Policritical Musings
I've been watching CNN a LOT lately. Here are some reflections.
1. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Both are embarrassments. Feinstein has clearly become dim-witted with age. A splendid person personally (I know for a fact), she has become a Reaganesque puppet (ie, charismatic, but basically brain-dead). Her backing for snagged SF Mayor Newsom is disgraceful. She chose lousy puppeteers. Boxer was always an amoral, selfish, aggressive, bored, loud-mouthed dult. Her election amazes me. She is a party animal, and she delivers slavishly. As is Schwarzenegger. I don't know any other state that has poorer political history. Real estate rules in CA. Much more than elsewhere.
2. Susan Collins(ME) is a teriffic person, and one of the very few moral, competent and dependable senators (and politicians). Olympia Snow, her colleague, is a dog, a la Boxer, but with a bit finer personality. Her husband, a former ME governor, was a total jerk. Olympia, however, is NOT an idiot. Just a sellout.
1. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer. Both are embarrassments. Feinstein has clearly become dim-witted with age. A splendid person personally (I know for a fact), she has become a Reaganesque puppet (ie, charismatic, but basically brain-dead). Her backing for snagged SF Mayor Newsom is disgraceful. She chose lousy puppeteers. Boxer was always an amoral, selfish, aggressive, bored, loud-mouthed dult. Her election amazes me. She is a party animal, and she delivers slavishly. As is Schwarzenegger. I don't know any other state that has poorer political history. Real estate rules in CA. Much more than elsewhere.
2. Susan Collins(ME) is a teriffic person, and one of the very few moral, competent and dependable senators (and politicians). Olympia Snow, her colleague, is a dog, a la Boxer, but with a bit finer personality. Her husband, a former ME governor, was a total jerk. Olympia, however, is NOT an idiot. Just a sellout.