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Sometimes Karma works

· North American affairs

It seems John McCain, of McCain-Feingold fame and little else, has been hoist on his own petard and run afoul of the anti-democratic, anti-free-speech and anti-liberty FEC regulations.

This could not happen to a more deserving individual.

February 23rd, 2008 |

11 comments to Sometimes Karma works

  • Paul Marks
    February 23, 2008 at 2:58 pm

    Old news Dale.

  • Andrew Duffin
    February 23, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    Maybe distance is misleading but hasn’t he more or less got the nomination stitched up?

    I guess he could stop spending completely, now, and still be sitting pretty.

    Did I miss something?

  • Frederick Davies
    February 23, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    He is going to get the nomination, sure; but do you think he is going to sit pretty all the way to the convention? No, now is when you start defining your opponent. All till now has just been but wanting, the real fight starts here.

  • veryretired
    February 23, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    I have always believed there was a form of cosmic justice in the universe. Sometimes it just works a little quicker, and more ironically, in some cases than others.

  • Nate
    February 24, 2008 at 12:46 am

    (laughing) woo-hoo!

    I know a lot of my fellow libertarians disagree with me on this…but I wasn’t phased so much by the PATRIOT Act as I was by the heinousness of the McCain-Feingold Act.

    I will never vote for John McCain…ain’t. going. to. happen.

  • Alan K. Henderson
    February 24, 2008 at 7:34 am

    I will vote against McCain in the Texas primary, and against the Democratis nominee in the general election. With thorough disgust.

  • konshtok
    February 25, 2008 at 4:15 pm

    hoisted BY his own petard
    petard is like a bomb or a grenade

    nit peaking(sp?) is a disease and I has it

    http://xkcd.com/386/http://xkcd.com/386/ (Link)

  • Midwesterner
    February 25, 2008 at 5:00 pm

    konshtok,

    Then allow me to join you.

    Hoisted with his own petard.

    Hamlet: There’s letters seal’d, and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d— They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery. Let it work;
    For ’tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petard, an’t shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

    And but for the reference to “delve one yard below their mines”, we could have interpreted the use to mean ‘raised by his own fart‘. A bit of Shakespeare’s double entendre at work?

  • Alasdair
    February 28, 2008 at 1:09 am

    Someone “hoist by or with his own petard” refers to someone being caught by something he did himself …

    In medieval times, the petard was used by a miner (as in sieges, not minerals in the grounds) seeking to undermine a fortification … the petard was an explosive charge … if the miner didn’t get away from the explosive charge, and was instead blown up by it, he was deemed to have been “hoist by/with his own petard” …

  • Midwesterner
    February 28, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    I just now noticed that while I set straight the on/by/with phraseology, I changed “Hoist” to “Hoisted“. D’oh!

    See what you started, konshtok? Now you got me nit-peaking myself. 🙂

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