Garrison Keillor on the upcoming election

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brown shirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, N.M., little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous.

Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires!
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Poetic and alarming. All mourn the death of the republican and prepare to do battle with the pod party.

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Post #174,302 by tuberculosis 9/14/04 6:33:32 PM 8/21/07 6:37:58 AM Reply	Garrison Keillor on the upcoming election The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brown shirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, N.M., little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb and dangerous. Rich ironies abound! Lies pop up like toadstools in the forest! Wild swine crowd round the public trough! Outrageous gerrymandering! Pocket lining on a massive scale! Paid lobbyists sit in committee rooms and write legislation to alleviate the suffering of billionaires! ------ Poetic and alarming. All mourn the death of the republican and prepare to do battle with the pod party. [link\|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/190090_garrison12.html\|http://seattlepi.nws...0_garrison12.html] That was lovely cheese. --Wallace, The Wrong Trousers Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:37:58 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #174,303 by jb4 9/14/04 6:51:35 PM Reply	The LRPDs in just Todd's excerpt abound There are, of course, more in the rest of the article. It is left to the reader to enumerate these for posterity (whatever is left of it). jb4 shrub\ufffdbish (Am., from shrub* + rubbish, after the derisive name for America's 43 president; 2003) n. 1. a form of nonsensical political doubletalk wherein the speaker attempts to defend the indefensible by lying, obfuscation, or otherwise misstating the facts; GIBBERISH. 2. any of a collection of utterances from America's putative 43rd president. cf.* BULLSHIT
Post #174,307 by Ashton 9/14/04 7:07:56 PM Reply	Threat Color of the day: matte Ultramarine Language murder - no longer deemed even an infraction, post-Watergate. A major language Ronniegated, Newtered and finally bRoveiated. We might survive the charnel house of the Neoconman biddies, had we just a few accurate words left - nouns, verbs and a few adjectives. But now most nouns have been verbed: not much chance of piercing the sanctimonious smog of the tape-loop meeja. But we gots to Try. "First they came for the verbs and I said nothing, for verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns and I speech nothing, for I no verbs." - Peter Ellis

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