{"id":25018,"date":"2014-04-07T08:13:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25018"},"modified":"2014-04-07T08:13:29","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:13:29","slug":"nick-gillespie-on-the-politics-of-exhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/04\/07\/nick-gillespie-on-the-politics-of-exhaustion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Gillespie on the politics of exhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing in the Daily Beast<\/em>, Nick Gillespie<\/a> looks at the terrifying prospect of a 2016 presidential contest between yet another Bush and yet another Clinton:<\/p>\n

For partisan and media elites, \u2018the past is never dead. It\u2019s not even past,\u2019 which means with these two candidates likely to lead the race in 2016, the future doesn\u2019t look so different.<\/em><\/p>\n

As if we need it, here\u2019s extra proof that contemporary politics is more thoroughly exhausted than adult actress Lisa Sparkxxx must have been at the end of her record-setting roll in the hay at the 2004 \u201cEroticon\u201d in Warsaw, Poland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> reports<\/a>, \u201cMany of the Republican Party\u2019s most powerful insiders and financiers have begun a behind-the-scenes campaign to draft former Florida governor Jeb Bush into the 2016 presidential race, courting him and his intimates and starting talks on fundraising strategy.\u201d For once, I found myself agreeing with Jesse Jackson. Can\u2019t we just \u201cstay out the Bushes\u201d<\/a> this one time at least?<\/p>\n

On the other side of the aisle, it\u2019s a given that Hillary Clinton is not only the<\/em> presumptive Democratic nominee, but the only<\/em> possible Democratic nominee anyone can name with a straight face (sorry, Joe Biden<\/a>, but this just ain\u2019t your century any more than the 20th was). \u201cThere was a Bush or a Clinton in the White House and cabinet for 32 years straight,\u201d notes Maureen Dowd at The New York Times<\/em>, whose headline writer adds, \u201cBrace Yourself for Hillary and Jeb.\u201d<\/a> As it was, it shall always be. About the only cause for optimism is that there\u2019s no Kennedy in the mix.<\/p>\n

At least Lisa Sparkxxx participated voluntarily in her own screwing. For the large and growing plurality<\/a> of Americans who identify as independent<\/em>, there\u2019s seemingly no way to opt out of the compulsive-repetitive disorder among legacy media types and partisan string-pullers. What is it that Faulkner said in Requiem for a Nun<\/em> (1950)? \u201cThe past is never dead. It\u2019s not even past.\u201d<\/a> Who knew that he was talking about politics in the goddamned 21st century, not Yoknapatawpha County<\/a> after the Civil War?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writing in the Daily Beast, Nick Gillespie looks at the terrifying prospect of a 2016 presidential contest between yet another Bush and yet another Clinton: For partisan and media elites, \u2018the past is never dead. It\u2019s not even past,\u2019 which means with these two candidates likely to lead the race in 2016, the future doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[768,188,517],"class_list":["post-25018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-democrat","tag-electionwatch","tag-republican"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6vw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25019,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25018\/revisions\/25019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}