-- contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right
and the wrong, vain as the search for a man who should be neither a living
man nor a dead man."
-- Abraham Lincoln, Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860
My amazing wife emailed me this morning asking me if I'd
"seen this". We work 20 feet apart in two different rooms, but
emails save us shouting political and media updates back and forth, thus
disturbing the two-leggers and four-leggers with whom we share our habitat.
Also, shouting website addresses...
"H...T...T...P...S... semicolon, forward slash -- no, wait, make
that two forward slashes..."
"Holdonholdon. Can't type that fast. Was that an
'H' before the t's and such or an Eight?"
...is too time consuming!
Anyway, the "this" in question was
this post
by that outstanding internet citizen and Bigly Supporter of our podcast,
Tengrain, over 'ta his blog Mock Paper Scissors.
Adam Kinzinger’s New Both-Sides Political Thingie Is Going Just Great
And no, I hadn't seen it yet. And yes, it was and is
delightful.
Ol' Cut and Run Kinzinger (see
"Why Did Adam Kinzinger Cut and Run?"
for further details) has spent a quarter of a million dollars to produced a
creepy video that attempts to hybridize Apple's "1984" commercial, a
little bit o' The Matrix, and David Brooks' horniest Both Sides Do It
McCain/Liebermann slash fic.
In it, faceless warders force an endless stream of people in straight jackets
to wear either Red or Blue VR goggles. There are no moral or policy
differences between the two sides: prisoners of the K'rupt Duopoly are just
randomly assigned a "side".
It is, in other words, a video manifestation of the sleaziest, laziest and most
toxic political lie of all. A lie that Kinzinger is careful to never
utter when he's on Liberal teevee posturing as your Never Trump bestest buddy
and a savior of the republic, but which has always been an integral part of
his fundraising apparatus...which is how he raised the quarter of a mil he
used to produce this ridiculous monstrosity.
From Axios:
Capitol Hill swarmed by performers in straitjackets
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) turned heads on Capitol Hill this
week by sending performance artists dressed in straitjackets and
blue-and-red tinted glasses to the House offices...
Kinzinger told Politico, which first reported his campaign, that the
glasses symbolize the ideological binary in the American political system:
"We’ve been programmed so much to believe ... that each event in the world
should be seen through blue or red glasses."
Now at this moment in history, any normal, decent, God-fearin', red-blooded
American should be sprinting the hell away from the Republican Party as fast
their feet can carry them. But Mr. Kinzinger wants a political
future. A political future with the Republican Party. Again from Axios:
The anti-Trump Republican suggested he plans to stay in the GOP and will
likely run for office again: "It's not, like, on my radar right now ...
[but] I expect that there will be a moment where it's like, okay I'm ready
to do this again."
However at the moment the Republican Party is not congenial to the likes of
Adam Kinzinger. So how does one fish a dry a river like the GOP?
By betting that one day soon the rains will come, and the water will rise and
the fishing will once again be abundant. This means never giving up your
spot along the banks of the arid, corpse-and-grocery-cart strewn Republican
riverbed, and always making sure you're using the right bait.
And the only available bait for anyone who voted to impeach Donald Trump
and sat on the January 6th committee and dreams of a political
future in the Republican Party...is leaning as hard as possible into the Both
Sides Do It lie. By doing what Conserative media hacks and frauds have
been doing for decades of one Republican catastrophe after another, to justify
their continued fealty to the Party if Limbaugh and Gingrich and Atwater and
on and on and on.
They conjuring out of thin air a completely imaginary Democratic Party that is
somehow just as evil, just as deranged and just as authoritarian as the
GOP. Maybe secretly more so. A Democratic Party so vile and
destructive that it can only be distinguished from the Republican Party by the
color of the glasses they wear. And in this pieces of Never Trumper
fiction -- where all political options are exactly equally blighted -- an
Honorable Public Servant like, say, Adam Kinzinger obviously has no principled
alternative but to raise a shit-ton of money from credulous Both Siderist
dopes so he can produce idiotic videos about the Scary K'rupt Duopoly while
loafing by the toxic ooze of racist, fascist sludge trickling along at the
bottom of the Republican riverbed, and waiting for the weather to
change.
Honestly, the only quibble I have with Tengrain's terrific post(s) is the use
of the word "New" in the headline since Kinzinger has been working his
"Country First" scam for a few years now. For more on this, you can
visit
"Adam Kinzinger's SuperPAC to Hang Out if You Ever Want to Rap or Just
Get Weird With Somebody" which I posted on this blog two years ago tomorrow.
