Tide rising against the government redux
In my post a few weeks back about the primaries in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Arkansas I put the lie to the myth of this "anti-incumbent mood" in the US. Last night on her show, Rachel Maddow states the same thing I did, more or less, on the night of 18 May. In fact, she states that SC-4 Republican Representative Bob Inglis is the only incumbent to have been put in a position to lose so far who didn't create the situation by either a) switching parties or b) being a corrupt S.O.B. or lost it by way of c) a party-insider vote that supercedes the will of the people. And at that, Inglis is in the same position that Blanche Lincoln was in; just barely missed the 50%+1 requirement to avoid a runoff, but well ahead of the nearest competitor in the first round and very likely to be the winner of the runoff.
In other words, Bob Inglis is June's Blanche Lincoln.
So, once again, on Tuesday night we had Mr. Hardball all puffed up and spouting his authoritative "my opinion is holy writ and no one knows as much as I do" stream of "it's not a good year to be an incumbent" claptrap at 5, 7 and midnight Eastern. Yes, even on the 12am show, when it was all over but for the shouting (and California, but what does California matter?), he was still insistant on the anti-incumbent, anti-government, anti-establishment narrative. The one so thoroughly proven false before his own lying eyes over the 6 hours before. Mr. Hardball is the Glenn Beck of MSNBC, so it's only appropriate that they compete head-to-head, and that I ignore them with equal disdain.
In other words, Bob Inglis is June's Blanche Lincoln.
So, once again, on Tuesday night we had Mr. Hardball all puffed up and spouting his authoritative "my opinion is holy writ and no one knows as much as I do" stream of "it's not a good year to be an incumbent" claptrap at 5, 7 and midnight Eastern. Yes, even on the 12am show, when it was all over but for the shouting (and California, but what does California matter?), he was still insistant on the anti-incumbent, anti-government, anti-establishment narrative. The one so thoroughly proven false before his own lying eyes over the 6 hours before. Mr. Hardball is the Glenn Beck of MSNBC, so it's only appropriate that they compete head-to-head, and that I ignore them with equal disdain.