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by DougJ|  June 12, 20121:38 pm| 51 Comments

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I lack the Hayekian humility to make any of these into a full post, but these amused me in various ways, great and small:

  • They say that all good things must end: As with many of Sally Quinn’s offerings, I found this unintentionally revealing and thus sort of interesting.
  • Got to give it up, Part 1: A pretty good bye-bye-GOP piece by a sane refugee (h/t reader reader R)
  • Got to give it up, Parts 1 and 2:  Heard the full 11 minutes on the 103.9 Old School Block Party Weekend while driving home, along with the Jacksons’ take on Part 2.
  • One crowded hour: This (via) may be the most awesome newspaper comment ever.
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  1. 1.

    MikeJ

    June 12, 2012 at 1:43 pm

    Love Tractor used to do a good cover too.

  2. 2.

    jl

    June 12, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    What is Quinn’s problem? Washington has no power? What?

    She doesn’t get invited to the lobbyist’s parties, probably.

    Just bitter, is all.

    Edit: Anyone know how Quinn’s partys rate on H and B?

  3. 3.

    Raven

    June 12, 2012 at 1:49 pm

    @MikeJ: Too bad they aren’t going to reunite for Athfest!

  4. 4.

    jibeaux

    June 12, 2012 at 1:50 pm

    What, nothing about the guy from the Oatmeal getting a demand letter for $20k from some scumbag lawyer representing a website that violated the OATMEAL’s copyright, and him turning that into six times the amount raised for charity in less than a day? It’s a thing of beauty.

  5. 5.

    Hunter Gathers

    June 12, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    A pretty good bye-bye-GOP piece by a sane refugee

    I’m pretty sure he’ll justify his vote for Romney in one way or another.

  6. 6.

    Metrosexual Black AbeJ

    June 12, 2012 at 1:53 pm

    @Raven:

    If Athens were more accessible by plane I’d recommend we do the big BJ meet up there.

  7. 7.

    wenchacha

    June 12, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    I liked Ben Bradlee when he was Jason Robards, but Sally Quinn sounds too much like Norma Desmond.

  8. 8.

    Hankf of Troy

    June 12, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    A pretty good bye-bye-GOP piece by a sane refugee

    Uh, not really. I can understand, sort of, being young and stupid enough to think Reagan stared down those commies single handedly, but no way should any adult STILL saying this get a pass.

  9. 9.

    JPL

    June 12, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    OT..Reading about the Sandusky trial has taken my attention away from politics. It’s difficult to read about the witness this morning because I keep wiping away tears. Lavar Arrington has written an apology to victim 4…link This is from the counselor interviewing sandusky.
    Dershem he denied having sexual contact with the boy but did acknowledge lying on top of him and blowing “raspberries” on the boy’s stomach.

    For mental health reasons, I now have to return to the topic of what did the President do wrong today.

  10. 10.

    JPL

    June 12, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    OT..Reading about the Sandusky trial has taken my attention away from politics. It’s difficult to read about the witness this morning because I keep wiping away tears. Lavar Arrington has written an apology to victim 4…link This is from the counselor interviewing sandusky.
    Dershem he denied having sexual contact with the boy but did acknowledge lying on top of him and blowing “raspberries” on the boy’s stomach.

    For mental health reasons, I now have to return to the topic of what did the President do wrong today.

  11. 11.

    c u n d gulag

    June 12, 2012 at 1:57 pm

    Poor, poor, Sally.

    Too old to be a trophy wife – again.

    And no onset of senile dementia, or Alzheimer’s, so she can imagine herself as still the center of the DC Village, and throwing cocktail and dinner parties for its sycophantic citizenry – the Village Idiot’s.

    Poor, poor, Sally…

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 1:58 pm

    Oh, Sally Sally Sally Sally Sally.

    the old-timers are struggling to catch up, tweeting their hearts out and using hip language like “hashtags.”

    Sigh.

