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The Inferno, Canto 13, line 120: “Haste now,” the foremost cried, “now haste thee death!” - Gustave Dore (1832-1883)

Dear RedState Reader:

If you’ve seen the recent Harry Potter or watched any of a host of exorcism movies, you know that right before the demon dies, he lashes out most brutally and fearfully to try to get you to give up.

We’re seeing the demon of out of control government lashing out in spectacular fashion now before House Republicans kill it.

In one last spectacular bout, the White House and Congressional leaders are summoning Standards & Poor to Congress to scare the beejezus out of House Republican Freshman. They are bringing in the Grim Reaper to proclaim death if a deal is not reached.

House Republicans should first note that S&P did not see the financial crisis come and also note that the White House and Congressional leaders did the exact same thing on TARP.

Then House Republicans need to open their eyes, laugh at death, and finish the exorcism.

They are being asked by their leadership and the White House to embrace one of two poisons:

The first poison, McConnell’s Pontius Pilate Act, would let the President drive up debt by $2 trillion without any cuts.

The second poison, the Gang of 6′ Gangrene, would drive up debt by $2 trillion, not make cuts of $3.5 trillion for ten years and even then depend on subsequent Congresses actually agreeing to those cuts, and also foist on the American public the largest tax hike in American history while being dishonest enough to call it a tax cut.

Poison kills. And either of these poisons, despite what the S&P or any politician may say, will kill the long term prospects of this Republic being financially solvent.

Why?

Because the House GOP is performing an exorcism on government spending. It has the only plan that can pass by August 2, 2011, that cuts spending, caps future spending, and balances the budget. It has the only long term plan that meets the credit reporting agencies’ demands without relying on future agreements to do things Congress has never had the will do to.

The Senate and White House do not want to stop spending. They do not want to be restrained.

So they’ll bring in the S&P, claim disaster, beg for live, and hope the GOP in the House gives up the fight and stops the exorcism before the demon is driven out.

House Republicans: Hold the freaking line. They are trying to scare the crap out of you to prevent you from saving the Republic. Do you really believe the same people and the same bipartisan deals that got us to $14 trillion in debt will somehow get us out of it?

Hold the line.
Sincerely yours,

Erick Erickson
Editor, RedState.com

[Image: Gustave Dore (1832-1883) The Inferno, Canto 13, line 120: “Haste now,” the foremost cried, “now haste thee death!”. Go have a look at the huge image file. It’s quite spectacular] [Cross posted at Sarah Proud and Tall.]

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  5. 5.

    cleek

    stupid fuck should try proof-reading his missives before clicking Send.

    “they’ll bring in the S&P”. doesn’t know the difference between Standard & Poor’s, the ratings agency and “the S&P” (aka “the S&P 500”, a market index).

    “Standards & Poor”. no, “Standard & Poor’s”

    “beg for live,”
    “did not see the financial crisis come ”

    “to try to get you to give up.” clumsy.

  7. 7.

    Ivan Ivanovich Renko

    Hold the line.

    Yes, sit right there and get destroyed in place.

    Ten gallons of dumb in a five gallon hat.

    Stealin’ it.

    ETA: The line, not the hat, you lunatics!

  9. 9.

    Chyron HR

    If you’ve seen the recent Harry Potter or watched any of a host of exorcism movies, you know that right before the demon dies, he lashes out most brutally and fearfully to try to get you to give up.

    SO LOOK OUT! BOOGA-BOOGA!

    Hold the line.

    Because I’m Waiting For Your Love.

  11. 11.

    Linda Featheringill

    The Revolution is just around the corner.

    Meanwhile on dkos, I noticed last night a diary on How to Live Without Your Social Security Check. I question the practicality of some of the author’s suggestions but I certainly applaud him for trying to deal with reality.

  12. 12.

    Chris

    Ahhh yes, GOP politics, where destroying your enemies (who are demons, doncha know) is so important that you’ll literally “hold the line” by destroying the economy and ruining the lives of millions if that’s what it takes.

    I fucking hate these people so much.

  13. 13.

    Draylon Hogg

    Doesn’t this wazzock know that Potter is blasphemous filth that invites Beelzebub into your heart?

  15. 15.

    bemused

    Exorcism, a dying demon lashes out most brutally and fearfully, poisons, grim reaper, laugh at death….rightwing extremists sure do love using violent, apocalyptic rhetoric. Tony Sutton. chairman of the MN Republican party said a compromise to the left is a compromise between good and evil.

