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Tuesday, December 16. 2008
From Shoes to Sweet Caroline
Is the funniest thing to happen to President Bush getting, not one, but two shoes thrown at him? My friend Lisa in Canada doesn’t think it’s funny, she thinks it’s horrifying and she doesn’t even like Bush — one of her many admirable qualities!The year is winding down, Bush’s administration has left the building, all that remains is a cowering ghost, too afraid really to do anything. Not entirely true of course. He went to Iraq to say “farewell” to the troops, hence the two shoes thrown at his pie hole. Okay, he’s the worst president in U.S. history, but I gotta hand it to the guy, he’s pretty quick on his feet! He managed to duck both shoes and he shrugged it off as a sign of a free society — three cheers for our president!
Oh shit! I’m giving Kudos to the President!
One great thing Bush has done is give some of that TARP money to the Big Three, undercutting Senator Bob Corker, whom the Financial Times praises for what they consider an even-handed treatment of the bailout. You gotta be shittin’ me! What he wants is the Big Three to declare bankruptcy so the union, the UAW, can be broken, the reason why he lays out conditions he knows UAW president Ron Gettelfinger — and the union — won’t accept.
Corker and his Republican confederates want the Big Three to dump the “legacy” benefits; i.e. the pension and pension benefits for Big Three retirees. They just don’t believe working people deserve to have something set aside for their retirement years.
As for the health benefits for retirees, they want the Big Three to stop paying those costs and yet, when it comes to entitlement programs like Medicare, which many seniors rely on for their health care — especially for pharmaceuticals — the Republicans say that has to be “fixed,” meaning, in Republican-speak, slashed at the very least, if not closed altogether.
Senator Bob Corker, the man who used a racist ad to win his Senate seat in 2006. At least he’s starting to get honest about it though. In the same Financial Times article Corker admitted it was a battle between union and non-union labor, hoping to make Detroit a non-union town. Bet if the union was giving Corker campaign contributions he wouldn’t be out front on this issue.
Caroline Kennedy: got drunk with the cousins one night and woke up the next day with a tattoo of a butterfly on her arm. There are many reasons to fear getting drunk — getting tattooed is one of them. For some.I’d get more tats myself, but since they’ve become so … so … fashionable … it’s an expensive hobby. I have one: a Satanic looking goat head with the Sumerian symbol for Capricorn. Most of the time I tell people it is what it is, a symbol of my astrological sign, but when someone gets too religious on me, I tell them it’s a symbol of my devotion to Mephistopheles, the Prince of Darkness.
Don’t do it too often, but a religious woman on a bus in Fashion Valley asked me about the tattoo a few months back so I gave her the entire Mephistopheles Spiel. She wasn’t impressed, but she didn’t talk to me again for the rest of the bus trip either. The regret is, when she got on the bus, wearing nice shorts and a tank top, my first thought was to make her acquaintance and … err … do what men do …
Anyway, Caroline Kennedy wants to replace Hillary Clinton as New York’s Junior Senator. It’s about effin’ time Caroline! She’s universally admired … well, that is, except for the Clinton supporters who still harbor a grudge over the primaries. As we might recall, Caroline and her Uncle Ted most vociferously came out in support of Illinois’ Junior Senator. No love lost between the Clintons and Kennedy clan, which is too bad. The two most popular names in the Democratic Party can’t get along.
Here’s the hypocrisy though. Those opposed to Caroline Kennedy getting the appointment point to her lack of experience in politics and the fact that she isn’t a native New Yorker. The same criticism people had of Hillary Clinton when she ran for the New York Senate seat in 2000.
Her experience: she’s a Constitutional Lawyer and even wrote a book on the subject, In Our Defense, said by many as one of the best on the subject. I’ve never read it but I’m about to order it. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg said she is infinitely qualified due to all of the work — gratis for the most part — she has done to improve the New York City school system and Hizzoner, along with many of their peers, consider Caroline Kennedy an expert on the topic.
Not to mention all the other philanthropic boards and committees she’s either a part of or directs: this woman has a lot of leadership experience — just none of it directly as a legislator.
Of course, there are a few Republicans who think they have a chance of beating a Kennedy in the election in 2010, like New York Congressman Peter King. Good luck Pete! As Republicans go, you’re not such a bad fellow, but it’s doubtful you can beat a Kennedy — or even a Cuomo — in a statewide election for Senator. Not in New York anyway, which is second only to Massachusetts when it comes to adoring the Kennedys.
The peccadilloes aside, the Kennedy Family has been one of the shining examples of public service. Caroline herself, while, not in politics, has always put much of her time — and I would suspect money — into giving back to her community and country. That’s great experience for someone looking to become a senator.
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