Essential Spirit

Tags: , , Posted 2010-01-24 00:51 3 Comments

I’d like to thank all of those who voted for Scott Brown. You’ve done the coura­geous thing by mak­ing sure the rest of the coun­try can­not have a health care sys­tem roughly equiv­a­lent to the one you already enjoy in Massachusetts.

Most peo­ple — ordi­nary peo­ple — would not allow them­selves to sim­ply ignore the mon­u­men­tal shame­ful­ness of that. They would con­sider care­fully the national and inter­na­tional con­se­quences of giv­ing a Republican the 41st seat in the Senate. They would not allow a poorly ran cam­paign, or some bull­shit about a sports team to get in the way of mak­ing the moral choice. Hell, I voted for Obama — south-sider and Sox fan that he is — for that very reason…

Fortunately, nei­ther I nor most other peo­ple, live in Massachusetts.

I believe that Joseph Goebbels once said that the SS per­son­nel in the con­cen­tra­tion camps were the epit­ome of strength: they were so strong that they could keep their con­sciences and the wrong­ness of their actions from get­ting in the way of actu­ally killing the Jews. It’s good to know that essen­tial spirit is alive and well, par­tic­u­larly in the sup­posed bas­tion of coastal liberalism.

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  • Jeff Walden says:
    2010-01-24 at 5:13 am

    You for­got to men­tion the peo­ple who donated to Scott Brown to assist his cam­paign. Cheerio!

  • ethana2 says:
    2010-01-24 at 5:20 am

    For I was hun­gry and you gave me noth­ing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me noth­ing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.

    They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hun­gry or thirsty or a stranger or need­ing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, what­ever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

  • sri says:
    2010-01-24 at 10:31 pm

    Actually, we really should just thank the damn Democratic Party of Massachusetts for putting the crap­pi­est can­di­date. The woman didn’t even want to work for it. Sneered when asked about shak­ing hands. They could have put up a bet­ter can­di­date and eas­ily won, but they got them­selves a real loser. It’s too bad.

    Also, the demo­c­ra­tic party is the stu­pid­est party on the planet They have a freak­ing super major­ity and still are divided. If they can’t pass one of the fun­da­men­tal goals of the party, then some­thing is really wrong.
    sri

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