This:
The iron-girder he-men of the conservative blogosphere have greeted former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania Arlen Specter’s defection to the Democrats with whiskery hoots of “good riddance/get lost/don’t let the door hit your withered buttocks on the way out” and similar pleasantries. Many of them appear defiantly resigned to the Republican Party becoming a regional bastion of true believers, the Branch Davidian compound of the Confederate Jesus. To those, however, who still share the same sky as those in the real world and think that the best escape route out of minority status and possible extinction is to win elections (crazy, I know), the Specter defection is a disaster.
I’m still laughing.
Fencedude
They are crying on the inside.
Except Glenn Beck, who is crying all the time.
The Other Steve
Michelle Bachmann brings on the dumb
kommrade reproductive vigor
In other news: Michael Steele has placed an order for several hundred black sweatsuits and black and white Nikes.
R-Jud
Dude cries more than my two-month old.
Olympia Snowe’s got an Op-Ed in the NYT this morning:
Good start. Of course, it’s not just about diversity and demographics and governing majorities, Senator: coming up with some ideas for governing, while admitting culpability for the war, the economy, etc. and ad nauseam, would be helpful, too.
gyma
Wolcott is a national treasure. Nobody does the snark better.
Jim Morin’s editorial cartoon (The Miami Herald) this morning says it all.
Napoleon
That is just pure awesome.
Montysano
Good stuff.
Hunter Gathers
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
‘Long as I got my Confederate Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations
And my travels through the nations
With my Confederate Jesus I’ll go far
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
Of course you wish you’d written that. Hell, this is Wolcott, of whom the late Steve Gilliard(pbuh) said, “Wolcott? Shit. If I hammer people, he slices them up like a samurai master. There is NO day I want Jim to speak ill of me. “
SGEW
Wolcott is a national treasure.
Love his takedowns of “the gamy storefronts of conservative blogs”: nobody does it better.
SGEW
@gyma: Huh. Seems we both treasure Wolcott, nationally.
[negative two points to both of us for our unoriginal platitude]
angulimala
I like this comment from SadlyNo!
priscianus jr
Wolcott’s piece kind of shows you how iconic a hack like Specter has been to the Frum types.
Comrade Nikolita
@gyma:
Those elephants with no eyes creep me out. Great cartoon though.
geg6
@Ivan Ivanovich Renko:
Gawd, I miss the late great Steve Gilliard. And he was totally correct about Wolcott. A truly poetic snarker, that man. “The Branch Davidian compound of the Confederate Jesus” indeed. That captures it brilliantly.
SGEW
More things I wish I had written, from Larison:
Oh, I love it.
Quaker in a Basement
Yay! I guessed Wolcott! It was the “Branch Davidian” thing that tipped me off.
JK
James Wolcott is a genius. He recently appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=285316-5