Check the sides of your milk cartons, people, because Peter Welch’s spine has gone missing (again). Yep, Vermont’s congressman is slithering in the cesspool again. The man who has apparently never met an important issue that he can’t triangulate to the point of incoherence is, in fact, triangulating his debt-ceiling vote to the point of incoherence.
In case you missed WDEV’s Mark Johnson Show this morning, Welch’s explanation went something like this:
I am proud to have voted against this bill but I would have been just as proud to have voted in favor of it if my vote was needed to pass something that I am against.
Got that? Me neither.
Surprisingly – pleasantly, I may add – Mark Johnson wasn’t letting the congressional doublespeak slip by without a challenge. His voice gave the radio equivalent of my dog’s head cocked in confusion while Welch nearly-perfectly argued both sides of the vote.
I’m beginning to think that Welch sees his relationship with Vermont voters as some kind of Three Card Monte game: The truth is everywhere – but nowhere, too. Now give me your money/vote.
Remember, this is the same guy that the ubber-popular-amongst-political-wonks blog, Politico, recently called a nebbish. Or, more accurately, Politico called Welch “a nebbishy, soft-spoken liberal from Vermont.”
Ew.
But, then again, this does seem to be a state full of nebbishy, soft-spoken liberals. Seen the anti-war vigils lately?
So nebbish is good in Vermont. It’s a great election and re-election strategy. Just check your spine at the door, baby. Yeah, right next to Senator Leahy’s, please.
Wait. I just noticed that a few of you stepped away to look up the word “nebbish.”
According to Dictionary.com, a nebbish is: A person, esp. a man, who is pitifully ineffectual, timid, or submissive.
Like the glove fits the hand, Welch fits the nebbish.
Pitiful, indeed.