While you're reading the Gazette Online, check out how Iowans thematically combined two of my favorite things.
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What you don't need me for is to tell you about the White House's reverse spin campaign. I'm going to ask for a rhetorical show of hands, though: who wants the former VP and his minions to shut the f* up?? If you'll recall, we voted their disgraced asses out of office, so why the f* is anyone asking their opinion? Take the following:
“They seem more interested in the war on the English language than in what might be thought of as more pressing national security matters,” said Shannen W. Coffin, who served as counsel to former Vice President Dick Cheney. “An Orwellian euphemism or two will not change the fact that bad people want to kill us and destroy us as a free people.”No, dumbass: YOU, the minions, are the ones that want to destroy us as a free people. And do you know what else? I don't disagree with you that bad people want to kill us, but why do you have to go and make it easier for them by sending a whole bunch of us to war? Oh and do you know what else kills us? Collapsing bridges, incompetent responses to natural disasters, food poisoning, and so on. More so than bad people.
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Does anyone else find it curious that the Journal-- in the body, not the wacko editorial pages-- opted to run a story on bonuses for Congressional staff? Even the highest of those don't come close in excess to the ones in their neighborhood. I'm not justifying the concept of handing out bonuses just because a Congressional office has money left over, but I do take issue with the idea that bonuses and the public sector don't mix. A not minor factor in the rage over AIG bonuses is that the company failed. There's nothing wrong with bonuses that reward performance. It's the same concept with compensation in the non-profit world: it's worth paying more to get the work done right.
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