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may i first just say, god save us all from outcast high-school dweebs who obtain power later in life.
everybody knows at least one of these monsters--the fat bitch at work who makes her underlings' lives miserable, or the officious prick on the condo board who writes you a ticket if he catches you with your dog off the leash or your garage door up for more than five minutes, for instance.
and god knows you can't turn on the radio these days without running into pathetic, pencil-dicked overcompensators like rush limbaugh, howard stern or michael savage (who was at least smart enough to change his name from weiner, anyway).
but the really ambitious former dweeb-outcasts? they're the ones who find their true calling in the arena of politics.
congress is replete with these guys, on both sides of the aisle, but there comes to mind no more sterling example of the breed than that flaming, throbbing asshole, anthony weiner.
here you have a guy who finally, after a lifetime of having sand kicked in his face by the jocks while the pretty girls laughed, had his shot at the brass ring of power.
did it go to his head? all i had to do was watch a clip like this (and god knows that's only one of many) to have my answer to that question long ago. all this shit that's come out lately? merely confirmation of what i already knew.
but to the rest of you for whom this past week's developments were a revelation--and whether he resigns or not [and i fully expect him to brazen it out, because democrats caught in shit like this usually do]--i pose the following question:
in this, the darkest hour our country has ever faced, do we really want or need small men of the caliber of anthony weiner scolding us, wagging their fingers in our faces and making the laws the rest of us have to live by?
really?
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Interesting.
Basically, what is the alternative then?
I mean, politics has become so poisoned in this country, that it drives out good people. Only the extremely motivated continue to pursue a political career because it is a lot of work and not much fun.
Good people do not want to go into politics. On Monday, there was an op-ed from Peter Diamond explaining why he withdrew his nomination from the Federal Reserve Board. Basically, his nomination was held up by the politics of the Senate.
Is this any way to run a country?
No. But, what's the alternative? If more good people do not get involved, we leave politics to the lowest common denominator.
noblesavage: oh, i could make any number of suggestions that would result in a better congress: term limits, no campaign money from corporations or unions, no cushy jobs as lobbyists or corporate board members for five years after their term ends, make 'em live by the same laws they make for us, strip the office of the sorta perks that attract assholes like this in the first place--i could go on and on.
problem is, of course, that any reform of congress has got to come from congress, which makes the likelihood of same roughly zero.
I understand all that.
We have term limits in the California legislature.
If anything the California legislature is much worse because of it.
Also, all the tea party candidates who came into office. These "citizen-legislators" are not necessarily what you want. Really.
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