political mourning

the president has gone to tucson to join in the mourning for the friends and loved ones murdered in a shooting spree by a nihilistic twenty-something...having mourned friends and loved ones my sympathies are with those who have sustained such horrific losses...all losses are difficult...sudden ones even more so...here is hoping they find some equinamity in all the sorrow...never trust a politician to aid the process though...a few minutes of web searches informs me that there have been eleven murders in chicago so far this year...nine in new york city..and three each in los angeles and indianapolis...those losses were as horrific for the families and friends...why didn't obamaland publicly mourn there? not a lot of political capital to be made there...the public attention isn't riveted to the mundane killings on the six o'clock news...nothing national in scope...no member of the politcal fraternity at risk..no audience...no opportunity to grandstand as a "healer"...no polity to court...politics is a cynical, manipulative business...the talented ones are like good actors who can convince you of the sincerity of the parts they are playing...but it's all in the service of another agenda...by all means we should questiion exactly what we are doing and what kind of people we are and why we are that way...but that searching of interior landscapes shouldn't have benefits for the political class...it should be done as an exploration of our own accountability for these sorts of violent outbursts and how we can change that...not to recharge a president's approval rating...or as a venue for explanations and excuses fron the alaskan grifter and reality tv has-been...they are all made from the same mold...don't let them confuse you.

government oversight is strangling political entrepreneurship

"after listening to mr. delay say he had done nothing wrong, judge pat priest ( from the munsters?) sentenced him to three years in prison for the conspiracy charge and ten years of probation on the money laundering. the judge rejected arguments from mr. delay that the trial had been a politically motivated vendetta mounted by an overzealous democratic district attorney."

"in the house mr. delay was known as the hammer for his no-holds-barrd style of politicking and campaigning.
n y times 1-10-2011

"mr. delay is driven by a deep-seated need to help others."
j. dennis hastert

"this criminalization of our politics is very dangerous, very dangerous to our system."
tom "yardbird" delay

vendetta? why on earth would anyone want to cream old tom "hammer" delay? just another good old bubba from texas ( remember they seceded from mexico so they could own slaves...that's what the alamo was about) who wouldn't hurt a fly...deep stated need to help whom dennis? wealth? himself along the way to a storied career as a whore? fuckin'-a criminialization (although i would tend to think of it more as accountalilty for your actions tom...but then we probably wouldn't be able to stay in the same room for ten seconds without some sort of trouble, eh?) of the political status quo is "dangerous"... constituents (voter class) might go from being trembling supplicants to activists asking about all the pork grinding...no good can come of that...why let the proles ruin a good thing like "the people's business" just because they're footing the bill? no government regulation stifles the free market...that's a proven fact...just ask any tenured economist at any ivy leauge school...entrepreneurs must be free of constraints to fully realize the potential of their innovative spirit...there's nothing predatory or usurous behind that...tom delay was just taking care of business...no reason to be remorseful about that...this is america after all.