Man, Lileks is in the zone these days:
“I found the text of an upcoming Mondale ad. It accused Norm Coleman of giving public money to two companies that had laid off 750 workers last year.
Oh, that�s rich. Coleman did indeed lend public money to Lawson Software to lure them to build a big new office building in St. Paul – an $84 million loan made possible by tax-increment financing. I abhor outright gifts to companies just to convince them to build pretty buildings, but using TIF to revitalize downtown St. Paul is a defensible position. Reasonable people can argue about it. And when they�re tired of arguing about it, because it�s boring, they can chew on this:
Northwest Airlines received $230 million from the Federal Government in bailout money after 9/11.
Northwest has cut 10,000 jobs since 9/11.
Walter Mondale is on the Board of Directors of Northwest Airlines.
Oh: and Walter Mondale gets 24K in free airline travel a year from NWA.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS? Mechanics, laid off! Flight attendants, laid off! Baggage handlers, sent into the snow and forced to sell matches to buy a withered beet for supper, while Mondale sits in first class and has steak and pays nothing! Nothing!”
It gets better, as he takes apart Mondale’s speech:
“‘Iraq is dangerous, but going it alone is dangerous, too.‘
Here he equates a nuke-armed Saddam with the consequences of deposing Saddam without a hall pass from France. They�re both �Dangerous.� The first part, yes. That�s dangerous. The second part is �Dangerous� in the sense that Michael Jackson was �Bad.�”
I’ll be quiet here for a while (check back later to see if my latest Projo column gets posted today). Go read Lileks’ whole column, there’s lots more there.