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Cheney to Headline DeLay Fundraiser
By Associated Press
Published November 22, 2005, 10:20 PM CST
HOUSTON -- A campaign fundraiser for embattled Rep. Tom DeLay postponed by Hurricane Rita in September is being rescheduled for Dec. 5 with Vice President Dick Cheney as the headliner.
"It points out that the party is behind (DeLay) and the (Bush) administration is supportive and wants to keep Congressman DeLay in office," Eric Thode, Republican chairman in DeLay's home county of Fort Bend, told the Houston Chronicle in a story published Tuesday.
The most expensive tickets for the event -- $4,200 -- includes a spot at a VIP reception and a photograph with the vice president.
"Congressman Tom DeLay has been an exceptional leader on Capitol Hill and Vice President Cheney looks forward to helping his re-election effort," said Lee Anne McBride, a Cheney spokeswoman in Washington.
DeLay was indicted earlier this year on campaign finance-related charges in Travis County, an action that forced him to step down at least temporarily as House majority leader.
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I dunno.
If it were me, and I were arranging a Republican fundraiser, maybe I wouldn’t put the two most gamma-radioactively loathsome examples of the depths to which the GOP has sunk on the same stage together. Maybe I’d at least think twice about pairing up the Martin and Lewis of treason and moral depravity and having them tread the boards arm-in-arm.
Because who knows but what it might actually remind people that the Party of Lincoln has nothing whatsoever to do with Lincoln…or Teddy Roosevelt…or Eisenhower anymore. That the current landlords defile the legacy of those men by calling themselves Republicans. That they are grave robbers who have disinterred their Founders and now reel drunk and stupid around the pyre built to incinerate the last of their remains, while playing dress-up in the winding cloths they pilfered from those sacred tombs, mocking the dead with mooched phrases and counterfeit honor.
But then I think…remind who?
Seriously, if person has even a shred of conscience left, and more that two synapses to rub against each other, how can they remain in the Republican Party? The moral centrifuge of the last five years certainly has purged out any but the most wretched, retarded, hateful and nuts, so who is left?
The Christopaths. The Neocons. The Segregationsists. And propping the whole whorehouse up, the deadloss “Moderates” who have watched the leaders of their Party betray them at every turn and hand the keys to the Lincoln Town Car over to the likes of James Dobson and Jerry Falwell with a smirk.
And why?
Because the Moderates know this simple truth: Without the millions and millions and millions of votes these scum represent...
They. Would. Never. Win. Anything.
So in the end, these “Look with alarm” Moderates are actually the worst of the bunch because they allegedly know better. The are the Good Germans who put up with, elected and supported the Nazi Party because they wanted the trains to run on time, and then copped a plea of ignorance, of “we never knew they were serious”, but conveniently found their collective conscience only after other people had cleaned up the disaster they themselves had created.
But here and now, if you are still a Republican, it isn’t for lack of evidence of the dreadful force for chaos and disaster your Party has become, so if you are still a Republicans you are either too gutless to act on your own principles, or you actually like it this way. The facts admit no third alternative, and you will have a lot to explain and apologize for when the tables turn.
So I take it back: Those left in the GOP clearly like their perverts and traitors shameless, brazen and wrapped head-to-toe in Bible Verses. Or are so Vaseline-spined that their strategy for GOP reform seem to be to keep supporting the Party of Cheney while impotently bitching about it around the margins, then hiding under a pile of coats in the bedroom and hoping is all magically goes away.
So given the ugly reality that this is the current GOP demographic, maybe headlining Cheney/DeLay is a stroke of evil genius.
Which is probably at least one of the reasons why they don’t let me organize Republican fundraisers.
36 comments:
Heh. What's even worse than Cheney opening for DeLay?
A fundraiser for DeLay thrown by Congressional parasites. You'd think the lobbyists brought into influence by the K Street Project would be smart and stay the hell away from him.
It would be even funnier if this were the same dinner.
By the way, do you know how hard it is to make a serious comment when I'm glancing at that goofy picture of the Shrub? :D
Happy Thanksgiving Driftie!!!
Love, The Doc
A T-Giving Day filled with family, mirth, good football, and drifty punting the GOP out-of-the-stadium! America is still great. ;-)
Neocons apparently thrive on radioactivity.
Figures.
so why are visions of the end scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark running through my head instead of Batman?
Keep pounding those gutless, brainless sheep of the middle Drifty. That's the right target and frankly, I'm sick to fucking death of hearing one of them mewl, "If you treat me like this, how can you expect my vote?". That, as much as anything, sums up their Bill-Hicksian, "gimme my two hunnerd dollars" way of thinking. Damn the facts. Fuck reality, honesty, integrity. I just want my two hunnerd bucks.
