Michael Hirsh

Hoyer=Hypocrite

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:08:00 GMT

Yesterday, I asked the rhetorical question: "Does their shame know any limits?" Hoyer answers the question: "No. Not really."

Thanks to Creative Minority Report and Verum Serum we have proof.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) has been all over the media the past couple of days defending he and Pelosi’s apparent decision to use a procedural rule to “deem” the Senate health bill passed as part of the reconciliation package, rather than holding an actual floor vote on the bill. This “deem and pass” strategy, also known as a self-executing rule (or the “Slaughter rule”), could be critical for the House leadership to corral enough votes from reluctant Democrats.

Watch the video of the fulminating Hoyer/Hypocrite here.

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A Prayer for the President

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:00 GMT

"Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
(Psalm 109:8)

Amen.

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Thanks, Uncle Jay.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:03:00 GMT

That really clears things up for me.

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Out of the mouth of babes.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:44:00 GMT

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I don't know what to think.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:40:00 GMT

You tell me.

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Our ignorance; their bliss

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:53:00 GMT

It was a nice Republic while it lasted.

We're poor little Lambs who have lost our way. Bah Bah Bah.
We're little black sheep who have gone astray. Bah Bah Bah.
Gentleman songster off on a spree.
Damned from here to eternity.
God have mercy on such as we.
Bah Bah Bah.
The Whiffenpoofs song.

The Democrats want health care. No matter what. They have lied, they have hidden, they have obfuscated. And those are the nicest things I can say. Folks, we are perilously close to me unleashing the larger component of my vocabulary.

I an no stranger to hyperbole. It is a useful rhetorical device for making a point. It's one big drawback is when you don't use it, the point can be lost. I am not using hyperbole here. At all.

It is my opinion that we are on the precipice of collapse, at so many different levels. The health care debate is merely the confluence of those. This proposed piece of . . . legislation contains several firsts.

It marks the first time there has been so much secrecy, so much duplicity since the ratification of the 16th Amendment. It portends economic disaster. It would create an absolutely unsustainable financial model.
Even if abortion were not the linchpin of the entire debate, this vote - or, worse, the lack of a vote - will mark our irretrievable descent down the Road to Serfdom.
Morally, we are poised over the abyss. We've had abortophiles in power before. This Administration betrays the first time that someone has offered to murder his own grandchildren, rather than "punish them with a baby." This legislation, though, is the abortophile's nirvana. Abortions for free; abortions for everyone; abortions enshrined in the United States Code.
You don't have to be much of a student of history to know that a culture so in love with killing its children has, in fact, been Romanced to Death. This otherwise horrific bill would have passed already but for the Dems insistence that we all pay to have someone else's children killed. They are not content to practice this evil on their own, they want to make us complicit in the heinous act. (Note: This is the same tactic Charles Manson used to get compliance from his followers)

From the words of Pelosi's own mouth we've heard that she wants us to be ignorant. She is also seeking to run cover for her fellow Democrats who vote for Obamacare and are standing for election. Giving these cowards plausible deniability when they have to face their constituents at home.

All working together to making our ignorance their bliss. That it destroys the Republic at the same time is - to them - just icing on the cake.

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Not the "self-executing" rule I had hoped for.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:34:00 GMT

Has their shame no boundaries. Dems in the House, led by Speakerette Nancy Pelosi originally promised and open and public debate on Health Care. But that was way back during the elections. Who are we to trifle over small details . . . like the truth? Now Pelosi is considering ramming the Obamacare debacle down our throats without even voting on it.

The Washington Post reports:

After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate's health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to pass the measure without having members vote on it.
Instead, Pelosi (D-Calif.) would rely on a procedural sleight of hand: The House would vote on a more popular package of fixes to the Senate bill; under the House rule for that vote, passage would signify that lawmakers "deem" the health-care bill to be passed.
The tactic -- known as a "self-executing rule" or a "deem and pass" -- has been commonly used, although never to pass legislation as momentous as the $875 billion health-care bill. It is one of three options that Pelosi said she is considering for a late-week House vote, but she added that she prefers it because it would politically protect lawmakers who are reluctant to publicly support the measure.
"It's more insider and process-oriented than most people want to know," the speaker said in a roundtable discussion with bloggers Monday. "But I like it," she said, "because people don't have to vote on the Senate bill."
Read the rest of the article here.

