The party of poop strikes again
Bookworm on Jul 18 2008 at 12:05 pm | Filed under: San Francisco
Many years ago, I did a post noting how extraordinarily scatalogical the true believers on the Left are. To me, that obsession with fecal matter bespeaks a certain, how shall I say it?, immaturity. It’s all of a piece with what Diana West writes about in her book, The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
What saddens me, because it’s yet another sign of our country’s imbecilic decay, is that this formerly subterranean fixation has now percolated onto the ballot of a major American city. San Francisco voters have placed on the ballot an initiative to rename a sewage treatment plant after George Bush:
San Francisco voters will be asked to decide whether to name a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush, after a satiric measure qualified for the November ballot Thursday.
I’m pretty certain the measure will pass. The die-hards will vote for it out of political conviction, a small group of San Franciscans will treat it with the contempt it deserves by voting against it, and the vast middle will either ignore it or vote for it as a great joke.
At the end of the day, the party of poop will be ascendant. They’ll have made their little scatological political statement and our entire democracy will be the poorer for this expression of crass immaturity at the ballot box.
Hat tip: Spiff
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Party of Poops or Party of “Boobs”.
There is something very positive here. Bush’s namesake taking tons and tons of San Francisco’s crap and turning it into drinkable, recyclable water and usable compost.
Uh, I think that you meant to say “San Francisco Democrat” crap, Petrus.
Sounds like the “GW Bush Treatment Plant” will be cleaning up Nancy Pelosi’s messes long after he’s left office. There’s something almost epic about that.
Given his sense of humor and his level of comfort with himself, I expect that GWB would cut the ribbon, if invited–and say a few self-deprecating words about the contribution to his legacy.
Sewage treatment plants do important work.
Agree all around. The self deluding entities in SF are actually admitting unconsciously that they can not finish the job. It takes an adult to clean up the mess that the children make.
I’m sure Bush would see the humor, and the underlying symbolism.
This could start a raft of GWB “Material Reprocessing and Resource Enhancing Centers” across the nation.
Go George.
Al
San Francisco considers itself a Mecca for the intelligentsia.
Many well-known scientific meetings are held there. There could well be a back-lash among scientists from flyover country who are invited to present papers at meetings held there.
Imagine scientists boycotting the Bay area in favor of presenting their important work in friendlier venues, where supposed Redneck Values are not mocked on a daily basis.
Look at what the Civil Rights boycotts in the South accomplished many years ago.