Republicans have sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
Committed suicide. Gonna' fall like a house of cards or so I've read.
I live in Kansas where it’s redder than a
rare steak dripping over a slaughterhouse floor and let me tell you, the teabilly
loons will go into Judgment Day hanging to those cards. They already think
Obama has brought on the End Times.
When I was a kid in the '70s and '80s,
Republicans were the Country Club party. Now it's the party of gun
fetishists, misogynists, racists, Taliban-like religious fanatics, fag bashers,
secessionists and all around thugs.
"Fuck all you Democrats!"
The guy practically shouted from his
facebook platform. I've known this guy for years. Had a few beers with him on
occasion. I'm thinking it's a good thing he didn't go ahead and get that
master's in psychology.
He ranted about how Obama put this country
through hell with the government shutdown. That's right, they think he caused
it. That $24 billion that Ted Cruz and his big mouth cost the government, they
think Obama has it.
My Aunt Betty is a sweet little old lady,
part of the prayer chain at her church. Oh and speaking of chains, she forwards
email chain letters to my wife and me about three to five times a week -- stuff
like how Obama is a racist who hates white people, wants to make it illegal to
read the Bible, was born in Kenya …
Her picture was up there, way and high, of
veterans unable to view the memorials to fallen soldiers at the Washington
Mall. And guess who she blamed for that.
"He's a do nothing president,"
she wrote. "Look how he's treating our boys."
"They oughta' hang the bastard,"
Mr. Grissmachy said. He's a corpulent fart of a man whose ass cheeks droop from
the stool he occupies at the Backwater Bar and Grill.
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| Profile pic from a facebook page. I found it via another fb site called Christian Conservative Patriot. |
"You like the idea of hanging people, don't you, Mr. Grissmachy?" I said. "Especially certain kinds of people, right?"
"I suppose if you say something bad
about Obama, you're a racist," Mr. White Male Victim said.
"Obama's an idiot," Mr.
Grissmachy continued. "Did you see the video during the election year where he
said he'd been to 57 states? I guess he was counting Kenya."
Poor Mr. Grissmachy. Even the sweat from
his fat neck has Fox "News" in it. You can just smell Hannity on him.
You'll find guys like that at the bar. And
on Drama--, I mean facebook. Tough kids I knew in school. Guys who fought,
drank, chewed Skoal and smoked Camels, kids whose dads had jobs like janitor,
tool shed worker and Wonder Bread delivery truck driver. They're on fb now,
“liking” Faux News, Rush Limbaugh and posting caricatures of Obama as a
chimpanzee. Remember when Democrats were the working class party?
(I know, I know, there hasn't been a true
Democrat in the White House since Jimmy Carter.)
Sure the one percent would laugh these
guys out of the room and Aunt Betty right along with them. But they would
follow them straight down to the economic Armageddon they almost caused.
Sen. John McCain dressed his own party
down. "It's one of the more shameful chapters that I have seen in the
years I have spent in the Senate," he said.
But it's a nightmare he helped create.
Nobody knew Sarah Palin before he caved in to the lunatic fringe and brought
her out. She was with Ted Cruz, some fool waving a confederate flag and another
fool telling Obama to shut the Quran and come out of the White House "with
your hands up." They were exploiting veterans.
They represent the good Christians out
there. Around a week ago, Cruz, the son of a right wing pastor, was lauded at
the so-called Values Voter summit, the annual event hosted by the Family
Research Council. You know? That group founded with a Klu Klux Klan mailing
list. Nice event, Glen Beck got a laugh with a reference to homosexuals being
forced to wear pink triangles in Hitler's concentration camps.
Maybe the Republicans have learned their
lesson. Maybe cooler heads will restrain the radicals, but I doubt it. I don't
expect the Party of Obstinacy to fold anytime soon. It's like the South after
Gettysburg. They've lost, but they're going to hang on to the bitter end.