I'm all in favor of them adopting a "Self-executing rule" as long as it's the one that's good for the country.

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Gore's Inconvenient Truth

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:09:00 GMT

Gore's Global Warming Checklist:

Rain? Check.
Drought? Check.
Blizzard? Check.
Cubs win? Check.

In what looks to be a neck-and-neck race with Barack Obama for the world's biggest liar, Al Gore asserts that recent weather patterns - worldwide, the coldest in recent history - prove his theory of big, bad man's causation of Global Warming. You may remember the irrelevant Al; he served as Vice-President to America's first (real) Black President.

If there’s a drought – it’s global warming. When there’s a hurricane – it’s global warming. If there are heavy snows or even blizzards – it’s somehow global warming. And amazingly, the latest round of rainy and windy weather in the Northeast, well that’s consistent with this phenomenon as well, so says former Vice President Al Gore.

Gore, the self-anointed climate change alarmist-in-chief, told supporters on a March 15 conference call that severe weather in certain regions of the country could be attributed to carbon in the atmosphere – including the recent rash of rainy weather.

“[T]he odds have shifted toward much larger downpours,” Gore said. “And we have seen that happen in the Northeast, we’ve seen it happen in the Northwest – in both of those regions are among those that scientists have predicted for a long time would begin to experience much larger downpours.”

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Government job stimulus plan at work.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:11:00 GMT

From the "I can't possibly make this stuff up" department, the Sacramento Bee reports:

It's every businessman's nightmare.

Arriving at Harv's Metro Car Wash in midtown Wednesday afternoon were two dark-suited IRS agents demanding payment of delinquent taxes. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," says Harv's owner, Aaron Zeff.The really odd part of this: The letter that was hand-delivered to Zeff's on-site manager showed the amount of money owed to the feds was ... 4 cents.

Inexplicably, penalties and taxes accruing on the debt – stemming from the 2006 tax year – were listed as $202.31, leaving Harv's with an obligation of $202.35. Zeff, who also owns local parking lots and is the president of the Midtown Business Association, finds the situation a bit comical. "It's hilarious," he says, "that two people hopped in a car and came down here for just 4 cents."

And, for the understatement of the day: "I think (the IRS) may have a problem with priorities."

Now he's trying to figure out how penalties and interest could climb so high on such a small debt. He says he's never been told he owes any taxes or that he's ever incurred any late-payment penalties in the four years he's owned Harv's.In fact, he provided us with an Oct. 22, 2009, letter from the IRS that states Harv's "has filed all required returns and addressed any balances due.".

IRS spokesman Jesse Weller isn't commenting "due to privacy and disclosure laws." Zeff says he's as offended as much as anything else by what he considers rude behavior by the IRS guys. While at Harv's, he sniffs, "they didn't even get a car wash."

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You've been warned.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:17:00 GMT

Vote "NO" or I'll send this woman to your house.

According to Bart Stupak, the leadership in the House and the Senate are pushing hard to pass Obamacare, saying, "They just want it over." The prolife Democrat (can you use those two words in the same sentence?) had marshaled a dozen colleagues who had promised to stand their ground as long as federally funded abortion is part of the package. He says the Democratic leadership is just ignoring him.

As reported by National Review Online, Stupak and the others are under considerable pressure. Pray they remain strong.

