the rix mix

Now we'll have to deal with the irony of right wing Republicans charging up their fall campaigns based on the busting up of a terrorist conspiracy by police from a nation with socialized medicine & a law that gives all the legal rights of marriage to homosexuals. The Brits wrecked the conspiracy & we owe them our gratitude. GWB says we're fighting terrorists in Iraq so we don't have to fight them here. But I see the British fighting terrorists in England so we don't have to fight them here. There's a pretty good reason for tossing out the Republicans & Democrats & electing a Labour Party government, national health care, gay rights & all.
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I got a chuckle out of this Paul Mulshine observation in his column Country-club Democrat has neocons jittery:

"The minute I laid eyes on U.S. Senate candidate Ned Lamont at the Orange volunteer firemen's carnival in Connecticut, I recognized the type. Slim. Athletic. Well-dressed but in a casual manner, as if he'd just stepped off the golf course.

"Yes, Ned Lamont was a dead ringer for my uncle Ned, right down to the facial features and the mannerisms."

I also had an Uncle Ned, but his name was Jack. My family didn't grow its own of this type, so my aunt married one. I don't know anything about Uncle Jack's politics, but he would have made a marvelous politician, albeit one who preferred kissing pretty young women to babies. He was a grownup preppy. Vermont skiing in winter along with a trip to Florida; beach cottage at the shore. Boyish, always impeccably dressed, quick with a sharp quip, to which my aunt would usually react with a half-exasperated "Oh Jack." Jack took me to a Rutgers-Princeton football game at Rutgers, we sat in the alumni section - nice seats. I don't know if Jack had attended Rutgers - my aunt worked for Douglass College - & looking at the near-geezers sitting around us I easily imagined when they had worn fur coats & straw boaters & carried flasks of bootleg gin to football games; Jack was a few years too late for those fads. So I see Uncle Jack in Ned Lamont. As liberal as Ned is, he will not betray his class. It's George W. Bush who betrayed it. Because George behaves like new money; a profligate spender (of lives & treasure), anti-intellectual, too familiar toward people he hardly knows, exchanged his Episopalianism for southern holiness-style Methodism. Don't worry about Ned; he knows who he is. It's GWB who's confused about his identity.