Guess what, America? You're up shee-yit crick widdout a paddle! Yee-haw!
King George III was a crazy English king who went batshit and scared the hell out of everyone. One day he suddenly regained his senses, and things calmed down. Would that we could be so lucky, but when our President claims he can break any law simply because he's president, we've entered a truly frightening phase of history that, if we survive it, will serve to warn and enrage true patriots for generations to come.
(If you voted for this prick last year, you are so off my holiday list. I'll kick over your Nativity scene and pee in your egg nog. So watch out. Seriously.)
Over at the Huffington Post, Pulitzer prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley has been posting some lengthy, insightful essays. She's bringing a leftist intellect to bear on the big-picture implications of today's Republican rule, and where it's taking our nation. Well-worth your time:
The only reason the Bushies are called “conservative”, as many conservatives will themselves tell you, is that the theorists of Bushism managed to graft themselves onto the Republican Party in the 1970s and 80s, when the Republican party was the party of disgruntled racists, fundamentalists, workers, and farmers left behind by Civil Rights, feminism, the sexual revolution, the end of the manufacturing sector, and the abandonment of a rural way of life. Many of the neo-cons are former leftist student radicals because when they were student radicals, power was what they wanted. They needed to be converted from one ideology (Marxism) to another (capitalism), but the essential goal--gaining power--remained the same.
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