Didya see the big dog show? Snoopy won at Westminster. Something comforting and pure in the world when a beagle, no less, gets named Best in Show. We feel good about that little critter who connected with his heart. We like it that he woofed the whole time like a real dog — not a stage-managed one.
If we were Hillary Clinton, we might now feel that the wheels were coming off a bit. Yes, she's powerful and has a lot of money and we are not ready to dismiss her just yet. But the momentum shift is palpable. Question is, how well would the Barackster fare against the General in a head to head contest? We aren't totally sure. We must ponder and poll. The Dems must be as divided on their candidates as the GOP is on McCain.
One day til Valentine's Day. A word of knowledge: Dudes, she probably doesn't dig carnations so much. Lilies, yes. Cheapness no. All we're sayin… If you can cook, invite her over and show her you know your way around the kitchen. If you can't, dinner out also works, but you gotta do the planning and make the reservations. Take the lead.
Some drama on the Hill today with Roger Clemens facing off with his former trainer on the issue of steroid use. Clemens seems super-motivated to salvage his legacy in baseball. Extremely defiant in his own defense. You've got to wonder who is telling the truth here and why each side would go to such great lengths to defend their position. Does this trainer have a book deal? We love baseball and we hate it when such a beautiful game is tainted like this.
— Andrea Billups, The Washington Times
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It's funny that you began this post with a dog show reference before shifting over to the Clemens show trial... er, I mean Congressional hearing. Do beltway journalists really imagine a guy like Roger Clemens, who's really just a guy with a crazy Genius for throwing a ball, KNOWS any more about steroids or HGH than Snoopy does about flying a WWI biplane (against the Red Baron, no less!)? Of course not. If I recall correctly, HGH advertises in The National Review of all places!
This pitcher, Clemens, was an asset for his ball clubs; an ace. If one remembers the movie Bull Durham, think back to the Catcher, Crash Davis' advice to the young pitcher Nuke: "Don't THINK! It'll only HURT the ball club!". That's sage advice for any modern athlete who wishes to compete in this era and knows his or her own... mental and/or intellectual limitations. So appreciating that Roger Clemens isn't very likely to be a theoretical physicist or a master spy-catcher or a great strategic mastermind, just what was Congress (and the PSI's previous work) showing us with that silly witch hunt?
Well... God forbid Congress or the Senate should ever find themselves trying to put a REAL theoretical physicist or master spy-catcher or strategic Genius up in front of the public via C-span in order to grill him, as he'd have ripped them to shreds. And anyway, what we were really seeing was that part of the Capital that no one IN the Capital likes to talk about.... the shifty, lying, bullying, and corrupt abuse of authority the Republic's elected representatives surrenders to faceless manderins, staffers, "investigators", and bureaucrats. It wasn't the Senator or the Congressmen or Clemens or baseball that was on trail, but rather the sleezy unaccountable staffers who hide behind titles and their knowledge that they're merely doing what their peers on the other side of the aisle do anyway... so who's going to catch them cheating?
Who in the Republic is tough enough and brave enough to risk the wrath of these well coifed young paragons of all that is rotten in the beltway? Not the D.C. press corps, obviously. So whom? Come to think of it, maybe it WOULD be refreshing if the Chief's of Staff and CRO and GAO and LA's DID stick someone like a theoretical physicist or master spy catcher up in front of the cameras for the U.S. electorate to compare to it's gerrymandered Federal Representatives and their amateur hatchet staffers and investigators... now THAT would be a game worth tuning in to watch!
Posted by A. Scott Crawford | February 18, 2008 11:05 PM