Category: Deep political thought

Sole brother

~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 1 Comment
Someone's stink-foot nearly put a hurt on The Decider's nose.
Someone's stink-foot nearly put a hurt on The Decider's nose.

Finally, someone in the press corps grows a pair, and size 10s, too. Too bad he wasn’t one of ours. But they’re all too busy blowing kisses at Oprah to throw shoes at The Decider.

Could the Mystery Man have been a Zappatista? It’s not known for certain; it all happened too quickly for me to see whether those unidentified flying zapatos were  brown shoes (they didn’t make it, which may be a clue) or a pair of too-tight, stink-foot python boots.

Then again, he could’ve been a Firesign Theatre fan: “Shoes for Industry! Shoes for the Dead!” Just another returning deceased war veteran hungry for that good-paying job, more sugar, and the free mule he’d been dreaming of. Too bad everything he knew was wrong.

Hulk smashed!

~ Patrick O'Grady ~ 1 Comment
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry . . .
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry . . .

Upstart Donk Mark Begich has sent Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Pork) a nifty present for his 85th birthday — a one-way ticket back to Alaska.

Stevens was the ethically challenged engineer on a gravy train that has sent Alaska far more of the taxpayers’ money than it deserves during his six terms in office; let’s hope the pork gets sliced a little more thinly and spread around a bit more fairly in his absence.

The evil old fart, a self-styled “mean, miserable SOB” who famously donned an “Incredible Hulk” tie when preparing for legislative combat over drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge, goes to his well-deserved fate not with a bang, but with a whimper: “I wouldn’t wish what I am going through on anyone, my worst enemy,” Mr. Stevens said Tuesday morning in the Capitol, according to The New York Times.

Gosh. Kermit was right — it ain’t easy being green.

The cheese doesn’t get cut

~ Patrick O'Grady

Sen. Joe Liederkranz (D-Quisling) will keep his gavel at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee despite actively working for the Magoo-Barbie ticket in the election just concluded. He will, however, be removed from the Environment and Public Works Committee, a boldly punitive move that Josh Marshall rightly describes as the equivalent of being expelled “from Pilates class in (the) Senate gym.”