American conservatives have turned into a bunch of screaming, whining toddlers

[T_i_B]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/sep/24/republicans-tea-party-protests

Nothing so much describes the Republican party's elected officials and most rabid supporters these days as a screaming, whining collection of toddlers. Some of them might know the water's cold as they continually dump it over their heads. Yet, as long as it allows them to screw convention along the way and yell "look at me", this inchoate band of Peter Pans will keep right on doing it.

The examples are too numerous to list, but let's just take a look at a few. There have been the assaults on the tradition of our democracy. If you can't pass a Medicare-bill-cum-sloppy-wet-kiss to Big Pharma in the usually allotted couple of minutes, why not just ignore tradition and hold the vote open late into the night to corral votes – you know, just because you want to? The filibuster might get in the way of your putting every atavistic crank who ever wanted to don a black robe on the courts, so hell, just get rid of it! It's what you want to do after all! Of course then when you're in the minority proceed to use it constantly – in fact break records for its use.

But these are only the outward, pathetic tantrums of the Lord of the Flies gang. It is their juvenile ideology that is much more frightening. Lately, many attendees of what they like to call "tea parties" have worn their support for libertarian novelist Ayn Rand on their sleeves, chests and trousers. Yet, as many have recently pointed out, Rand's philosophy of doing whatever is good for you and ignoring the needs and wants of all other inhabitants of the earth is, well, self-indulgent at best and dangerously infantile at worst.

The Republican pundit class also shows all the traits of a bunch of puerile brats. They can generally be summed up as those who either have been imbued with a sense of royalty via being the offspring of rightwing aristocracy such as Jonah Goldberg or Bill Kristol, or they could be the variety who never developed the ability to become functioning adults, such as thrice-married drug abuser Rush Limbaugh and the "family values"-spewing, serially single Ann Coulter.

[lamp_shade]

1. "Lord of The Flies Gang". I can't help but think of Glenn Beck as Jack-the antagonist.

Jack - The antagonist of Lord of the Flies. He is tall, redheaded, and emerges as the leader of the choir boys. When Ralph becomes the initial leader, Jack becomes upset, for he wanted that position but instead becomes the leader of the "hunters." Jack leads the boys from civilized young men into savages through the novel. He is malicious and animalistic. As structure breaks down, Jack forms his own separate sect seperating from Ralph and the rest of the group. Jack is a cruel bully, who is constantly violent and threatens those below him. Jack is always ready to fight. Jack constantly attempts to weaken others. He breaks Piggy's glasses and leads the others towards Piggy's murder. He brings the boys into mass hysteria and eventually hunts Ralph down like an animal.

http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/lord.html

[barbtries]

2. that does sound

like glenn beck. from the reports i've read on du anyway.

[barbtries]

3. oops

duped sorry

[polichick]

4. In toddlers it's called "ego dissintegration." nt

[Ineeda]

5. and there's nothing stinkier than a toddler who still stubbornly soils his/her diapers. n/t