There is nothing more repulsive than a politician who has become so engorged with the power that comes with the certainty of re-election

It makes me think of King Herod who died eaten by worms. In the last days of the power-glutton politician when newcomers start nibbling at their heels, they lash out like cornered leprous pit bulls

They all look alike, red faced, bloated, scowling. The situation molds what is left of the original man into a beast who has lost perspective of what it is to be a man, a good man.

The guy lives by the fist. He will probably die not by the fist but of liver, gout or clogs

I never heard of black carpetbaggers. They were the white Yankees who moved down to take advantage of the South when Southerners were restricted and under military control. It was the Carpetbagger who would be allowed to sell beef or sugar to the occupiers, who took over land confiscated for tax or penalties, who bought at auction the forfeit items and played the freed blacks against the vanquished whites. If there was a period when freed blacks aggravated southern whites, that ended as the occupiers moved out, and carpetbaggers can take some credit for making sure race relations settked down to the worse possible steady state.

I do not understand why Murtha uses redneck as an insult. The red neck was the burnt neck of a man who walked a mule team to plow from morning to night. The red neck is the badge of a man who works until his hands are hardened leather and his face lined by the elements and poverty. These men touch my heart.

Now the red face of a bloviating politician, that is disgusting

entagor on October 29, 2008 at 11:27 AM