Sunday Morning Comin’ Down

This Sunday at the Mouse Circus, the Conservative Zombie army came, lied, and left.

Here it is, firehose-style…

Some would say...Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime!

Fred Barnes: The public doesn’t fucking care.

Juan Williams: That’s bullshit. Like, 70% of the public thinks this sucks.

Fred Barnes: Oh please. The publics are idiots. You ask these rubes a question and they think you need to give an answer, but they’re morons.

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But, no, there was never even the suspicion that there was a quid pro quo for aiding in a cover up. That…

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Actually there were hearings on the Clinton pardons. Hell, Hatch held one of them. And Clinton can forward with his pardon lawyers…

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… waived Executive Privilege...

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…explained himself in some detail…

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But see you ran against Clintonism. Doesn’t that mean that you have to…

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Actually, Democrats did widely object to Clinton’s pardons, and…

Some would say... Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too!

But there has never been a pardon of the chief of Staff of a Vice President who was Thug and Bag-Man Number One in a fucking cover-up of Administration High Crimes.

Some would say...Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! Plame was not a covert agent! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too!

Bush has no history of mercy or clemency. He killed Texans on death row like a fucking bug zapper. He mocked them. He has written over and over again that it is never the Executive’s place to overrule the will of the court.

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It was a Bush-appointed judge…

Some would say...Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Plame was not a covert agent! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! Criminalizing politics! Clinton did it too! No underlying crime! Clinton did it too! Clinton did it too!

Some would say...Criminalizing politics!

Republican sentencing guidelines…

Some would say...No underlying crime!

Republican-appointed prosecutor…

Some would say...Clinton did it too!

And FYI, the war in Iraq is not a civil war. It is a war against Al-Qaeda.

Oh, and one, special shout out to Senator Orrin Hatch, who repeated his concern that “Precipitously leaving Iraq would be bad.”

Dear Orrin,

After your clusterfuck of a war has already lasted longer than World War II, and after serious people have been calling for departure, exit, redeployment, whatever for three years, you do not get use to the word “precipitous” anymore.

Unless you just don’t

understand what that word means?

They came, they lied, and they left.

Because they don’t care anymore.

They know the only remaining arrow in the GOP quiver is their Ignorant Army. Their ability to mass the bellowing stupidity and contempt for the truth of their Base into human wave attacks on all enemies of the Dear Leader.

Which is why attempts to reason and compromise with this GOP are doomed to fail.

Because the fatal, endgame paradox of the Conservative movement is actually very easy to understand: there is nothing more or less happening here than the long-deferred price for crawling into bed with Klansmen, fascists and theocrats finally coming due.

Because as long as the Base and their enablers are calling the shots, Reason will remain in permanent exile on the Right and anyone with a shred of self-respect will avoid the Party like tertiary syphilis.

And without the Base, the Republican Party would simply cease to exist.