Sitting in an airport, on his way home to Michigan, Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat, is chagrined. “They’re ignoring me,” he says, in a phone interview with National Review Online. “That’s their strategy now. The House Democratic leaders think they have the votes to pass the Senate’s without us. At this point, there is no doubt that they’ve been able to peel off one or two of my twelve. And even if they don’t have the votes, it’s been made clear to us that they won’t insert our language on the abortion issue.”
According to Stupak, that group of twelve pro-life House Democrats — the “Stupak dozen” — has privately agreed for months to vote ‘no’ on the Senate’s health-care bill if federal funding for abortion is included in the final legislative language. Now, in the debate’s final hours, Stupak says the other eleven are coming under “enormous” political pressure from both the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.). “I am a definite ‘no’ vote,” he says. “I didn’t cave. The others are having both of their arms twisted, and we’re all getting pounded by our traditional Democratic supporters, like unions.”
Read the rest here.

Remember, if we lose . . . this woman is coming to your house. You've been warned.

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Why my Mom wouldn't let me bring my motorcycle inside.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:22:00 GMT

She wouldn't let me run with the scissors either. But that was a pretty good idea.

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Notes from the Gulag, Part 1

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:20:00 GMT

It can get a little depressing when you do a little research on this Administration's complete shredding of the Constitution. So just to give you something to do over the weekend, Friday's will feature a collection of government abuses. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

1. Obamacare:

2. Census takers collecting the GPS coordinates of your front door:

3. Feds consider requiring "Black Boxes" in cars.

4. Privacy, smivishy: "As a social good," says Richard Posner, the federal judge and iconoclastic conservative, "I think privacy is greatly overrated because privacy basically means concealment. I guess the constitutional right to privacy extends only to abortion.

5. What's for dinner? Feds use "carnivore" program to a massive program of warrantless electronic surveillance of both domestic and foreign communications with the cooperation of all but one U.S. telecommunications carrier.

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."
- Benjamin Franklin

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A little something for your honor student.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:27:00 GMT

The U.S. Department of Education is buying twenty-seven Remington shotguns. Among other specifications, the shotguns are to be equipped with combat sights. Let's see these could be for:

a) teaching our children the finer points of home defense;
b) a special gift for that special graduate;
c) part of truancy reduction program that includes summary roadside executions;
d) a new home-school "voluntary compliance" initiative (a/k/a "No Child Left
Behind, the sequel"); or,
e) nahh! They wouldn't. Would they?

Click the pic for the full view.

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Now that's more like it.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:35:00 GMT

It's not like we actually needed confirmation that Pope Benedict XVI follows this blog.

But on the heels of another scandal, the Holy Father underscores the centrality of repentance and forgiveness as the antidote to sin . . . and he actually used the "s" word which has fallen into a lack of use as of late.

Scripture teaches that "the compassion of the wicked is cruel." Indeed, those either inside or outside the Church who cast depravity - whether general or specific - as a condition, disease, or irresistible impulse, rather than sin - are cruel in their false compassion as they slam the only door of deliverance.

Catholic News Agency reports:

The Holy Father urged, "it is necessary for priests to live their own response to vocation 'exaltedly,' because only someone who daily becomes a living and clear presence of the Lord can arouse a sense of sin in the faithful, give them courage and stimulate their desire for forgiveness from God."

There is a necessity for priests to return to the confessional, Benedict XVI emphasized, to ensure that the people "find mercy, counsel and comfort, feel loved and understood by God and experience the presence of the Divine Mercy, alongside the real Presence in the Eucharist."

The Holy Father also touched on the "crisis" of participation in the Sacrament of Penance. He said that this lack of repentance is "an appeal addressed first and foremost to priests and to their great responsibility to educate the people of God in the radical demands of the Gospel. In particular, it calls on them generously to dedicate themselves to hearing sacramental confessions, and courageously to guide their flock not to conform itself to this world, but to make choices that go against the tide, avoiding deals and compromises."

Read the rest of the article here.

What more appropriate message could we consider during this Lent than to "experience the presence of the Divine Mercy."

