A Tribute To Failure

As Dan Geringer of the Philadelphia Daily News notes here, Don (“The Defense Secretary You Had”) Rumsfeld is due to receive the Philadelphia Union League’s Gold Medal tomorrow, and that has outraged union members James Ounsworth and Sandra L. Cadwalader (and with a name like Cadwalader, do you honestly think this lady can be poor?).

My hat, figuratively speaking, is off to these two people (and Cadwalader wrote a letter to the editor that the Inquirer published this morning).

Let me back up for a minute and try to describe how sumptuous the building of Union League of Philadelphia is, by the way; I can’t find confirmation at the moment, but I am almost positive that it was featured in the movie “Trading Places” with Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd, with Aykroyd stumbling into it all disheveled from a practical joke played on him by the Duke Brothers (played by Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy); they are having brandy and cigars or something and generally lounging around soaking up their glorious wealth when Aykroyd arrives (the movie also features unforgettable footage of the World Trade Center towers…).

And as Geringer notes (and supported by this Wikipedia article), the league was founded to help promote the policies of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War on behalf of a Republican party that could not be more different from the one that has had such a ruinous effect on this country over the last six years.

Since this is a private organization, I cannot determine who its members are. However, I was able to find some contacts at the league, and one of them is James Mundy; he can be reached at (215) 587-5592 or you can click on his name to send him an Email.

Let’s all act like patriotic Americans and send a deluge of correspondence to this guy (as least as much of one as is possible) telling him exactly what we think of this travesty, OK?