Style & presentation: A rich, almost glowing, shit-brown.

Okay, that National Review picture is just pure sacrilege. It actually makes me furious looking at it. That man is out to destroy everything that was created for the general welfare and that has been good and true to that promise. Selfish asshole punk.

That man does not know how to use a cigarette holder. Why is Ryan’s mouth at least slightly open in every picture of him I see?

Give em enough time and the National Review will have Sarah Palin or MIchelle Bachmann or the next Repug spokesmodel on their cover as Jane Fonda in Hanoi sitting on an anti-aircraft gun and it will be meant as a “positive” image appropriation.

Man, this is almost insulting. It’d be like dressing Sarah Palin up as Susan B. Anthony to talk about women’s rights. It’s like the corporate raiders are just thumbing their noses at this point-”Our little pet here is going to destroy everything you hold dear, but we’re going to dress him up as your hero to remind you how much we’ve destroyed already.”

That’s the National Review’s idea of cute ironic imagery. Upcoming covers will include Michael Vick as St Francis of Assisi and Tony Hayward as Jacques Cousteau.

Ryan’s NewThink Tank deal slash fic.

Non-Bizarro translation.

That National Review cover pic seems to be from the Mirror Universe where Spock has a goatee and is evil. In that world, FDR said, “The only think we have to fear is ME, and my monstrous minions of evil who hate the poor and elderly.”

I woke myself up this morning, realising that the Republican willingness to throw away their parents and grandparents is exactly analogous to their willingness to throw out the disabled, mentally ill, physically ill, wounded soldiers – everyone who in any way might be less than able to serve them. It’s vile. Despicable. And guess what else?

It’s un-American.

So, bub, are ya bored?
Wanna read something stupid?
National Review.

At first glance, very first glance, mind you, before I picked up on the FDR reference (I need some coffee), I saw that as a depiction of Ryan as the quintessential robber-baron fat cat. Like in the old Thomas Nast cartoons.

Upcoming covers will include Michael Vick as St Francis of Assisi and Tony Hayward as Jacques Cousteau.

I laughed. Grimly.

Typo in that title…it’s supposed to read, Paul Ryan’s RAW Deal.

After watching these townhalls descend into a political version of Scared Straight, I believe a closed door meeting between the congressional republicans and Paul the Impaler is imminent. I imagine it will go something like this;

“Mr. Ryan, we would like to thank you for all the great work you’ve done. Now we have a new assignment. Apparently, gold has been discovered in Antarctica. If you could go check it out, that would be great. This assignment will run to, say, December 2012. We’ll talk to you then. Good Luck!”

I love to find the “artiste” that painted Photoshopped that portrait.

Then all I would need is a brick and a dark alley…

Wait, you mean he isn’t supposed to look the Batman villain The Penguin?

The NRO chorus: “Crappy Days are Here Again…!”

The biggest irony is that the current wingnut love for austerity policies are just a rehash of the policies of Herbert Hoover.

I can’t remember the last Great White ‘Heterosexual’ Male Hope that was going to save America for the repugs because that had to be, oh, twelve months ago.

I bet he had his portrait on the cover of National Review at the time…

Totally off-topic but relevant:

Nicole Sandler, who has an internet radio show and frequently subs for Randi Rhodes, was arrested yesterday evening at a town meeting held by odious crazy congressperson Allan West in Southern Florida for asking a question.

Am waiting to see if she is on this afternoon to recount what happened.

It kind of reminds me of the old National Lampoon.

We have to struggle with the old enemies of the oligarchy: unions and consumer groups, feminists, icky gay people, old fogies dependent on Medicare and Social Security, poor people dependent on Medicaid, liberals, war protestors, somewhat popular bloggers.

They have begun to forget that the Government of the United States is a mere appendage to rich people’s affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just peachy, and we’ve got the organized Tea Party mobs to prove it.

Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me – and I welcome their hatred.

-Bizarro FDR

Jesus Christ! It seems like only yesterday the Right was claiming Martin Luther King for themselves and bowdlerizing his connection to the labor movement. Now they’re trying to re-write FDR as a wet-behind-the-ears snot bag who lived on government largesse as a child but saw the light and devoted himself to euthanizing the disposable classes when he grew up.

Between this shit and Jonah Goldberg turning Hitler’s Kristalnacht into a Burning Man event run by vegans and Noam Chomsky, I fully expect to wake up one day inside the Large Hadron Collider.

These fuckers keep it up, I just might live long enough to see the revolution. Oh, boy, oh, boy, oh, boy!

I saw that as a depiction of Ryan as the quintessential robber-baron fat cat

For whatever reason I thought of this.

I love the positioning of Paul Ryan in this photo: looking upwards, at his Corporate owners, seeing if he gets the imitation just right, while wondering if he needs to get down & start sucking corporate dick RIGHT NOW. The confusion on his face is palpable.

That and the artist accurately captured the entire message of Paul – a brown, lumpy, pile of shit. There’s no THERE there.

Thanks for that because my 89-year-old mother, who’s slightly to the left of Che Guavara, God love her, is always saying, after listening to some right-wing blowhard, “Come the Revolution, you idiot!!”

She just left the retirement home to go back to a real house because if she heard one more old fogey tell her to watch Bill O’Reilly she was going to lose her mind. Somebody handed her a book by Glenn Beck to read, and I suppose worship; she returned it after reading the intro with a nice little note putting him in his place, as in “Are you insane??” Loved it.

So take heart my friends, there are a lot of geezers and geezettes (and I’m getting close myself) who will not, under any circumstances fall for the Ryan Ruin.

OOPs, meant Creature at 22. But I’ll take anything you Boggers have to say.

I love your mother!

I fear mine (age 92) is more like the old fogeys she’s escaping. But she wasn’t always this crazy…I’ve seen the daily assault of direct media peddling this bullshit that she gets, and fear that explains a lot. And my dad’s no longer around to call bull____. (Not that he was a liberal, but he was logical. He was an old-fashioned Republican, not the modern batshit-crazy kind)

My most-senior aunt would be right there with us. She isn’t a conservative, or even ‘centrist’. I suspect my mother would be,m too, except that she’s dead.

You know, Ryan isn’t nearly as good-looking as FDR was. Not as smart, either.

Ryan = FDR?? IYFD, NR

Thanks for the kind word about Mom. She’s fiesty.

Mom moved out of the very nice and expensive retirement place today, actually. She’s in a house with on a street with real houses and can’t wait to start cleaning and cooking for herself. Except for poor hearing, caused, by the way, from anti-biotics by the ton after contracting e-coli (she actually doesn’t want to get rid of the FDA and wish they had caught that hamburger before she ate it), I can’t keep up with her.

The Fox News brainworm infecting those around her in the ‘village’ was just too much to bear. Not enough anti-biotics in the world to kill that invader.

If you don’t look too hard at the picture, as I initially did, you’d think it was some weird racist propaganda: “The National Jew[: gangsters, swindlers, posers].”

But now that I know it’s supposed to be Paul Ryan, I really don’t get it. Who exactly are they trying to insult?