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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSome things never change dept: Experts agree, Meese is a pig
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115032/meese-pig-ed-meese-now-wants-kill-obamacareEdwin Meese III is back in the news: According to a report in Sunday's New York Times, the Reagan-era attorney general convened a group of right-wing leaders last winter to plan a campaign to kill Obamacareby shutting down the government, if necessary. The apparent end-of-the-fiscal-year train wreck, according to Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Mike McIntire's story, was planned months ago.
Meese's return to the headlines is bad news for the country, and likely bad news for his fellow Republicans, whose efforts to blame President Obama for the shutdown might be undercut by news that a secret cabal of veteran Beltway insiders plotted the shutdown months ago. But for people who lived in Washington in the 1980s, it brought with it a certain sweet nostalgia: Few government officials ever represented better targets for mockery.
For people who followed politics, of course, Meese was the guy behind some of Reagan's most divisive policies. But ordinary commuters also experienced the Meese-bashing in ways they didn't with other officials: During the last couple years of the Reagan administration, walls, construction sites, traffic signal boxes, and highway overpasses throughout the Washington area were festooned with giant posters that read "Meese is a Pig." Soon afterwards, a second series of the poster appeared, with an additional two words: "Experts Agree!"
The campaign, in turn, drew ample national media coverage and represented something of a cultural momenta pre-web meme of sorts. Stores began selling T-shirts bearing the same message.
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Meese's return to the headlines is bad news for the country, and likely bad news for his fellow Republicans, whose efforts to blame President Obama for the shutdown might be undercut by news that a secret cabal of veteran Beltway insiders plotted the shutdown months ago. But for people who lived in Washington in the 1980s, it brought with it a certain sweet nostalgia: Few government officials ever represented better targets for mockery.
For people who followed politics, of course, Meese was the guy behind some of Reagan's most divisive policies. But ordinary commuters also experienced the Meese-bashing in ways they didn't with other officials: During the last couple years of the Reagan administration, walls, construction sites, traffic signal boxes, and highway overpasses throughout the Washington area were festooned with giant posters that read "Meese is a Pig." Soon afterwards, a second series of the poster appeared, with an additional two words: "Experts Agree!"
The campaign, in turn, drew ample national media coverage and represented something of a cultural momenta pre-web meme of sorts. Stores began selling T-shirts bearing the same message.
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Some things never change dept: Experts agree, Meese is a pig (Original Post)
Fumesucker
Oct 2013
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He and Ken Starr are collaberating on another work of fiction about the Clenis??
madinmaryland
Oct 2013
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. Volume II of his report on pornography is epic
A classic work of erotica from the GPO
madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)2. He and Ken Starr are collaberating on another work of fiction about the Clenis??
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)3. He's 81 years old.
He should retire and enjoy life or die and get the fuck out of the way.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)4. I hates Meeses to pieces!
Arcane cartoon fans, AmIRite or what?
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)5. i didn't even know that pile of excrement was still alive.
Not surprising that he'd be involved in something like this, that being said.