Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 1:04 PM by Gene

Here I was, all ready to gush madly about how Jimson Dickey pinched himself because we're in the sixties again, and the courageous Rosie's Nephew is making movies about them, exposing the EEEEEEEEEEEEVIL of Kenne -- DUBYA (he was president in the sixties?), when the WaPo folks link to another blogger who loves Jimson's, er, commentary -- and who in turn links to some hard working, decent man running for Senate from Utah, with bold statements like this:

The United States of America has historically been an economic superpower and an innovator of technology. We harnessed electricity, invented the light-bulb and the television, but what have we produced lately?

The United States is in dire danger as we are being surpassed by other countries on the industrial front. We developed the first railroad system, but China, Germany, and Japan are developing trains that float with no moving parts. We industrialized around the steam and internal combustion engines, but remain stuck in high gear on fossil fuels. Meanwhile the international community is closing in on energy production through fusion, and guess where the first operating plant is being built -- not in the U.S.A. The Chinese are gearing up to clean our clock economically with no oil dependence at all.

Other countries are now surpassing the United States with innovation. We need to have the courage to reverse this trend.

We wish you luck, Pete -- but I'm afraid running against ORRIN you may need more than luck.