In the state Senate race that N in Seattle wrote about before the election, the Republican won. So, congrats to Jan Angel. I’d have preferred if she lost, but sometimes the person I want to win doesn’t. You know who’s really happy about that result though? Rodney Tom (Trib link).
“When everybody thinks they’re that 25th vote, well, they’ve got leverage,” Tom said. “It just makes it a lot more difficult.”
Seriously. He said that. Rodney. Tom. Said. That!
You know what? I’m really sad for Rodney Tom, everybody. How could he have predicted that in a caucus there might be people who are willing to blow the whole thing up? How could he have known that whiny entitled assholes might destroy a caucus to get what they want?
Just think of how a few years ago when Lisa Brown was trying to figure out a budget, if she’d realized, like Rodney Tom said:
“When everybody thinks they’re that 25th vote, well, they’ve got leverage,” Tom said. “It just makes it a lot more difficult.”
Just think when Ed Murray was trying to keep the majority that the Democrats had won at the polls if he’d had advice like:
“When everybody thinks they’re that 25th vote, well, they’ve got leverage,” Tom said. “It just makes it a lot more difficult.”
Honestly, Rodney Tom complaining about the possibility of defections in a caucus is so not self aware that nematodes read that and roll their eyes.
Carl, you’ve highlighted (perhaps unwittingly) the most fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans:
Democrats have character. Republicans don’t.
I’ve gotten to the point where nothing Rodney Tom says or does surpises me that much anymore.
DUMMOCRETINS… are a very scary bunch! A group of Rats acting like their little counterparts… a swarm!
@3 Damn right you’d better be afraid of us!
Meanwhile, the GOP’s Benghazi meme is falling apart big-time:
“A notable publisher ceased the publication of a book detailing firsthand accounts of the Benghazi consulate attacks on Friday, after two previous reports by one of the authors conflicted largely with accounts in the book. Simon and Schuster’s decision to stop selling ‘The Embassy House — written by security officer Dylan Davies under the pseudonym Morgan Jones — followed an apology by CBS correspondent Lara Logan on Friday for featuring Davies as a key source during a ’60 Minutes’ interview.”
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_new.....-book?lite
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Apologies are nice, but given Logan’s prior record, it’s time for CBS to fire her.
# 5 RR
I had an interesting discussion at lunch yesterday about that. One of the other guys thats close to my age group said something rather interesting. He’s an English major, and a pretty sharp dude.
He mentioned the idea that maybe, that whole 60 minutes scandal, really isn’t one except within the context of deliberately discrediting certain US Senators who have already been clearly shown to be openly lying about it. This story just followed the script of the lie, and then shot it completely down in the space of a week.
CBS can afford to take the shit sandwich. That little aspect of the overall story is minor, when compared to the story of the overtly slanderous campaign by the GOP in this matter.
It seems to have worked, perfectly. Everyone has shut up. They know that they have been caught in what is probably one of their more damaging lies. This isn’t over yet. Watch for the followups on this.