It's Not Screw as I Screw...

Tom "the hammer" DeLay comes out with guns blazing in the latest issue of the New Yorker.

Among other things, he's happy to comment on the liklihood of a Newt candidacy.

Since he had already repented and come back to the Lord (after getting his fill of extramarital nookie earlier on), you see, his role in the Clinton impeachment trial was on a different moral plane than that of Newt Gingrich who was banging his soon-to-be-third-wife-if-it-weren't-for-that-damned-second-one!

These assholes are just about as funny as a couple of Democrats on the debate stage arguing about who has screwed more.....environmentally-friendly lightbulbs in their office.

The Gore Shadow Candidacy Rumours Continue

Britain's Telegraph is reporting this morning that TeamGore is not not starting its campaign.  While they don't name names, people 
sympathetic to a 2008 Gore run are being asked if they could kick it into high gear towards the end of the year.

Gore's been quoted off and on for the past several months as saying that he has no intention of running in '08, but has so far refused to categorically rule it out.

Most people seem to agree that there's no love lost between Albert and Hilary Clinton, so this news, in addition to the continuing popularity of the Junior Senator 
from Illinois cannot be welcome news to their campaign, which kicked off with a real air of inevitability.

With the cycle starting unusually early this year, this storyline is not entirely unique to Gore.  On the GOP side, Chuck Hagel, Fred Thompson and Newt Gingrich are also getting their names out there without having taken official steps to begin their campaigns.

Game on!

>>2:20PM EST....TeamGore denies that a candidate would sink so low as to sit on the sidelines, disingenuously waiting for a groundswell of support to "force" the candidate into the campaign.

Newt Gingrich and Another Chapter in the English-preferred Movement

If-you-really-think-I-should Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has above-the-scroll billing on CNN.com this hour for a speech he gave yesterday in favor of English-only/preferred when it comes to the printing of government documents.

What grabs the headline, of course, is his conscious decision to equate bilingual education with "the language of living in a ghetto."

When reading this snippet, I was reminded of an old Dennis Miller bit in which he said that he never got into drugs not because he found their use to be particularly troublesome, but rather the people you had to do them with.

The English-only movement, as well as other political causes seem to be to be doomed by the same phenomena. It's hard to make a case that it really is in one's self-interest to know how to speak English in this country without being branded an Archie Bunker (or worse!) type.

The marijuana legalization movement, in my opinon, falls into this group, too. The so-called war on drugs in this country is fraught with problems from top to bottom...ranging from what qualifies as a "drug" to the way in which it is enforced.

However, when the luminaries of the movement are folks like the Black Crowes, it makes it a litte more desirable to just stay out of the way.

If the folks in the English-only crowd are actually serious about making a positive difference for people in this country (rather than just exploiting the issue solely for political gain), they might be wiser to rely more heavily on economic and sociological research that shows why this might be a good idea.

I won't hold my breath...lest my dear readers wonder what I'm smoking.