Ordinarily, you probably wouldn’t read a George Will column in the Washington Post unless you were stuck in a bathroom with nothing else to read, but you’ve just got to make an exception today. It’s hilarious, and in a good way.
Here’s how it starts. . .
Before evolution produced creatures of our perfection, there was a three-ton dinosaur, the stegosaurus, so neurologically sluggish that when its tail was injured, significant time elapsed before news of the trauma meandered up its long spine to its walnut-size brain. This primitive beast, not the dignified elephant, should be the symbol of House Republicans.
Yes, one should not taint all of them because of the behavior of most of them.
Except for a couple of zingers at “liberals,” it just gets better, including this:
House Republicans, perhaps emboldened by the examples of Afghanistan and Iraq, are going to risk elections.
Enjoy: LINK: WaPo.
(Please do not recommend this diary. Enjoy and then let it slide. Thanks.)
I wouldn’t have read the WaPo link of George Will’s column, but I was stuck in the bathroom with my laptop.
It’s really satisfying to see him finally coming around, despite the swipe at liberals. At least liberal spending is aimed at helping those at the fringes of society…Repub spending is all to line their pockets, and then the accuse the Dems of blowing the budget. Sheesh.
“I was stuck in the bathroom with my laptop.”
lol!
There’s no snark so satisfying as Republican snark directed at their own side.
Dinopublicans everywhere, embrace the stegosaurus!
You have nothing to lose but your mammalian brain!
Hey, the new Dinopublican theme song: “Walk Like a Dinosaur.”
Giving them the benefit of the doubt that they have brains. 😉
We must be kind to our fine lizard-skinned friends. That stegosaurus may be somebody’s mooottthhher.
I thought this was a nice juicy line:
However, the final paragraph of the piece puts an end to our fun – watch what Will does here. He shows how the Republicans are planning to defuse these scandals and survive them to retain control of the House:
If the framing of the argument is changed from corruption to pork, the waters will be muddied, and not necessarily to our benefit.
That is a very good point. I read that and saw how he was offering them a way out of trouble, but I didn’t catch the clever shift from corruption to pork. That would give them a chance to trumpet, “We’ve cleaned up our act,” and distract voters from the deeper corruption.
I saw those same factors and have mentioned something similar to this before. If DeLay Inc is taken out and the waters muddied as all the rest being equal, then the Dems will have no benefit from this. If DeLay Inc is taken out along with many other non-Inc but established porkers, and if there’s no Dem change, then a new breed of Reps who are relatively unknown could steal the thunder from the Dems. The undecided would listen to a new voice of either party before listening to a career Dem calling the kettle black. Traditional Conservatives would eagerly embrace a new voice of old tradition before trusting long time oppositional party candidates.
The Democrats have to present a new voice, based on long held ideals to take advantage of this.