These disingenous douchebags should be turned just as hard the criminals they've enabled. Then the rest of us, the adult, can at least get down to fixing things.
It's time for the children to quit shitting the bed and expecting someone else to clean it up.
I'll give the Republicans this much: they're thick as thieves.
Coming soon to a fundraiser near you : "Beavis and Butthead, unplugged in Texas"
Central Illinois could stand a fumigation to eradicate some government-troughist unethical re-uglicans, and soon. After all, when the government can no longer (put off) pay(ing) its debts, the first items of government swag to be eliminated will be those that keep putting corn and soybean seeds in the ground every spring. Re-uglicans, especially the Central Illinois version, have no new ideas, ever; status quo is all they know. Prehistoric, really.
Thank you everyone, from here and downpost.
On the run again today.
Hope you are having a fine, post-food-coma day eating leftovers and swilling good coffee in fine company.
Good Thanksgiving here. Family. Dead bird. Bad jokes. Taters. Stuffing. Pie. Old family lore that's told with more embroidery each year. Calls from relatives far away. More pie.
And now back to the world of work, which kinda sucks, but I'm not dodging IEDs in Iraq, or even stuck handing out potted meat samples at Water Tower Place, being buffeted by the marapunta shoppers in seven-below-wind-chill weather.
For which I really am truly thankful.
Peace and the blessings of whoever the hell's in charge of this carnival on you all.
dg
“You are the moderate man, the invaluable understrapper of the wicked man. You, the moderate man, may be used for wrong, but are useless for right.”
--Herman Melville, from The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade
DeLay's anal retentive Cheney?????????????.
You had me until you dragged in the Nazis. The rest of this piece is fantastic, but that paragraph has simply got to go.
The Nazis never won a free and fair democratic election. The best they ever managed was 37% of the vote, which gave them a plurality (but not a majority) of the seats in the Reichstag--and that result came in the 1932 presidential contest. In the special election that Hitler called a few months later (in the hopes that the Nazis would gain enough additional seats to acquire a majority), they actually lost support. The Nazis' electoral support was a mile wide--and an inch deep. They got where they did by promising to be all things to all people, and only the peculiarities of the Weimar Constitution got them to a place where they could set up the Third Reich--and their police state was the main reason they were able to hold onto power for as long as they did: and even that vaunted police state wasn't nearly as pervasive (or effective) as is popularly believed.
The majority of people who voted for the Nazis probably didn't believe they were serious in everything they said. They also thought that the other parties in the government would be able to restrain their wildest excesses. But they had no real way of knowing that the Reichstag Fire was going to hand Hitler the opportunity to make a power grab, or that Reichspräsident von Hindenburg would die a year later and that Hitler would then illegally combine the offices of president and chancellor and declare himself dictator for life.
There's plenty of blame for the Third Reich to go around--but it doesn't go far enough to taint absolutely everyone in Germany. And while there are plenty of reasons to castigate the Repuglican "moderates," and plenty of rotten things to which to compare them, I don't think the Nazis are a fair comparison to use.
Regrublicans, not Republicans.
Once again, great minds think alike, DG. I'm tackling this in my next Assclowns of the Week this sunday (maybe tomorrow).
But you'd think that DeLay could've picked for a keynote speaker someone whose approval ratings are only marginally better than Osama bin Laden's.
Great post! LOL on the photos! Great! Eisenhower. You know, I don't think I've heard any of these Repubes mention Eisenhower? Kinda strange. They talk about Reagan all the time. Could it be because it was Ike who warned about the 'military-industrial complex'?
DG, you've gotta read this rant by Hunter on some piece of shit that Ann Coulter wrote, an article with the most ridiculous, "It was a dark and stormy night" opening that I think I've ever read in my entire fucking life.
If there was any doubt in your mind that Ann Coulter is completely insane, this article will remove them. Forcibly. Bullet in the brain. Cement overshoes. It will obliterate any such ridiculous notions regarding her sanity or the lack thereof.
Stop listen to me. Just go and read it. It's a classic manifesto by Hunter on why he, or any of us, is a liberal. Son of a bitch makes me wish that'd I'd written it and I don't feel that way often.
Michael,
I parsed my words very carefully so as not to analogize the GOP Leadership directly to the Nazi Party, but to make the case that the Mods are exactly like the Good Germans. If there was any misunderstanding, my apologies.
Compared the the Nazis, the Republican Leadership are pikers. However there is no doubt in my mind that the GOP is very strongly bent in the direction of a theocratic fascism and are getting more so every day. Every precursor elements is there, all in the same Party: oligarchs who don't give a shit about this country, anti-democratic Imperialists who see a globe-conquering One Party State as an ideal and not a nightmare, illiterate/anti-science thugs, millions of Segregationists with veru Nazi-like ideas about race and purity, all wrapped in a massive dose of bad/hateful/self-justifying theology.
