13 thoughts on “Blogger From Another Planet”

  4. Andrew Sullivan wrote a clear post a few days ago on Mormons v. Gays.

    I found this statement, as I say, clarifying:

    The Hewitt strategy of trying to bring the LDS church – especially LDS money – into a Christianist popular front began with the Romney candidacy. Then it morphed into Prop 8, funded by $20 million of Mormon money. The leadership of the LDS church has every right to do this; but equally gay people and their families now have every right to highlight the Mormon church as an enemy of civil rights and of gay people everywhere. This will be decried as bigotry. But gays are not fighting to remove the civil rights of Mormons; while Mormons have successfully campaigned to remove the civil rights of gays.

    Tolerant and inclusive Mormons should not be forgotten; the Mormon tradition of church-state separation should not be ignored either. But toleration goes both ways. Gay people have every right to regard the Mormon church hierarchy as a mortal enemy. If they knock on my door any time soon, they will get an earful.

    Maybe we were lucky not to get into a campaign against Romney… It would only have gotten uglier.

    Under The LobsterScope

  6. Republicans are stuck…where?… I have no idea and don’t care to help them. They are so stuck, they will say anything to draw attention away from America’s economic problems. Bush has created the largest deficit America has ever seen…and spent every tax revenue, fee, or fine colllected by the federal goverment and not one republican did anything to stop bush. A majority of the states have double and triple digit million dollar deficits….and not 1 republican has any ideas as to what to do beyond cutting taxes.

  7. I think Joe Biden ought to host SNL some week soon, and just read that Message From Bizarro World as his opening monologue. Or Letterman could read it as an intro to his occasional segment, “Great Moments in Presidential Speeches,” which inevitably ends with Dubya spluttering like the damaged ass he is.

    My favorite precise, elegant phrase, which Dubya pulled from his nether reaches after one of those long, cross-eyed “halts,” is “water driblets.” As in, “Cars that run on gasoline produce pollution, but the only by-product of a hydrogen car is…” (30 seconds of unfocused squinting later) “…water driblets.” (And somewhere, Peggy Noonan weeps with envy. Or just plain weeps.)

  8. Joan — re Peggy Noonan, I remember only too well that when Dubya was first elected she nearly swooned with joy at the mention of his name.

  12. Thanks for that. I needed a good laugh.

    I suppose in Hindquarter’s alternate dimension the word “Bushism” means a particularly well-turned phrase or bon mot.

  13. I have to wonder who Mr. Hinderacker is talking about. It’s been rare to hear two sentences put together correctly from Bush.

    My guess is by 2010, the repugs will be saying the economy is all the dems’ fault and they have a better way to do it. That will be their spin.

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