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I am sick of listening to the whine of pent-up frustration one hears when the uber-arrogant, would-be world-opining leadership classes find themselves trapped by the awful truth they have foisted upon the rest of the world in general.
Dubya whined like an overheated sump pump. Faux pundits David Brooks, David Broder, Peggy Noonan and many others have overreached way beyond common decency and deliberately tried to develop whining into an art, with truly hideous results. But whining is most revealing when it’s shown in a genuine form by the unwary.
Yes. Even Rummy tried to don the victim’s cap on many occasions. And little Patty Buchanan is hopelessly trapped in that never-never-land between true peeve and faux poobah. I don’t think he’s quite all there anymore. The Carvill travelling medicine show? Rover and Limpawe? oh dear gracious me. how sad. *sniffle*
The Repubs are purt near devoid of any masters of the art and left to the clumsy devices of inept pretenders to the throne. Hence part of their current dilemma.
Examples abound. Do pols Boehner, McCain or McConnell bring anyone to tears with their ooopso, aye-yie, flip-dee-dupes routines in defense of their own total stagnation and full-bore attack on anything even remotely resembling progress to help the people of this nation and the world? (laughing until you break into tears doesn’t count; that’s cheating.)
Would that those folks would even see the tunnel, much less the light, and recognize their responsibility to work for the greater good of all like true leaders. But do they even have any comprehension of what that idea means?!
I think I remember someone trying to teach that lesson to us way back in kindergarten. Maybe those guys were too busy stealing cookies to listen.
Why, they never even learned what a "tell" is.
Note to Repubs: Selfish pity party mode is not what this nation needs from its leaders right now, fellas. Besides, it looks really lame and downright embarrassing. Either work for the people, or get out of the way.
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Great post….esp. instructive should be the recent election. The less than moral Repub ticket (she of charging for rape kits and shilling for clothes/he of the Keating 5 and emergency halting his campaign) was soundly defeated, in large part on calls for obeying the law and the sunshine of disclosure. Hopefully the pathetic whines of Cokie, Noonan, Cornyn et all will go no where. Let the truth out…exposure torture, its authorization, secrecy, criminality; expose the lies, Blackwater, stolen $$, secret memos. The election was a call for shoring up American honor, if nothing else, Mr. President.
Thanks. Quite literally, I’ve just HAD it with the overriding Repubble philosophy of non-governance. What are they thinking? ARE they thinking?!
These are such serious times, and they’re playing little nasty-brat games with their precious time here on this earth. They have truly lost their compass, if indeed they ever had one.
Fine diary, Adie. Missed you, asked about you last week – you doin’ o.k.?
You speak for a lot of us here, don’t be silent for so long. You also help us to keep our balance as best we can.
You’re sweet to ask. We’re doing just fine here, but literally weighed down and scrambling to get our house ready to put on the market after over 30 years of accumulating… stuff. We’ve loved living here, but we’re really excited about our upcoming move also. Both being biologists, we can’t quite bring ourselves to use the garbage can and bags all that much, so we’ve been donating and recycling until our heads are spinning from the effort, but it’s working! ;->
Good to hear that you are well, Adie, and that it’s just making those “keep or discard” decisions that have kept you away. I need badly to do the same thing – the books will be my big problem in culling.
oohhh yessss. The books. We’re easily reaching reasonable compromises on published works. But I draw the line and simply will not let him dump his lecture notes. No way! No means NO. ;->
My dressage saddle, and the home-made “Indian” bridle in which my sweet young mare beat all the cowboy fellas in the “Western” class. He knows to let me part with those items slowly, if at all. Too many fond memories. ;->
We do fine, though as grievously upset with the world situation in general as anyone here. We will not remain silent when we see injustice at work. Neither will our “kids”. To see the concern and attentiveness to compassionate acts passed on successfully is a huge plus to the parental psyche. ;->
p. e. a. c. e.
Whining is a guilt trip. We need to call then on it!
Thanks.
Adie-Girl! Fine job. I’m not fond of whining, myself. I don’t like it when the dog whines. Or, when little girls whine. I really don’t like it when adults act like foot-stomping, spoiled brat wussie-pants.
Glad I’m not alone. (Hugs to you.)
Thanks for that title!8)
I see where TPM has taken up a similar idea. Or my own version for several years now: why do all these macho hard-asses insist that not so much as a disparaging glance be directed at them? What happened to manfully doing whatever is necessary and bearing the consequences?
Thanks for the support.
Title was arrived at reluctantly, actually. I read a supposed quote from Napoleon once, “Never bother the enemy while he’s busy destroying himself” (or something like that). It’s really hard to “inform” them, but then… oh sigh. It’s time. The people, and everything else on this planet, are truly suffering and endangered. They need to step up and show true leadership, not this constant back-biting schtick they have fallen into…