Longtime friend of the DogSite Jeff Cozad passes on this interesting read from Timothy Egan, a former reporter for turned weekly contributor to The New York Times.
The short story is this: Repugs rode the Tea Baggers to control of the House … or so they thought. Now they find themselves astride a retarded tiger that’s hell-bent on either eating up or pissing on everything in sight, and to dismount is to (a) end up inside the tiger, or (2) get pissed on.
What happens to the rest of us, naturally, is strictly between us and the tiger.
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Dismounting is the GOP’s problem. The other traditional way for people to deal with an out of control tiger often involved something like a .470 Nitro Express double rifle.
Strictly metaphorically, of course, in this context….got that, DHS?
I thought the usual Repuglican bigwigs would quickly ignore the modern KKK but it seems they’ve got some real clout there — too bad for the Repugs and the rest of us. They may drive the party into the ground like when Newt ran things. The only guy who seems like he’s not mentally ill running for their party’s nomination is Romney but can he even get nominated if the party primaries are dominated by the nut-jobs? I’m really glad we’ll be back in Italy when this stupidity hits full boil.
That’s the problem. The GOP primaries are dominated by the lunatic fringe.
Retirement can’t come soon enough–assuming such a thing will exist with these retards taking a wrecking ball to the nation. Just wondering what country to which we can relocate. I’m afraid the USA will degenerate into gated communities and WalMart Nation everywhere else.
I’m changing from independent to GOP for the primaries to vote for Romney. He’s a weasel, but I can’t get enough of the story about tying the dog to the roof on the summer vacation road trip.
Thanks, Jeff, for passing that along, and thanks, Patrick, for sharing.
As we edge toward the next election, it’s starting to look more and more like the Republican party is in disarray. This morning’s newspaper had a report on Republican candidate fund-raising to date, and based on the money it looks like Romney will get the nomination. Is this a good thing? Well, Romney appears to be the only sane candidate, but he’ll never get the Tea Baggers’ support, and too much of the Republican party is based on them. Maybe if we’re lucky Michelle Bachmann and Sarah Palin will bolt and form their own party to run for the Presidency.
Larry, I just can’t share your enthusiasm for Italy. Italy is way ahead of the US in political corruption, and Berlusconi has been running the country like a fiefdom for some time. Imagine Rupert Murdoch buys all the TV networks in the US, then runs for President and only allows ads and coverage on his networks that favors him. Then once he’s elected, he hires prostitutes and “models” to be his TV game show hosts, and rewards them for their sexual favors with seats in Congress. And shrugs it off with a “boys will be boys” attitude. That’s the Italian political scene of today.
SteveO, what is the story of the dog on the roof?