Btw, Book, as you can see here they gave the Americans equal time with the Soviets, and even gave the Americans more print space as well!!

Re German media spinning this, why am I reminded of the old joke about Soviet media interpreting a race between the Soviet ambassador and the American ambassador? The American ambassador won. Soviet media spin: the American ambassador finished next to last, and the Soviet ambassador finished second.
That I am reminded of this joke says something about the current state of German-American relations.

Posted by: GringoTex | May 13, 2008 at 07:41 PM

Read the comments to the post, it is very funny.

Why should we all pay for Maxine Waters? Or John Conyers? Or Nancy Pelosi?

Cause they’re the rulers God put over you.

99% of this country regards Maxine Waters as a stone moron. She doesn’t operate to “economic Marxism” because the works of Marx were never released as Classic Comics, therefore you know perfectly well she’s never read (granting she can read) a word that Karl Marx ever wrote.

She’s just operating to her own idiot belief (despite a superabundance of evidence to the contrary) that government could run something better than the private sector can.

The problem is that though the country as a whole is affected by her, she isn’t accountable to the country as a whole. She is elected by a small coterie of dimwits to whom she can feed a sufficiency of favors to keep them thinking that she’s the cat’s ass - but we all get to pay for it.

When I lived in New York I once wrote a letter to a congressman from a neighboring district (the execrable Charles Schumer before he got into the senate) and he wrote back to me and explained this problem with precision, pointing out that he didn’t have to care what I thought because I didn’tlive in his district. I wrote back to him and pointed out that when what came out of his mouth affected only the people who lived in his district and not all of us, then that would be fine. When what he was paid was a cost voted on and borne only by the people who lived in his district, then fine.

This is the dichotomy: they are free to run to the shelter of their districts when feeling pressure, but they expect that they will affect all of us and be paid for by all of us - and their idiot ideas and pet projects will be paid for by all of us - when they’re out on the grandstanding or pontificating trail.

This country is absolutely desperate for term limits.

A step in the right direction would be the germ of an idea I had and expressed above. You want to run for congress, fine: your salary and perks will not be the same as everyone else’s: you will be paid whatever your district feels like paying you, which will be voted on every election cycle. Why should that be national? If your district is poor and only feels like paying you $40,000 a year, which is about right for working half the year - then that’s what you get. That right there would be a disincentive to making it a career. Why should we all pay for Maxine Waters? Or John Conyers? Or Nancy Pelosi?

The solution is to make Maxine feel the pain caused by her oppression of the people. Or in anti-American terms, she needs to know what “blowback” exists for her actions.

Humans are very similar to animals in that you can change their behavior with enough pain, Danny.

Mr. Hoffmeister of Shell is as good at giving truth to power as anyone to date. His personal assault on Congress’ blockading of increasing petroleum supplies for the American people is a textbook case on how to do it.

Let us have more backbone shone by the the only people who actually do the heavy lifting in providing gasoline for the United States.

Congress now specializes in showboating, and it produces zero gasoline.

With regard to illegal aliens - how come the MSM doesn’t ever focus on how Mexico treats its illegal aliens. I assure you, the children of illegals in Mexico are far more traumatized.

With regard to Russian and Chinese concerns about U.S. missile defenses (that work), could it be because they sense an opportunity? Obama has already publicly stated that he would close down the program.

With regard to Hillary’s pinning her hopes on racists (let’s be frank, here), first…is anyone really surprised? Second, aren’t the only “racists” who have raised their heads thus far the bitter, gun-clinging, bible-thumping “white, working class” voters in the Democrat Party?

With regard to Russia being upset because they are once-again portrayed as the bad guys in a Hollywood movie, could it be that part of it is shame that Hollywood feels free to cast them in a bad light while conversely being terrified to do the same to Islamic terrorists? How far they’ve fallen!

With regard to Maxine Walters’ economic Marxism, can we really write off her views? She may be rock stupid but she certainly has a very significant constituency in the Democrat party (and Hollywood, or do I repeat myself), some of whom are very smart…and very dangerous.

Just asking.