Of course, if you are even passing familiar with the real Kinzinger, you
won't be surprised at all.
Behold.
To my Democratic colleagues,
you must too bear the burden of our failures.
Yes, Resistance Hero Adam really said that.
And why must Democrats bear the burden of the complete collapse of
Kinzinger's Republican party under the weight of its own rage, racism and
paranoia?
Because Democrats did-- gasp! -- politics to win elections in 2022.
Many of you have asked me, "Where are all the good Republicans?"
There are no good Republicans, but sure, please proceed.
Over the past two years, Democratic leadership had the opportunity to
stand above the fray.
Yes, Resistance Hero Adam is actually white-hot pissed that
Democrats...worked to get Democrats elected.
Instead they poured millions of dollars in the campaigns of MAGA
Republicans -- the same candidates President Biden called a threat -- to
ensure these good Republicans did not make it out of their respective
primaries.
I've already written about this extensively
here
and
here so go there if you want the full rundown. The short version is
that Kinzinger is parroting the same hysterical and thoroughly debunked
Beltway freakout over a tiny number of Democrats running ads in Republican
primaries which caused an epidemic of pundit fainting couch injuries last
Fall. In fact, in the 13 Republican primaries where Democrats spent
money (not 30 or 300, just 13 out of hundreds) Dems did nothing more that
honestly state the wingnut's record, followed by some variation of the tag
line "This wingnut is too conservative for our state".
That's it. That's all Nobody put a gun to heads of
Republican voter. No Democrat bamboozled them. Democrats did
nothing more than make it clear just how extreme these nutjobs were, and in
six of the 13 primaries where Democrats spend money, the
nutjob won. Which I'm sure was terribly embarrassing to goofs like
Kinzinger who desperately want to the public to believe that Republican
voters aren't really all racist shitbags..
But they are, Adam. They really are. The vast majority of them,
anyway.
And you know what? In all six cases where Democrats spent money
in the Republican primary and the nutjob won, the
Democrat kicked that nutjob's ass in the general election.
Or, to put it another way, Democratic campaign professionals took
the threat posed by Kinzinger's Republican party seriously, sized up the
battlefield, calculated the strategy most likely to succeed in getting
Democrats elected in several tough races, executed that strategy, and they
won, Adam. They fucking won.
The Red Wave was stopped, which all the Resistance heroes of my acquaintance
celebrated.
But not Kinzinger.
Instead:
This is not longer politics as usual [any longer].
This is not a game. If you keep stoking the fire, you can't point
the finger when our Great Experiment goes up in flames.
Democrats figured out how to win races they might otherwise have lost if
they had "stayed above the fray" and this whiny loser is bitching about it
on his way out the door.
About which, more later.
Kinzinger continues:
Unfortunately, there are too few Republicans and Democrats that
have the spines to stand up and put Country over [a] Party.
Plain and simple, Kinzinger is still furious that he got redistricted.
By "country over party" Kinzinger really means that Democrats should've
laid off the tiny handful of "good Republicans" like him. That
somehow, Democrats are not only responsible for fixing his irredeemably
fucked up party, but the way to do that is to [checks notes]
deliberately lose more races.
Except getting redistricted doesn't equal forced retirement. There was
absolutely nothing stopping Kinzinger from running in his new district, but
instead he chose to quit, and pout and whine about Democrats.
About which more later.
This is not how are Founding Fathers intended because, Mr. Speaker, our
democracy is not functioning.
Damn right it's not functioning,
because Adam Kinzinger's party broke it.
When one party's megaphone echoes calls for civil war
and the other tacitly, and in some cases openly, supports it, we
are clearly lost, Mr. Speaker.
Yes, Resistance Hero Adam Kinzinger really did "Both Sides" calls for civil
war. Betcha didn't hear that on your nightly news.
Much like the Titanic on its maiden voyage, if Republicans
and Democrats don’t urgently course correct, I fear we will hit
the iceberg right in front of us.
And so on. And so forth. Like pretty much every other Never
Trumper. Kinzinger cannot face the fact that Trump was the
iceberg and that for +40 years his fucking party has steered us straight for
it every time they grabbed the wheel.
Instead, it's Both Sides... Both Sides... Both Sides... .
