tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post7190586941691803031..comments2024-01-28T22:16:50.852-06:00Comments on Mr. Dilettante’s Neighborhood: Laugh now, but. . .Mr. Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-54274191869893402602019-03-12T12:50:25.887-05:002019-03-12T12:50:25.887-05:00And as a former owner of farmland, I'm pretty ...<i>And as a former owner of farmland, I'm pretty glad that Omar isn't on that committee. Farming is screwed up enough without her "help". </i><br /><br />That's the point, of course -- she wouldn't help. She'd pout instead and contribute nothing, which would be an improvement on what she's doing now.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-88309545568950225922019-03-12T11:23:18.518-05:002019-03-12T11:23:18.518-05:00Technically, she already lives here in Minnesota. ...Technically, she already lives here in Minnesota. No? (a Ukrainian coworker of mine who keeps track of Moscow/Kiev temperatures told me that had the Germans invaded Minnesota, the results would have been about the same--except of course that the peasants in Minnesota are armed)<br /><br />And as a former owner of farmland, I'm pretty glad that Omar isn't on that committee. Farming is screwed up enough without her "help". And as a conservative, I'm even gladder that Omar and Ocasio-Cortez are becoming the voice of the Democratic Party. It has the chance of being as beneficial for conservatism as Hilliary's abortive attempt to nationalize healthcare in 1993-4.Bike Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08193546045614393425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-67225066586712658162019-03-11T19:31:57.882-05:002019-03-11T19:31:57.882-05:00Who would be upset if Omar was sent to Siberia/agr...Who would be upset if Omar was sent to Siberia/agriculture? Nobody that real should matter.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16341270257326495320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-26095212977740421112019-03-11T15:20:59.562-05:002019-03-11T15:20:59.562-05:00There was a time when the Swamp had its ways of br...<i>There was a time when the Swamp had its ways of bringing upstarts into line either through committee assignments or discreet wood-shedding.</i><br /><br />If Pelosi had thought it through, she’d have put Omar on the Agriculture Committee and let Collin Peterson smother her with ADM chloroform. And now it’s biting them in the butt.Mr. Dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13920907647566015611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19838051.post-40664278494680684792019-03-11T13:39:37.907-05:002019-03-11T13:39:37.907-05:00Pesky first-time firebrands are not new to Washing...Pesky first-time firebrands are not new to Washington. Think back to Wellstone's gadflying and shoving cassette tapes at Bush, or even Bachmann's arrival. There was a time when the Swamp had its ways of bringing upstarts into line either through committee assignments or discreet wood-shedding. This new "transparent", Celebrity Congress-critter era (transparent ambition, at least) perhaps derails that. Speaker Robespierre, I mean, Pelosi, may have bitten off more than her botoxed cheeks can chew. <br /><br />As for Ilhan Omar, her big mistake as a politician is in letting people know what she is really thinking. 3john2https://www.blogger.com/profile/05359114327414576258noreply@blogger.com