The Subtraction of the Christ

The Whore on Christmas

Arizona Senator John Kyl shown here announcing a new Republican holiday -- the 15 or 17 or maybe 20 Days of Cadvent -- during which official Republican Christopath dogma now holds that it is somehow a blasphemy against the Prince of Peace and the protector of "the least of these" to take action on behalf of peace, or in aid of the sick and the poor:

To Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's suggestion that the Senate come back the week after Christmas isn't just a way to complete a busy lame duck agenda -- but an attack on people of the Christian faith.

"It is impossible to do all of the things that the majority leader laid out," Kyl said today, "frankly, without disrespecting the institution and without disrespecting one of the two holiest of holidays for Christians and the families of all of the Senate, not just the senators themselves but all of the staff."

Anyone who is the least bit shocked by this needs to go stand in a corner and count backwards to 1980. Because for the last 30 years the Right has succeeded in stunting and maiming us all ever-closer to a feudal state cage from which we may never emerge by wrapping their deep loathing for America in scripture and triple-dipping it in the Blood of the Lamb.

And so when caught red-handed kicking this this country in the throat yet again, it should surprise no one that the instant, basal reflex from Republican homunculi like Kyl and DeMint would be to defile the life and teachings of Jesus Christ one more time.

As this angry, infuriating year of 2010 stumbles to an end, there is truly no class of American more collectively contemptible than Republican Congressmen.

Except, of course, for the feeble-minded, zombified shitbags who keep voting for them.