TC the Terrible

Earlier today I finished slugging thru “America’s Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton” by, William C. Berman, which turned out to be the biggest load of left wing revisionist history dribble that I’ve had to choke down in ages. Of course it was for my current master’s class at college. The people that praised on the back cover either never read the book, or were paid to say something nice about it.

The basic thesis of the book is that social engineering by the US Federal Government is good, no matter how many tax dollars must be spent, and that all white people who vote Republican are racists who hate poor people. No wonder colleges are getting such bad press these days as the breeding ground of liberals at the expense of the student body. This book even went so far as to say that most issues were too complex for the general public to understand, so the Federal Government needed to think for them.

Thank God for clear thinkers like George Will. His article in today’s Post was spot on in defining one of the many problems in our government. The ability of elected officials to add pork barrel projects on to bills after the House and Senate have voted on them is preposterous. It is things like this that cause our national debt to continue to increase and the faith of Americans in their elected representatives to decrease.

More later.

All good things must come to an end, and the Redskins season is no exception.  If we could all be honest for a minute, even the biggest Redskins backer could admit that this team went at least one game further than it should have this year.  To think that they would be able to sneak a win out of Seattle was wishful thinking at its best.  

The best player in the entire league goes out on the first series and your defense still can’t stop the rest of his team?  That’s a problem. After all, when the other team hands you the ball three times and still spanks you there are more problems than attitude alone can fix.

The biggest loss yesterday was to watch Ray Brown sitting on the sidelines with the cramps.  After 20 years in the NFL he called it quits, knowing that he could still hang with the young guys most days, but not having enough left to do it every day.  Brown is a quality guy, whose brother is the coach in Marion, AR where they both grew up.  Brown can leave the game proud of his long career, and proud of the way he conducted himself.  When Coach Gibbs looks for players with character, he needs to look for more like Brown and quit making excuses for the Sean Taylor’s of the NFL.

In the end yesterday the Redskins simply did not have anything in the tank.  Brunell tried late in the forth quarter, but couldn’t make a pass in the clutch.  When Gibbs looks at what has to be retooled for next year that is the one place he has to start.  Ramsey will most likely be gone and the kid from Auburn may not be ready.  That means ‘Skins fans will have another year of not being able to finish it off in the end.  

But it gives Wilbon, Kornheiser, and the rest of us something to talk about during the winter.

More later.