OTOH, I do not retract a single word about the Moderates being the enabling "Good Germans" that made this whole catastrophy possible. Without them, the Jefferson Davis Party would be a loud, aggressive minority and international laughingstock. With them, explicitly fascist cultists like James Dobson and Jerry Falwell are within striking distance of the nuclear launch codes.
It is the Mods that caused this mess, and the Mods who refuse to take any responsibility for it: they are our cowardly, collaborating Good Germans right down to the fucking bone.
Neil Shakespeare,
Thanks. I fussed over them way more than I should have, but for a non-graphic artiste like me, getting DeLay's nostrils, chin and frown lines to align juuust right had that sweet-spot feeling that I usually only get when a paragraph fits together perfectly.
Which is precisely why it's a bad analogy, DG. The Nazis had not a lot of electoral support from the average Germans. They were the new kids on the block and they were promising everyone the moon--so people figured, hey, let's give them a try. It wasn't about indifference to the outcome, it certainly wasn't about supporting their party platform--it was about being stuck in a seemingly never-ending spiral of economic malaise and political paralysis, and wanting a change.
Now explain to me how that looks anything like the Republican Party or its platform, or the average GOP supporter. We agree that there are plenty of fascist elements in the modern Republican Party and its programs--and as a modern European historian who specializes in the Second World War (and Germany in particular), you don't have to tell me about parallels between the end of the Weimar era and the beginning of the Shrubbery. But that background also teaches me to be very, very careful when using that historical era to explicate matters that are happening in this one.
Michael: All you have to do is look up the definition of fascism and parse anything that reminds us even remotely like the latter-day GOP. To get you started, here's one:
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
Then skim over a condensed history of the Nazi party from 1932 on and see what tactics the GOP cribbed, whether intentionally or not, from them. Note the eerie historical parallels between the '30's in Germany and our own day and age:
The invasion of a nation under false claims of WMD's; the passing of a PATRIOT Act; Muslim militants bombing the Homeland; the very use of the word "Homeland." The usurpation of the power of the courts; Working in collusion with big industry. Repression and persecution of the homosexual community. The ceaseless use of propaganda.
When you put it all together, we're not talking about a mere collection of coincidences. We're talking about a pattern of repressive behavior that is reinforced with the weight of history and the needs of a totalitarian dictatorship. Just try telling Bush or Cheney to fuck off. You'll be whisked out of the area faster than a dust mote and detained and investigated by people carrying machine guns. You think I'm kidding, Michael? Just ask Dr. Ben Marble. Look him up on the Internet and see what this hero did last September and what the result was.
And lastly, let's not forget what Santayana tells us about history...
Sorry, jurassic, but that little exposition contains absolutely everything wrong with blanket comparisons of the modern Republican Party to the historical Nazi Party.
I believe I can confidently (and justifiably) say I know way more about the workings of Nazism than most Americans do--and considering it's one of my areas of specialization, I had better. I absolutely agree that there are parallels between the Shrubbery's response to September 11 and the Nazis' response to the Reichstag Fire. But that's about as far as I'm willing to go.
The circumstances that led to the formation of the Nazi Party, the working out of its evil manifesto, and, most importantly, the circumstances that allowed that party of misfits, bunglers, racists, and bullies to rise to power in a civilized nation in modern Europe were once-in-a-lifetime events. They do not have their parallels in present-day America.
What's more, even if they did, it would not be strictly fair to blame the voters--for either party's excesses. The myriad evils of the Nazis were not all spelled out in the 24 Points, and they didn't even exist as fantasies or items on a wishful-thinking list in the fevered brains of Hitler, Himmler, Streicher, and the rest of them. They grew out of events and structures that developed along the way. The people who voted for Hitler had no way of knowing that there would be gas chambers at the other end of that road--and the people who voted for Bush (at least the first time) had no way of knowing there would be a Global War on Something We Can't Define But By Gum We Know When We See in their future. We have the benefit of hindsight: we know how the story came out.
Now, you could argue that people who knowingly voted for Bush in 2004 are responsible for whatever happens from here on out, and I'd probably be inclined to agree. They had four years' worth of bungling and idiocy and selling out to the Christofascists to tell them what kind of a hobby horse they were buying, and they bought it anyway. But that wasn't what DG was saying, and that's precisely why I said I couldn't agree with that part of his otherwise excellent post.
Incidentally the Tom Delay / Two-Face comparison is flagrantly inappropriate, as Tom Delay is pretty much just straightforwardly corrupt, with no balancing tendencies towards decency or justice.
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