And what makes this especially nauseating is that Kinzinger was handed a
chance to actually walk all his bold talk earlier this year when he was
redistricted. Handed on a silver platter. Because for the
benefit of you who are new to the world of politics, "redistricting"
didn't actually erase Kinzinger from existence like the Star Trek,
Mirror/Mirror Tantalus zappy thingie.
He was simply nudged into an adjacent district.
A district represented by a Republican named Darin LaHood, Jr; a
go-along-to-get-along, second generation Republican (his daddy, Ray LaHood,
was a long-serving and influential Illinois politician who served in the
Illinois House of Representatives for a year, the United States House of
Representatives for 14 years and was President Barack Obama's States
Secretary of Transportation for four years.) LaHood is also a
Trump cheerleader who not only refused to vote to impeach Trump but wrote
this on the occasion of Senate Republicans refusing to step up and remove
him after the January 6th insurrection.
"I applaud the Senate for acting swiftly to acquit President Trump on
the weakest and most partisan impeachment charges in our nation’s
history. As I’ve said throughout this process, impeachment is the
nuclear option, reserved for the most treasonous activity, and House
Democrats failed to present evidence that supported the high threshold
and requirements needed for removal.
...
It’s time to move on. For three years, Democrats obsessed over the
results of the 2016 election, wasting taxpayer money and time in their
efforts to impeach and remove President Trump."
LaHood also
joined other House Republicans
by signing onto the failed Texas amicus brief that attempted to overturn the
results of the presidential election and he refused to support of the
bipartisan commission proposal to investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Kinzinger had previous claimed
that he had gotten into congress ten years ago by winning a tough "brother
against brother" Republican primary and never wanted to do that again, which
is why he opted to retire. But anyone with the political instinct of a
meercat can smell that bullshit a mile away.
LaHood is the embodiment of everything Kinzinger claims is rotten and broken
in the Republican party. So if Kinzinger was so all-fired up about
carrying the flaming sword of St. Reagan before him and purging his party of
scumbags,
why the hell didn't he start in the district where he lived?
When the opportunity to clean up his own corner of the GOP, why did he cut
and run? Why didn't he man up and campaign as a reformer who wanted to
sweep men like LaHood out of the Party of Lincoln?
After all, he had the money. He has a huge national media profile --
orders of magnitude bigger that LaHood and that virtually every other
congressperson . Liz Cheney ran as an explicitly anti-Trump
candidate, knives out, knowing she would almost certainly lose, so why
didn't Kinzinger?
Well, two reasons.
First, there would have been no way for Kinzinger to preserve his
future political viability in Illinois if he ran against the scion of a
powerful and prominent Illinois political family. Especially if he'd
run against LaHood the way Cheney ran against Harriet Hageman.
Second, and relatedly, Kinzinger would've gotten his ass kicked around the
block and back again and he damn well knew it. The Illinois 18th is an
89% white, Republican +15 district which LaHood won with 70% of the
vote. The simple, irreducible fact it, that district is wall-to-wall
with the kind of Trump-loving, democracy-hating Republican meatheads that
Kinzinger would very much rather not talk about. And running in that
district as a Trump-impeaching January 6th committee member against exactly
the kind of politician Kinzinger claims is ruining his party would have not
only been futile, but would have made enemies of the godfathers of Illinois
Republican politics whose largess Kinzinger is going to need
someday.
So much easier and safer to maintain the cowardly Beltway Both Siderist
fence-straddling stance that Kinzinger has been locked into during his
entire career in politics.
You mean you didn't know that the K-man has been a Both Sides Do It goof
since way back? You didn't know he rode into congress on that Obama
the Kenyan Usurper/Obamacare is Communism, teabagger wave in
2010?
Oh you poor kid, do I have some heartbreak for you.
"There's an entire industry in Washington that makes money on
conflict," says Republican Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. "Some of these
outside groups—you know, your Club for Growth types, and your Heritage
Action, and your FreedomWorks—they go out and they fundraise by saying
that Republicans aren't sufficiently conservative. Or they pick an issue
to go to war on because they can stir the base and raise money on it and
pay their big salaries. And what that does in the long run is it takes
what would be a solid Republican agenda and causes chaos.
And they do the same thing on the Democrat side, you know? If
Democrats want to reach out and work with Republicans, you have these
groups that will stir the base...
And here he is
seven years later, launching his own boutique, Third Way Super PAC "movement" grift by
continuing to hype an imaginary glorious Republican party that's waiting
just around the corner --
We're the party that ended slavery! Got women the vote! Won
the war against Communist tyrant!