    A bat shit crazy cult has a stranglehold on this country.

  16. 16.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So the way to restore the country to fiscal responsibility is to refuse to pay its bills? Deeper thinkers there at Red State.

  17. 17.

    Mark D

    Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ on a pogo stick … can someone please show me where the fuck all this wailing about the debt ceiling was during Dubya’s terms — ya know, when Congress raised it seven times without a fucking word of complaint from the likes of Erik Sonoferickson?

    Because I seem to have missed that.

  18. 18.

    cat48

    I noticed last night a diary on How to Live Without Your Social Security Check.

    I should probably read that since Tip & Ronnie actually took away my future Wife’s Benefit during their “fix” since I was a feckless Fed employee. They always experimented with us first. I doubt anyone will actually lose their check out of this though. No one knows yet.

  19. 19.

    Xenos

    Reminiscent of Peter Gabriel’s San Jacinto

    We will walk – on the land
    We will breathe – of the air
    We will drink – from the stream
    We will live – hold the line

  21. 21.

    joes527

    Doesn’t this wazzock know that Potter is blasphemous filth that invites Beelzebub into your heart?

    Not to mention a really lousy movie.

    Got dragged to it last night. DBox and 3D are killing the cinema.

    I sat they in my unmoving chair in the 2D screen (to save a few bucks while not getting a debilitating migraine from the stupid3D or being made sick from the chair rocking)

    The most memorable part of the movie was all the scenes where it was clear that the whole point was to give the folks watching in 3D something to jump out at them or the folks in DBox a chance to rock their chairs. The value add (extra $$) features that the theatres are selling are shaping the movies, and not in a good way.

    Beyond the scenes that were set-ups for extra $$ features, I think it had a wizard or some such in the movie, but that part just wasn’t that memorable.

  22. 22.

    MBunge

    And these are the sorts of people that Krugman and other Obama critics think would be better dealt with by being more confrontational.

    Mike

  23. 23.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ on a pogo stick … can someone please show me where the fuck all this wailing about the debt ceiling was during Dubya’s terms—ya know, when Congress raised it seven times without a fucking word of complaint from the likes of Erik Sonoferickson? Because I seem to have missed that.

    There was nothing to miss because….wait for it

    IOKIYAR

    Or as Darth Cheney said “Deficits don’t matter”.

  24. 24.

    Jude

    Someone needs to sit this prick down and explain: Erick, honey, life is not the movies. Also, plunging the world into economic chaos to make a point is one of the dumbest and worst things anyone could do. It’s not a corageous stand against government spending. It’s just cruel and stupid.

  25. 25.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    Except, in reality:
    Cars don’t blow up when they fall off a cliff.
    Propane tanks don’t blow up when you shoot them.
    People bleed.

    Using movies as a reference for reality is not exactly reliable.

  26. 26.

    dan

    @21.joes527,

    Thanks. We need more people announcing how they are too cool to enjoy Harry Potter. Good for you.

  27. 27.

    artem1s

    ya wonder when they are gonna wake up and realize its the GOP that’s in it’s exorcist death throes. look at whose heads are spinning out of control, spewing pea-soup bile all over the place.

    a good friend of mine taught me this quote,

    These are the acts of desperate men
    Who know in the end they cannot win

  28. 28.

    Bill White

    Richard Posner (of all people) offers this explanation of our situation:

    One problem is attributable to Obama, though it is not a fault of Obama. Obama resembles such Presidents as Nixon and Clinton in the following respect. They are what the political scientist Stephen Skowronek calls practitioners of “third way” politics (Tony Blair was another), who undermine the opposition by borrowing policies from it in an effort to seize the middle and with it to achieve political dominance. Think of Nixon’s economic policies, which were a continuation of Johnson’s “Great Society”; Clinton’s welfare reform and support of capital punishment; and Obama’s pragmatic centrism, reflected in his embrace, albeit very recent, of entitlements reform. The resemblance between Nixon and Obama is, surprising as this may seem, particularly close. Nixon was a bête noir of the Left and Obama is a bête noir of the Right, in both cases based on their activities before they became President (Nixon’s red-baiting, Obama’s community organizing). But Nixon as President was, and Obama is (or is willing to be, under political pressure), a centrist President. That infuriates the opposition by stealing its thunder, and so provokes a powerful reaction. For the Republicans to have acceded to the Obama-Boehner plan of heavy spending cuts and light tax increases would have conceded the political middle to Obama.

    http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/2011/07/the-federal-deficit-messposner.html

  29. 29.

