Apparently these dang Republicans are reckless!
And dangerous!
And someone must stop them!
Who could have predicted?
From Andrew Sullivan:
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This is brinksmanship with all of our lives, our money, our core financial stability and future growth. It is an outrageously reckless way to run a government. And Cantor's refusal to take any personal responsibility for the result of these talks is of a piece with the record of this shallow, callow fanatic who has the gall to call himself a conservative, even as he launches a wrecking ball at the very fabric of the American and global economy.
These current Republicans would rather destroy the US economy than sacrifice one scintilla of ideological purity. They are an imminent threat to the stability of this country's economy and the world's. And they must be stopped before the damage is irreversible.
Who in the fuck are you talking to, Andrew?
Who exactly do you suppose is going to make these "fake" Conservatives stop?
Who exactly has primary responsibility for their existence? For the media respectability of their Teflon-coated fanaticism?
Please share with the rest of us who precisely are you calling on -- by name -- to step up to the plate...who has not already been sounding the alarum for the last 30 years? Since long, long, long before you had your 11th hour epiphany about the monsters you had been bedding down with for most of your adult life?
See, Mr. Sullivan, it is you who is not the "real" conservative in this equation, and you never have been.
You are a dupe. A child. A Useful Idiot.
For your whole life, the Sword of Conservative Movement in this country has been it's powerful bigot/plutocrat/Fundy components, without which your "Movement" would have amounted to nothing more than David Frum, David Brooks and you getting high on Pop Rocks and Coke in your dorm room and jerking off to Edmund Burke.
Falwell, Thurmond, Helms, Reed, Schlafly, Gingrich, Bachmann, DeLay, Norquist and that crowd -- these were always the beating, authoritarian heart of the Right: its purest acolytes and truest believers.
Reagan and his imitators have been the fanatics' teevee-friendly Sheath, hiding the real, barbarian ugly of "real" Conservatism under a patina of studied, aw-shucks affability.
And you?
You and your fellow travelers were never more than a utile but ultimately disposable accessory: a bit of decorative fringe which, now that the Right's Sword has been fully bared and is carving the guts out of the American dream, is no longer necessary.
So stop pleading for unspecified someones to magically show up at two minutes to midnight and clean up the mountain of flaming shit that we tried to keep people like you from making in the first place and instead answer this specific question: what do you suppose is so broken in you -- so horribly malfunctioning -- that you refused to notice the plain and simple truth about Conservatism that Liberals have been tirelessly pointing out to idiots like you over and over and over again for the last three decades?
And what are you going to to about it?
Because me and my Fifth Columnist, America-hating buddies? We already gave at the office.
5 comments:
They're all Cylons, and they have a plan.
It's a good thing truth is not literally fatal, else you would be wearing an orange jumper and heavy chains as you sat in the dock charged with the murder of Andrew Sullivan.
Brooks we would simply call justifiable homicide.
Nobody says it like you. I adore every word in this rant. Also, Andrew Sullivan is a tool.
... because "conservatism" today is a Cult-religion, not a political viewpoint. One can compromise in politics, but Never! compromise in your FAITH.
Cantor/all repug politicianss intentions:
"Kill them All and let God sort it out!"
KWillow,
I've been saying that for a while. Since absorbing the fundie right, the Movement Conservative right has been about 20 years behind the Evangelical right. Conservatism has become Faith Based, exactly like fundamentalist Christianity. You must have Faith in the [Bible | Free Market]. You must not let your Faith be broken, bent, or swayed. If you keep your Faith pure, the Invisible Hand of [God | The Free Market] will bless you and keep you, and you will have the blessing of the masses. Reality is just [Satan's | Socialism's] way of tempting and breaking your faith, so it must be avoided at all costs.
If I'm right, that means we will get the political equivalent of Intelligent Design within the next few years. I can't wait to see that. "From the beginning, all commerce was Socialism and Void. Then, Jesus appeared with a fist full of petro-backed US dollars, and said, 'Let there be Capitalism!', and lo, the U.S.A was born. Jesus looked upon his creation, and the Founding Fathers waved back, and said, 'Yee-haw! It is good!'."
Mike.K.
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