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This is just bad. All the way around.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:25:00 GMT

You know it's bad when CBS is suddenly concerned about priests' fidelity to their vows. You know it's bad when a sodomite is hanging out at a "gay" bar, engaging in nearly anonymous deviant behavior. You know it's bad when that same sodomite claims that same conduct with priests conflicted with his religious an moral values. You know it's bad when the spiritual father's response to vow-breaking priests sin is "professional guidance" rather than a Lenten call for all of us to repentance. It's just bad. All the way around.

ATLANTA -- CBS Atlanta is breaking news about salacious sex charges in the Catholic Church. Two priests in the Atlanta Archdiocese have been removed from their parishes after engaging in homosexual relationships. Dale Chappell, the man who said these two priests conspired to "use him for sex," provided text messages and pictures that document 5 years of inappropriate relationships, concealed behind closed doors in Atlanta's Catholic church. Chappell said he was the victim of the two priests' conspiracy, a plan that did the unthinkable: to break the priests' vows to God, and the church. "I know they do not have good character, I can tell you that. Because they are liars. They are chronic liars, and they duped me not once, but twice," When he found out, Chappell said he ended the relationship because it conflicted with his religious and moral values.

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They can hear you now!

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:00 GMT

The Snitch in Your Pocket.

Newsweek magazine, not exactly a gathering place of tea-partiers or a friend to liberty, gives us all a little heads up.

Amid all the furor over the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program a few years ago, a mini-revolt was brewing over another type of federal snooping that was getting no public attention at all. Federal prosecutors were seeking what seemed to be unusually sensitive records: internal data from telecommunications companies that showed the locations of their customers' cell phones—sometimes in real time, sometimes after the fact. The prosecutors said they needed the records to trace the movements of suspected drug traffickers, human smugglers, even corrupt public officials. But many federal magistrates—whose job is to sign off on search warrants and handle other routine court duties—were spooked by the requests. Some in New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas balked. Prosecutors "were using the cellphone as a surreptitious tracking device," said Stephen W. Smith, a federal magistrate in Houston. "And I started asking the U.S.Attorney's Office, 'What is the legal authority for this? What is the legal standard for getting this information?' "

Those questions are now at the core of a constitutional clash between President Obama's Justice Department and civil libertarians alarmed by what they see as the government's relentless intrusion into the private lives of citizens. There are numerous other fronts in the privacy wars—about the content of e-mails, for instance, and access to bank records and credit-card transactions. The Feds now can quietly get all that information. But cell-phone tracking is among the more unsettling forms of government surveillance, conjuring up Orwellian images of Big Brother secretly following your movements through the small device in your pocket.

How many of the owners of the country's 277 million cell phones even know that companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint can track their devices in real time? Most "don't have a clue," says privacy advocate James X. Dempsey. The tracking is possible because either the phones have tiny GPS units inside or each phone call is routed through towers that can be used to pinpoint a phone's location to areas as small as a city block. This capability to trace ever more precise cell-phone locations has been spurred by a Federal Communications Commission rule designed to help police and other emergency officers during 911 calls.But the FBI and other law-enforcement outfits have been obtaining more and more records of cell-phone locations—without notifying the targets or getting judicial warrants establishing "probable cause," according to law-enforcement officials, court records, and telecommunication executives.

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A funny thing happened on my way to Confession.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:43:00 GMT

When I was a college freshman in – as my children call it – Bible times, I did a lot of not so bright things. Now if you think for one minute that I am going to list them here, you've got another thing coming. (But did you know you can detonate an explosion in your dorm room and not blow out your windows; and, that no matter how hard you try, you can't hold a blender blade still with your hand.) I am thankful to be alive and even more thankful that Al Gore hadn't invented the Internet yet to memorialize these things.

But one college memory stays fresh in my mind: Medical vocabulary with Dr. Darren. I don't know her first name. Heck, I don't even know if she had a first name. Dr. Darren struck terror in the heart of any student who took her class. Now you may envision some oafish Amazon. Not so.