    Martin

    can someone please show me where the fuck all this wailing about the debt ceiling was during Dubya’s terms—ya know, when Congress raised it seven times without a fucking word of complaint from the likes of Erik Sonoferickson?

    You also missed when they passed the Bush tax cuts and raised the debt ceiling – both in the same day.

  30. 30.

    jrg

    When these stupid assholes actually do succeed in damaging the credit of the U.S., it will take them five fucking seconds to start blaming Obama. The fact that they goaded each other to ignore the warnings will go straight down the memory hole.

    Party of personal responsibility! Wheeeee!

  31. 31.

    Bulworth

    The first poison, McConnell’s Pontius Pilate Act, would let the President drive up debt by $2 trillion without any cuts.

    The second poison, the Gang of 6’ Gangrene, would drive up debt by $2 trillion, not make cuts of $3.5 trillion for ten years and even then depend on subsequent Congresses actually agreeing to those cuts, and also foist on the American public the largest tax hike in American history while being dishonest enough to call it a tax cut.

    This is just all kinds of awesomesauce.

    I wonder who conservatives think will be able to pick up the pieces after a default? The Chamber of Commerce? The Home Depot?

  32. 32.

    scav

    quick! Inform the Neilson rating agency! Harry Potter and not 24 is the audio-visual script for all true ‘mercan behavior! Is Scalia aware of this critical change and, if so, what are the legal implications?

  33. 33.

    Syphon

    Do you really believe the same people and the same bipartisan deals that got us to $14 trillion in debt will somehow get us out of it?

    No, you’re right. I don’t believe the Republicans will somehow get us out of it. Erick Erickson is actually right for once.

  34. 34.

    MikeBoyScout

    Son of the son of Erick sure likes his absurd melodrama.

    But I applaud his attempt to extend Godwin’s Law in to the realm of Satan, proving, once again, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!

    ps. SP&T, please update your tags.

  35. 35.

    Chris

    They are what the political scientist Stephen Skowronek calls practitioners of “third way” politics (Tony Blair was another), who undermine the opposition by borrowing policies from it in an effort to seize the middle and with it to achieve political dominance. Think of Nixon’s economic policies, which were a continuation of Johnson’s “Great Society”; Clinton’s welfare reform and support of capital punishment; and Obama’s pragmatic centrism, reflected in his embrace, albeit very recent, of entitlements reform.

    However, what made Nixon successful is that in addition to seizing the middle, he was able to emotionally invest a number of Americans in his newly rebranded Republican Party (the one that stood against liberal elitists and their minions in the other half of the country). Thus paving the way for Reagan and the madmen who followed him. Clinton wasn’t able to do any such thing.

  37. 37.

    Draylon Hogg

    @26

    I enjoyed Prisoner of Azkaban the movie but when I tried to read the books it was as if I was possessed by the spirit of amalgamated children’s literature and I kept hearing Enid Blyton arguing with E. Nesbit in my head.

  39. 39.

    Bokonon

    Does brave, brave Sir Erick really believe his own propaganda? Or is he just cheerleading the GOP lemmings to jump over the cliff … the way they REALLY WANT TO … because the resulting carnage will produce the correct political results?

    Seriously. Erickson has been peddling this “everyone will blame Obama for a default, but nobody will really get hurt” brave talk very aggressively … leading from the rear as a sort of apologist and wishful-thinker-in-chief for the most extreme of the GOP’s house members. And the sad thing is that Erickson’s postings and rants and wishful thinking seem to be swaying opinion more than … oh, I dunno … the people who actually know something about about the subject?

    Notice how between the cheap shots and insults (like using the word “Gangrene” – hey, can’t have modern GOP talk without gonzo stuff like that), Erickson’s focus is all on the political ends – which is killing the federal government, and screwing the political opposition? It is sort of like talking about how effective nuking an enemy city would be … without mentioning retaliation, the effect of producing a nuclear winter, and all of those trivial data points and externalities.

    By any means necessary, baby. By any means necessary.

  40. 40.

    MikeBoyScout

    House Republicans should first note that S&P did not see the financial crisis come and also note that the White House and Congressional leaders did the exact same thing on TARP.

