Thursday 3 November 2011

If a Republican Were to Do This....

W.H. fact-checks W.H.
Jay Carney quoted the Bible on Wednesday. Except he didn't. AP PhotoClose
MR. CARNEY: Well, I believe the phrase from the Bible* is, “The Lord helps those who help themselves.” And I think the point the President is making is that we should -- we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people.
And it might be added, that since it is in the Bible that rich people are ropes that cannot make it through the eye of a camel they are all going to be turned into pillars of gold like Damacles and all those people in Atlantis.  So much for what you believe, Carney....because if you believe in what you believe the Bible says about this matter, you are capable of believing anything, everything, and nothing all at the same time.

And then....with no particular respect...."I think the point the President is making is that we should - we have it within our capacity to do the things to help the American people."
        To do what, precisely?    We have to help the American people to help themselves be helped?  Is that what the great Yahweh said in the Bible?   Is that what someone said he said?   Did  Nancy Pelosi, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, Harry Reid, Jay Carney, Barry O'Bama, almost every Democrat officeholder and appointee, and all the other intellectually-challenged people all go to the same school of rhetoric, composition, and logic?
The Gringo Viejo told his supplier he needed a camel for his
next blog entry, but it arrived late.   So he was sent back.

Right!   Carney knows that quote is actually in Poor Richard's Calendar, too.  It's kinda like Margaret Mitchell's book,   Gone with the Mockingbird.
El Gringo Viejo

(enter Dr. John Dean's battle cry in after the Iowa Demcrat Primary in 2004)