The Hag of Harpur Polishes the Tarnished Image of Nancy Pelosi: The Singular Bright Spot in Her Current Political Analysis.

Abstract: Camille Paglia eviscerates the current Democratic political platforms in all dimensions and praises Nancy Pelosi only for her reptilian attributes. The rest of her comments read like they were generated in the strategy rooms of the American Spectator.  Paglia rips the rabid left apart for nearly all of their caustic and expensive legislative forays and cuts deeper into their obvious omissions in governance. Her comments cut dreadfully deep. She criticizes nearly ever facet of their policies and legislation. She is now The Dragon in the midst of the hallowed leftist lair at Salon.com and scatters her intellectual enemies before her.

One of the more focused and unbending leftist sirens peddling cupie dolls and palm readings in the ragzine circuit is Salon.com.  They attempted to showcase a crude version of objectivity in their early days by featuring David Horowitz and his posts with subscribers on their Tabletalk[1] threads who crustily submitted articles for public comment such as his article on the phony Rigoberta Menchú Tum [2] thus tarnishing a sacred leftist icon[3] without remorse. He received much abuse for reporting the truth and his version of that esoteric notion. These articles were sensations in the chat rooms such as Carville’s War Room[4] and where three Horowitz threads exceeded 30,000 posts[5][6][7] and they still magnetize the frustration and anger of the left.[8] Rush Limbaugh has had a similar success in absentia with my Sock it to Rush! Series[9][10][11][12] although some of these threads have apparently been deleted from the Salon Archives for political reasons. Salon.com now continually struggles to cope with the untamed political beast in Paglia in some strange quest for a reward from self-inflicted flagellation.  Today, she hammers the left and offers ridicule where it is due and annihilates the last two years of leftist dreams.

In her last screed Camille Paglia,[13][14] portrayed in satire as the Hag of Harpur,[15][16] questioned the legislative process of the Health Care Follies:

“I just don't get it. Why the insane rush to pass a bill, any bill, in three weeks? And why such an abject failure by the Obama administration to present the issues to the public in a rational, detailed, informational way.”--Heads should roll -- beginning with Nancy Pelosi's! By Camille Paglia

Paraphrasing Oscar Wilde in reverse, the beauty of the Hag is in her intellectual gifts.[17] She frequently sits on the throne as the Queen of Darkness in political matters on Salon as she ostensibly resides somewhere in the leftist camp and would normally be expected to be groveling under the shadow of the Great Obama. All predictions that follow from these assumptions generate only madness. Her hastily  and politically constructed statuesque image frequently wavers in the eyes of the dedicated in Salon as she criticizes the uncriticizable and they shriek in horror for the bloody desecrations performed in their own kitchen. The relative truth is apparently more important to the Queen here than the pedestrian chucking chum duties for the ordinary propagandists who turn the cranks of their one-song hurdy-gurdies. This then defines her as an elegant independent intellectual entity rarely found in history let alone politics. Her next attack on the left commences:

Theme: When you live in the sewers a rat is the thing to be:

“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi [e.g. “The Reptile”[18][19] or otherwise known as Spartacus [20][21]] scored a giant gain for feminism last weekend. In shoving her controversy-plagued healthcare reform bill to victory by a paper-thin margin, she conclusively demonstrated that a woman can be just as gritty, ruthless and arm-twisting in pursuing her agenda as anyone in the long line of fabled male speakers before her. Even a basic feminist shibboleth like abortion rights became just another card for Pelosi to deal and swap.”[22]-- Pelosi's victory for women Sure, her healthcare bill is a mess, but her gritty maneuvering shows her mettle.  BY Camille Paglia 10, 2009  [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

This paragraph’s first line appears, at a first interpretation, to be an example of stealthy wart polishing, but this stippled analysis fades in the next sentence with more appropriate abuse for the Speaker. This is a hack job reminiscent of Jack the Ripper.

