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[ebonlock]

As usual Lance Mannion writes some brilliant stuff and one of the best metaphors regarding the Republican party I've ever read:

If the Goverment is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the distributer cap, and, whenever they can get their hands on the wheel, driving it straight into the nearest ditch and then, pointing to the wreckage as the tow truck backs up to it, saying, See, this proves that people were meant to walk.

And they do this so that they don't have to chip in on gas.

Go read the rest, it's well worth your time.

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Republican Fuckery

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

Excellllent.

Also noteworthy:
http://mediamatters.org/items/200509280006

Re: Republican Fuckery

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've been reading that around the web but I don't think he meant it in quite the way it's been interpreted. Of course he should've known better and expected his words to be used against him if he's uttering them publically so my sympathy goes only so far.

Take a look at Brad DeLong's blog (http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/09/in_defense_of_b.html), and I think you'll see what I mean.

Re: Republican Fuckery

[h0h0.livejournal.com]

He gets no sympathy from me. I know he didn't mean it as a literal action, but it gives insight into his and the fundamentalist republican party beliefs. He's a complete moron for saying it on the heels of Katrina.

I've seen a lot of sites quote his statement, but leave out his last sentence where it declares it "impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible". I think that is just as negligent and self-serving as the original statement.