Lose Yourself
by ChrisDecember 22nd, 2005 6:55 pm
I just had the not so unique pleasure of watching Colorado’s Republican Governor, Bill Owens, defend, in very broad strokes, the most intrusive aspects of the Patriot Act as well as the President’s ability to authorize the National Security Agency to spy on United States citizens. The program was Hardball, where Owens was debating an all too accommodating, thought not entirely inept, Bill Richardson.
Now I’m the first to admit that I’m not well traveled, but I’ve always presumed that any politician who has a prayer of a chance in a square, western state like Colorado needs to proclaim the virtues of rugged individualism, while simultaneously denouncing the nanny state and the liberal eastern elite. Holy shit, was I ever wrong. Here was Owens, on national television no less, throwing the United States Constitution under the bus because he’s a scared, sniveling little wimp. Watching his appearance, one might almost have expected him to throw himself into the arms of a waiting NSA agent as soon as he was off camera.
How is it that an East Coast art school graduate (that would be me), watches a televised appearance by a big tough western governor from a big tough square state and thinks to himself, “wimp?” Actually, the words that crossed my mind were a good deal more crass than “wimp”, but I’ll restrain myself. Some Daddy Party that one.
No links, no transcript, no nothing - pure hyperbole. Enjoy.
