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http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Shutdown_BluesTHE REIGN OF MORONS IS HERE
By Charles P. Pierce at 9:10am
We have elected the people sitting on hold, waiting for their moment on an evening drive-time radio talk show. We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government.
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We have elected a national legislature in which Louie Gohmert and Michele Bachmann have more power than does the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who has been made a piteous spectacle in the eyes of the country and doesn't seem to mind that at all. We have elected a national legislature in which the true power resides in a cabal of vandals, a nihilistic brigade that believes that its opposition to a bill directing millions of new customers to the nation's insurance companies is the equivalent of standing up the the Nazis in 1938, to the bravery of the passengers on Flight 93 on September 11, 2001, and to Mel Gibson's account of the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 13th Century. We have elected a national legislature that looks into the mirror and sees itself already cast in marble.
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This is what they came to Washington to do -- to break the government of the United States. It doesn't matter any more whether they're doing it out of pure crackpot ideology, or at the behest of the various sugar daddies that back their campaigns, or at the instigation of their party's mouthbreathing base. It may be any one of those reasons. It may be all of them. The government of the United States, in the first three words of its founding charter, belongs to all of us, and these people have broken it deliberately. The true hell of it, though, is that you could see this coming down through the years, all the way from Ronald Reagan's First Inaugural Address in which government "was" the problem, through Bill Clinton's ameliorative nonsense about the era of big government being "over," through the attempts to make a charlatan like Newt Gingrich into a scholar and an ambitious hack like Paul Ryan into a budget genius, and through all the endless attempts to find "common ground" and a "Third Way." Ultimately, as we all wrapped ourselves in good intentions, a prion disease was eating away at the country's higher functions. One of the ways you can acquire a prion disease is to eat right out of its skull the brains of an infected monkey. We are now seeing the country reeling and jabbering from the effects of the prion disease, but it was during the time of Reagan that the country ate the monkey brains.
malaise
(268,693 posts)Rec
we have elected a carbuncle on the butt of our country , a bunch of domestic terrorists , and they should be treated as such !
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Bookmarking to read later...looks like a good one! Thanks, Scuba!
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)Spot on if ever there was something written that explains where we are and why we're where we are.
janlyn
(735 posts)haikugal
(6,476 posts)WOW....beautiful and on the money. Totally awesome!!
We have elected an ungovernable collection of snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen and outright frauds, a collection so ungovernable that it insists the nation be ungovernable, too. We have elected people to govern us who do not believe in government.
They are terrorists and thugs....fascists with their bibles and flags.
northoftheborder
(7,569 posts)MH1
(17,573 posts)He's one of my faves.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)They even had the CEO of WWE Wrestling as a Senate candidate, not once but twice.
they are a dysfunctional freakshow and proud of it
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)and lost by over 10% each time.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)reflection
(6,286 posts)dawnie51
(959 posts)He cuts through the crap to the bone. These idiots were not sent to DC to govern; they were sent to stick a large stick in the wheel of government and stop it completely. That's what they have been paid to do. They do not fear us, or the administration, or anything except their money masters. They are traitors and in any other country, they would have already been dealt with, and not in a happy way.
Botany
(70,447 posts)Ultimately, as we all wrapped ourselves in good intentions, a prion disease was eating away at the country's higher functions. One of the ways you can acquire a prion disease is to eat right out of its skull the brains of an infected monkey. We are now seeing the country reeling and jabbering from the effects of the prion disease, but it was during the time of Reagan that the country ate the monkey brains.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)roamer65
(36,744 posts)They went to Washington to break the American people. Our government is "the people". It governs by OUR consent. They have gone to subvert and destroy this process. These people are our enemies.
h2ebits
(640 posts)These people are our ENEMIES. I consider what is happening to be an attempted coup by a small number of beyond wealthy human beings, the multinationals, and other companies to turn us into a fascist state.
I consider this shutdown and the threat of default to be sedition and treason against all of us.
Chaco Dundee
(334 posts)All of this with malicious intend.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)walkerbait41
(302 posts)hunter
(38,302 posts)Feed and shelter the refugees until the snake-handlers, Bible-bangers, ignorami, bagmen, etc., all starve to death or eat one another, last one standing succumbs to the brain rot.
It's metaphor of course, but one can dream...
ladjf
(17,320 posts)alfredo
(60,071 posts)Ghost in the Machine
(14,912 posts)Initech
(100,036 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)LOVED reading Idiot America and bet he writes another one soon.
New Orleans Strong
(212 posts)I have been following you all for YEARS, and finally just now joined. I have wondered why nobody has pointed out the the "Just listening to "The American People" is negated when 91% of "The American People" want universal background checks??
What a great site - and what a group of amazing people - You listening Salmon????
S
FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)Looking forward to another voice of reason.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)For his lolcats Sundays.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)gopiscrap
(23,725 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,151 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)blm
(113,008 posts)and the polls when they are almost always against them.
calimary
(81,107 posts)Glad you're here! Glad you found your way to an oasis in the desert. This place kept a lot of us sane during the miserable bush/cheney years. At least we had each other for company and for solace, and it showed us clearly that we weren't alone in the way we felt or the way we sized up that mess. On ALL the big issues, WE are the ones who turned out to be correct. And we're STILL correct about the VAST majority of it.
