The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    Gingrich surrenders to logic, "I'm with Bernie", to register Socialist as soon as primary is fully lost.

    By jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:03pm |

    Talk bout hoist on his own petard!

    So vain is Newt about his intellectual aspirations, he actually committed a moment of intellectual honesty.

    Once the logjam was broken by his consideration that perhaps 90 instead of 180 million skimmed off the bust out would have been "enough", Newt has gone full tilt Socialist, talking about "common"  goals, and "common" good.

    Two words that have been banished from American political discourse for decades are "enough" and "common".

    My own head is exploding, though, because that weasal, surrendering to the famous liberal bias of reality but still a creep at heart, is going to steal our issue!

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    Of course, he'll show up at the next Socialist Worker Party meeting, cause Newt is for sure a Trotskeyite....Bummer...I don't think I will be polite to him.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:08pm

    I think he realized there was the whole Socialist market niche for book sales that he could exploit.

    Then in about a year, he can write another book, In From the Cold: My Lost Year Among the Socialists.


    by Elusive Trope on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:14pm

    He has definitely "made his living" out of sin and repentance, even to refining his religion down to the very merchants of redemption (no offense)


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 5:40pm

    My own head is exploding, though, because that weasal, surrendering to the famous liberal bias of reality but still a creep at heart, is going to steal our issue!

    Maybe next election cycle Democrats will think twice about the wisdom of surrendering the entire national stage and national debate for several months running to the Republican Party.  Even Dagblog is now all Republicans, all the time.   You guys have been mentally colonized.  And even though the various Republican candidates have taken terms destroying themselves individually, their party has succeeded through a non-stop cycle of debates in capturing the national discussion, and turning the American political landscape of ideas into a conversation about competing Republican and conservative ideas.

    Even if Obama wins he will have to govern from an even more conservative position than he has now.

    Nice job Dems.  Losers.


    by Dan Kervick on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:19pm

    Maybe next election cycle Democrats will think twice  

    It's too late...

     


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:34pm

    Months?

    This has been in the making for years. Democrats' craven failure to take the populist mantle from the tea party, over and over again, has reduced our stature to the point where the party's platform can be summed up by "Greed is...pretty good."

    If, as you point out, even Dagblog is all Republicans, all the time, it's a reflection of a stunning failure to get out there and talk about, much less act upon, what ordinary voters might need and want.

    When Newt Gingrich (that slimy, grasping, adulterous, say-anything douchebag!) ruminates about the need for legitimate commerce in a sea of capitalism gone wrong...it's a pretty good indicator that somebody on the opposing side ought to have piped up long ago.

    I apologize in advance for my mean-spirited comments about Gingrich. If I had more time and less anger, I'd think of more substantive negatives with which to describe him.


    by erica20 on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 7:14pm

    substantive negatives 

    You're gonna have to go some to match

    panzer of bamboozlement...


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 9:31pm

    You got me there, jolly. I think I meant less personal negatives.


    by erica20 on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 11:49pm

    You guys have been mentally colonized.

    Them pretty strong words there, pilgrim.  I might just have to mosey over on over to ya and...

    But seriously, when there is a contested Republican primary season and non-contested (for all intents and purposes) Democratic primary season, one is going to find the political junkies gravitating to the Republican side of things.  It's where the action is, as they would say.  Of course, you could always blog about something else (like I have done for time to time, just saying) and help uncolonize the collective consciousness.

    And the main stream media is going to go where the action is, that is a given.  I think the progressives among the Democrats (and lets remember not all of them are liberal/progressives) would like some ideas as to how to get the attention of the MSM and maybe draw the same viewership of something like the Alabama-LSU game. 

    Let's face, pretty much the only people listening to voices of the colonized mindset are people who have already made up their minds about the issues.  Most people are just tuning out the election already and just wish it was over already.

     

     


    by Elusive Trope on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 10:15pm

    I was sorta kidding about being irritated at Newt

    s  come to Jesus moment.

    It's just the unbearable heaviness of the wave of revulsion sweeping the nation.

     

    Tipping point?


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 10:31pm

    I think the progressives among the Democrats (and lets remember not all of them are liberal/progressives) would like some ideas as to how to get the attention of the MSM and maybe draw the same viewership of something like the Alabama-LSU game.

