“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.
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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.