The foundation of the Republican Party is as strong as ever!
The Republican Party was made for this challenge! Once again we
have been called by history.
-- and warning Republicans not to become awful like, y'know, those vile
Democrats!
Will we join the Left to take America backwards, or will this
Republican Party lead America forward and upward?
And Kinzinger has found no shortage of shoulders to cry on about how awful
the Left and the Right are.
Here's one such occasion
when he and Charlie Sykes sat right down and had a good cry over, y'know,
the terrible, terrible tribalism on the Left and on the Right.
Kinzinger:
Yeah, and that's where that's where the tribalism accelerates not just
on the Right but on the Left.
Kinzinger was given the perfect opportunity to, as Jimmy Cagney once said,
plant his feet and tell the truth. Big spotlight and guaranteed national
coverage.
Instead he punked out and used his last address to congress to burnish his a
bullshit Beltway Both Siderist resume and slip it through the mail slots of
MSNBC and CNN.
While Matthew "Both Sides Do It" Dowd has been awkwardly trying to morph into
Hillary Clinton 2016 as he tries to make the leap from media hack to political
office (which you can
read all about here)...
Matthew Dowd Is a Fundamentally Ridiculous Person: The Past Is the
Scariest Halloween Monster of All.
...Adam Kinzinger has been awkwardly trying to morph into Matthew Dowd 2016 as
he tries to make the leap from political office holder to media hack.
This is from yesterday's
Bulwark podcast.
First comes the pity party and the obligatory shitting on Democrats for the
high crime of [checks notes] trying to elect more Democrats.
SYKES: I know that Jonathan Last wrote about this, uh, in
The Bulwark that it was disappointing that the Democrats did target
you. I mean they could have at least acknowledged that you had taken
this stand and it's kind of felt like politics as usual when in fact it's
not politics as usual.
Pay attention. What Charlies Sykes is explicitly saying is that
Democrats trying to elect more Democrats in order to keep the Republican Party
from destroying American is the problem when they should have,
what? Stood aside? Not run against a Republican who has lined up
to obstruct everything Democrats have tried to do to clean up the toxic
disasters that Adam Kinzinger's Republican Party has inflicted on out country?
Oh goodness no. It is so much worse than that.
According to these two mopes, by fighting to hang onto our slim majority in
the House, this somehow proves that Democrats don't
truly understand the threat that exists to
democracy.
KINZINGER: ...I mean look it's... is it a disappointment? Sure.
Because what I've been saying -- and it's not again about me -- it's about
the fact that, I've said this a number of times, I know you have too which
is
I'm not sure the Democrats truly understand the threat that exists to
democracy. I'm not sure they truly understand you know, like I do. Like you do. Like most of your listeners do. That
this is the kind of thing where in two or four years we could end up in a
very different country that doesn't recognize elections and stuff and, uh,
instead we're just going after whoever we can for numbers. That kind of power politics is not going to end well.
To repeat, by "numbers", Kinzinger means
a Democratic majority in the House. A majority on which so much depends.
SYKES: See this is exactly the question that I had, which was
that if Democrats really do believe that we face this existential threat to
democracy -- if they really do believe that there's the prospect of, y'know,
the nightmare prospect of a restored Trump presidency 2.0, the Revenge Tour
-- then shouldn't they act like it? And in this particular case, and
by the way, by acting like it that would include making common cause right
with people who have allied with them on this one most important issue which
is the, y'know standing up against Donald Trump.
This is deeply fucked-in-the-head, I'm almost at a loss for how to start
unpacking it. These two mopes -- who helped build the GOP monster machine that
finally shit them out and held themselves profitably and willfully blind and
ignorant of the doomsday machine they were creating until it was far, far too
late to stop it -- have the fucking temerity to slag Democrats for not taking
the threat to our country from their fucking party seriously because we won't
take direction from them.
This is why Sykes never allows himself within shouting or spitting distance of
actual Liberals who would actually push back on this nonsense.
And so, rather that lowering himself to running in a "brother against brother"
Republican primary which Kinzinger would definitely lose because Republicans
are a mob of bigots and imbeciles who hate his guts, instead he has decided to
blame Democrats for his condition his condition is in, which means...