     

    An actual race with actual debate and actual controversy would have helped.


    by Dan Kervick on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 4:02pm

    There are apparently heads exploding along these lines in areas outside politics, too, as in some advertising agency getting carried away and forgetting what they are all about:

    Update: Mercedes apologizes for Che Guevara ad

    Daimler

    Dieter Zetsche, head of the Mercedes Benz unit of Daimler AG, revealed the controversial ad during a presentation Tuesday at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

    By M. Alex Johnson, msnbc.com

    Update 6:15 p.m. ET: In a statement to msnbc.com, Daimler is apologizing for using the altered image of Che Guevara in its Mercedes Benz presentation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show:

    Actually just posted it because I thought some here might get a kick out of it; I certainly did.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:33pm

     What's all the fuss?  Revolutionary drive train design, meet revolutionary armed struggle...wait, what?


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:35pm

    I am reminded of the film The Killing Fields, where early on, Dith Pran gives a kid riding in their car, who clearly adores cars, a Mercedes hood ornament; the kid says Mercedes #1! in English, and beams. Later in the film, after the revolution, Pran has been through Dante's fourth circle and is entering the fifth circle, tied to a tree, looking to meet the maker. One of the revolution's young goons approaches, it's looking like the end might be soon, and then the young guy bends over, cuts the ropes holding him to the tree, and whispers in his ear: Mercedes #1 and smiles; it is the same kid he gave the hood ornament to.


    by artappraiser on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:45pm

    Just so we can really scramble the semiotics, don't you think Che would have picked a Mercedes to drive over a ZIL? Or, in the real world, a Norton over a Kievski Mototsikletnyi Zavod (KMZ),  

    Mercedes falls victim seeking to associate with the glamor, and Che betrays the people's brand for the quality product.


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 7:07pm

    Cornell West thinks this is funny as shit..


    by jollyroger on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 6:54pm

    Like Ron Paul's "shock" at some of the things that have been published in his newsletters, Newt is shocked, shocked that there's been some  gambling  socialist propaganda in the details over at his Super PAC, and they better fix it right now (after all the GOP brass has had ample opportunity to offer publicity-making "huge pushback," of course.)

    Edit to add: I am looking forward to what victimology story he is going to tell about the Virginia news. Something along the lines of activist judges looking to get all the renegade (as in "not following the party line") candidates, but probably more creative (not to mention "historic")


    by artappraiser on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 5:52pm

    Yup, he doth protest too much; from

    The Kingmaker by Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, Jan 12

    .....There were rumors in December that Adelson would give many millions to a Gingrich Super PAC, and last Friday he finally did deliver a check for five million dollars. There seemed to be no rational reason for him to have waited so long, watching from the sidelines as Gingrich was being savaged by ads paid for by Romney supporters, only to become involved when Gingrich was virtually on life-support. But an Adelson confidant, Mort Klein, head of the Zionist Organization of America, said what happened, in his view, is that in December Gingrich told Adelson and other donors that he did not want them to launch attack ads on Romney because he was trying to wage a positive campaign, but he ultimately “went to them and said, OK, I’m ready to do it.” Klein added that Adelson is convinced that Gingrich has a real shot at becoming president......


     


    by artappraiser on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 7:05pm

    Isn't a presidential campaign explicitly coordinating with a Super-PAC explicitly against the law? See the fourth paragraph of this article (which also betrays where I learned this fact: from Colbert).


    by Verified Atheist on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 9:46am

    Thus the *hypocrite finds safe harbor while Gingrich gets backed into publicly committing (a felony?) campaign law violation.

     

    *Romney: I can't stop the Gingrich destruction derby, those guys all quit my campaign last month...


    by jollyroger on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 5:52pm

    Newt Gingrich, the first fascist who specialises in not making the trains run on time....the simplest bit of election professionalism..(threshold, really...) getting on the ballot, elludes him!


    by jollyroger on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 4:18am

    Oh, thanks for reminding me that you had already been following that part of The Newt Chronicles. We all have our expertises in this area, but it's good to try from time to time to round them up for an occasional review of the big picture, ugly tho it might be.


    by artappraiser on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 3:05pm

    Is "an A.D.D. sufferer fascist" an oxymoron?

    by jollyroger on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 8:05pm