    Douche Bag should first note that Republican Glibertarians and Neocons were the thoughtful assholes whose policies and ineptitude brought down the global economy and wrecked the fiscal budget.

    Of course, realizing anything is beyond Erick, son of Erick’s subterranean IQ, so maybe some kind witch could cast a mute spell on the SOB.

  42. 42.

    JerseyJeffersonian

    I have an alternative candidate in mind to be designated as a demon thrashing about doing maximal damage in its extremity and perpetrating evil while in its death throes.

    Can you guess what entity I have in mind?

  44. 44.

    Bill White

    @Chris comment #35

    However, what made Nixon successful is that in addition to seizing the middle, he was able to emotionally invest a number of Americans in his newly rebranded Republican Party (the one that stood against liberal elitists and their minions in the other half of the country). Thus paving the way for Reagan and the madmen who followed him. Clinton wasn’t able to do any such thing.

    Yes.

    I believe Perlstein explains this well in “Nixonland” with Reagan and later Rove adding increasing amounts of steroids to the basic Nixon-ian approach to politics.

    Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama have been attempting to counter resentment politics with the politics of reasonableness. Unfortunately, unless we are willing to openly fight a civil war, continued attempts at being reasonable may be the only choice.

  45. 45.

    Brian R.

    Save this email, and print out copies to distribute to Americans when the economy is destroyed by these idiots. Maybe with a map to Erickson’s house.

  46. 46.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    House Republicans should first note that S&P did not see the financial crisis come

    It has the only long term plan that meets the credit reporting agencies’ demands

    I’m sorry, are we we for or against rating agencies before or after we are for or against rating agencies?

  48. 48.

    The Republic of Stupidity

    Erick Erickson…

    Oh yeah…

    He’s the one who bragged he’d grab HIS WIFE’S shotgun, should a census taker come to his door…

    Not HIS shotgun… HIS WIFE’S shotgun, mind you…

    I wonder if CNN has ever felt any buyer’s remorse over THAT one?

  49. 49.

    Mike E

    @Chris#35: Clinton assumed the void left by the evaporating moderate Repubs. DLC in yer pocketz, bitchez!

  54. 54.

    Mike E

    @Draylon Hogg#37:

    when I tried to read

    Michelle Bachmann feels your pain, and needs to take a medicine-induced nap.

  55. 55.

    Major Mel Funkshun

    Here’s another movie quote that eric son of eric would probably embrace:
    “Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ’em crash.”
    Airplane! 1980

  56. 56.

    MikeBoyScout

    @54 Sarah Proud and Tall,

    I’m recommending this post be tagged with “Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!”. Please don’t exorcise me if you disagree.

  57. 57.

    The Other Chuck

    I can’t wait to see the epic primal screams of them losing their shit if Obama invokes the 14th amendment. Not that I have any faith he’ll do it instead of giving the Republicans every last thing they want, but boy would it be Christmas come early if it did…

  58. 58.

    The Other Chuck

    @Bulworth:

    I wonder who conservatives think will be able to pick up the pieces after a default? The Chamber of Commerce? The Home Depot?

    Nobody of course. The economy will be shattered into a million bootstraps, which we all know are perfectly capable of picking themselves up.

  59. 59.

    Jennifer

    Question here: have any of the House Dems drafted and filed any bills to raise the debt ceiling? They can do a simple debt-ceiling raise proposal in a couple of sentences, and even if the Republican leadership won’t allow it to go anywhere, it can be filed. It would be a good thing for every single Democratic House member to sign on to as co-sponsor, actually. Then when the morons send the world economy crashing into ruins, and try to claim it was all Obama’s fault, there will be evidence to the contrary – a bill to raise the ceiling which was co-sponsored by every Dem in the House, and which the Republicans refused to consider or allow to be heard even in committee.

    Come to think of it, it might put a little fear into Boehner et al just to have the thing filed.

  60. 60.

    Jennifer

    Also, too: I wonder how much ol’ Rupert’s media empire will be worth if those elected by the idiots he whipped into a froth manage to send us over the cliff. Boy oh boy, won’t they be glad they sponsored that teabagger nonsense then?

  61. 61.

    Tony J

    can someone please show me where the fuck all this wailing about the debt ceiling was during Dubya’s terms—ya know, when Congress raised it seven times without a fucking word of complaint from the likes of Erik Sonoferickson?

