Monday, March 10, 2008

“Precipitous”


is a word that slimy war pigs like Bill Kristol fell into the habit of firing off years ago.

He used it again in the New York Times today.


“…
And both have taken positions appropriate for the Democratic primaries — for a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, against making it easier for telecommunications companies to cooperate with the government in spying on terrorists, for tax hikes and against a ban on partial-birth abortion — that should cause difficulties in a general election.
…”


For the lying, blood-drunk chickenhawks that duped America into Iraq and then trapped us there, it is a Majyk Conjure Word.

Because they know that, being composed largely of intractably stupid people, words really are just as good as magic when is comes to wrangling the Republican Base into slitting their own throats one more time for the benefit of their Party’s corporate owners.

So the "P" word has become a license to print friedmans they have used year after year after bloody year to argue that, rather than face the fact that they were obviously and absolutely wrong about everything, instead, American blood –- the lives and limbs of your sons and daughters -- needs to be poured down their Iraqi Rathole forever.

And American treasure – your tax dollars – needs to be pumped into the pockets of Dick Cheney’s pals.

Forever.

Of course if tomorrow the GOP were to wake up and find that a draft had been instituted? A very special draft applicable only to every single drooling Conservative basement dweller and trustifarian Republican hedge-fund whelpling between the ages of 18 and 45? That after a few weeks of basic training, for the Greater Good America would ship them off to Iraq to actually fight in this war they love so much?

Or if tomorrow the GOP were to wake up to discover that an Escalating Warmonger Tax had been passed? One that would methodically strip the Bush, Cheney and every other wealthy, wingnut, tax-allergic, pro-war family of every single fucking dime in order to pay for the tab on this three-trillion-dollar war of shich they are so fond?

Or if, just like the “Son of Sam” laws enacted by 43 states and the federal government to prevent criminals from materially profiting from their crimes, if every single penny that traitors like Bill Kristol, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and the rest of the nest of Neocon vipers have reaped from their deep complicity in the worst foreign policy disaster in American history were confiscated and used to pay down some fraction of the terrible cost that their lies have caused?

Lemme tell you, you threaten to make mooching, lard-assed chickenhawks and their treasonous Leadership Caste actually pay for the disasters they oh-so-casually unleash on the world, and then you’ll see some by-god, faster-than-light “Precipitousness” in action my friend.

Because while the 27%-ers may be unable to fathom things like “facts” and “causality” and “gravity” and “history” and “definitions”, for the record, the word “precipitous” actually means the following:

abrupt,
breakneck,
frantic,
harum-scarum,
hasty,
headlong,
heedless,
hurried,
impatient,
impetuous,
impulsive,
madcap,
quick,
rash,
reckless,
sudden,
swift,
unanticipated,
uncontrolled,
unexpected,
unforeseen,
without warning


And while getting our troops the hell out of the middle of the Iraqi Civil War might be many things, now that we are ten days away from entering the sixth year of George W. Bush’s Six Week Iraqi Adventure, after all these years the minimum penalty for anyone continuing to attempt to abort any discussion of withdrawal as “precipitous” needs to be spending a few days in the stocks where the public will be invited to wallop the offender upside the head with the Oxford English Dictionary until he or she can recite the correct definition of “precipitous” by heart.

15 comments:

Anonymous said...

The New York Pravda = irrelevant.

The Minstrel Boy said...

abrupt, breakneck, frantic, hasty, headlong

these are all desirable adjectives when describing the speed neccessary for a decent retreat.

it's an old truth of the battlefield that every time somebody from the REMFs stands up and tries to halt the folks running for their lives with everybody remain calm, don't panic a reasonable veteran will shoot the son of a bitch because when it's time to run, no other pace will do.

in the case of retreat, panic is fucking beautiful and lifesaving.

Comrade Misfit said...

Don't know how I manged to overlook your blog before this. But wow!

Awe is freely given!

Anonymous said...

Hey Drifty - do you ever notice when you're photoshopping, when you get real close in there and really can study the eyes, that it just creeps you out? Dead. Soulless. Vile.

Anonymous said...

I picked a bad week to try and get over my fear of clowns.

Anonymous said...

Dam Drifty, after all the money I spent on therapists, now I'm going to start dreaming about clowns again.
Good job.

Anonymous said...

Dam Drifty, after all the money I spent on therapists, now I'm going to start dreaming about clowns again.
Good job.

Anonymous said...

Doesn't it make you angry to watch the "liberal" NYT and the "liberal" WaPo follow up their disastrous cheerleading for PNAC's failure by hiring more cheerleaders? (Kristol and Gerson, respectively).

Hercules had it easy, with those Augean stables.
~

Anonymous said...

Listen up, Clown Phobics ...

Driftie already used that lovely shot of Sulzberger In Clown Drag; it was headlined: PIMP MY RAG.

HA HA HA HA HA

Something about how the blood thins between generations of inherited wealth. Which is also why Robert Novak-ula, Annie the Adam's Apple Coulter et. al. are always depicted as vampires, zombies and undead. Novak-ula and Annie-the-Trannie never descended from homo sapiens.

Bring on the clowns!!

Anonymous said...

Honest to Pete, you do outrage more eloquently than anyone. I love you.

Anonymous said...

..."Don't you think that withdrawal is a little precipitous of you?"

and I said, "Don't you think that 'precipitous' is kind of a big word for an eight year old?"

Hrrm, never mind.

Anonymous said...

Yes, I'm clown-phobic and, yes, I remember Drifty using that image previously. However, that's not Sulzer in clown-drag, its Bill "The Bloody" Kristol.

And don't get me started on Floyd the Barber....

- Habitat Vic

WereBear said...

Shades of John Wayne Gacy.

Distributorcap said...

great post...

and it further confirms my decision to drop the NYT from the reading list

Anonymous said...

Hey drifty: Sorry, I was taking your name in vain over at my place today...

http://tildology.com/2008/03/12/money-well-spent/