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| Actor Marks Death of GOP |
| 2009-04-11 |
| by Steven Weber (Actor most of us have never heard of) When you're an out of work actor,what better way to gain attention than to pursue an enemy in defeat... So there it stands: a naked, pigeon-chested old man, random strands of white hair on its boney shoulders; its swollen-knuckled hands clasped over its dead genitals, looking at once forlorn and menacing, shivering with self-loathing and xenophobia, raging pathetically at its timely and appropriate defeat at the hands of Reason. I keep my hair high and tight,dude. And you can blow my dead genitals for all I care. Ladies and gentlemen: The Republican Party. With every passing day, the people who stubbornly, maddeningly cling to an obsolete ideal and who stand in the way of the cultural advancement of this country, this America, spew the base reality of their caustic ideology into the air. You'd think these leftist mugs would be gracious in victory, except they sound like they've been defeated. And Steven, y'all are the ones with control of the media "spewing caustic ideology in the air." The rest of us are just trying to make a living; trying to get government to back down. The Republican Party is like a dying tyrant, mad with syphilis, ironically like that very Stalin they would accuse their enemies of associating with. How else to account for their desperation to resurrect the wraith of Joseph McCarthy; the hammy and baffling utterances from high level party officials like Boehner and McConnell; the blatant desire on their part to let the country fail out of sheer resentment; the wanton sedition of Conservative shit-stirrers ranging from the quasi Madame Defarge Michele Bachmann to the porcine, pill-popping porcine propagandist Rush Limbaugh? The thing was, Steve, McCarthy was telling the truth. And Bachmann wasn't saying anything the left didn't say for eight solid years, so as soon as you get your skivvies washed,you can calm down. It is an all out assault on reason, on progress, on truth. What is the difference between the Republican Party and, say, the Taliban? A rogue by any other name would smell as rank. Their frantic accusations all churned out in a futile effort to explain their current pariah status is as pathetic and draconian as stoning a woman in the street. The difference between the republican pary and the Taliban? 5.5mm, Mk82, A-10, and about 50,000++ dead Talibans unable to further shelter terrorists planning to murder Americans. I feel I must apologize for my own particularly febrile anger. It's unseemly and ugly. But finally, the enemy is clearly outlined. We can see it for what it is and what it always has been. It exists not in myth but in a reality which has plagued humanity for millennia: utter, hateful ignorance born from a fear of truth, indeed a fear of life itself; a mad and impotent pursuit of some long-forgotten ecstasy having spawned generations of paranoid power addicts who chase the past at the expense of the future, cloaking their real intentions in perfumed patriotism and the seductive swoon of religion. For a millenia? Either you can no sense of time, or you have an outsized sense of the meaning of the Nov 2008 election. I'm going with selection B myself. It's so fitting that we are living in an age where beheadings, torture, piracy and now unbridled power mongering are all common place. Perhaps that element of humanity is going back into hibernation and is snapping at any and everything before its eyes finally close. In our lifetime the choice has never been so stark. And no better overture to Obamanation than what you just wrote, Steve. Don't be intimidated by that naked, pigeon-chested old man. His party's over. As yours will surely soon be... |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #5 For a moment I thought the first paragraph was a self-portrait..... Besides, Stevie, you forgot to mention Glenn Beck in your rant. Didn't you pay attention to today's official talking points in JournoList? Sheesh. Next time, study the KCNA. That's damn good spittle! 3.4, only because I'm overlooking your repetitive "porcine, pill-popping porcine" description of Rush. Dammit, boy, get a thesaurus next time! |
| Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie 2009-04-11 16:45 |
| #4 What, specifically, is this guy talking about? His night dream. And his keyboard is sticky. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-04-11 13:34 |
| #3 I don't get it. What, specifically, is this guy talking about? He's about as incoherent as some of the muzzie trolls that visit this site from time to time. You know they're ticked off about something but you just can't figure out what it is. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2009-04-11 13:29 |
| #2 Let's see.... Mme DeFarge was a character who supported the French Revolution. The genesis of all things left of center politically. IOW, the genesis (and final state, it would seem) of today's Democrats. Weber doesn't know literature, or history. But it's a fine rant for the ignorant. to be sure. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2009-04-11 13:08 |
| #1 Steven Weber ... Steven Weber ... Oh, yeah - the younger brother on the Wings TV sitcom (in what? the 1980's?). Well, I guess that settles it then. Who better to get your political opinion from that him? /sarc Guess he must be feeling neglected. Here's an idea - let's neglect him some more. He certainly deserves it. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-04-11 12:50 |