Blastoff!

The first post of the New Year!! Chinese New Year, of course! Loyal Opposition is back after more than a month when L.O.'s attention was demanded by several crises. Like Dick Nixon, L.O. plans to write a book about each and every one of them. For those of you puzzled by that last statement, L.O. can only mildly reprimand you for not reading Nixon's Six Crises where he tells the world just how good a Dick Nixon can be when the going gets tough. He only started talking to portraits when it was HIS OWN crisis that he had to deal with.

Loyal Opposition is raging, raging at the manifold ways in which the nation is tra-la-la-la-laling towards decline. It's enough to make one weep. And rend clothing. Sometimes L.O. feels like making like Laurence Olivier in The Jazz Singer and screaming "I HAVE NO SONNNNNN!" Which, incidentally, is true. L.O. does not have kinder.

L.O. is, however, possesed of a renewed vigor to take on the many things that annoy and undermine us all. Really, L.O. means it---Loyal Opposition is back in business.

And just to make sure that L.O. is back with a bang--here's a quote for the Sunday paper:

Those who cravenly acquiesce to the lying and misleading involved in the current struggle over Social Security are doing nothing less than selling the nation's future down the river and deserve to be tarred and feathered.