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Steve Benen, a TPM alum who writes for Washington Monthly (which I really should read more often), reports on an email chat he had with Bruce Bartlett, a veteran of the Reagan and Bush I regimes. It's about the nauseated wonderment with which we regard twin monstrous absurdities: the Republican delusion that they have anything to contribute to society other than ruin, and the corporate media's treatment of these people with continuing deference and moral authority. Benen's observations are worth reading from top to bottom.
In addition to hatred and blame to Republicans and the corporate media, I add a supertanker brimming with typhoid spit for establishment Democrats, all the way up to Obama, for not force-feeding some reality trash talk back down the throats of the people who have been dismantling our democracy for 30 years. Yes: congealed typhoid spit with large, lazy pinwheels of gum abcess blood and thick with mats of wriggling Anopheles mosquito larvae.
I say that the Benen piece is "apropos" of the previous post because I'll bet any of you the best bottle of purple booze in my basement that in the coming days there will be no credible discussion of the absurdity of letting an 8-year-old boy play with an Uzi... and that anyone with enough guts to suggest such a thing on TV will be denounced as a far-left enemy of America's second-amendment right to empower our children blow their brains out. Read the piece.
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you're right-- when this occurred last fall there was virtually no shaming the omnipotent NRA. No, these Bozos can show up at a Presidential meeting with a "piece" strapped on like Yosemite Sam and get treated like they're some sort of superman, or someone with opinions that mean anything.
ReplyDeleteI hope next time one of the dozen secret service rifles trained on this idiot for an hour goes off by accident. Oops. Accidents happen.
Enjoy your purple booze.
foghorn: I happen to be enjoying some grape-based liquor this very moment, as I often do exclusively for purposes of heart health and timely inebriation. It's got me wondering if right-wingers might agree to accept abortion services being provided under "Obamacare" as long as they are delivered with an Uzi as an expression of the attending physician's Second Amendment rights.
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