The important thing isn’t that he’s an incompetent, anti-semitic political lapdog, the important thing is how he handled a female staffer’s complaint that someone used sexually loaded language towards her.

This will cheer everyone up!

A Jewish immigrant from Eastern Europe was told by his friends he’d have an easier time if he took on an American name. He asked for a suggestion, so they said, “Take John Smith. The immigration authorities ask for your name, tell them you’re John Smith.” He happily agreed.

That was not to be, however. Upon standing in line before the authorities, he had a blackout. “Your name, please?” He just couldn’t remember. Slapping his forehead, he said, “Ach! Ich hob shoin fargessen!” (“Oh! I’ve already forgotten!”). So it was he began his new life in America under the name Sean Ferguson.

Seriously, in Israel today the majority of names are Arabic-sounding. The anti-Zionists, of course, driven by the agenda of mendaciously portraying Jewish nationalism as a branch of European colonialism, ignore those names and focus on the European-sounding ones, now the minority. One reason (among so many) why I think all anti-Zionists deserve to have their necks wrapped in an extra-strong scarf, of the type legally administered by a High Court.

I expanded on my earlier comment with a post on my blog. Excerpt:

I’ve been avoiding politics, too upsetting, but some things get in. Neo-neocon’s post on the Senator Hagel, Secretary of Defense nomination hearings makes my patriotic liberal idealist heart clench in anger.

It’s not a surprise anymore, but it’s still frustrating. Hagel’s naked admissions are just one more reminder that President Bush reacted to 9/11 as a principled leader simply trying to do his duty as America’s Commander-in-Chief and leader of the free world – following liberal principles no less. He gave his countrymen the opportunity to reaffirm that we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our Fortunes, & our sacred Honor in order to battle the regressive challenge to our hegemony and make the world a better place. Instead, Bush’s detractors seized the opportunity to grab power and advance their own agenda of parochial partisan self-interests at the expense of the nation and a progressive world order. They succeeded and, rather than object, the Cathedral was complicit, and the majority of the West accepted the betrayal as the new political normal. We fractured and shrank where we should have united and grown.

I sometimes think things will get so bad that my lib acquaintances will see them. But, no matter how bad they get, the lesson will be lost by the astounding skill the libs have for blaming the irrelevant. Bush. Republicans. Greed.
I shame myself by hoping, for example, that a friend will lose her health coverage so I can say, But you had that in your calculation when you voted, right? But, of course, she did not. Being highly educated, she is adamantly immune to information.
IOW, they WILL NOT LEARN.