Comments on: Ellsberg’s Excellent Memoir http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/05/11/ellsbergs-excellent-memoir/ Author James Bovard Sun, 7 Sep 2008 03:11:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/05/11/ellsbergs-excellent-memoir/#comment-113056 Jim Tue, 13 May 2008 02:50:10 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/05/11/ellsbergs-excellent-memoir/#comment-113056 I suspect the bottom began to fell out after people starting drinking Zima as a substitute for real beer. Actually, most of what was sold after Prohibition was a bad substitute for real beer. I suspect the bottom began to fell out after people starting drinking Zima as a substitute for real beer.

Actually, most of what was sold after Prohibition was a bad substitute for real beer.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/05/11/ellsbergs-excellent-memoir/#comment-113050 Dirk W. Sabin Mon, 12 May 2008 16:02:37 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/05/11/ellsbergs-excellent-memoir/#comment-113050 The public, such as it is, appears to favor the fantasy and faux truth dispensed daily by our media and is wary of letting skepticism in to rain on their increasingly tenuous position. The NY Times published an article in yesterday's Sunday Magazine on the low approval rating of the TSA. What was most interesting in the article was the graph depicting 10 or so departments of the government and the corresponding public's satisfaction rating. TSA and FEMA , of course in negative , sub 50% territory but the bottom pariah was the Congress. According to those polled, Congress is disliked more than the IRS, Homeland Security , TSA and even FEMA. Congress should be proud of this well-earned badge of dysfunction because they have done a superb job of playing "Stella" to the Executive's "Stanley" . Though it has yet to dawn on them, the more passes they give this cockeyed President.....in the pursuit of harmony....the more they are reviled. In this atmosphere, it is in the Executive's interest to make blunder after blunder because with each blunder of the Executive, the Congress is closer to complete irrelevancy, the overall goal of the current Executive. One is left wondering exactly what precipitated this rapid descent into the world of the Banana Republic. The public, such as it is, appears to favor the fantasy and faux truth dispensed daily by our media and is wary of letting skepticism in to rain on their increasingly tenuous position. The NY Times published an article in yesterday’s Sunday Magazine on the low approval rating of the TSA. What was most interesting in the article was the graph depicting 10 or so departments of the government and the corresponding public’s satisfaction rating. TSA and FEMA , of course in negative , sub 50% territory but the bottom pariah was the Congress. According to those polled, Congress is disliked more than the IRS, Homeland Security , TSA and even FEMA. Congress should be proud of this well-earned badge of dysfunction because they have done a superb job of playing “Stella” to the Executive’s “Stanley” .

Though it has yet to dawn on them, the more passes they give this cockeyed President…..in the pursuit of harmony….the more they are reviled. In this atmosphere, it is in the Executive’s interest to make blunder after blunder because with each blunder of the Executive, the Congress is closer to complete irrelevancy, the overall goal of the current Executive.

One is left wondering exactly what precipitated this rapid descent into the world of the Banana Republic.

]]>