Acting like a Republican

Earlier this month, in the comment thread of my post about my new computer, I made this remark in response to Kate‘s comment about the purchase:

On top of that, there was something of a Republican approach behind the decision to buy a new machine, and a flat-panel, and new MS Office, and new Quicken, and new Norton stuff.  I’ll have more to say about that in a future blog posting.

This is that blog posting.

First off, let me hasten to explain some of the many ways in which I am not acting like a Republican.  Borrowed and adapted from my pal Darryl at HominidViews, I want to assure all of my readers that I have neither done nor emulated any of these activities:

• unlike George W. Bush, I have not used the NSA to spy on Americans, in clear violation of the law
• unlike Karl Rove, I am not about to be indicted for lying in the Leakergate investigation
• unlike the malAdministration, I have not created secret overseas prisons for suspected terrorists
• unlike the White House, I am not attempting to negotiate stuff out of McCain’s anti-torture bill
• unlike Jack Abramoff, I did not lead a cabal to undertake a (super-sized) Indian Gambling Scandal
• unlike Rummy and Abu Gonzales, I have not authorized torture in Abu Ghraib and Gitmo
• unlike Tom DeLay, I am not under indictment for money laundering, conspiracy, or anything else
• unlike Cheney, Powell, Condi, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Dubya, et al., I have made no false claims about supposed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
• unlike George W. Bush, I have neither jokingly not seriously suggested to Tony Blair that the US might bomb Al Jazeera
• unlike the Defense Department, I have not paid a contractor to publish positive stories about the war in Iraqi newspapers
• unlike Bill Frist, I have participated in neither conflict-of-interest stock transactions from (non)blind trusts nor laundered money through charities
• unlike the Bush malAdministration, I have made no illegal payments to the press (Armstrong Williams) and produced no bogus news videos in clear violation of laws prohibiting the use of federal money for propaganda
• unlike Mike Brown and Bush’s FEMA, I did not fail to respond to Hurricane Katrina

How, then, am I acting like a Republican?  Click and find out…

Comments

Well, that stinks.  I maintain you’re not really behaving like a Republican unless you put all expenditures on a credit card, though.

Actually, and it may be a myth, I’ve always thought that end of year job searching might be a little more productive than other times, since new annual budgets are being prepared about this time.

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Not quite all of them are on credit cards.  I wrote a check against my home equity line of credit for the computer ... it was a home-built by a FOAF who doesn’t take plastic.

Otherwise, yeah, I’m doing a fine job of maintaining my monthly balances (though I don’t carry them over to the next month, so no interest charges ... yet).

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Not like a republican, because you will end up paying for this - not those less fortunate

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You weren’t acting like a Republican, but you surely were Republicaned. What a crummy development. I hope you can turn it into an opportunity you wouldn’t have thought about otherwise—as long as it doesn’t mean Rama Noodles. Your political policy thoughts are interesting, though. I think that would be an ideal niche for you.

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Thanks, Kate.  I’m fairly certain I’ll land on my feet, and the questions about what and where are exciting, in a way.

The problem, as always, is connecting with people who understand that my non-"relevant" experience could have some relevance to their goals and strategies.

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“connecting with people who understand that my non-"relevant" experience could have some relevance to their goals and strategies.”

Good luck at that, although your prior experience doesn’t seem to be as “techie” as mine.  On my resumé people see “Info Systems” or “Data Processing Manager” and refuse to recognize other possibilities.

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