Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!

[teddywolf]

drwex said, of Mitt Romney, "I wonder what he'll do to piss off the Polish."

My response:

Let's ask our panel. Paula Poundstone?
He'll go to a pierogie festival and tell them how the ravioli he had last week was so much better.
Tom Bodette?
He'll talk on and on about his favorite floor polish before he's told that Polish is pronounced with an "oh" sound.
Mo Rocca?
Uhm, he's going to talk about how he loves to eat Polish sausages, the bigger the better.

And if he does any of that, panel, we'll cover that on another edition of Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!
Thank you Carl.

Comments

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Yeah; I mentioned to Lis the other day that I'm pretty much out of schadenfreude, and I'm starting to feel pity for the poor guy.

Lots of uncertainty

[teddywolf.livejournal.com]

I don't know whether to be glad or sad (or both!) that it's not just me.

I'm still.... I'm scared of what will happen if he becomes President. Not just in terms of policy and legislation, but because I am pretty sure that Scalia and Thomas are each currently waiting for a Republican president so they can retire and keep the court as ideological as ever. Normally a GOP president wouldn't scare me before coming into office, but considering that the US economy is currently in a depression, and that Mitt's policies would be much more like Herbert Hoover's than FDR's, and I have no idea who he'd put on the Supreme Court...

I should probably email a prof and lay out my worries. But I'm also not sure if I'd be more worried by a professor scoffing at my reasoning, which would just indicate that I am not thinking enough, or if I'm not scoffed at.

There are things where I'd rather be the crazy person than think that the world really behaves like this, despite my best analyses. I'm not the crazy person yet.