Dr. Darren, a woman in her late forties, was five feet of aesthetically pleasing charm. From her perfectly coiffed ebony hair to her constant smile, she was unmistakably pleasant. She stood with her fingers intertwined, arms bent at elbows in a perfect right angle, and her feet perpendicular to each other, the way ladies who have been to charm school stand. Her well-tailored suits (at least that's what guys call them) exuded professionalism. And if you showed up for class unprepared she would cut your heart out of your chest so fast you could watch it beat before you died. And if you weren't prepared it was better to get it over with than to prolong the agony by trying to fake your way through.

She never raised her voice. She never let the smile leave her face. Early on in the semester she set the bar though. She called on one poor chump (besides me) to answer a question. He nervously stammered out that he wasn't prepared. Everyone held their breath. Everyone except Dr. Darren, who looked over her half reading glasses and uttered the words of anathema: “Oh, I see.” All that was left of my classmate was a pile of smoldering clothes.

It least that's how I remember it.

Her final exam was at 8:00 a.m. and it was cumulative. So I stayed up all night studying (which is only slightly wiser than the dorm-room detonation). I finished at about 6:30 in the morning so I went and took a shower and got dressed for class. Since I had time to catch a little power nap, I set my alarm for 7:45. What could possibly go wrong?

As I regained consciousness to the sound of my buzzing alarm, I realized that it was 8:45. My alarm had been sounding for an hour. Words can not describe the ensuing flood of emotions. I ran to class at a world-record pace that remains unbroken to this day. Up three flights of stairs just in time to see Dr. Darren leaving the room where my final had just taken place. She looked so peaceful, so sure. Her fingers clasped, her hair perfect.

I blocked her path, reached down, put my hands on her elbows and picked her up until her face was level with mine, our noses almost touching. “Dr. Darren,” I gasped, “I just slept through your final.” Despite the fact that her feet were dangling a foot and a half off the ground and my wild-eyed, hyperventilating countenance probably reminded her of a zebra on the run from a pursuing lion, Dr. Darren smiled; she was still in control. Without missing a beat, she sweetly told me, “You may take the final exam with my next class.” I thanked her profusely and returned her to Earth. Just like that I was absolved.

It wasn't until after I finished taking the final that I came to appreciate the enormity of what I had done. I had picked up the Dr. Darren . . . and lived. Not only did I live, but I passed the final exam. All I could say was, “Yippee! I'm free.” Brilliant, I know. Maybe it could be on my tombstone.

About three years ago I converted to Roman Catholicism. It was a long and not always easy journey. In fact, there were several emotional and intellectual speed bumps for me along the way. One of the biggest ones was the whole idea of Confession. Partly because of my misunderstanding of this Sacrament; but mostly because of my own pride, I really wrestled with this one. Looking back, it's kind of funny to me now.Let me just say this: I wouldn't have done have the stuff I've done if I knew I was going to have to tell someone. If you are allowed to have favorite Sacraments, this is one of mine.

Last night was a Penance service at church. Priests were available to hear confessions and the sinners were out in force. Sometimes at these services, the lines get so long you can wait a couple of hours. Prior to the service, I was asking God to help bring to mind the sins I needed to confess and for an appreciation of the enormity of my offenses in the face of a holy God. When you're a prodigious prodigal like me, some of those sins tend to run together.

Having reasonably collected my thoughts, I got in line. So I'm standing there being reflective and looking holy and all that when this diminutive older woman starts walking toward me – backwards. She literally pushes herself in line – in front of me. It really ticked me off. First, I just muttered (so she could hear), “Grace hog.” Then I thought about just picking her up by the elbows and moving her behind me. Then I remembered my prayer about a full confession and added anger to my list. Be careful what you pray for. God might just back some old lady right into you.

So I got through Confession. And, just like that, I was absolved. Thanks be to God!

And thanks to Dr. Darren and to Grace Hog, all I can think of is, “Yippee, I'm free.”

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Footprints in the Hudson

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:34:00 GMT

This is is the flight simulation of Capt. Sullenberger's amazing landing in the Hudson. The audio of the conversation between the tower and the airplane can be heard. It begins about a minute into the simulation. Also, the conversation between the pilot and co-pilot in the cockpit can be read in the two boxes, lower-right screen. More impressive than Sulllenberger's mastery of his craft, which is apparent as one views the picture-perfect touch down, is Sully's calm and focused decision making. This is way cool.

