Sticks And Stones May Break My…
Judging by the legislation under review and the changes in nomenclature, problems are already being solve left, right and center by the Democrats.
Climate change? Solved!
Terrorism? Solved!
Tense foreign relations? Solved!
US debt and deficit woes? Solved!
The latest thorn to be removed by nothing more than a stroke of the pen is the troublesome Global War on Terror. Janet Napolitano has junked the term GWoT because, in her opinion, it does not describe accurately the nature of the terrorist threat to the US.
I dunno. It works just fine for me in describing the people who’d love to do this sort of thing again.
Napolitano tries to bring in the intellectual big guns to justify her pointless change, stating that:
“One of the reasons the nomenclature is not used is that ‘war’ carries with it a relationship to nation states in conflict with each other and of course terrorism is not necessarily derived from the nation state relationship.”
Which, essentially, is a long way of saying blah-de-blah-de-blah.
Talk about focusing on the abstract rather than the reality. I don’t care about the origins of the nation-state and how applicable that may be to international terrorism – I only care about terrorists being killed into line.
It’s time to pray to the swirly cosmic power force again…
June 30th, 2009 at 13:10
This trickle-down insanity has made its way to the legislature in my state of Oregon. They actually tried to redefine “yes” as “no.”
Our state requires all new taxes/tax increases passed by the legislature to face a referendum from the public. The public usually gives them the finger. So, they’ve tried to re-word the referendum with a bunch of double-negatives that make it hard to tell if “yes” is really “yes” – and it turns out that “yes” really meant “no.” Thankfully it was revealed in time for the locals to bombard our reps with nasty phone calls, forcing them to back off this chicanery.
While I can disapprove of politicians trying to stay in the gray area of issues, I can at least understand why they’d do so. But to flat out invert the meanings of such basic ideas as yes and no shreds whatever was left of their credibility.
June 30th, 2009 at 13:29
We knew this was coming when Bubba Bill asked us to define “sex”. Now we’re calling the war on terror a “global contingency for man-caused disasters”. I posted back during the Maersk Alabama takedown about how we exploited those poor Coastal African Maritime Entrepeneurs….
June 30th, 2009 at 13:43
innominatus – thank you for that. I’ve read of referendum trickery but your comment takes the biscuit. That’s nothing short of open deceit.
Steve – Love the PC talk and, yup, should’ve seen it coming also since Bubba agonized over what the meaning of “is” was. Tool.