"Missed the Boat" - Modest Mouse
Well nothing ever went
Quite exactly as we planned
Our ideas held no water
But we used them like a dam
I heard this song today and kept thinking it was a summary of the Republican platform.
So Scott Brown acts like a pig vis a vis Elizabeth Warren, while also trying to play the faux man of the people, complaining that he didn't go to Harvard but rather went to the "school of hard knocks." No, actually Brown went to Tufts, the 28th ranked university in America according to U.S. News & World Report and Boston College School of Law, the 27th ranked law school. Warren, like Brown, grew up in modest circumstances and went to the University of Houston and Rutgers School of Law. (I remain puzzled how a dumb ass like Brown got into both schools -- although I do know he played basketball at Tufts -- perhaps I'm bitter because BC Law rejected me a year after Brown got in.) Anyway, I've got to believe that if he hits this theme again, Elizabeth Warren is going to shove it up his Cosmo-posing ass. (The belittling of Warren's appearance is really not well calculated to attracting women voters methinks.)
On a similar note, Herman Cain's statement regarding Occupy Wall Street -- "Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself. It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed" -- strikes me as one of the less well constructed bits of electoral politics I've seen recently.
Well. I am heading off to South Beach for the long weekend -- but don't be hatin' on me -- I'll let you know how the other half is living. Or 1% as the case may be.
What else is going on?