  13. 13.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    June 12, 2012 at 2:01 pm

    Quinn’s article is self-refuting bullshit.

    If Washington truly had no power anymore, why would the money people be sinking so much cash into the project of controlling it?

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    June 12, 2012 at 2:02 pm

    @Metrosexual Black AbeJ:

    It’s not that far from the airport. And it would be a great location for a BJ meet up, southern style.

  15. 15.

    FlipYrWhig

    June 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: She’s complaining, yet again, that the social scene isn’t what it used to be, and now it’s all politics all the time. So “Washington” still has plenty of power, but the dinner parties and drawing rooms of Washington’s manor-house elite aren’t where that power is getting transacted.

  16. 16.

    Holden Pattern

    June 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    I read the GBCGOP piece, and I have to confess I’m confused about why he’s leaving NOW. All of the things that he’s complaining about w/r/t the GOP have been true since Reagan (cough, Lee Atwater, cough). There were some rump moderates, but the direction of the GOP and the actual policies pursued have been pretty much the same for about 30 years. They’ve just burned off the dross weighting them down.

  17. 17.

    Omnes Omnibus

    June 12, 2012 at 2:05 pm

    @Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: Isn’t her problem that her kind of people no longer have social power in DC?

  18. 18.

    Patricia Kayden

    June 12, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    Good for Mr. Stafford. Very well written good-bye.

  19. 19.

    Rosalita

    June 12, 2012 at 2:08 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Factor in traffic and it could be brutal, depending on the time of day

  20. 20.

    Raven

    June 12, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Athfest is ok but it gets pretty toasty on the pavement.

  21. 21.

    Raven

    June 12, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    @Rosalita: 20 to 138 to 78 isn’t bad.

  22. 22.

    Amir Khalid

    June 12, 2012 at 2:16 pm

    So Sally Quinn is lamenting the demise of her status as Washington DC’s Hostess With The Mostest. I do feel so, so sorry for her. Break out the teensy violins.

  23. 23.

    NancyDarling

    June 12, 2012 at 2:17 pm

    Poor Sally. I bet she’s also lamenting the denouement of those “robust sex lives” that she assured us villagers were in possession of. It was an interview of her and Woodward by Charlie Rose on the eve of the vote after Clinton’s impeachment trial. She also complained that the Clintons didn’t pay proper obeisance to the village elite when they came to D.C. in ’93. They were a “tribe”, you know, and the Clintons should have come bearing gifts of “beads.

    Ever since I heard that interview, the sight of her name has been nausea inducing. The problem (or the glory) of the internet is the dumbass things one says will live forever.

    It’s on youtube if you google Rose, Woodward, and Quinn. Don’t waste the hour though. The words in quotes above are actual words she said. The “robust sex lives” came when she was explaining how the villagers would have understood (having robust sex lives) if Clinton had only chosen a “discreet divorcee” for a philandering partner.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    June 12, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    @Holden Pattern:

    I read the GBCGOP piece, and I have to confess I’m confused about why he’s leaving NOW.

    I read it also and kept waiting for him to say what, if anything, he had done to step forward and ask GOP leadership WTF?
    Dude’s another embarrassed Republican who will now call himself a registered Independent, and claim he votes “for the best person, not the party!”. And quietly pull the lever for the R in all local and statewide elections.
    Thank goodness I didn’t see him say he had any interest in the D party.

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    June 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm

    Although, to be honest, when I saw his picture and noted he was a Dookie it pretty much explained everything about him I needed to know.
    But then I read this:

    Ronald Reagan bestrode the world like a colossus

    And also noted he ran his law school’s chapter of The Federalist Society and it made me want to hunt this piece of filth down and atomic wedgie him to within an inch of his life.

  26. 26.

    eemom

    June 12, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    @JPL:

    That is indeed a tear-inducing read.

    Frequently I look for something, anything,to focus on to take my mind off politics….but I agree, even politics is preferable to that.

