Oh, Tucker...

[zeke12]

I love the R trope about how rich people can't advocate for poor people, and the proud intellectual gleam they give it, like it hadn't ever been used on FDR, JFK, or RFK, and the notion that, if an authentically poor leader of the poor started to talk about poverty, any of those hyenas would give him the time of day.

I might have this tattooed somewhere, because I'm sure it will need to be posted again.

 

[cranberry]

Surprised nobody's dredged up this blast from the past yet:

http://freelancegenius.blogspot.com/2007/01/his-bowtie-knows-where-you.html

 

[zeke12]

cran --

I had forgotten that. Hilarious stuff.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I think "chundernozzle" is a keeper.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Silly me for thinking it was a Tucker McLaughlin thread.

Carry on...

dammit

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

bird, Norquist is a coalitionist and the head of Americans for Tax Reform who wants Hamilton taken off the $10 and St. Ronnie's smiling visage -- big boy Grover's hero -- placed upon it. He regards almost any effort to regulate or tax anything as a Bolshevik infringement on freedom.

Not a household name, but he's one of the most dangerous people in Washington and regarded a framer of the terms of our political debates, if not a mover of modern history. Think of Nixon, only without the charm, good conscience or social graces.

Well, I am glad to hear you think so highly of a man who is regarded as role model to the lefty netroots.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Explain?

This is the zit on the ass of the body politic who famously said he'd like government to be shrunken so small that he could drown it in a bathtub. I don't see any lefties going along with that prevailing philosophy.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

"To the extent that I have a political hero, it's probably Grover Norquist, not Ralph Nader."

Matt Stoller, MyDD.com

 

[zeke12]

Who the **** is Matt Stoller?

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

A prominent liberal blogger

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

He's a geekboy blogger from Harvard yard.

Come on, man, you're better than this.

 

[zeke12]

I'm not sure how prominent.

I've never heard of his blog, and I've heard of a few of them.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

"To the extent that I have a political hero, it's probably Grover Norquist, not Ralph Nader."

Matt Stoller, MyDD.com

Matt's smart, blogs well, and has a good explanation for the grover quote, which His Holiness neglected to include.

 

[zeke12]

By all means...

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

Stoller has compared McCain with Truman. I think that's irresponsible at best.

If there is justification to be made for Grover's behavior over the last 20 years, other than some unspoken admiration for ruthlessness and Machiavellian singlemindedness, I'm all ears.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

That's pretty much the justification right there.