Hagel: ‘Show Business for the Ugly’
Here’s a really cool (though short) interview with Senator Charles Hagel (R-NE) from the New York Times magazine: Fighting words. Hagel, of course, recently set anti-war hearts aflutter by making statements critical of Bush on Iraq.
A brief excerpt:
In terms of the deficit, we have blown the top right off. We’re a bunch of Democrats.
I’ve never heard anyone call President Bush a Democrat.
That’s my point. We’re less honest about it. We built the biggest government history has ever seen under a Republican government. The Democrats are better because they are honest about it. They don’t pretend. I admire that. They’ll say: ”We want more money. We need more money.”
I also really liked this part:
Actually, I think it’s warped to talk about 2008 so much. Pundits care too much about betting on the next winner, and then they lose interest once the contest is over.
That’s because there’s a dynamic to politics that has lately been overtaken by show business. Politics is show business. It’s just show business for the ugly. It’s Hollywood without all the beautiful people.
