"Just" NASA guys
Posted by Dave Huber
Oh, That Liberal Media
The Philly Inquirer's Dick Polman, their "political analyst," obviously didn't analyze enough in today's article about Tom DeLay. Titled "Where DeLay comes from, loyalty and lividity," Polman examines locals' feelings about the powerful House Republican. About halfway down in the column we read about some Democrats who think DeLay can't be beat, but mainly because people have "political blinders" on:
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Maybe DeLay's diehards are needlessly worried, because plenty of local Democrats doubt that he can be beaten. Karl Silverman, a NASA weather forecaster for the space shuttle, stabbed at his salad the other night and said: "So many people here wear blinders. They see politics as just another negative, so they ignore it, because they already have enough negatives in their lives. And they're ideologues anyway, so they figure, 'He's a Republican, he must be OK.' "
"Yeah," said John Cobarruvias, another NASA man. "They keep coming back for more. At the office, I keep asking people, 'How much more are you going to take?' "
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But these two "mere NASA men" are actually prominent local Democratic operatives. As reported by Greg over at Rhymes With Right, Silverman is the founder of the League City Neighborhood Democrats and sits on the Texas Democrat State Executive Committee as the Committeman for Senatorial District 11.
Cobarruvias is a frequent contributor of articles to the Democratic Underground, as well as being head of the Bay Area New Democrats, the group that sponsored last year's protest in front of Swift Boat Vet John O'Neill's home. Among his classier recent stunts was calling Tom DeLay a "bastard" in one of the local papers.
As Greg says, "To fail to identify them as anything but Democrat activists -- especially as humble, hard-working employees with NASA -- is rather disingenuous. It would be like quoting Howard Dean and identifying him as a Vermont physician!"
Indeed!
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