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Peggy Noonan writes that the Republican Party, which gave George W. Bush everything that he ever wanted, is in shambles, a "ruined brand" and mini-Godlstein pipes up in his squeaky little voice:
I’m terribly sorry to break this to Peggy, but about the only part of the Republican Party that has operated with any effect during the past 6 years is the Presidency. What remains of the Republican Congress that was thrown over in 2006 may find it convenient to blame the President–just as Peggy has–but has nobody to blame but itself, for being a pork-ridden, craven, lard-assed bunch of ninnyhammers.
Undoubtedly, history will show that the Bush Administration commited many errors. At the same time, I think it will go down in history as, if not a Golden Era, then a Silver one of shining honesty with respect to how it presented its policies, despite the continuous abuse of partisan hacks and morons. You don’t think so? Well, I hope to live long enough to see the Bush Papers compared with those of his predecessors. These people should be afraid of the vicious backbiting beast that they have unleashed, but they haven’t the sense.
So, pardon my language, but f*ck you, Peggy, and f*ck the Republican Party. For some of us, it never was about the standard, but about what it was supposed to represent. You want us to mourn a party whose leaders have given naught but lip-service to its express principles for all these years? Even Superhero Zombie Reagan couldn’t help you now.
God. I love the smell of cannibalism in the morning…
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That boy ain’t right. Slapped himself too many times, I expect.
Pardon my ignorance, but who is “mini-Godlstein”?
Great comment, BTW.
Is it supposed to be my fault? They lied to me as a ‘Mercan and I sucked it up in bigoted, jingoistic fervor.
Oh sure, now the place stinks like shit.
Oooooooh, I am eagerly anticipating the Republican Party turning itself into one big scene from “Scarface:”
“Fuck you, Tony!”
“No, fuck you!”
“No, fuck you!”
“Fuuuck! Yoooou!“
Schadenfreude!
Lord, that was fun. It’s even better if you actually read it in a squeaky voice. But, what the Hell is a ninnyhammer?
I have trouble remembering the mockery nicknames too – it’s either the “playdough and bacon” guy or the “dick slapping” guy, don’t remember which.
I have no doubt this clears up questions anyone unfamiliar with the ins and outs of the snarkiverse might have on the subject.
Yahooed it myself. I learn so much from the wingnutosphere.
This is snark, right? I mean, no one could come anywhere close to being this fucking stupid. Could they?
A “Silver Era” … ? For whom, the top one-half of one percent? Terrorists? Defense contractors? Torturers?
Who the fuck else is better off now than they were in 2000, because that list is pretty much the only ones I can think of right now.
Idiot.
(And who the hell wrote that, anyway? You givey no linky.)
There are reports of “some senior Republicans urging Congressional candidates to distance themselves from President Bush to head off what could be heavy losses in the fall.” At last, some Republicans (senior ones at that!) have found common ground with some Democrats. Too bad the common ground they occupy is Mistaken Place.
Bush is the current (or maybe, already, the last) figurehead of a politically and morally bankrupt Republican party, one that in its actions, bears no resemblance to the Republican party that some decent and well meaning people once had, forty or fifty years ago. In Bush43, the GOP sees its reflection.
The problem for GOP leadership isn’t that moral political leadership is nearly impossible to execute. It’s that it’s just not profitable. When you believe that the purpose of a philosophy of government is to answer the question “How can my friends and I become, and remain, wealthier and wealthier?”, you must entertain a different kind of political calculus as you confer with marketing guys after only your first comeuppance in a long time. That calculus isn’t “What does America and her people need?”
Mistaken Place: Bounded by thinking the problem is getting or keeping one person or another out of office, when the real problem is how to keep a corrupted political party from exercising its will and influence on our trusting citizenry and a world still subject to our nation’s might.
Mistaken Place: Bounded by the idea that a selfish and acquisitive party’s candidates can be somehow packaged and “sold” as if they will further the well being of the nation, simply by changing the “Bush” label.
Republican political ideology (a phrase which grants more cohesion and coherence than that “ideology” displays, nowdays) is the corrupted and breached hull of a deservedly sinking ship. Bush is just a figurehead. Those Republican “leaders” can’t save themselves by running to the far end of the same foundering vessel.
