Letters to the Editor
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Irony so thick...
...You could choke on it.
If only these gassbags actually would.
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While shaking hands with Bain Capital...
your wallet is being replaced with a pink slip.
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And yet...
There's something awe-inspiring about a group that can successfully turn rice cakes like Harry Reid and Tom Daschle into demons. (Or who can make the world think that Hillary Clinton is a liberal...)
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Sorry about bipartisanship
http://correntewire.com/the_sorry_news_sorry_about_bipartisanship
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Odd View of Destiny
Despite their obvious moral superiority, love of competition (free market), and other deeply held principles, the commenters on the Right believe they are destined to lose. Is that belief from personal life experience?
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It works
Look at how the MSM treats the "bloggers" and "anti-war fringe."
Hell, Glenn, you have pointed out just how "bipartisan" Reid and his crew are. With enemies like those, who needs any friends?
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It would be funny if it weren't so unbelievalby scary...
This helps clear up a sort of free-floating question I posted in a different thread about the "why" of the right-wing assault on our civil liberties. Although your post about the adversarial structure of our two-party system also, of course, explains a great deal.
I'm sure others have remarked on this elsewhere, but many members of this faction probably satisfy the DSM IV's diagnostic criteria for paranoid personality disorder.
In all seriousness, I think we are actually dealing in many cases--Norm Podhoretz comes to mind--with people who are mentally ill. Under normal circumstances, these people would be entitled to our sympathy and, of cousre, medical treatment. To have these people pulling on the levers of political and military power, however, is unacceptable.
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satire is truly impossible
The casual association of Harry Reid with Osama bin Laden and Vladimir Putin, the elevation of the Noble Businessman to sainthood...it's really too much. Hinderaker really believes he's living in Rush Limbaugh's Right-Wing Fantasy World.
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Fixed link on my username
The "Sorry About Bipartisanship" rant was more apropos for your great post yesterday, but I arrived a little too late.
http://correntewire.com/the_sorry_news_sorry_about_bipartisanship
With the Dem race down to two trianguators, this theme can't be emphasized enough. Thanks!
http://www.correntewire.com/triangulation_the_next_generation
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Ummm...
"As President, he wouldn't be dealing with honorable, law-abiding businesspeople."
It's true. Only people like Ken Lay get access to Republican Presidents.
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It's Classic
They relentlessly laughed at and mocked Hillary's right wing conspiracy, and I'm sure we'll hear repeats of that in the general campaign if Hillary gets the nomination.
Yet they have their own laundry list of conspiracies and enemies that they hold so dear to their hearts and are so obviously true. EVERYONE is against them.
My personal favorite is Christian persecution. You can barely travel 2 miles in the city or 25 in the country without seeing a church. Some of them gigantic cathedrals. Christian bookstores and concerts. Traveling crusades in arenas and stadiums. Christian television networks. Politicians kissing their asses left and right. Christian leaders and spokesmen becoming political pundits on cable, treated with reverence and respect no matter what stupid shit they say. Down Alabama way, not being allowed to place 10 tons of granite Ten Commandments in a courthouse rotunda was persecution.
A close number two is someone is coming to take their gun away. And the politicans having to bow down and reassure them every single election cycle.
Three would be "the liberal media" or just "the media." This one is huge, but so old and stale in has to be dropped in the rankings. What the hell is "the media" anyway?
Four is like a catch basin--The United Nations. This one branches off in multiple directions of paranoia.
And of course we now have the behemoth bogeyman, the Muslim/Terrorist/Islamo-fascists and if we don't bombs away we'll all be speaking arabic and wearing veils. This one is sort of mixed in with the anti-Mexican.
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The obvious comparison to Putin goes unmentioned
Reading this post in light of yesterday's about Mukasey's appearance before the Senate, it's obvious that Bush and Co. have much more in common with Vladimir Putin (minus the intelligence and competence) than a milquetoast yes-man piker like Harry Reid ever could.
Has any reporter been brazen enough to ask Dana Perino why the American government has been increasingly shrill in its condemnation of Putin, while ignoring the fact that many of the Russian president's authoritarian tendencies have become increasingly commonplace in our own political culture?
I doubt it, but we can dream, can't we?
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I recommend Prosaic.
If can work on my dad whose neoconism has infiltrated his whole existence right down to a pesky hemorrhoid that has bothered him for years but he too stubborn to have it tied-off. He'd rather suffer. He must like to suffer. It's something these guys do. They are so angry that the "side" they chose to back are the antithesis of what a good christian should be following. It's that damned abortion stance those pinko commie rat fink liberals won't back away from so they buy the fear and hate packages of the right wing-nuts which includes the pro-life stanchion they wave (or more appropriately) stick up right wing asses, hemorrhoids or no hemorrhoids.
So, prosaic, twice daily has calmed dad's neck-veined outbursts at the likes of those "woman" or "black-guy" fakers who are trying to change the status-quo that is keeping him broke, in fear, and unable to fill his gas tank to pay visits to his church to pray for the success of those who lie to him on a daily basis. He bought the whole deal hook, line and sinker. Bush's surrogates have done a remarkable job of convincing people to vote against their own best better interests. Reagan did the same. Clinton almost had the "worm turned" till he needed a blow job to clinch his sexual desires over the possibility of clinching his own legacy as a good president who could have seen a continuation of his work carried-on by Gore. Instead he chose a blow job and handed the neocons a ticket to dreamland and the world a ticket to possible oblivion.
Lets hope the very broke, fear exhausted, confused electorate stop buying the crap the Right continues to preach to hold people like my dad hostage. Maybe my dad will see who the real enemies are...