When David Fucking Brooks calls the Republican response to President Obama's speech "insane" and "a disaster for the party" you know that somewhere out there the pickup truck driving Jesus to the Second Coming has just crossed a critical meridian.
But he did. And it was.
Governor Peewee's speech was a tragedy. A flop. A farce. The thousandth retread of the same, failed "Do nothing. Cut taxes. Government is the problem." drivel that drove us up onto the rocks in the first place.
And as sure as I'm sitting here, the same meatsticks who stood up and cheered Sarah Palin as the savior of the Conservative Movement will no doubt be saying by tomorrow that, at least in terms of content, it was the finest speech since Saint Crispin's Day from "Henry V".
Of course, that is assuming they have the slightest fucking clue about who and/or what St. Crispin, "Henry V" or Bill Shakespeare are, so let's just say I predict they'll rate is smack between Larry the Cable Guy holding forth on his travels through Intercourse, PA and the Talladega Nights Baby Jesus Prayer
on the scale of absolute oratorical awesomeness.
In Jindal's wingnut alternate history, every one of the historical milestones he cites as an example America at its finest -- a nation which "cast off the scourge of slavery, overcame the Great Depression, prevailesd in two World Wars (and) won the struggle for civil rights" -- were apparently handled entirely by the free market while the Big, Evil government just stayed the Hell out of the way.
And the defeat of "the Soviet menace" was accomplished by tax cutting the Commies back to the Stone Age.
Or something.
But this is who we are now; a nation divided between the largely sane people on the Left who would very much like for the various conflagrations left burning out of control thanks to 30 years of Republican policies to be put out even if that means a big, short blast of Big Gummint...and the millions of absolutely unhinged berserkers on the Right who believe what the fire really needs is More Fucking Gasoline.
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The whole was spectacularly awesome of course...
you had me at MEATSTICK
MORE GASOLINE...
Perfection.
aside: the twitter. a Trillion dollar Sham Wow...
Priceless.
Just as I was adjusting to being able to turning on my TV without being ambushed by the sight/sound of Bush, THIS moron shows up to replace him as The Thing Most Likely to Make My Flesh Crawl and Induce Dry Heaving. Haven't we suffered enough? Do I now have to see and hear this insufferable jackass all over the place for the next four-to-forty years?
A couple things here...
First of all, an Eastern Indian with an American Southern accent. That blew the fuck outta what passes for my mind. The world is truly about to end.
Second, I sat there and listened to Big Bad Piyush drawl on and on about America's achievements and how tax cuts can make us all relive them again, or something along those lines. Made me wonder if I had left my body to enter the Nexus of All Reality. Can somebody remind me why these jackoffs get ANY air time at all?
Third: Piyush as Pee-Wee... Priceless.
Rachel Maddow's gape-mouthed astonishment when asked to evaluate Jindal's response on Tweety's show last night said it all. I absolutely howled.
In addition, I just LOVE the Peewee Herman reference. He speaks as though he is addressing a class of 8 year olds. Now I would sooner light my hair on fire than have to speak after Obama, but presumably he volunteered. Ye Gods...
LOVE IT.
I wish they'd interviewed you after his response instead of Barbara Boxer...who looked strangely like Diane Keaton.
Whenever I see DFB at any news lovin' gathering I always think "DFB - Designated Hitter." In this case, bunter is closer, but think of it. He's the chosen one to plead that he'd reaaaaaalllly like Obama to succeed, just as long as he doesn't accomplish it by anything other than the accepted Rethugli-Con methods of further tax cuts and spending slashes in what's left of the social safety net.
Did you see tears in his eyes too?
So touching.
S
Yes, Punkster... that Rachel reaction caught me mid-drink resulting in a spit/choke take. Painful laughing while choking.. omg that was funny! So appropriate to the "speech" though. Loved also the "oh god" whisper by Chris Mathews while he walked out LOLOLOLOL
I love when a plan comes together and certainly between palin, steele, and now a grown man named Bobby, well..... trifecta!
Joining in the "Stay the Course!" chorus today was .... Tom Delay on hardball. OMG to hear him speak the word "ethics" ... huh? It is just astonishing their insistance that Obama is wrong wrong wrong because bush's "policies" worked just ever so well! Delay even said Obama's plan will "wreck the economy"..... errrr like it isn't already....
Somebody needs to reel these assholes back down to earth.... or fucking cut the line.
Can't wait to see who they trot out next...
Brooks called it "nihilistic". As in, "They're nihilists, Donny."
I think it was the first time in his life that he told the truth.
The gentleman from Louisiana will be walking with a limp if he happens to stumble upon the open letter to him post at my place.
Whenever you invoked the name of Larry the Cable Guy, Intercourse PA and Taladega Nights all in the same thought bubble....I said driftglass sounds like he's read the book Deer Hunting With Jesus. (I'd change the D in DEER to a B to make it BEER my ownself)
It seems as though Boobby J et al have taken Sarah Palin's righteous refusal of the bridge to nowhere money (which she actually did accept) and inflated it to a bigger thought bubble.....righteous indignation, fake outrage, political posturing for 2010.....it all part of their scheme.
You pretty much put into a nutshell how these people think. To know them is to stereotype them and that's allright sometimes.
How's about a book called "Wolf Hunting From a Helicopter with Jesus" (and Sarah Palin?)
Think the rightwingnuts would like that?
what did we learn from 60 minutes this sunday?
Bobby Jindal dropped his Indian name in favor of an American name...why did he choose Bobby? Well, his hero was Bobby Brady from the Brady Bunch; I shit you not!
That pretty much says it all.
God help us if this guy is ever pushed out front again. Its just so pathetic and cartoonish...
Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!!
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