Will it involve revenue increases? Almost certainly, but Oregon is not that different from dozens of other states. Just like, nationally, many Americans apparently endorsed increased Republican control over policy, Oregonians gave Democrats a mandate to pass policy solutions for Oregon's problems. You ask how policy in Salem may change with an increased Democratic majority, but then later say you basically disagree with most of what Democrats propose. We should be patting this angry young man on the head, passing him the lube, and paying his dues for the Sex Workers Union, because: Media whores, like the more traditional ones, do what they do because they have to, not because they can. He's never even gone to community college - why should that stop him from talking about tuitions? He has nothing beyond a Tillamook High School diploma and a list of the latest Roveian talking points to battle you with. The guy's practically homeless the minute the Columbia floods again, so no wonder he was against dam-breaching, y'know? My God, did you see the clip of his 'death-threats to Tina' rant? His employers can't even afford a CHAIR for him to sit in!Īnd I guarantee you - he at least used to live on a 28' sailboat - that's roughly the same square footage as a single-wide, only without the ability to go on the road without a trailer, and no dirt yard. Going to the mat with your bad-ass Juris Doctor degree (gotta get me one o' those) to take apart this poor guy in an element where the traditional weapons of what passes for Republican debate aren't open to him: he can't screen your calls, cut you off, interrupt you, suck all the air out of a segment, cut to commercial, stack the panel and the call queue with freshly-screened wingnuts, or come with any of the usual tripe. Shame on you, Anne, for picking on those who deserve our pity. Until then, I'll think of you as I flip to the blue-faced sputtering of the new, true, anti-establishment: Air America. Your exit was graceful, ever fair and balanced in your broadcast from the Oregon Republican's election night party - almost like a real journalist. I suppose a campaign romance is destined to end with the campaign. Wussy liberals everywhere cry out for your paternalistic domination, but you concern yourself with photo radar instead of fascism! Where has my five-foot-six red radio ruler gone? Shall I prostrate or prostitute myself for your benefit?īut Lars, you never write, you never call, anymore. I am a simple public servant in your sight. When you called to tell me that I had to talk to you, that you paid my salary and thus I was subject to your every whim and desire, I knew that you were not just so much bluster – I knew that your righteous manhood would accept nothing less than total supplication. I wonder, does your hot air lose its propelling power in the chilly vacuum of space? Oh Lars, you rise so far above us all as to command your own planet. A planet unconstrained by petty science, facts, even gravity. When I read "The View From Planet Lars" in that pinnacle of conservative intellectualism, Brainstorm NW (equivalent only to the left's indubitable Mercury), I knew that your planet was truly different from the one the rest of us inhabit. Such a courageous and genuine accusation – fascism! I dared to dream that we could stand together, axes crossed against liberty, equality and fraternity. When you spent the pre-election months haranguing Bill Bradbury for rigging, defrauding and disenfranchising, and you urged your disciples to tie up state phone lines with messages elucidating the evident spread of fascism in state government, I thought we had something special. How could it be that your red-faced sputtering didn't serve to spread the red across this fair blue state? Your defiant us-vs-them rhetoric still rings true here, with the statewides and the senate in firm Democratic control. What, praytell, is a right-wing radio junkie to do? While national hosts spin into a tizzy after conquering nearly every available federal office, you, at least, still have Oregon. Was it only a campaign romance? Have you, so soon after the election, given up on us? It's been weeks since I've heard from you.
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