Love that Reagan got busted. He was such a traditional marriage icon and I always wondered how first wife wonderful Jane Wyman felt about that… his “in denial” don’t look at my ex-wife behind the curtain stance he took about traditional values and rigidity with the status quo. His teflon-ness.

John McCain with his 8 or 9 houses (wife”s) advises citizens enduring the horror of the spectre of foreclosure to skip vacations and get a second job.

Miss Manners’ remark was very funny…. but ouch!

I loved Molly Ivin’s work. Love TDS, love SC, love KO. Love when I write my own post zinger. But sometimes it does give me pause.

I know that when the best and the funniest on the left and the right zing each other, the loyal red or blue gang gets particularly riled and protective of their targeted leader. The humor is cathartic and concise in making pointed commentary. But the wounds go particularly deep.

It took a while to “recover” from Edwards withdrawal and there had been angry hits at both Hillary and Barack on that website… and there we were needing to disband and inclinations to H or O hastened that … and to hopefully find a new leader. We headed in our chosen directions.. some of us… others waited … unwilling or unready to bond. Some mourning our vision and our chosen leader’s.

I trust the two gangs of Dems at this point will have time to get it together by Nov. I think so. But wanted to consider it here.

Cinnamonape… no judgement… just enjoyed your post.. and it got me to thinking of the fun but sharp edge of political writing.

“A 24-year-old woman dressed like an ice cream cone can give even neatness and cleanliness a bad name.”

Classic.

off to snooze
nite pups

From Time Magazine, “Women Wave Makers”
Monday, May. 24, 1971

JUDY JOINS THE NON-GUESTS
Ever since she broke the ban on press coverage by crashing the wedding reception of Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower in 1968, Washington Post Reporter-Columnist Judith Martin, 32, has been on bad terms with the White House. Just how bad became apparent last week when she was barred from covering Tricia Nixon’s White House wedding next month. “The First Family,” sniffed Mrs. Nixon’s staff director, Connie Stuart, “does not feel comfortable with Judith Martin.”
A Wellesley graduate with an acerb tongue and typewriter, Judy has been tough on Tricia in the past, once observing of her little-girl look: “A 24-year-old woman dressed like an ice cream cone can give even neatness and cleanliness a bad name.”

Boy! The Wash-Po Press team has always been tough on the White House…I guess that there wasn’t anything substantial for them to cover about Nixon in 1971? It took a couple of renegade reporters to bring their standards up a bit two years later.

Then there was this little revelation about a future Presidents undisclosed tax payments made by a College radio DJ. Just who deserved the Pulitzer? WashPo reporter Judy Martin for covering Tricia Nixon’s fashion taste…or Rose King?

ROSE ROCKS THE BOAT
Ronald Reagan has been telling his California constituents that “taxes should hurt.” Now, one of the more intriguing and potentially damaging political stories of the year is that he paid no state income tax at all in 1970 (because of business reverses). Disclosure came through a most unlikely channel: a gossipy item broadcast on the student radio station at Sacramento State College by a 29-year-old widowed mother of three who is studying journalism there and was on the air only to fill a course requirement.
Rose King …professes surprise at the storm that blew up following her broadcast over KERS-FM. “I really didn’t think anybody was listening,” she says with a chuckle. “I didn’t see the tax return myself, but the story was all over campus. I heard it from several sources, and I was convinced they were reliable.”… Under
California law, disclosure of tax information is a crime punishable by six months in jail and a $500 fine. “I won’t tell you anything about where I got my information,” she told a tax investigator. “That is my privilege as a journalist.” In her refusal, she relies on another state law protecting reporters from being forced to reveal their sources.

“Representative Peter T. King, Republican of New York, said it appeared that lawmakers might have to fend for themselves. “You are going to have to run on who you are and establish some independence, and that is going to be tougher for some than others,” Mr. King said.”

OMG run on who you are? Puleeze They needn’t worry about any of them stooping that low.