-- sing it with me now! --
...Both Sides Are Equally Terrible because Republicans are
fascist scum, but Democrats want to spend money on stuff because they are
hostage to their Extreme Left Wing
which is exactly like the Freedom Caucus
Therefor it should be obvious to any patriotic Murrican and the only hope for
our country is to...
-- sing it with me now! --
...overthrow the K'rupt Duopoly!
SYKES: So are you talking about running possibly in a
primary. Would you consider a third party bid? Independent? What
are you thinking?
There are substantial hurdles you have to overcome to get on the ballot in
Illinois as an independent. On the other and, in the last U.S. Senate
race in Illinois, in addition to the Democrat and the Republican there were
actually three other candidates running from three other parties: a Green, a
Libertarian and Willie Wilson of the (no kidding) Willie Wilson Party.
So if Kinzinger were actually serious he could file to compete for the
nomination of one of those, although he might be a poor fit for the Willie
Wilson Party.
But that's no fun! So, instead...
KINZINGER: ...but look if I don't end up running it's fine. I'm
going to tell you I will look I will look seriously at possibilities for
2024. I want to see where the Country First Movement [Kinzinger's own,
boutique third party grift which is eerily similar to Matthew Dowd's Country
Over Party grift] grows and if it means, y'know, challenging Donald Trump
for the nomination it's something I wouldn't rule out.
Sure. In exactly the same way I wouldn't rule out being named president
of NBC News.
And thus does Kinzinger begin collecting the still-warm shoes and baggy pants
and big, red nose of the Avenging Both Siderist clown costume from the
dumpster where Matthew Dowd has just discarded it.
KINZINGER: ...I think the church has failed. I think political
parties have failed.
Both sides. Both sides. Both sides.
KINZINGER: ...I think we may hit a point -- we may be there now -- we
may hit a point where there has to be a serious movement for a third rarty
or, y'know, does [Kinzinger's boutique Third Party grift] Country First lead
a Third Party? Does it create, y'know, people within the existing parties
that are for something...
Does it create the New Soviet Man?
If you listen to enough of these third party, Both Siderist expatriate
Republicans, what comes through over and over again loud and clear is that,
beyond a handful of generic marketing buzzwords -- "country", "freedom",
"patriotic" -- they never manage to explain exactly what his imaginary Third
Party would stand for. It's the "All Good Stuff No Bad Stuff" party,
without any meat whatsoever on those bones.
Which makes a certain kind of sense.
After all, what these goof are all really thirsty for is the
Republican Party of 2015 sans Trump. All of it. The budget
crippling tax cuts. The crackpot economic theories. Shredding the
social safety net. Letting Red States gut voting rights. Handmaid's Tale
judges packing the courts. But they also want their zombie base to STFU
and not ruin everything. And since it is now impossible to detach the
infrastructure of Republican Party from its fascist soul, to get anyone but
their dozen closest friends to buy into their Glengarry Glen Ross Third Party,
they need to continue to keep everything about it extremely boozy and
aspirational.
SYKES: ...so what you have is political leaders who take their cues from
what's happening at the grassroots state level. And so whether Trump is
there or not, the... the... the soul of the party has been changed.
No, no, no, Charlie
The soul of the GOP hasn't changed. It has simply been
revealed for everyone to see.
Your party was the Party of Trump long before Trump showed up to claim the
throne.
And you, Charlie, were a member of the Brain Caste -- the Wingnut Bene
Gesserit -- that spent decades cultivating the racism and ignorance of the
base and harvesting their votes and support and attention.
People like you filled their heads day after day with myths of the Evil Big
Gummint. Of commie Libtards and mooching Welfare Queens. Of a
Soros-controlled Liberal Media which could never be trusted. And so,
when Donald Trump glided down the escalator loudly and proudly spouting the
same racist, deranged bile that the bigots and imbeciles of your party's base
had been steeping in for decades, how dare you be surprised that they greeted
him as the Chosen One?
Back to the makeover:
KINZINGER: Glenn Youngkin didn't win Virginia because the
Democrats didn't spend [three!trillion!dollars!]. He won Virginia because
they're upset at what the Democrats are doing! And you know, I gotta
tell ya, the
Democrats right now are where we were six years ago when we were being
held hostage by the Freedom Club
in our party and they were forcing us to go more and more extreme. That's
where [Democrats] are now. They don't have a Donald Trump yet that's
going to accelerate that but that's where they are. They're hostage to
their extreme!
Both sides. Both sides. Both sides.
