Friday Flashback

Today we set the I'm feeling lazy and discouraged and David Fucking Brooks has plopped another godawful, "Both Sides are Wrong but Righteous Values Will Save Us" bag 'o dung on the Op Ed page of the NYT that I can't look at today without feeling like throwing up everything I've eaten since 6th grade Wayback Machine to an April 2005 post in which a little-known blogger predicts the rise of the Tea Party...

...in children's parable form.

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So she got on the phone with her very good friend Karl Rove and with his help organized carpools to the polls, and get-out-the-vote drives, anti-gay marriage amendments and smear campaigns. For Jesus.

And Little Red State Fundy delivered the margin of victory and was featured in many, many magazines: without Little Red State Fundy, the Republican Party could never, ever, ever win anything.

And now everybody knew it.
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The rest here.