In the comments here, 4of7 [High Praise!] said:
I didn’t know then that the One-Time-Emergency-Stimulus would become the new baseline for all Federal spending (Thanks to Harry Reid and the democrap controlled Senate never submitting another budget from that time forward.)
They’re going to have to dig a new level in hell for this kind of betrayal.
For those not familar with Dante’s levels of hell, here’s a handy picture:
And at the very bottom of it all, you’ve got Obama saying “it will probably take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole.”
High Praise! for a comment left at a post awarding me High Praise!?
That’s High Praise Squared!
“it will probably take another year or two to fully dig our way out of this hole.”
That’s Ineptocracy Squared!
I always liked Dante’s Divine Comedy – he sent all his enemies to Hell and all his friends to Heaven.
The cast of characters reads like a Who’s Who of 14th century Italian politicians/celebrities.
(You need an edition with a Ton of footnotes to know that, of course.)
4of7 – Although tempted to take you up on the challenge, I just recently survived a reading of “The Count of Monte Cristo”.
So much Napoleonic-era political minutia… I prayed for death throughout the middle 50% of the book. The 1st & last quarters were tolerable.
I’ve never read The Count of Monte Cristo (watched the movie instead).
I wonder how many other great classics of literature are laced with political or social commentary which we no longer have a frame of reference to understand.
I’ve read that Alice in Wonderland was a protest against modern trends in mathematics and that The Prince by Machiavelli was intended as a parody instead of a serious handbook on how to govern a city (too bad no one ever explained that to Mussolini, who tried to govern Italy according to its principles).
PS: For what it’s worth, here’s where I read that.
http://www.cracked.com/article_18787_6-books-everyone-including-your-english-teacher-got-wrong.html
4 of 7 – and everyone – do read The Annotated Alice. Alice in Wonderland is full of all sorts of obscure references and clever little gags. Used editions are available relatively cheaply.
Democrats fill the place up starting with Level 2 on down.
if only our Dear Leader cared as much about wasting money as he was about wasting pot smoke.
if only our Dear Leader cared as much about wasting money as he did about wasting pot smoke.
sorry couldn’t let that typo stand
If Lucifer is eternally chewing on Obama while frozen in a block of ice at the bottom of hell, one could almost feel sorry for Lucifer.
#5 – DamnCat,
I’m gonna check out my local library for a copy of that book.