The Voice of Treason

“What’s in your head,
In your head,
Zombie, zombie, zombie?”

– The Cranberries

“I would muuuuch rather have a phony, competent person in the White House than an incompetent, authentic person. I’m not sure the two aren’t correlated: The greater competence you’ve got, the more you’ve got to be phony in order to get the job done. I want my president to put a mask on. When they’re negotiating for a national-security agreement? Put the mask on. When they’re negotiating with Congress? Put the mask on. If someone says to me a politician is phony, my response, at some point, is, ‘Well, they gotta be. That’s their job.’”

– Bob Kerrey

“There’s no emotion. None. Just the pretense of it. The words, the gesture, the tone of voice, everything else is the same, but not the feeling.”

“They’re like huge seed pods!”

“They’re here already! You’re next! You’re next! You’re next…”

– Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956

I just couldn’t resist. Here’s a link to a really fun article: Jennifer Senior’s “The Politics of Personality Destruction.” It’s been out there for months, but it’s a good read, the photos are a hoot, and there might just be an explanation or two in it of why some continue to cast votes for p-zombies.

Why, what a treat. I woke up in the middle of the night and KKOB’s Program Director, Pat Frisch, was on with Bill O’Reilly. Well, I just perked up immediately. See, I’ve always been fond of Pat – like me, he’s from Northern Illinois, he likes baseball, he lived in Prescott… and he has very little patience with Liberals. Loved his morning show, but he stepped down last year, prompting my switch to Neal Boortz on KTBL. Local Democrats felt Pat was too “antagonistic” and “mean,” primarily because he never hesitated to point out that Patsy Madrid is… well, an idiot.

Speaking of which, Pat was on there to discuss a hot news story from Nuevo Mexico that demonstrates what we Nuevo Mexicans do best. Commit voter fraud? Nah – that’s number two on the list. No, we just can’t manage to drive sober. This was the story, if you haven’t already heard, about the drunk father who took his two teenage daughters out for a thrill ride and they called 911 and had him arrested… again. No problem – he’ll be back on our scenic highways and byways in no time.

But the idiot I’m talking about is our governor. He has to stop trying to convince us in these silly debates that he can do wonders for the country in healthcare, education, jobs, crime, energy – you name it – when he’s had every opportunity to do something in Nuevo Mexico. Look, we’re only talking about two million people here. When you’re rock bottom on the list of 50 states – no wait, we’re 49, Louisiana’s 50 – how hard is it to make some kind of improvement?

It’s clear he’s sucking up to Hillary to get on the ticket or snag Secretary of State, but she needs to think this one through. Can she really afford to have both Arkansas and Nuevo Mexico so closely examined during the same campaign?