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Didn’t Karen Bass’s friends promise that she would be different?
She is not.
Whoopee, the high-pitched, low-thinking lightweight ladies up and down the state giggled last month when Ms. Bass — through a system of greasy manipulations — became the first black and the second woman to rise to the Speakership of the California Assembly.
By golly, Murgatroyd, I said to the best-paid executive secretary in Culver City in my shaky Tim Conway imitation. Where does the Democratic Party keep finding these glistening gems?
Put-upon liberal ladies are all the rage now that Hillary has been beaten.
By a heavy-smoking, mind-changing unknown man, yet.
Across America, Hillary-style pants-suits — extra baggy in the seat, please, Sam —are flying off the racks, even at select 99-Cent Stores.
Liberal ladies are rising in unison. They have declared war on real and imagined glass ceilings. Vociferously, the little ladies polish their Democratic Party credentials by proclaiming their mantra, “We are victims.”
Calling All Victims
As I shade my eyes from the glare of the late spring sun, down the dusty road trots Ms. Bass (D-Culver City), just in time to collect on the victim payoff.
Turning my hearing aid to High, she seems to be muttering, “Darn the rich. Darn the rich. Darn the rich.”
It was the only way I could tell Ms. Bass is a liberal.
The mud had not even dried on the little lady’s fashionable shoes last week before she shared the least imaginative idea of her nascent speakership with the Sacramento Press Club:
I propose a $6.4 billion tax hike to help offset the budget deficit. My plan would give special attention to increasing the rate on rich individuals and to plugging tax loopholes that corporations have become accustomed to.
For this we had to change Speakers?
Trading in the Mexican Mafia, termed-out Fabian Nunez, for the dull Ms. Bass was a lousy deal even by Democratic standards.
Unabashed Cheerleader
“She’ll be a very different Speaker,” the sometimes-squishy political scientist Raphael Sonnenshein of Cal State Fullerton solemnly told the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago.
“She comes from a community organizing background…
“She’s a very pragmatic problem-solver. She doesn’t look for wars to polarize issues. That bodes well for crossing party lines in Sacramento.
“Republicans will be pleasantly surprised.
“She’s calm, friendly, determined, humorous. People like to be around her.”
The professor, you will note, is a loyal soldier in the army of Nobody Can Be Too Liberal for Me.
As you may have gathered from Prof. Sonnenshein’s embarrassing fawning, he makes the sound of a squeegee when he sits down.
Haven’t the slipperiness, the backtracking and the persistent vagueness of Barack Obama’s far, far ranging messages taught us the last four months that “community organizer” is not recommendation for employment.
Bully for Hire?
A prospective soda jerk wouldn’t even admit it.
I mean, I never met anyone who wrote “I am a recovering bully” on his resume.
If you were a “community organizer,” which sounds like being in charge of striking slow people over the head with a baseball bat, a sensible person would mask this failing from his past.
Treat it, pal, as you would a ticket for drunk driving. For heaven’s sakes, don’t flaunt it.
Liberal Libation
Once you get to the bottom of the glass of bluster that Prof. Sonnenshein must be ingesting, ain’t nothing left, which, I think, is where our evaluations of Ms. Bass as Speaker began several months ago.