  27. 27.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    June 12, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    @FlipYrWhig:
    @Omnes Omnibus:
    Likely so.

    But I do find “DC has no real power” to be another one of those insidious (though trendy) tropes, used to distract and disengage people.

    Right up there with “both sides are the same”.

  28. 28.

    Culture of Truth

    June 12, 2012 at 2:29 pm

    Everyone saw this right?

  29. 29.

    Culture of Truth

    June 12, 2012 at 2:32 pm

    “Siri, remind me in 20 years not to become a sad parody of everything I despise.”

    “Ok, I’ll remind you.”

  30. 30.

    Culture of Truth

    June 12, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    I’m not gonna harsh on this guy. I mean Cole was once a winger too, correct?

  31. 31.

    Metrosexual Black AbeJ

    June 12, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    @Culture of Truth:

    What is that from?

  32. 32.

    MattF

    June 12, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    So, I guess I’m OK with Stafford– but can someone explain the Reagan thing? I never saw it. What I did see was Reagan’s closest aides continually covering up for his various lapses. Which became progressively more various as time went on. Which was neither entertaining nor inspiring. But maybe that’s just me.

  33. 33.

    Ruckus

    June 12, 2012 at 2:40 pm

    Who the fuck is Sally Quinn?

    And far more importantly why should I give a crap?

    /rhetorical

  34. 34.

    c u n d gulag

    June 12, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    @MattF:
    I ain’t just you.

    That was the time of the great intelligence separation.

    Anyone with half a brain saw a senile doddering old fool of an actor, who hit his mark, read his lines fairly well, and picked one Hell of a time to give the acting performances of his life – in the debates against Carter.
    I wonder how much coke they had that old fool snort, or put in his powdered poop drink?

    The rest of this nation of morons projected whatever they wanted to see on this senile human movie screen.

  35. 35.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    June 12, 2012 at 2:54 pm

    @MattF:
    Republicans have to project the All-Daddy onto their leaders, or it’s just not real for them.

    Best role of Reagan’s career. Shame so many others have had to suffer for it, though.

  36. 36.

    Ash Can

    June 12, 2012 at 2:56 pm

    @MattF: You saw it and I saw it, but brash young self-styled “conservatives” of the day were blind to it. Some time ago, commenter Renato said here that Reagan made people feel better about being Americans the way a drinking binge makes one feel better about losing one’s job, being broke, and facing eviction. It was a time when everyone simply wanted to feel better about themselves and their country — the wounds of the Vietnam War had still not quite healed, the economy was in the crapper, and foreign governments were fucking with us without us being able to do a damned thing about it that wouldn’t make the situation worse. So the nation was ripe for being suckered in by a charlatan. It was terribly sad watching it happen in real time, and everything that’s happened with the GOP since then has come as no surprise whatsoever to me.

  37. 37.

    Culture of Truth

    June 12, 2012 at 3:00 pm

    @Metrosexual Black AbeJ: where is what from?

  38. 38.

    FNWA

    June 12, 2012 at 3:11 pm

    Is anyone else tired of having to nod and agree that he or she also fondly remembers St. Raygun destroying the evil empire? It’s failure was an economic inevitabilty and Ronnie just happened to be there at the right time. In addition he was the start of many of the deregulation that lead to the conditions that made the collapse of 2008 possible and to top it off he was a straight line continuation of Nixon’s despicable racially divisive Southern strategy. Christ everytime I read this Ronnie nostalgia, I just think, “You were an idiot in the 80s, too.”

  39. 39.

    Secretly Jealous of Nickleback

    June 12, 2012 at 3:25 pm

    All ur hammers are belong to me

  40. 40.

    Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor

    June 12, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    @Ash Can:

    Some time ago, commenter Renato said here that Reagan made people feel better about being Americans the way a drinking binge makes one feel better about losing one’s job, being broke, and facing eviction. It was a time when everyone simply wanted to feel better about themselves and their country

    This to the power of This (whatever that comes out to).

