When you’re watching Obama’s State of the Union address tonight and wondering how the hell the year went by without your ass getting health care, look no further than Oak City natives Brad and Dallas Woodhouse. According to Politico, the brothers are quite the characters: “The two men have distinctly different styles. Brad is more polished and constrained; Dallas is brash but charming.” One worked on the Obama campaign! And one’s a hard-core conservative! Craziness!
Let’s start with Brad. Matt Taibbi traced Brad’s complete fraud w/r/t the Iraq war:
“No one has been stronger in this race [than Bowles] in supporting President Bush in the war on terror and his efforts to effect a regime change in Iraq,” said Bowles’s spokesman, Brad Woodhouse.
– Charlotte Observer, 9/20/02
That was when Brad was working on Foreskine’s (failed) Senate campaign. Now fast forward four years, when Democrats have a majority in the House and Brad is president of the anti-war Americans United for Change.
“We’re disappointed that the war drags on with no end in sight,” [Woodhouse] told Reuters, “but realize Democratic leaders can only accomplish what they have the votes for.”
Ignore the flip-flopping. Every politician does that. What you should be pissed at “peace activist” Brad for is this: instead of pressing House leaders to tell Bush to fuck off and refuse any further war spending, he took a superficial stand against Iraq while the war raged on for two years so Democrats could take political advantage in 2008.
Silence while prolonging a deadly conflict in order to grab the presidency…of course, OF COURSE Brad was rewarded for this kind of behavior. He is now Communications Director for the Democratic National Committee, where “he will help craft the party’s message and political strategy at a time when Democrats control both houses of Congress and the White House.” Yep, he’s that dude who “crafted the message” out-Foxed by deranged hick Sarah Palin(R-Facebook) and stood idly by while Republicans took a Taco Bell Grande meal-sized dump on any proposal that could benefit ordinary Americans.
…and he’s the DEMOCRAT!
Now, Dallas is really something else. Named one of the N&O’s 10 to watch in 2010, Dallas is the N.C. director of Americans for Prosperity, and has been making his ultra-ultra-conservative interest group proud by driving busloads up to Washington to protest health-care reform and sparring with his brother on CNN.
The brothers LOVE arguing! Especially on national television. They love it almost as much as the media, who just can’t avoid fawning over a charged “left”/far-right political debate while unemployment is in double digits and people can’t afford to pay their bills.
So that’s Dallas and Brad. Clearly, every Raleigh resident can relate to one of the two brothers. I think I’m more like Dallas: I’m really into being a dick WHILE I’m being a dick, you know, combining the whole words and actions thing, and oh, what I fucking LOVE is when I dupe angry, desperate people into organizing against their own interests. That’s my shit, right there!
images via Politico