    Well, d’uh. If you were as clued up as the average Red Stater you’d know that all that happened when America was engaged in an existential war for survival under a President who knew how high the stakes were. Freedom isn’t Free, dammit. You were just lucky the Bush Tax Cuts were so stimulative that the economy was able to take the strain.

    It was only – after – this war was won by Operation Surge that Barney Frank and George Soros colluded to crash the world economy by forcing the financial industry to fund a vast program of Habitats for Halfricans. Combine that with Obama running up a $14 trillion debt in record time with his takeover of the Health Care industry and suddenly the money wasn’t there anymore. Democrats spent it.

    Shorter Red State – “This is different!”

  62. 62.

    John

    Question here: have any of the House Dems drafted and filed any bills to raise the debt ceiling? They can do a simple debt-ceiling raise proposal in a couple of sentences, and even if the Republican leadership won’t allow it to go anywhere, it can be filed.

    I don’t know about your specific question, but the House Republicans actually allowed a vote on a clean debt increase a couple of months ago. The House GOP voted against it to a man, and I think the majority of House Democrats voted against it as well, based on arcane political considerations I didn’t really understand.

  63. 63.

    cleek

    @The Other Chuck:

    . Not that I have any faith he’ll do it instead of giving the Republicans every last thing they want

    as he always does, right?

    so, how are you enjoying the Ryan budget ?

  64. 64.

    Matt

    My only thought on the Standard & Poor’s saber-rattling about downgrading US debt: somebody should remind them that there’s no statute of limitations for RICO cases…

  65. 65.

    Felinious Wench

    Wondering when Erick is going to call for vials of holy water to be sent to our representatives.

  67. 67.

    Julie Raffety

    And these are the sorts of people that Krugman and other Obama critics think would be better dealt with by being more confrontational.

    Mike”

    Right. That will work.

  69. 69.

    Mnemosyne

    Wanna bet the guy who wrote that is him

    Sadly, no. Erick Erickson is a fucking CNN commentator. He gets big bucks from CNN to be a fucktard.

  71. 71.

    Draylon Hogg

    Erickson should hang himself from the nearest tree as a sacrifice to Odin and let the All Father sort out big government.

  72. 72.

    Lol

    Dems voted against the “clean” debt ceiling bill because it wasn’t going to pass (so why take the heat?) and had a preamble to the effect of “the debt ceiling needs to be raised because the President is a lazy shiftless Negro who doesn’t know how to manage money”.

  74. 74.

    slag

    If you’ve seen the recent Harry Potter or watched any of a host of exorcism movies, you know that right before the demon dies, he lashes out most brutally and fearfully to try to get you to give up.

    Scary stuff.

    Well, I, for one, feel better just knowing that Erick has a good grasp on his wand.

  75. 75.

    Bruce S

    We can’t “cut spending” AND “create jobs” – increasingly a large share of new jobs are being created in areas dependent on robust government spending. The “job creators” misnomer in defense of cutting social spending and cutting taxes so our economic elite can pocket the biggest share of the pie, ever and always, isn’t just bogus, it’s dangerous to the economy:

    http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/is-there-hope-for-the-unemployed/#more-125759

  77. 77.

    cleek

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi acknowledged Friday that Democrats may reluctantly accept a last-minute compromise to avoid a default that involves up to $2.5 trillion in spending cuts — without agreed-upon new tax revenues …

    Pelosi SET US UP THE BOMB!

    oh wait, there’s more.

    if Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are protected from the debt limit brinksmanship.

  79. 79.

    gene108

    Man buys house for $16

    Squatters rights (all states have laws regarding this) is something very few of us really pay attention to anymore.

    The instances of squatters actually grabbing land is pretty obscure, but if you look hard enough, I bet most states will give unclaimed property to a squatter, if they stay on the land long enough and no one tries to evict them.

    On another forum, I pointed out to a right-wing real estate agent that services provided by the government include sheriffs to evict people, who don’t pay him rent and courts that allow him to sue people to evict them or collect unpaid rent.

    He really didn’t have a comeback for that comment.

    Regarding Erickson’s post…eh…government is teh devil is a religion with these guys now…

    You can’t argue with people to change such deeply held beliefs. You just have to beat them badly enough in elections or in the court of public opinion (such as the KKK) that they get marginalized.

  80. 80.