Used teh Google – mini Godlstein happens to be Dan Collins from Protein Wisdom.
Click on the linkie for the article so Tbogg doesn’t have to.
I hope to live long enough to see the Bush Papers compared with those of his predecessors.
Well, Sport, that’s gonna be a problem for you, since everyone claims they can’t find the Bush papers that matter. All those lost e-mails and logs — they’re probably the ones that would’ve made your boy look good. You betcha.
Had to share this while looking at the comments just to see teh stupid.
Comedy gold from a commenter fittingly called “Education guy”:
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Comment by Education Guy on 5/16 @ 7:05 am #
[snip - mindless paranoid blather about the Bush Papers and the liberals attacking his legacy or something]
I agree, somewhat. He was reelected after Katrina. The important point here is that the perception is laid down by the ones with the means and the power to do so. While this perception does not replace actual reality, it has the same end effect. Bush’s reaction to Katrina did lack the personal feel that the images of Johnson in New Orleans had, and the people interested in nurturing that image of cavalier detachment (Bush hates teh blacks!) ran with it to great effect. Nagen [sic] was re-elected, Bush was crucified despite the fact that the responsibility for the people of that city fell more on Nagen’s shoulders than Bush’s.
Just gotta love that “personal responsibility” and “ownership society” we’ve created…
Yes, implosion is a beautiful thing. They can all hear each other coming. Kill the pig! Kill the pig!
“Undoubtedly, history will show that the Bush Administration commited many errors. At the same time, I think it will go down in history as, if not a Golden Era, then a Silver one of shining honesty with respect to how it presented its policies, despite the continuous abuse of partisan hacks and morons.”
Cognitive dissonance at its finest…apparenty, denial is NOT just a river in Egypt. See you in November, GOOPERs, enjoy the ride!! And don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya…
I hope to live long enough to see the Bush Papers compared with those of his predecessors.
But his predececessors’ papers weren’t used to protect the rug in the Oval Office.
Remember this golden oldie:
Hinderaker on Bush: A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.
These folks are neither Republicans nor conservatives. They are a cult.
What a Clown.
The comments are just nugget after nugget of comedy gold. For a bunch of people who believe in free market economics, where everything should be dictated by results, they are quite quick to disregard the results of Bush’s policies when they conflict with their wet conservative dreams.
Wingnut challenge! Which is more delusional?!?
“Undoubtedly, history will show that the Bush Administration commited many errors. At the same time, I think it will go down in history as, if not a Golden Era, then a Silver one of shining honesty with respect to how it presented its policies, despite the continuous abuse of partisan hacks and morons.”
OR
“A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another.”
teh stupid – it burns!
Peggy Noonan does represent the old New England/Wall Street GOP of the past. Mini-Godlstein represents the Cult of Bush.
I’m teaching about Fascism as an ideology to my freshman (not advocating, mind you), and we talked today about the Big Lie and the effects of propaganda and the Cult of the Leader. I showed them Kevin James immortal bitch slapping on Hardball last night, but I might as well have given them this article…
Every time I think about Commander Codpiece addressing the GOP convention in a few months–and you know they have to let him, or else publicly admit that he has destroyed The Party–I laugh and laugh.
Good luck with that whole “distancing” thing, boys and girls.
Shit — Did I sleep through a prezidentin’ election in 2006? Or was it in 2005? This putz doesn’t even know that Katrina was in 2005…
I don’t think he’ll come to the convention. I think he’ll get strep or something and not show up. Maybe only a video appearance and not even live. He’s grows more toxic with every passing day.
Remember the TANG?
ninnyhammer (n)– completely useless “insult” coined by batshit-lunatic-ultra-right-wing-of-the-GOP bleating klaxon mini-Godlstein in a desperate effort to throw the merely lunatic-ultra-right-wing-of-the-GOP screeching harpy Reaganoonan under the bus by equating she and her ilk with an effiminate word somehow combined with a hammer.
Superhero Zombie Reagan cannot help a ninnyhammer under any circumstances.
Shorter mini-Godlstein:
A bag of ninnyhammers is WAY stupider than your average bag of hammers.