(Well, it’s Wednesday, so – like clockwork – Sparky Satori must be grumpy about… something.)
Your humble scribe has repeatedly kicked the GOP in the shins over the past few months. Not just because it’s fun to finally kick ‘em when they’re down, but to check for any kind of reflexive knee-jerk reaction. And why not? Knee-jerk reactionary rhetoric was once their stock in trade, but lately seems to have lost all its potency and flavor. Now it’s a matter of checking for a pulse.
The nation might need health care desperately, but the GOP needs it even more. Not that long ago, the GOP was a disciplined party, crafting and cleaving to a central talking-point message with a ruthless, goose-stepping efficiency. Now, the cadaver that was once the GOP is being fed upon by opportunistic vultures, leaving many – yours truly included – to wonder WTF is going on inside the hive-mind that once fancied itself the only recourse for rational self-interested voters.
The current picture ain’t pretty, and grows more grotesque by the day. What would happen if they threw a war party and nobody came? What hope is there for the future of the nation if the last bastion protecting us from Commie-Nazi-Socialist-Islamofascist hordes withers into impotence incurable by even all of Bob Dole’s little blue pills? And with all this talk of a “public option,” what option will the public have as we slide further toward a one-party state?
What indeed?
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