(Thanks to Irish Tempest)

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Remember Who Wins.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:56:00 GMT

It's a target rich environment these days. And there have been plenty of references in these pages of late to the growing bureaucracy of this pernicious Administration. Oops! There I go again. While these things are important, Scripture warns us not "be overcome with evil, but to overcome evil with good." As one old preacher used to say, "That's easy preachin' but tough livin'." For me, it is real easy to fall into despair when I consider the enormity of the evil that confronts us. It seems to be on every side. But the good thing about being surrounded is, you can't miss.

Adrienne wisely reminds us not to let our "system" to be overcome:

The human mind and body is a system; a system more important than those of government or tribal affiliation. If you overwhelm the systems of the individual we become fodder for the the collective. While untold hours are spent "reporting" on every little twinge in the news,including a woman who lost her fingers to a bear through her own drunken stupidity, there isn't much time left for anything of real importance.

If you are a Christian, the only thing of real importance is our reason for existence. We were created so that some day we could be fully united with God. This is not a journey that begins "someday" or when we have some spare time. It is a journey that began at birth and ends at our death. If we allow the evil people of this world, and make no mistake about this, there are evil people, to divert our path on this journey to our destination, all could be lost.

Go here to read the whole encouraging reminder. And don't forget Who wins.

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Son of the Devil's Spawn.

prolifewarrior@mrhirsh.com (Michael Hirsh) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:35:00 GMT

What a fine young bunch of cannibals.

Though I've never actually seen the program, today's headlines sound like they were lifted verbatim from The Sopranos. Picture this: you an important, powerful, and successful political figure. You know this to be true because your press releases regularly tell you its true. While your are enjoying one of the perks you have come to expect - say, a shower in the Congressional gym - when one of your gumbas, a self-important political operative in his own right approaches. Steam fills the room as two men, naked in all their middle-aged glory, threaten and curse each other. One thumps his finger into the chest of the other and, in his best gravelly voice says, "The boss man's gonna be real upset if the wrong decision is made. Somebody's gonna get hurt. We would really hate for that to happen."

Now consider that Representative Eric Massa, Democrat of New York, is resigning from Congress amid allegations that he sexually harassed a staff member. He says that House Democratic leaders wanted to force him out of office because he voted against the Democrats’ health care legislation. Mr. Massa, a freshman who represents Elmira, Corning and the suburbs of Rochester, has said that he is resigning effective 5 p.m. on Monday. In recent days, he has given several explanations for his decision not to seek re-election and then to resign more immediately.

But in a local radio show on Sunday, Mr. Massa suggested that a more sinister conspiracy was under way to push him out because he had voted against the House health care legislation. “They will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill,” he said of Democratic leaders. “Now they have gotten rid of me, and it will pass.”

He went on to share his Soprano-like encounter with President Barack Obama's Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel: "Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil's spawn. He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive. I am showering, naked as a jaybird, and here comes Rahm Emanuel, not even with a towel wrapped around his tush, poking his finger in my chest, yelling at me."

I have, on numerous occasions, referred to this Administration as the Chicago mafia. I didn't realize the extent to which that characterization is true. I also wrote as recently as last week that we were going to see an attempt to have Obamacare "Rahmed" down our throats. But I didn't think it was going to happen in the Congressional shower.

For the sake of the Republic and unborn children everywhere, I can't help but enjoy (at least a little) the speed and viciousness with which the Democrats have set to feeding upon one another. Massa makes a very teenager-like threat to a staffer, the White House - through its enforcer - threatens a member of Congress with retaliation, and the defrocked Congressman calls the White House out and the enforcer the "Son of the Devil's Spawn."

All this and you don't even have to pay for cable.

I expect something pithy from Rahm Emanuel. Something Hermanesque like "I know you are but what am I?"

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