Blago and Spitzo, Part Two
Whether Rod Blagojevich beats the multiple raps filed against him or not, (see “Blago and Spitzo, Part One,” http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1645), he will still go down as one of the most entertaining and even charismatic of disgraced politicians of the last fifty years.
Lies, subterfuges, hubris, obnoxiousness, illegalities, contemptuousness, and potty mouth aside, he’s still a likable fellow. On the other hand, his fellow disgraced Dem, former Governor Eliot Spitzer of New York, can also lay claim to most of those negatives–except maybe the potty mouth–without the somewhat redeeming trait of likability.
Charisma is another characteristic with which Spitzo has never had to contend; he compensated by being a lying, sneaky, hubristic, criminal, contemptuous bulldog.
As contrasted with Blago, Spitzo hailed from a wealthy background and all the best schools–Princeton, Harvard Law–and made his name by helping to bring down organized crime’s Gambino family before effectively buying the job as New York Attorney General with the help of a multi-million dollar “loan” from his tycoon father.
If his hubris, his sense of over-weening pride, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1647)
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The Thankless and the Sexless
The Thankless and the Sexless
Two stories of markedly divergent import:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth . . . :” The U.K., the United Kingdom, aka Britain, aka England, aka the British Isles, that multi-named little island across the Pond, is getting uppity now that the threat from the former U.S.S.R. has dissipated and it no longer feels it could be annihilated overnight.
Rescued by the United States from almost certain defeat in World War I and World War II and from the threat of the Russian Bear a generation ago, the Brits since then have grown more and more forgetful of their incalculable debt to America.
Now, when America is in the throes of social upheaval, a House of Commons committee has called for an end to the “special relationship” that has existed between the U.K. and the U.S.A. for seven decades.
No longer fearful of the Huns or the Russians, the Brits can have the temerity to thumb their noses in a westerly direction.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee issued a report saying the UK should feel free to just say no to the United States and that ”there is a need to be less deferential” to their crass American cousins.
The ostensibly primary reason for this sudden attack of independence? The Iraq War.
As the committee expressed it, “The perception that the British government was a subservient ‘poodle’ to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas:” http://bit.ly/cti7hw
And there you have it: The House of Commons feels humiliated and subservient because America led the charge into Iraq with its Brit poodle trailing behind and now they want to cut the leash. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1595)
Two stories of markedly divergent import:
“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth . . . :” The U.K., the United Kingdom, aka Britain, aka England, aka the British Isles, that multi-named little island across the Pond, is getting uppity now that the threat from the former U.S.S.R. has dissipated and it no longer feels it could be annihilated overnight.
Rescued by the United States from almost certain defeat in World War I and World War II and from the threat of the Russian Bear a generation ago, the Brits since then have grown more and more forgetful of their incalculable debt to America.
Now, when America is in the throes of social upheaval, a House of Commons committee has called for an end to the “special relationship” that has existed between the U.K. and the U.S.A. for seven decades.
No longer fearful of the Huns or the Russians, the Brits can have the temerity to thumb their noses in a westerly direction.
The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee issued a report saying the UK should feel free to just say no to the United States and that ”there is a need to be less deferential” to their crass American cousins.
The ostensibly primary reason for this sudden attack of independence? The Iraq War.
As the committee expressed it, “The perception that the British government was a subservient ‘poodle’ to the US administration leading up to the period of the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath is widespread both among the British public and overseas:” http://bit.ly/cti7hw
And there you have it: The House of Commons feels humiliated and subservient because America led the charge into Iraq with its Brit poodle trailing behind and now they want to cut the leash. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1595)
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