Categorical Aperitif

So Mitch McConnell is worried that the Employee Free Choice Act "will fundamentally harm America and Europeanize America."

Yeah, you can see how Europe presents a terrifying spectacle, what with its centuries of culture, its high standards of living, its widespread access to education and health care, its extensive systems of public transportation, its greater levels of social and economic equality, etc. etc. etc.

Dear President Obama: please stop listening to these people. Many of them are ignorant; quite a few are insane; and a not inconsiderable number are simply shameless liars in the service of regression and oligarchy. If you leave America more like contemporary Europe than you found it, then I am confident that history will remember you kindly—far more so than it will remember men like your predecessor and pink, pasty Mitch McConnell.

No Serge Gainsbourg, though. I draw the line there.

// posted by nash @ 6:15 PM