January 16, 2003
A Blank In a Blankhouse
It's official: Senator Hillary Clinton has been appointed to the House Armed Services Committee.
Hip, hip, hoo-barf.
I realize that it's pointless to ask politicians not play politics with important things like defense of the nation (as opposed to putting knowledgeable and thoughtful people in positions where the rubber meets the road), but c'mon --- Hillary Clinton on the Armed Services Committee? That's like appointing Robert C. Byrd as head of Citizens to Reduce Government Waste or making Barbra Streisand a spokeswoman for MENSA (or MEZNAR, as she likes to call it). Y'gotta wonder what kind of horse-trading was going on to put Mrs. Loathe-The-Military in an area where her vile husband did so much damage. That's just wrong.
It's so wrong, in fact, that it calls out for a new animal metaphor describing an infelicitous confluence of person and situation --- something like "fox in the henhouse", but more appropriate to the particulars of the situation. So far I'm leaning towards "a shrew in the weasel-house", but there's also:
a harpy in the serpent-house
a bitch in the cur-house
a black widow in a stack of tarantulas
a power-crazed whore in place that's too important for the likes of her
a Leahy on the judiciary committee
a cheese log in the laxatives showcase
an Ikea desk in a place where Ikea desks would ordinarily not be found, such as a museum of fine furniture
A Republican in San Francisco (yes, Pamela, I know you like living there)
A copy of Mother Jones mixed in with the Hustlers
The comments section is open for your contributions!
(link via The Daily Pundit)
Posted by Steve at January 16, 2003 01:04 PM
a Yasser in B'nai B'rith
a male Clinton in a sorority house
a MADD president in charge of Budweiser
a Hefner in a convent
a Marxist in National Review
a Margaret Sanger in charge of an adoption agency
With her?
A vampyre in the Blood Mobile
or better,
A Boston priest in the orphanage
Excuse me? SENATOR ... HOUSE Armed Sevices Committee. I actually had to wait, and wait, for the link to open to confirm that it was your typo...
But god, could they have found a worse slot for her?
A Syrian in the UN Human Right's Committee.
My husband's a Marine. He'll probably have to fight with rubberbands and koosh balls from now on.
Ugh!
Spring
A trolloc in a maternity ward.
A Whitecloak Inquisitor in the Hall of Novices
A Bill Gates in the CEO position of Netscape.
A Michael Moore in a Cheetos factory.
A metaphor in a Maureen Dowd column.
A cogent thought in a Molly Ivins column.
A Colonel Sanders in a PETA rally.
A beer in a Levendus' hand.
Like Dick Morris at a Pedicurist convention.
Like Janet Reno as Security at a David Koresh concert.
Like Col. Sheila Jackson-Lee addressing the Texas Daughters of the Confederacy.
Hillary; Ft. Marcy Park CSI!
Michael Jackson in a daycare center
An ANSWER member on Wall Street
Pat Robertson at a witch's coven
Kim Jong-Il at the Academy Awards
An ANSWER member posting on happyfunpundit
Vegetarian food at my barbecue
Like Libya in charge of the UN Human Rights Commission. Oh, wait.
