Crap sandwiches
October 1, 2008 • (0) Comments
I love Jonah Goldberg. Dude can write. And what he writes cuts through the editorial blather better than anybody opining for New York-area dailies since William Safire retired from the Times.
But in today’s NY Post, Goldberg had me spitting coffee through my nose when he quoted House GOP leader John Boehner’s recent portrayal of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout as a “crap sandwich”. Goldberg lays blame for the mess with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd and both Presidential candidates and President Bush and Hank Paulson and congressional Republicans, and, well, here’s how he closed:
I loathe populism. But if ever there’s been a moment when reasonable men’s hands itch for the pitchfork, this must surely be it.
No one is blameless. No one is pure. Two decades of crapulence by the political class has been prologue to the era of coprophagy that is now upon us. It is crap sandwiches for as far as the eye can see.
That surely must rank with Goldberg’s 2006 National Review essay [National Review, Nov 20, 2006] where he said:
ENTRENCHED somewhere in Boston’s biotech corridor there must be a newfangled Wonka Works dedicated to growing enormous liberal doofuses in a petri dish, or may be a strawberry patch. And every now and then the Oompa-Loompas roll out something that looks like Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, or the Augustus Gloop of American liberalism, Ted Kennedy.
Describing John Kerry as bent into “a pretzel of assinity” over a campaign-trail gaffe, Goldberg styled the Senator a “haughty crap-weasel,” words that will forever make me smile.