Catholic Europe hasn't done any better.
"Good point, Dr. Wilson. I just got so excited after reading that article that it didn’t occur to me that Catholic Europe hasn’t done any better."
Because they fell into the Enlightenment...