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Climate Changes So Wild They Bend the Rules of Time

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jul 08, 2009 at 21:44:21 PM EDT
Go ahead and accuse me of pushing a meme, but really, it's the quitter who's doing the best job of all of likening herself to Say Anything Sarah:
Ayotte said she never promised to serve out the full term, and alluded to the wild changes in New Hampshire politics in 2009.These include Gregg's unexpected retirement; his acceptance and then rejection of appointment as commerce secretary; and most recently the decisions of former Sen. John E. Sununu and former Gov. Steve Merrill to forego a Senate run in 2010.

"No one could have predicted the change in the political landscape and the climate we find ourselves in," Ayotte said.

First, note the legal parsing of saying she never "promised" to serve her full term.  Fun with philology there on breaking her word to Lynch.

But more to the point: the Gregg-for-Commerce fiasco was heating up in February late January.  Ayotte was re-appointed in March. Huh?  What now?
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Oh, please. Let's be fair. (4.00 / 8)
It is absolutely accurate to observe that "No one could have predicted" the events of February, come March.

You could have recalled them. You could have fondly reminisced about them. But you could not predict them.

Ayotte will stumble in launching her campaign. I postdict it.

I consulted my Yogi (4.00 / 2)
And he said:

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. n/t (4.00 / 1)


If the kids can't bop to it, it's bombsville.
[ Parent ]
The past (4.00 / 2)
isn't what it used to be.
Nothing is the same since everything changed.

...the Doo Dah Man once told me you've got to play your hand. Sometimes the cards ain't worth a dime if you don't lay 'em down.
Wish I didn't know now (4.00 / 1)
what I didn't know then.
[ Parent ]
Ah but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (4.00 / 2)

"Memorizing politics of ancient history(February)" is such drag. Why bother when you can re-write.



"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

Future just aint what it used to be (0.00 / 0)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Not a great version, but you gotta give it up for a lefty guitarist sometimes.

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