Waxy Sixties Buildup - Eleven

Waxy Sixties Buildup - Eleven of our Representatives (including mine, Alice "The Phantom" Hausman) voted against the Pledge of Allegiance bill in the House yesterday:

Karen Clark (S Central Mpls)
Steve Dehler (St Cloud)
Mindy Greiling (Roseville)
Phillis Kahn (U of M)
Mary Jo McGuire (Falcon Heights, SIGH)
Jean Wagenius (S. Mpls)
Andy Dawkins (St Paul Frogtown)
Scott Dibble (Mpls Kenwood/Lakes)
Alice Hausman (St Paul Como/St Anthony)
Rob Leighton (Austin ?!)
Tom Osthoff (St Paul Como/North End)

I call them "The Vacuous Eleven". The left in Minnesota is portraying them as heroes, fighting for "the real meaning of the flag", as one wag on MN POL called it. I disagree (there's a shock), although there was a time in my life I'd have agreed (that might actually be a shock). No, the Vacuous Eleven are fighting for their intellectually-bankrupt, fatuous sixties notions; that America is a horrible thing to inflict upon the world, that we should be ashamed of our culture and society and nation and traditions, that we should protect our children and immigrants from the essense of our culture, that a nation is nothing but a bunch of administrators (fully unionized, of course) processing a herd of compliant taxpayers through the stages of their lives.

Most of these hamsters, I suspect, fully subscribe to the Buddhist/Taoist/Hindi notion of the mantra - a phrase one says to oneself to get into a desired frame of mind. So why is a ten second, voluntary mantra at the beginning of the day, one which affirms that we are "An indivisible nation" that stands for "liberty and justice" such a bad thing?

Because none of these hamsters supports any of these things.

Posted by Mitch at March 1, 2002 06:52 AM