From my hospital bed early yesterday morning, I watched race-conscious Colin (The Slippery Chameleon) Powell disingenuously defend the Nebraska Bagel, Chuck Hagel, for the next Secretary of Defense, in Meet the Press.
Figured. Both boobs refer to themselves as “Republicans,” which is like Mao calling himself a Floridian, even though neither currently agrees with any GOP policies.
Shallow contrarians both, the wobbly Mr. Hagel shamelessly has held Yes, No and I Don’t Know positions on 20 of the top 25 major current events 1997when he launched his unremarkable, accomplishment-free Senate career in 1997. His reputation as a personally cold, uncongenial first-rank opportunist stands unchallenged.
Arf, Arf, as They Say
If a dog and Mr. Hagel were drowning and a passerby could rescue only one, I believe every Republican would choose the dog. Mr. Powell should not laugh. He also would lose to the hound.
A Swiss cheese thinker and non-logician, Mr. Powell guiltlessly has ridden the race train, the color of his skin and an undistinguished military resume to elite status in a Washington where breathing is considered a lofty achievement.
For social-invitation purposes in stratified Washington, Mr. P brays emptily that he remains a lifetime “Republican” even though he opposes all popular GOP positions and even though he voted both times for Swish Obama because he considered it his racial obligation.
When Colin the Slippery Chameleon slyly referred to Republicans as “they” instead of “we” when characterizing rudimentary conservative policies as “far right,” moderator David Gregory called him on his pronoun.
If you are a Republican, asked Mr. Gregory, why do you refer to allegedly your party as “they”? The Slippery Chameleon skidded into one of his several rants about the “far right,” not ever “the right,” as being antithetical to his beliefs.
A Show of Hands — or Fingers
Despite this lexiconic manipulation, he pledged fealty to the Republican Party, even though he could not name one Republican with whom he agrees on anything but the calendar.
Politically, he has less credibility among serious people and he has held more momentary policy positions than any Americans outside of Mr. Obama and John Kerry.
Supposedly, the honorable racist was on NBC to support Swish’s vengeful nomination of the Nebraska Bagel.
As one of the less original thinking liberals in government ¬ — that truly is a low bar — Mr. Powell’s has two reasons for backing him:
First, despite Mr. Hagel’s bin-ful of prejudiced regrettable positions on a half-dozen subjects, he has not knocked black people.
Second, retreating to the favorite historic fallback position of Washington liberals only they like, Mr. Powell said the Nebraska Bagel’s troubling comments are irrelevant. Why?
Because as the Defense Sec, Mr. P theorized in slightly different language, the Bagel merely is a puppet. President Obama alone is the policy-setter. Mr. Hagel is there to have his strings pulled at the President’s whim. Mr. Hagel’s own convictions, according to Mr. Powell’s convenient theorizing, are as irrelevant as the Nebraska weather.
If personal beliefs and past pronouncements are irrelevant – given that liberals love the Bagel ¬— why not nominate Elmer Fudd?
Maybe Swish already did.
