Thursday, May 28, 2009
What's Paul Krugman got against Pussy Galore?
Paul Krugman yesterday...
... the Republican rump retains enough seats in the Legislature to block any responsible action in the face of the fiscal crisis ...So why does he think Nancy didn't take that as a compliment?
... the Republican Party has been driven mad by lack of power ...
What’s left is a party whose national committee has just ... released a video comparing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to Pussy Galore....
Puss was smart, strong, professionally accomplished, tough (she could throw James Bond to the ground, and into the hay), a winner, and in the end she was responsible for beating the bad guy. And a woman too!
Democrats can dream of having a leader like Puss! So what's the hang-up?
“They can’t seem to distinguish between a backroom smirk among the boys and something you put out in public,” says former Hillary Clinton senior adviser Ann Lewis of the RNC video ... [Politico]Oooh, it's that you shouldn't "smirk ... out in public" the name of the female lead character of one of the most popular big-budget Hollywood movies of its generation.
Thus we see Democrats convert themselves into a faux New Victorian Prudery party in an attempt to score a rhetorical micro-point against a routine campaign video. OK, for paid party hacks whose job it is, I can understand ... but don't Nobelists have more constructive things to do with their talents than pretend to be offended by the names of James Bond movie characters?
BTW, here's the shocking video.
The left has given it so much free publicity that the RNC now is planning an entire series of videos starring Pelosi as Octopussy, Honey Rider, Holly Goodhead, Plenty O'Toole, Felicity Shagwell, Alotta Fagina, Ivana Humpalot, and Robin Spitz Swallows, reliable sources report. (Possibly with Harry Reid co-starring as Johann van der Smut.)
