Saturday - December 02, 2006

Barking Moonbat Of The Week

This week’s loser was an easy choice for me. If Jim Webb’s behavior is any indication of how Democrats plan to “cooperate” with President Bush in the next two years, then we’re in for a miserable but entertaining period. That’s to be expected of the Democrats though. They’ve already started backtracking on most of their campaign promises and this rude exhibition only serves to highlight their hypocrisy.

As for Jim Webb, I hope he does attempt to “slug” the President. At the very least, that would land him in federal prison and Virginians could elect a better Senator. Then again, Dubya might just beat the living crap out of him. I don’t know too many Texas ranchers who wouldn’t fight back.  Besides, in Webb’s last boxing match he got whupped by Oliver North.

A Guest at the White House

THE SCRAPBOOK is not often called upon to tutor 60-year-old men in basic manners. But we feel compelled to offer a few friendly words of advice to the newly elected senator from Virginia, James Webb.

It seems that the senator-elect, attending a reception last week for new members of Congress at the White House, found himself in the presence of its occupant. Extending his hand toward Webb, who had had many harsh things to say about the president during his campaign, George W. Bush inquired: “How’s your boy?”

A reasonable and compassionate inquiry, in THE SCRAPBOOK’s view. Webb’s son is a Marine corporal serving in Iraq; Webb wore the boy’s combat boots throughout his campaign, which he removed and held aloft in triumph when he won election; and Bush is commander in chief of the armed forces.

Webb: “I’d like to get them [sic] out of Iraq.”

Bush: “That’s not what I asked you. How’s your boy?”

Webb: “That’s between me and my boy.”

Webb’s staffers let it be known around Washington that the senator-elect was so angered by Bush’s inquiry that he was tempted to “slug” the president, and Webb later told the Washington Post, “I’m not particularly interested in having a picture of me and George W. Bush on my wall.” He further explained: “Leaders do some symbolic things to try to convey who they are and what the message is.”

In recounting this episode, columnist George F. Will moved swiftly to the heart of the matter, pronouncing Webb a “boor” and adding, by way of admonition, that “in a republic, people decline to be led by leaders who are insufferably full of themselves.”

As always, however, THE SCRAPBOOK prefers to be prescriptive. And our counsel to Senator-elect Webb would be that, if the prospect of shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with the president of the United States in the White House is too painful to bear--if, that is, it conveys the wrong message about who you are--it would be altogether fitting and proper to decline the president’s hospitality and stay home. Surely somewhere in Webb’s training as an officer and gentleman at the United States Naval Academy, he was taught that important lesson?

Oh, and speaking of Annapolis: We would further advise the senator-elect to avoid discussion of “slugging” George W. Bush when Webb’s best-known experience in the ring involved losing a boxing championship to his Naval Academy classmate (and fellow Marine) Oliver North.

-- The Weekly Standard, “Scrapbook” - December 11, 2006

Posted by The Skipper     on 12/02/2006 at 05:30 AM   
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