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That’s right: Gordon Smith, 2-term Senator, fake maverick, is running on a platform of change.
There’s a relatively obscure (at least in the US) musical from the 1990s called The Fix, and as I recovered from the early-morning shock of hearing this bullshit, I recalled a song called I See the Future, in which empty-suit Cal gives his first speech while running for city council:
I see the future,
I see a day when we are one
I see tomorrow
I see us striving for the sun
I see us working toward the promise
and answering the call
I see the future
I see the future
and I see it in the faces of the young
Of course, just like in real life the vacuous media and bored public eat it up.
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* Transcript of the offending passage: Jeff Merkley, Steve Novick: More of the same, when it’s time for change.
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I’ll be delightfully surprised if Smith isn’t re-elected.
Here is the best political speech ever:
My fellow Americans. As a young boy, I dreamed of being a baseball, but
tonight I say, we must move forward, not backward, upward not forward,
and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.
— Kodos
I like the way that final voiceover is superimposed over the moving mouth of an apologetic-looking Smith.
Of course, I, too, celebrate taxes. Because without them we wouldn’t have, y’know, any roads or bridges or police or firefighters or national defense or medical research or schools or a bunch of other kinda useful stuff.
I never heard of The Fix, but since it had John Barrowman in it, I’m about on download away from obsessing over it for the next two weeks until I find something else I like better.
Of course, I, too, celebrate taxes. Because without them we wouldn’t have, y’know, any roads or bridges or police or firefighters or national defense or medical research or schools or a bunch of other kinda useful stuff.
I don’t think anyone outside of Lew Rockwell believes that taxes should be cut to the point that the main infrastructure of a country should fall apart. Nice attempt at a strawman, though.
I don’t think anyone outside of Lew Rockwell believes that taxes should be cut to the point that the main infrastructure of a country should fall apart.
You’ve obviously missed out on Oregon politics for the last decade. Sizemore is merely the most visible of those in Oregon who believe taxes should be cut to the point that the infrastructure of the state falls apart. It’s no strawman in Oregon.
Which Canadian province is this, again?
Dear God. This from the guy who voted with Bill Frist over 80% of the time (Hatfield voted with Trent Lott 55%). Schmuck.