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:puke: As today's Mouse Circus lineup still shows, until things change drastically, Sunday will forever be a Festival of Conservative Frottage.
On “Fox News Sunday”
Rep. Eric Cantor, (R) Virginia
Rep. Darrell Issa, (R) California / Cmte. on Oversight & Govt. Reform
Rep. Paul Ryan, (R) Wisconsin / Budget Committee
On “This Week”
Republican Senator-elect from Kentucky, Rand Paul.
Ronald Reagan's budget director David Stockman.
Chairman of the House Republican Conference Mike Pence
On “Face the Nation”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
On “Meet the Press”
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC),
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
And Good 'Ol George Bush got his book lovingly and uncritically pimped by Conservatives and Centrists alike.
Yes, there were a sprinkling of Centrist, go-along-and-make-nice-Evan Bayh douchbags here and there cringing and shuffling and whinging about the "extremes on both sides", but no one (for example) called out Karen Hughes for lying over and over again. She was not shunned or driven back into the swamp with torches and pointed sticks, because there are no longer any penalties whatsoever for Conservatives lying on teevee.
No matter how bad they shit themselves on camera, corporate twats like David Gregory will always invite them back over and over again, and never be so rude as to seat them next to anyone with an opposing view and a command of the facts that could actually make them look like the fools an poltroons they are.
And of course, across the board, the demand from Republicans is that, now that every Democratic principle going back to the dawn of time has been resoundingly repudiated forever and ever, it is only right and proper that the Losers should give up on all their silly ideas of fairness, fiscal prudence, a social safety and a restoration of the Middle Class and give the Winners everything they want.
This is called Centrism and, we are told, it is the Good and Natural order of things.
Except, of course, we are told this by the very people who got their asses handed to them in back-to-back elections, and responsed to the complete and cataclysmic failure of their ideology by spending the last two years deserting and betraying their country at the hour of its greatest need.
Instead of pitching in to clean up the mess they made, the Right and their Centrist enablers pitched one hysterical public fit after another. Instead of lending a hand, the Right and their Centrist enablers went headhunting. Instead of sobering up and facing facts, the Right and their Centrist enablers spend the rent money to buy another case of wingnut popskull off the back of Dick Armey's snake oil wagon and drank their last, few remaining shreds of conscience to death.
In short, far from following their own advice, the Losers of 2006 and 2008 dug in like deer tics, filibustered everything in the Universe including legislation they themselves sponsored, emptied out the dregs of the Bedlam to find candidates for public office, and generally spent the last two years lobbing cinder-blocks into traffic.
Weird how nobody on teevee thought to point this out to them.
Not that it would have mattered in the slightest.
Like a dab of wasabi or a squeeze of lemon, the unabashedly intelligent Liberal is occasionally permitted a few refreshing, seconds of "wacky neighbor" time front of the camera, but the people who own your media will never under any circumstances permit that conversation to take place in any serious way.
cont'
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