SalmonChantedEvening
(31,950 posts)And yes, I am.
vaberella
(24,634 posts)There are people in America who voted for these people and this is where the problem has always been.
el scorcho
(58 posts)I didn't vote for any of these assbags.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,007 posts)calimary
(81,107 posts)And at the same time, I tried to tell the truth to people who were leaning toward supporting these schmucks! And so did MANY here!!! I wrote, blogged, tried to talk sense into them, got ignored, got challenged, got insulted, got laughed at. But what can you do when they're WILLFULLY ignorant? PROUDLY ignorant?
Sometimes I think we should just ship 'em to Somalia and let them have all the anarchy they can eat. It's what they dream of anyway, isn't it?
sarge43
(28,940 posts)That kind of blanket condemnation solves nothing.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)calimary
(81,107 posts)Just NAILS it!!!
HIGHLY recommended!!!
I hope the Democrats will learn, once and for all, that you DO NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS!!!! Not even the home-grown ones!!!!!
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Is just how wealthy the members of this House are. The only way you can successfully primary a Republican Congressman is if you are wealthy, with connections to the likes of the Koch brothers or Joe Ricketts.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,151 posts)Although I think some of his descriptors were too mild, I realize that there are some terms that probably haven't even been invented yet. So, Mr. Pierce:
(Ummmmm... Chilled Monkey Brains. Made me think of Indiana Jones.)
The Wizard
(12,535 posts)needs an enema.
KatyMan
(4,177 posts)A more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)were at their lowest point, seeing as how Obama gave away the store on so many things, from the nsa to health care, but this just reminded America of two things.
1) the GOP really are THAT bad.
2)that if people got out the vote in 2010, we would not be in this mess.
Throw your tomatoes if you will, but the truth will remain!
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)and it is starting to show.
JBoy
(8,021 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)irregardless of this fine theatre they're putting up right now.
SirRevolutionary
(579 posts)Not that the teabaggers will understand any of it, but still we can enjoy.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)gordianot
(15,233 posts)We are talking about the full faith and credit of the United States, this is playing with fire. Do they realize what the Executive Branch can do in a national emergency? To answer my own question the real problem is a couple weeks away as the United States Government really collapses. October 2013 could become the marker of our greatest national tragedy. This Constitutional Crisis can transcend mere partisan politics.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)k&r
Hekate
(90,552 posts)Mark Twain would have savaged them -- Charles Pierce is doing pretty well.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)We have elected an idiocracy.
DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Paladin
(28,243 posts)Nobody's ever going to put it better than Charles Pierce does, here. These words need as wide a distribution as possible.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Knowing that he was going to lose the war, and believing that the US would come and physically remove him from power, Saddam ordered that the oil fields be set on fire. If he wasn't going to control Iraq, then there would be no Iraq to control, he'd destroy it instead (Ironically, he was wrong, the US didn't come for him until Bush's failed Iraq war #2).
That's what the GOP is doing now. These crazy right wing nut jobs understand that their time is almost up. The demographics and attitudes of Americans are evolving away from the insane GOP.
And if they can't govern the United States, which is their God given right, then no one should be allowed to do so.
Their final act is going to be a murder suicide.
It will probably take a few years to get rid of them, and so they are going to use the time that remains to make as big a mess as possible. Destroy as much as possible.
They are lighting the oil fields on fire.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Boehner will be sitting at the bar, drowning his sorrows with some top shelf whiskey, wondering what went wrong.
His buddies will tell him "You went full teatard! Never go full teatard."
deutsey
(20,166 posts)Seriously, I wish I could recommend this link 1000 times more.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)I think it's by design that the Republican party has gone nuts. The moderates are migrating into the Democratic Party and pulling our party to the right. This marginalizes the left. If the 1% cant get Christie or Jeb they can live with Obama and Clinton. They dont want another FDR.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)Glad to have the entire text in front of me... You hit it, Charlie Pierce!
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,436 posts)about the United States.
That's a serious swift kick in the nads!
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)Fly by night
(5,265 posts)... not "we the people", at least here in Tennessee. Our state legislature is the only one to repeal a voter confidence law that would have banned unverifiable voting equipment. Using that equipment, flying monkeys now have a super majority in our state legislature and our Congressional delegation has gone from 5-4 Dem to 7-2 flying monkey.
My point: Don't blame the voters for the current state of affairs until and unless we can verify that our voting machines count our votes the way they are cast.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)showing the rest of us that if we start making any real progress, they can buy enough politicians to subvert democracy.
Maineman
(854 posts)Nor do they believe in democracy. As Tom DeLay said, the goal is a permanent majority, in other words, single party rule.
Like they have in Cuba, I presume.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)hue
(4,949 posts)AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)the link was at the end of the article...but here it is again:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/shutdown-morons#slide-1
This is a great list. And as I post on FaceBook....
I would just like to point out.... to inform any South-bashing that may (understandably) show up... that in this excellent list of dumb bunny GOPers, the South is represented, but not a majority. I am an East Coast resident of Popelina... er ...North Carolina. We over here do not consider TX the South. Long horns and cowboys are not traditionally "southern", they are "western". But I'll give you TX as the south as well as FL, which is filled with retired yankees. Even so, this list tallies up at 5 Southern loonies (TX times 3, TN & FL) and 6 nut jobs from all over (OK, CA, KY, PA, WI, & MO) I know the South has been THE racial problem for centuries now, but it simply isn't the case any more. Since electing an African American, the bigots and idiots that go with them have crawled out of the woodwork EVERYWHERE. Pay attention! The South is no longer THE problem.... merely A problem.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)never voted for any one of the republican nut jobs .
CrispyQ
(36,421 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)gejohnston
(17,502 posts)That has been business as usual since the beginning.