    No offense meant to our Boomer cohort, but Reagan also had a special appeal to the (IMO) much more feelings-oriented Boomer culture. When your generational mantra “if it feels good, do it”, it’s only a few small steps to “I CREATE MY OWN REALITY!”

    I blame Tinkerbell.

  41. 41.

    mdblanche

    June 12, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    “You’re Sally Quinn. You used to be in Georgetown cocktail parties. You used to be big.”

    “I am big. It’s the parties that got small.”

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    June 12, 2012 at 3:37 pm

    Got to give it up, Part 1: A pretty good bye-bye-GOP piece by a sane refugee

    What I find noteworthy here (apart from the eloquence) is that the writer does not say that he has been turned from the Dark Side to the Democratic Party.

    The vehement stupidity of some of the negative comments accompanying the story is just sad.

    @Metrosexual Black AbeJ:

    BTW, one thing missing from Quinn’s stupidly self-absorbed nonsense was the palpable sense of fear that President Obama might make Villagers party with the African American elite of the country.

    So, something like:

    Could it be that the Obamas, not knowing Washington, think that’s all there is to the social life here? Who wouldn’t want to stay away? On the other hand, he is the president of the United States and, whether he likes it or not, the leader of social as well as political Washington.

    drips both condescension and racist apprehension.

  43. 43.

    Hypatia's Momma

    June 12, 2012 at 3:49 pm

    @jibeaux:
    I’ve been watching that most of the morning. There’s still 14 days left on the fundraiser, too!

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    June 12, 2012 at 3:52 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    when I saw his picture and noted he was a Dookie it pretty much explained everything about him I needed to know.

    Fuck you, Tarhole.

  45. 45.

    burnspbesq

    June 12, 2012 at 3:55 pm

    @FNWA:

    Is anyone else tired of having to nod and agree that he or she also fondly remembers St. Raygun destroying the evil empire? It’s failure was an economic inevitabilty and Ronnie just happened to be there at the right time.

    One of the 27 First Rules of Politics is that if it happens on your watch and it’s good, you get to take credit.

    Works for both parties. It’s not like Bill Clinton actually did anything to cause the budget to come into balance in FY 2000.

  46. 46.

    gene108

    June 12, 2012 at 4:24 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Just because people no longer identify as Republicans, it’s still a long way to got to assume they’ve become liberals.

  47. 47.

    gene108

    June 12, 2012 at 4:26 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    You mean he’s not from New Jersey, Burnsie?

  48. 48.

    burnspbesq

    June 12, 2012 at 6:48 pm

    @gene108:

    No, I’m from New Jersey. CS is the secret love child of Satan and Ann Coulter, born in Hell and raised in Chapel Hell.

    It’s bad enough that we have to keep apologizing to the world fro Guv Christie.

  49. 49.

    gene108

    June 12, 2012 at 10:21 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I’m guessing you went to Duke?

    As the Tarholes say: Duke: University of New Jersey, Durham, NC campus.

    It’s bad enough that we have to keep apologizing to the world fro Guv Christie.

    As bad as NJ governors have been, in the 15 years I’ve been living in NJ, he’s really not any worse than Whitman, McGreevey or Corzine and the host of interim governors we’ve had, when Whitman left to head up the EPA and after McGreevey resigned.

  50. 50.

    joel hanes

    June 12, 2012 at 11:11 pm

    Editorial cartoonist Kirk Anderson remembers just how Reagan bestrode the world. Stafford still cherishes his fond delusions.

    And Sally Quinn has always been pathetic.

  51. 51.

    Bill D.

    June 12, 2012 at 11:28 pm

    @Judas

    [email protected]Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor:

    Then why did Generation X like Reagan so much? After all, it’s only a short distance from being a generation that says “screw the 60s” to being one who votes for the greatest anti-hippie of them all.

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