Moe, Larry, Curly, Pete, Jim and Michele

You call this a December morning in Colorado? I've seen more color at a Klan rally.

Feh. Another in our apparently interminable series of gray days. It’s too early in winter to see all this dirty snow and ice piled up all over the place, thanks to a stretch of subfreezing temperatures. It reminds me of Weirdcliffe, only with more horses’ asses than horses.

Speaking of which, it’s fine to see the Repuglitards continuing their craven buffoonery, slavish toadying to corporations and shameless pissing in the political sandbox. If a guy has to be stuck inside, it’s nice to have some entertainment. There are more than three stooges on the national stage as 2009 limps to a close, to be sure. Just check out Kevin Drum’s capsule look at the past two weeks in politics, and don’t miss Mother Jones‘ list of “Capitol Hill’s Most Unhinged Republicans.”

The unfunny part is, of course, that some of our fellow Americans think this lot should be running the country.

December 29th, 2009 | Category: Deep political thought, Pissing and moaning, Winter | Subscribe to comments | Comments are currently closed | Trackback URL

3 Responses to “Moe, Larry, Curly, Pete, Jim and Michele”

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   steve o:
   December 29th, 2009 at 2:54 pm

   I’m no fan of the Dems, but the worst of their lot doesn’t scare me like run-of-the-mill GOP’ers do these days. With the Dems, you have to watch for good intentions executed with their typical incompetence. With the right wingers, lunacy seems to be the coin of the realm.

   Heard the Whig Party was trying for a second bite at the apple. Given the way the tea leaves are being read, I would think a new Federalist Party would get more traction.

   The US of A needs our own Gorbachev. Someone to rise to the top, then stick it to his own party. But power corrupts, without exception.

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   Patrick O'Grady:
   December 29th, 2009 at 4:23 pm

   Hey, Steve,

   Yeah, the over-the-top looniness even tops the wingnuttiness of the Clinton years. You have to go back to commies under the bed, or maybe “Reefer Madness,” to get anything approaching this kind of foam-flecked, gibbering nonsense. And naturally, the Donks are sitting still for it. The rope-a-dope only worked for Ali, and only for a while. Surely we could assemble a single, functional pair of testicles if we used the entire Democratic caucus for donors? Shit, I bet we’d get at least one nut off Hillary alone.

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   steve o:
   December 31st, 2009 at 6:49 am

   I hear you, but even in the Clinton years, it was more a case of general incompetence, run-of-the-mill obsession with power, and the usual shenanigans associated with public service. Not bat-schitt crazy, fling your feces out of your cage, hearing voices kind of craziness. If you’re a GOP’er from the middle of nowhere, you can claim the Dems want to sterilize all church goers, claim they’ve replaced the flouride in your drinking water with LSD, claim they want to make gay marriage mandatory, and a dozen other ludicrous offerings, but if they close with “and they are all out to get me because of my conservative values,” then the party faithful rush to his defense.

   Back at West Point, in Military Science 101, we learned that one of the definitions of a profession (as opposed to just a job) is that in a profession, you police your own ranks. But in politics, there’s no incentive to get rid of the dead weight if it means you’ll lose a single vote from your caucus. The first guy to stand up and say that someone from his own party is out of control will probably have my vote for life. Because it’s not going to happen.