Code Name: Operation Dumbo Drop

I can think of no more perfect metaphor for the state of the Republican Party than the sight of its most influential racist loudmouth media liar daintily slipping away from a very real threat which he has been telling his meathead listeners was a Libtard Hoax.

From Think Progress:

Limbaugh evacuates South Florida after claiming Hurricane Irma was a liberal hoax

Doing the show from South Florida would be "legally impossible," Limbaugh admitted.

Rush Limbaugh will be evacuating South Florida, just days after the popular conservative radio host claimed that Hurricane Irma would not hit the United States and that scientists and the liberal media were hyping up the hurricane as proof of their global warming “lie.”...

Don't worry dittoheads, your Dear Leader will be back soon.  Because as long as he continues to enjoy the undying loyalty of the reprogrammable meatbags of the Right, nothing can stop him:

Behold, a Tip Jar!

But Where Will We Rent The Unicorns

On which they'll ride to Washington?

The 'Stache that Wouldn't Die

sat down with Republican Senator Linday Graham, who he found to be all reasonable and centrist-y on the subject of carbon pollution.

His conclusion?

Ignoring the fact that the GOP has been ruthlessly purging its centrists and accelerating exponentially faster in exactly the opposite direction of "reasonable" for 30 years, Tom Friedman opines:

Five more G.O.P. senators like him and we could have a real energy bill.

Well sure.

And six more months in Iraq and we may just turn this thing around!

Look, some writers always shoot for the silver lining in things; the dove that returns in the evening, after the storm, with the olive leaf in her mouth. Nothing wrong with that, but that is emphatically not what Friedman traffics in.

Friedman hustles simpering, centrist bullshit.

He hustles it in a way that is always, always, always carefully calibrated to avoid offending the Republican CEOs ans Chambers of Commerce stiffs who buy his fawning, globalist twaddle by the job lot and force their middle managers to study it like holy writ.

And he hustles it on the Op Ed pages of the NYT.

But what pisses me off most of all?

Friedman is just a goddamn awful writer.

UPDATE: An FYI for those of you who helpfully suggest that impertinent comments like these be "sent to the New York Times". Please know that, occasionally, I do.

Even as you are free to do :-)

I post them, in the only venue available to the general public.

Where they are held for "moderation".


Shortly after which they somehow tend to v-a-n-i-s-h into the pellucid digital ether.

Mission Accomplished!