Fiskers Aweigh My Boy, Fiskers Aweigh
Master Fisker, Chief Engineer Smitty of the good ship Other McCain has outdone himself this time with a righteous Fisking that combines both Klingonian vengeance and near-Shakespearian eloquence. His target is one of the most notorious practitioners of Triangulation, Senator James ‘I’m A Rootin’-Tootin’ Fightin’ Scots-Irishman’ Webb. For years this man has done his best Daniel Patrick Moynihan, talking tough and reasonably conservative whilst hardly ever not voting the straight Bolshevik line in the Congress. Well, our friend Smitty has had enough of his political war gaming. A highlight:
The tell in the editorial came earlier, as far as I could observe:
I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship. Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white.
Do we need to get into your voting record, Senator? Have you not essentially been a rubber stamp for every crypto-Marxist idea that Pelosi and Reid have excreted in this atrocious 111th Congress, unless I’ve missed something. Where is your editorial promising to caucus with the GOP, if necessary, to prevent some zombie Congress from going on a brain-eating Card Check, Cap-N-Trade, &c rampage after the election in November? Where are you on making sure we’re approving Supreme Court justices who support and defend the Constitution, and don’t feel some urge to treat it as free verse about which to emote?
And speaking of the document you’ve sworn to support and defend, WTF “bringing fairness to America’s economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship”? ‘Fairness’? Where the ‘F’ is the F-word in your oath or in any of the founding documents? Why does liberty terrify you so? Why is the Federal government fretting the work force in say, Virginia? Isn’t that Governor McDonnell’s job? That whole chain of command thing–have you heard of it?
Ouch…that last part’s got to hurt [as you may or may not know: Smitty is a Navy Man].
Please do take the time to read the whole, joyous and deserv’ed Fisking.
Smitty had me at this line:
Well, wasn’t that an intellectual quaalude of Barackian proportions?
I bow before my Fisking superior.
Jim Webb is an American, a Marine, Annapolis, Secretary of the Navy, highly (and not politically, e.g. John Kerry) decorated Vietnam Veteran, married to a Vietnamese Lady. His son is a Marine. And he is Scots-Irish. A tiger does not lose his stripes. I am a registered Republican.
Senator Webb has voted with the socialist/fascists every time. He was, at one time, an honorable man, but he lost his after the George Allen ‘macaca’ incident when it failed to defend Senator Allen and by his votes as Senator.
Mrs. Kissell: Without specifically addressing the issue of Mr. Webb, if your tiger argument is based solely on the assertion that human beings are incapable of moral change, of altering the nature of their character, of going from once good to now evil, then I think you need a stronger argument, because even a cursory observation of humanity will reveal that to be a false premise. (At least, I certainly hope it is, because if it were true, it would imply that we are equally incapable of changing from once evil to now good, and that would be a very depressing thought indeed.) Oh, I almost forgot – I am a registered Independent and a former registered Republican. Look: I changed!