SYKES: I... I've made this point before. I kind of have
this flashback to the the Freedom Caucus and... and Ted Cruz saying, y'know
we're going to, y'know, take this stand that has no chance of success.
No end game. And yet it was cheered on by the grass roots. It
had the, y'know, the media echo chambers and
there's a very similar vibe from the progressive caucus here.
Charlie then goes on his umpteenth extended rant about how Democrats are ugly
and stupid and our mother's dress us funny and
Jesus Christ, why are you snowflakes taking this the wrong way?
Why don't you respect this as the tough love that you
stupid, smelly Libtards so desperately need?
Over time the Alert Listener may have noticed that for all of his bluster
about The Bulwark not being a "safe space" for us snowflakes out here
who can't bear the truth...The Bulwark actually is a very
carefully curated "safe space" for Mr. Charlie Sykes, who needs such a safe
space so he can get back to doing what he used to do every day for 30 years as
the Rush Limbaugh of Wisconsin -- vent his spleen on the Extreme Left day
after day after day drunk-uncle-at-Thanksgiving style, in a forum were he
never has to actually debate anyone who 1) might vigorously rebut him and, 2)
might show up with receipts in-hand.
KINZINGER: I do think that we're on the verge...and I don't
think the Republicans have this yet. I don't think the Democrats
certainly don't have it. we're on the verge of kind of the next iteration of
where government goes is a restoration of local government. I think
people feel so disaffected by the federal government...
Because your party has been demonizing the government as the source of all
evil for 50 years?
Because every time your party is in power it wrecks everything it touches, and
every time it's out of power it uses ever means at its disposal to sabotage
Democrats as we try to clean up the disasters you left behind?
Is that what you were about to say?
KINZINGER: Unfortunately both sides are stuck in the, y'know,
same debate when Ronald Reagan was running for president...
Both sides. Both sides. Both sides.
KINZINGER: ...we need a complete utter ground-up reinvention of
answers. We talk about when was the creation of the modern
conservative movement -- we need a new creation of the modern whatever we
can call it...
I'm sure Steve Bannon and the Chapo Trap House kids will both be thrilled to
learn that Adam Kinzinger want to join them in deconstructing the
administrative state
SYKES: ...and yet it seems like we've settled into
party line votes on almost everything. What... what is the
dynamic? Because I think there are people who you mentioned Twitter
who look at you and Liz Cheney and go,
"Yeah, but you're still voting with republicans. Why aren't you voting
with the Democrats?"
What... what is the dynamic that's happening right?
KINZINGER: And that's the thing. And this is a real truth,
y'know, for people out there if you listen to this with an open mind.
Wait for it.
Wait for it...
KINZINGER: There would be a lot more crossing party lines except that
a lot of these bills are created by Nancy Pelosi to be partisan. Let's take voting rights...
And there it is. It's all the fault of Democrats for not bending over
even further to accommodate the whims of a nonexistent Reasonable Republicans
caucus. God damn that K'rupt Duopoly all to Hell!
KINZINGER: And now the Democrats are arguing 1.7 trillion
dollars, by the way, is just not enough. And oh my gosh, y'know!
Let's bring out the fainting couches!
Kinzinger's obvious concern for the fate of the people whose lives hang on
these Democratic bills -- children, new mothers, the elderly, the environment,
voting rights, those whose lives depend on outrageously overpriced drugs and
on and on -- is deeply touching.
KINZINGER:[Democrats are] stuck in their kind of 1980s
mantra. The Republicans are stuck in their 1980s mantra.
Whoever comes along with a whole new 21st century mantra can can seize the
narrative!
But, sadly, nothing is going to change...
KINZINGER: ...until the American people demand it happen, or until
the American people quit responding to the text messages that say you're a
traitor or quit, y'know spending 20 hours a day with, y'know, one of these
national news stations on the background boiling your blood, making you
outraged.
One of these national news stations. Because both sides. Both
sides. Both sides.
KINZINGER: Until the American people say our engines have been on
redline and the
Republican and Democratic party are abusing us...
Both sides.
Both sides.
Both sides.
And lest you think these are one-off's, here is our vinegary,
unreconstructed Bush Regime Dead Ender "ally" Mona Charen had to say on her
Bulwark podcast this very day...
...with the subtitle, "Are Both Parties Unfit To Govern?"
While this is what your cool, gay, Bay-area, hipster Conservatives Bulwark
uncle had to say today on his Bulwark podcast:
