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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
The Agony of Defeat
Ron Angle, still wearing his LBJ hat and an assortment of political buttons, reflects in the peanut gallery after being ambushed by fellow Council members.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer (or more deserving) fellow.
ReplyDeleteDon't concern yourself. Counties and other local forms of govenment are quickly fading away under a mountain of debt obligations. It won't be long now that we'll have to explain to the younger generation that there used to be a time where local units of government actually supplied basic services to residents, before they imploded due to the greed of their employees and general mismanagement.
No surprise here..The teapartiers in Congress will learn the same lesson as Angle just learned..Do they really think the blueblood Republicans want anything to do with them? They think they are just a bunch of hicks who they, the bluebloods, used for the purpose of getting back control..Now that they have power again they'll throw the teapartiers a few crumbs and send them on their way..
ReplyDeleteIt looks like he's crying. Wiping the snot from his nose.
ReplyDeleteWaah, now I have to spend more time in the Slate Belt.
ReplyDeleteI don't get the Angle, tea party correlation. Angle wouldn't know a political philosophy if it grabbed his hand and forced him to sign something. The tea party "misunderestimation" seems to seep from the same anuses who originally denied it existed, then minimized its sincerity as Astro-turf, then threw their usual racism grenades (which largely backfired) when it still wouldn't go away. At least it's an admission that the movement does, indeed, exist and kicked your ass to the curb when voters had a chance to speak. Baby steps. Finally, blue bloods? Peg Ferraro's trailer is ample evidence of the insidious GOP blue blood takeover. Lot's of high faluting going on there. I think the party's reorganization gala will be held there. Please remember to write your name on your beer cup and not piss on the lawn.
ReplyDeleteJust watched Monday's meeting on NorCo website. I was waiting for Mr. Angle to start stomping his feet and crying. What an absolute immature reaction to no longer being president and then drilling Mr. Cusick....how pathetic Ron Angle!
ReplyDeleteI still find it hard to believe that Ron Angle is a County Councilman. I remember this guy back in the 90's on the Upper Mt Bethel Supervisors and he was simply an embarrassment. Knowing the Slate Belt types, its no surprise he is a County man. Now... finally people are tired of his antics. Look at how he dressed for the Council meeting!! Lets bring back civility, decorum and statesmanship to this Council. God speed the new leadership.
ReplyDeletePathetic is Ron Angle's middle name. This is just the start of a very bad year for Mr. Angle, Mr. Stoffa and Bernie as well as the other tea bags on County Council. They wanted people's attention and they got it.
ReplyDeleteThe times they are a changing
"Look at how he dressed for the Council meeting!!"
ReplyDeleteOh my, he fails to conform to your dress code. Once upon a time, a lawyer came in a tattered suit to a Chicago courthouse. It was raining and his umbrella had holes in it. So did most of his clothing. The elites like you had a good time sneering at the guy and calling hom a "gorilla" just loud enough so that he could hear them. He pretended not to notice.
That man's name was Abraham Lincoln.
"Knowing the Slate Belt types, its no surprise he is a County man."
Precisely the kind of elitist statement that I would expect. Note my sentence above.
The tattered suit story made me well up. Angle is wealthy Abe was poor. I knew Abe Lincoln and Angle you ain't no Abe Lincoln.
ReplyDeleteAnd you're no Daniel Webster, just an anonymous elitist.
ReplyDeleteEnough with the Abraham Lincoln stories. First Stoffa is proclaimed the poor mans Abe Lincoln and now Ron Angle? You are just plain nutz O'Hare.
ReplyDeleteI realize Stoffa ended his 2011 forecast article by lifting the closing line from the Gettysburg address but that does not a Lincoln make.
You can give a quill pen to a monkey and call him Shakespeare but he is still just a monkey.
The same with Angle and Stoffa.
"Enough with the Abraham Lincoln stories."
ReplyDeleteThen stop making elitist comments about someone based on how he dresses. If you prefer, I can talk about how Jesus Christ dressed.
I knew Jesus Christ
ReplyDeleteand Ron ain't no Jesus Christ
all told
he looked like Frank Fontaines character
Crazy Googanham
hey
whatever floats your boat
face meet egg
To quote the great Nelson Muntz,
ReplyDeleteha HA!!
Over the last four years, thers has been 15 members of county council. How bout a David Letterman type top 10. Example:
ReplyDelete1. W. Grube
2. Cusick
3. Angle
4. Ferarro
5. Gilbert
6. McHale
7. Dowd
8. (tie) Capozzolo and Seyfried
9. McClure
10. Nieper
11. Dietrich
12. Thierry
13. Dertinger
14. Branco
15. P Grube (sorry only 2 weeks)
Is that all? danthemann
"Oh my, he fails to conform to your dress code. "
ReplyDeleteA few months back, the Morning Call wrote a story about how Ron Angle came to a court hearing dressed in a stained T-shirt, sagging pants and suspenders. It was before Judge Franciosa, not long after Angle called him senile and incompetent. Bernie defended his attire then, but savaged the MC reporter who wrote the story because he doesn't always wear a tie when he covers the courts.
For the record, I couldn't care less what Ron wears anywhere. I only point this out to underline Bernie's double-standard. If he's going to claim it's insulting for a reporter not to wear a tie to court, there's no reason it's any less insulting for Ron to come dressed to a county council meeting dressed this way.
Look, moron, I was pointed out the reporter's double standard. If he wants to attack Angle's attire, then he should dress a little better himself. That was my point, and it's no shock that you lack the intelligence to grasp it.
ReplyDeleteYes, you are excellent at identifying double standards, except for the ones you hold yourself.
ReplyDeleteAngle loves to wax on about how criminal many pols are. Yet they have not been in all the legal messes this guy is in on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteYes, the public is just not smart enough to comprehend your definition of a "double standard" O'Hare.
Your mancrush is a shady character who lashes out at others rather than clean up his own act. The really sad thing is you are an "enabler" who not only promotes and praises this nonsense.
You know all about enabler behavior.
Time for some sympathetic manlove.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the significance of the LBJ hat?
ReplyDelete