Dan Millbank The Washington Post

March 18, 2011

Dan Millbank
The Washington Post

RE: “Are you serious?” – Some comments on your column in today’s Miami Herald in which you, obviously unwittingly, pull back the curtain on the thought process of an increasingly endangered species, modern American Liberalism and their cannon fodder ink stained wretch suck ups.

Mr. Millbank,

“Are you serious?” was the response given by Nancy D’Alesandro Pelosi, former House head vixen. [I wonder why if the Secretary of State, and let me add that she is the best Secretary of State that we have, calls herself Hillary Rodham Clinton why doesn’t the San Francisco uber wealthy harridan ever use her maiden name? Perhaps there were too many “white envelopes” passed in the parking lot. If you don’t know what was in those myriad “white envelopes” you don’t know anything about modern American Liberalism, Democratic Party East Coast urban style. Her father was the Mayor of Baltimore.] She was asked by a somewhat naïve reporter where in the Constitution could one find, “lay one’s finger on” if you will, the authority to impose ObamaCare on the nation. “Are you serious, are you serious?” was her answer.

Thus, in a moment of unintended candor, she disposed of centuries of advancement on a perilous road leading to the Rule of Law.

When you quote Congressman McHenry asking Banking Czarina Warren about where the statutory approval for her meddling in Christmas Clubs and free toaster campaigns your snarky tone reminds me of “Badge? I don’t got no stinking badge. I don’t need no stinking badge” school of governance. An updated version would be “Play ball with me or I’ll shove the bat up your ass”.

Any chance I get to bring Saint Thomas More into the dialogue is always welcome.

“And when you cut down every law in the land to get at the Devil
where would you hide, the laws all being flat, when he turned on you?”

Could it be a coincidence that all the members of Congress you mention are Republicans? Referencing Czarina Warren – Our prayers are with her that she has better luck with the bull then the last Czarina – and her constant cry of “Cop on the beat”, is it possible to mention the last 15 years of American financial history without mentioning Senator Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank?

Senator Dodd still has the distinction of being the only nationally elected official ever to look me in the eye and lie. Now that he is the flack spreader for Hollywood there is no chance that his miracle mortgage on a cow shed in Ireland will ever be up on the silver screen. Why do I think that “Friends of Angelo” will be on Al Jazeera TV before it gets done in Hollywood?

Congressman Frank, and the only Churchill quote to fit him would be “He’s a man who gives sodomy a bad name”, was in the business of turning his unfinished basement into a gender specific Washington DC Knocking Shoppe when his “I’ll fix that ticket for you, you little devil you” brouhaha put an end to that. “Knocking Shoppe”? Send a SASE.

Where was the “Cop on the beat” when these two scroyles were breaking the law at breakneck speed? Full disclosure requires me to tell you that both those mendacious poltroons are Democrats but you probably knew that.

How about these potential recess appointments?

What will happen if President Palin anoints Pat Buchanan as her banking czar? What if a President Huckabee names the CEO of WAL*MART as the new big boss man?

“I would give the devil the protection of the law for my own safety’s sake.”

Didn’t Lord Barack the Beneficent begin an answer to a Republican Congressman with a gracious “We won”?

Sometimes life can be a bitch.




Kevin Smith