“It was a stunningly impressive recovery for someone who seemed to be coming apart at the seams last summer, when a sputtering, rattled Pelosi struggled to deal with the nationwide insurgency of town hall protesters -- reputable, concerned citizens whom she outrageously tried to tar as Nazis. Whether or not her bill survives in the Senate is immaterial: Pelosi's hard-won, trench-warfare win sets a new standard for U.S. women politicians and is certainly well beyond anything the posturing but ineffectual Hillary Clinton has ever achieved.”-- Pelosi's victory for women

Hillary recently had her nasty mouth cleansed.[23]

Not to surrender to the sticky-but celebrated role of Keeper of the Pelosi Cult of Personality, Camille eviscerates Nancy’s phony healthcare bill:

“…But this rigid, intrusive and grotesquely expensive bill is a nightmare. Holy Hygeia[24], why can't my fellow Democrats see that the creation of another huge, inefficient federal bureaucracy would slow and disrupt the delivery of basic healthcare and subject us all to a labyrinthine mass of incompetent, unaccountable petty dictators?...”-- Pelosi's victory for women

We already suffer from much of this liberalism.

More:

“A second issue souring me on this bill is its failure to include the most common-sense clause to increase competition and drive down prices: portability of health insurance across state lines….”-- Pelosi's victory for women

The questions wax uglier and give offense to those who cluster around Nancy’s skirts for sustenance:

“And why are we even considering so gargantuan a social experiment when the nation is struggling to emerge from a severe recession? It's as if liberals are starry-eyed dreamers lacking the elementary ability to project or predict the chaotic and destabilizing practical consequences of their utopian fantasies.”-- Pelosi's victory for women

And more:

“The plight of the uninsured (whose number is far less than claimed[25]) should be directly addressed without co-opting and destroying the entire U.S. medical infrastructure. Limited, targeted reforms can ban gouging and unfair practices and can streamline communications now wastefully encumbered by red tape. But insurance companies and the pharmaceutical industry are not the sole cause of mounting healthcare costs, and constantly demonizing them is a demagogic evasion.”--Pelosi's victory for women

Here, the cruditity of the leftist political offal chucking process is exposed. Red tape is their corn bread and sodas and provides remuneration for their swarms of menials.

Selecting more infected warts:

“Last week's startling gubernatorial victories by Republicans in Virginia and New Jersey were routinely dismissed as local aberrations by the liberal media or inflated as referendums on President Obama by the conservative media. But voters were clearly revolting against the deranged excess spending of government at both state and federal levels. So it was as much a protest against Congress as against the White House.”-- Pelosi's victory for women

Can truth become heresy if uttered in the enemy camp? It occurred to me than the current election results were a strong signal to people like Nancy Pelosi that the end is near.[26][27]

 Exposing almost of the remaining Obama’s flaming political warts:

“Obama sure needed a lift and got it from Pelosi. The administration has seemed to be drifting lately. Obama has dithered for months about a strategy for Afghanistan -- another rats' nest we should pull our troops out of overnight. Then there was the bizarre disproportion in Obama's flying to Denmark to flog a Chicago Olympics yet not having time to make it to Germany to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall -- which suggests a frivolous provincialism as well as ignorance of history among the president's principal advisors. And Obama's muted response to last week's massacre at Fort Hood has exposed ambiguities and uncertainties in the U.S. government and military about how to respond to homegrown militant Islam. The presidency is a heavy burden -- a prize that can become a curse.”-- Pelosi's victory for women

Well, that just abut cracks it for the last few months for the polemics nominations in political analysis. The only thing we can identify in this communication is that Nancy Pelosi has grit and guts but no brains, finesse, tact or honesty. Camille failed to acknowledge that Nancy’s Plastic Face has been restored to something more recognizable by humans by the skill of numerous plastic surgeons. Her mental state is still in question and unaddressed here  so perhaps  she needs a good shrink and could we suggest Major Hassan?

“On other matters, I was recently flicking my car radio dial….”-- Pelosi's victory for women

Alabama: we rest here.

Camille has dragged the power-drunk leftists and their phony social Neo-Fascist-Proto-Marxian politics[28] through the grinder and chucked the mass into the latrines. When dealing with this behemoth in their own wikkiups the lefties appear to only revert to their most effective weapon of churlishly tossing soggy bagels at The Dragon and whining. It will be interesting to see how much flak Camille gets from the Salon loyals  and other zombies on the thread I created for her on Salon. Talbletalk.com: Camille Paglia the Sage of Salon http://tabletalk.salon.com/webx/.86217c43/5?14@315.qC2CaSN0eK4@

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