    Jennifer

    @ 73 – thanks for the reminder. I vaguely remembered that after John @63 brought it up…but couldn’t remember why they voted it down.

    Still there’s value in what I suggested – filing a clean bill with all (or vast majority) of Dem members as co-sponsors. Certainly there’s no danger of them having to “take the heat” because the House leadership won’t allow it to come to a vote, but the party will be on record as having tried to be responsible adults – for when the teatard Urkel amnesia (did we do that?) sets in.

  81. 81.

    gonzone

    I can see CNN swelling with pride whilst admiring their employee all the way from my front porch.

  83. 83.

    liberal

    gene108 wrote,

    On another forum, I pointed out to a right-wing real estate agent that services provided by the government include sheriffs to evict people, who don’t pay him rent and courts that allow him to sue people to evict them or collect unpaid rent.

    Right-wing real estate agent? Pathetic. All real estate agents are rent collectors.

    Furthermore, while you’re point as expressed above is correct, that’s all small potatoes compared to the massive transfer of wealth to landowners forced by government. And real estate agents live off that transfer (like parasites sucking off of bigger parasites).

  84. 84.

    liberal

    @69 wrote,

    Wow, Erickson is saying the stuff in the original post while simultaneously blasting Obama for taking away your Social Security.

    And given past Republican behavior this is shocking?

  85. 85.

    JC

    Cleek,

    Why we don’t have the specifics, it does look like a crap deal. No revenue increases, all cuts.

    And this is on what should have passed as a voice vote, raising the debt limit, with no drama, back in March.

    89 times the debt limit has been raised. 9 times in Bush’s 8 years.

    So it’s an absolutely crap deal.

  86. 86.

    FlipYrWhig

    Wow, Erickson is saying the stuff in the original post while simultaneously blasting Obama for taking away your Social Security.

    By right-wing logic, most “government spending” is perks for greedy lazy bastards, so all Obama has to do is cut that and everything will be hunky-dory. If Obama cuts _your_ stuff, well, that’s just more evidence of his refusal to stop the gravy train for Those People, nudge wink. _You_ deserve it; you play by the rules and bust your ass. _They_ just want a handout, the savages.

  87. 87.

    Sasha

    Just think: In just over a week, the ideological descendants of the CSA will finally avenge Lee and Appomattox Courthouse.

  88. 88.

    Kane

    We had better get used to this tea party crowd because they are going to be around for a while. Some might only survive one term, but others are in very safe districts where their only potential challenge will come from those representing policies even further to the right.

    How things are currently unfolding on the debt-reduction plan is a sign of what we are in for on every policy proposal from here on out. Anarchy is the new normal.

  89. 89.

    gene108

    Right-wing real estate agent? Pathetic. All real estate agents are rent collectors.

    The real-estate agent, who helped me buy the place I’m living in now did a good job.

    I don’t see a reason to pooh-pooh the profession.

    It’s just like law, accounting, medicine, HVAC repair, etc. and all the other professions that exist, because we can’t know everything about everything, so some people specialize in certain areas to because of this.

    There’s nothing inherently wrong about collecting rent, if you own a property.

  90. 90.

    agrippa

    “Anarchy is the new normal”.

    I agree with that.

    There are some angry and fearful people out there; nihilists who do not care what happens.

    This will, simply, have to burn itself out.

  91. 91.

    Rihilism

    When I started reading that first paragraph I thought it was some liberal activist describing the Repug party (I spaced on the Dear Tea Party Asshole RedState Weekly Reader). Little did I know…

    I believe this is the point in the cartoon that Bugs Bunny says, “What a maroon, what a nin-cow-poop” and shortly after that (on Aug. 2) Porky Pig says “That’s All Folks”…

  92. 92.

    burnspbesq

    @Matt:

    somebody should remind them that there’s no statute of limitations for RICO cases…

    In order to show a pattern of racketeering activity, you need three predicate offenses. Whaddaya got besides big talk?

  93. 93.

    bcgister

    I like the choice of illustration – the wood of the profligates and suicides – for the topic. It works on so many levels.
    I hope the party of the profligates keeps pushing until it gets itself planted in the wood of the suicides. I, nonetheless, worry that our President’s apparent passion for that deal may lead him to beat out the opposition in that race.

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    cleek

    so, if the thing that’s going to kill the demon/accomplish the exorcism is conservatism, i guess it’s fair to say that conservatism is a religion.

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