Yeah, Eliot Spitzer resigned. So what? I don\u2019t live in New York, and while all reports are that this guy is an insufferable, self-righteous prig, he has had no impact on my life whatsoever. His resignation will likely mean little or no change in how New York is governed, so what\u2019s the big deal?<\/p>\n
Well, the big deal is What It All Means.<\/p>\n
Blech. What it means is that the media is uncomfortable reporting on sex scandals that involve Democrats. Sure, they\u2019ll do it, but they\u2019ll wring their hands the whole time and neglect to put a little D by the name of the offender. Contrast that to how they excoriated Larry Craig (R-Idaho) for his foot-tapping, and you see the latest example of a double standard. But who was looking for more evidence? How can anyone possibly argue that the mainstream media doesn\u2019t tilt hard to the left? It\u2019s just part of the landscape, and it\u2019s hardly worth mentioning. <\/p>\n
The only thing interesting in all of this is discovering how much this guy paid per hour for his hookers. Over five grand?! No wonder I\u2019m faithful to my wife. I can\u2019t afford not to be. <\/p>\n
Other than that, this story just adds to the political noise. <\/p>\n
Similarly, Obama and Hillary\u2019s travails stopped being interesting a long time ago. But does anyone else notice that all the grunge is coming from one direction? Hillary\u2019s people shamelessly denigrate Obama based on his race, and he shrugs his shoulders and moves on. Yet one of Barack\u2019s lackeys has the temerity to call her a \u201cmonster\u201d and instantly the lackey gets the sack. So many papers insist on talking about the Democratic infighting as if it\u2019s a two-way street. How can anyone ignore the obvious \u2013 that Hillary Clinton is a shameless, corrupt, Machiavellian banshee? Say what you want about their politics, but Barack is manifestly more decent than the scheming Clintons. I just don\u2019t see where there\u2019s room for argument on this. <\/p>\n
The only political story of any interest is the idea of Mitt Romney being considered as McCain\u2019s running mate. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a good move for Mitt, since McCain\u2019s going to lose, and Mitt runs the risk of turning himself into Jack Kemp or John Edwards. But if Mitt were on the ticket, I\u2019d be forced to vote for McCain. So it would be a good move for the GOP, certainly. But I doubt it will happen, because McCain is a grudge-holding jerk. <\/p>\n
Who gives a crap? <\/p>\n
Actually, the crap section of yesterday\u2019s post is much more interesting to me than anything in the political world these days. Not so my family. In private messages, my sisters have made it very clear that they do not find defecation in the open air to be a mystical act. My wife also expressed her extreme displeasure in my interest in the subject. <\/p>\n
To them, I say \u2013 pshaw. Pooping costs less than $5,000 an hour, but I refuse to do it outside, because then I\u2019d have to clean it up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yeah,Eliot Spitzer resigned. So what? I don\u2019t live in New York, and while all reports are that this guy is an insufferable, self-righteous prig, he has had no impact on my life whatsoever. His resignation will likely mean little or no change in how New York is governed, so what\u2019s the big deal? Well, the ... Read more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4908,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/4908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallioncornell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}