On and On
Yes I will get a Vine/Wine Friday up soon. I am in the middle of another proposal and they are all consuming. But the news the last couple of days has also been just too rich. After eight years of the Bush nightmare and the disappointment I felt when at least 51% thought he was doing a great job in 2004, the chickens are coming home to roast. What is really fun is watching the rats deserting the Republican ship of Bush. The rats would be the people who voted for those fruit loops and now refuse to accept their responsibility with what has been wrought. And what is most enjoyable is watching people start to realize what the 49% of us got (actually 51% but the conservatives on the Supreme Court stopped the vote) way back in 2000. These people were fruitcakes and incompetent morons and now it is out there for all to see. I am in memo heaven.
First there are the tortured (no pun intended) legal memos using circular and illogical rationalization to justify the unjustifiable. Then there were more memos that told us they were looking to torture before they had their first prisoner. Now we are finding out, well some of us have known this for years, that they then went hunting for torture tactics and the professionals in the SERE training told them the stuff they wanted was torture and that it was ineffective because it would illicit anything they wanted to hear, and finally it was not appropriate for intelligence gathering. But here is the crux of the whole Republican experience: THEY ONLY LOOK FOR WHAT THEY THINK THEY ALREADY KNOW!
Oh god, I love this. It is raining crap all around them and they are still in denial. There were weapons of mass destruction and they would ignore anything but that answer. So what if we are in a war without end in the armpit of the world? Okay, maybe there weren’t weapons of mass destruction, but then there was a beachhead for democracy in the Muslim world. Did you see the protest of Afghan women who don’t think its okay to be owned and raped by their husbands? Don’t you just love beachheads of democracy? Oh let’s not forget cutting taxes and low regulation. Our ship of economic prosperity has run aground on the rocks of reality and what do we hear? Clinton and the Democrats did this to us! The Democrats have been the most emasculated bunch of wimps for the last 12 years and could not manage one orchestrated filibuster to the Republican madness and now they are responsible for all this grief?
But the fog is lifting. John Boehner and Michelle Bachmann have both denied global warming and use the argument that carbon dioxide is natural and could therefore not be harmful. Okay I will give that John thinks cows fart carbon dioxide, but still the point was made that natural equals good even if it is methane. Arsenic and mercury are naturally occurring and they are deadly. On did I mention the plague and malaria? Those would be God’s gifts to us as other natural phenomenon. Aren’t you people out there thoroughly embarrassed that you elected these fruitcakes?
So what are the Republicans reduced to? Well we can’t possibly be civil to world leaders we don’t agree with and need to wag our…, well you know what I mean, at them to prove our manhood. Conservatives are shocked, shocked, shocked I tell you that the FDA is letting 17-year-olds get the morning after pill without a prescription. How could government allow this? Aren’t these the same people who argue that government should stay out of our lives? They also argue that we are all entitled to a family assault weapon. Now I can almost see this considering my vineyard gopher problem, but I will just stick with my rocket launcher. The good news is that I may be able to acquire a tactical nuke soon from Pakistan after we have invested billions in those folks to fight the Taliban to no avail. Aren’t things turning out swimmingly?
So as the sun sets on a Friday night, I have my wine glass firmly clutched in my hand, and the Republican myth dies a slow and agonizing death, I cannot help smiling. As one of my favorite professors in college used to say about an elegant equation, it is a beautiful thing, but Mother Nature is a bitch and reality sooner or later seeps in and then things get messy. So Republicans, know what I know: Life is messy, there are no simple answers, and change is the nature of the beast. But there is the one thing I know that is a constant and that is good wine. I have an absolutely exquisite Syrah from the foothills as I write this. It never lets me down. You conservative Republicans (are there any other kind any more?) ought to try it. I know your world is crumbling around you, but you need to chill out. We will all be better for it, your world crumbling that is. Carpe Diem.