I couldn’t have been in the gym more than 15 minutes but I can barely move my arms. I think it’s the connect points for the triceps at the elbow – whatever it is, they’re sore as hell and I have overexerted myself. SHOCKER. Naturally I have eaten a bunch of Advil and such, but it guarantees that I will not be able to to go work on anybody with a pipe wrench for their projector-based malfeasance. Instead, I will go over and run some calls on my primary group, who love me. I think. Strong like, anyway.
Speaking of malfeasance, I saw nothing in yesterday’s morning highlight reel to disabuse me of this notion: the principal problem of “Washington Insiders” has nothing to do with elected officials or career bureaucrats, but with 20 years of the same donks covering the same things and forming a self-reinforcing echo chamber so inbred that I’m surprised they don’t burn couches for Big East wins. (Cheap shot at the Baboon there.) Seriously, inbreeding reduces IQ, and if you listen closely to the questions last night, you can see that we’ve sunk a long, long way from the kind of people who used to holler on the POTUS.
You know how I can tell? Because the intelligent questions are coming from web guys and Ebony and outlets that have traditionally not had that kind of access. So they actually take it seriously and do their work and try to ask smart shit. Meanwhile, that clown from Fox, who is soiling the perfectly good first name of St. Ogilvie (pray for us), is too bloody stupid to understand what a reserve currency is. Here’s a hint: you don’t get it out of the ATM or change it for dollars when you fly in from abroad. The new guy from NBC is way way WAY over his head – Chucky is like one of those NFL coordinators who gets hailed as a genius, gets hired away for a head coaching gig with another team, and gets that Lauer-in-the-headlights look (ZOMG SEE WHAT I DID THERE HA HA) when it comes time to actually run a whole team. (Actually, like most newly promoted and unready head coaches, he grasps for what would have worked out great four or five seasons ago, which explains a lot about how the Redskins donked off 7 of their last 9 this year.) And as for CNN – nobody I know watches CNN or takes it seriously, not for any partisan reasons, but because the channel that used to be first in and last out in places like Baghdad or Tienanmen Square is now the Octomom Channel, at least when Larry King’s not pooping on himself again.
You know how I know these people are idiots? How about Obama just rolled out the much-remarked-upon “Geithner plan,” the thing that basically turns the US into the world’s largest hedge fund manager, the presumed last best hope short of nationalization, something that’s oddly pacified Wall Street while causing most liberal economists to flip out? I mean, this is a seriously big deal with major implications for where we go from here.
No questions about the Geithner plan. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Don’t believe me? Read the transcript.
This is not even taking into account the fact that a certain morning program thought the best solo commentator they could ask about said presser was an opposition leader who actually spent the evening at a Britney Spears concert.
Seriously, people: the enemy isn’t conservatism, or liberalism, or Democrats or Republicans. The enemy is bullshit. And it’s got the best-organized permanent lobby in Washington.
ETA: But then again, sometimes you can drown in your own bullshit, i.e. today’s “budget” rollout. If I made a living as an elected Republican, I would probably have gone home tonight and stuck a gun in my mouth.