October 02, 2006

The GOP Can Bite Me

Just last week, I was thinking how it'd been awhile since the GOP had fucked up anything really seriously.

I suppose I was hoping they'd come to their collective senses. I was thinking perhaps they didn't deserve to get wiped out in November.

Now, we find out about this disgusting freak Mark Foley. Now, any group has a few bad apples, but from what I'm seeing so far, Foley's lecherous behavior had been an "open secret" in the Capitol for some time. Anyone in authority who looked the other way on this one deserves to lose his or her position. I'm 100% with Michelle on this one. I really don't care if Foley's emails were doctored and "sexed up" after the fact. I don't care if the Dems have done the same thing in the past. As unfortunate as these facts may be, they take nothing whatsoever from the culpability of Mark Foley and any in the GOP leadership who were aware of his bullshit. Heads should roll, and they should roll now.

Now, on top of this Foley debacle, we have Bill Frist openly advocating bringing the Taliban back into the Afghani government. Dr. Rusty already said everything I have to say on Frist and the Taliban. And on Rumsfeld and Bush, for that matter.

No one knows whether the GOP will retain control of the House and Senate in November, but if they lose, I won't be shedding a single fucking tear for them. For the nation, perhaps, but not for them. Yes, the Dems would almost certainly take over and build a bizarre, fucked-up circus of inanity in a space that once housed honorable assemblies of reasoned statesmen. Yes, the Dems would almost certainly create a royal mess of things as they retake and clumsily grasp the slippery reins of power. And, yes they will almost certainly spend the next two years disproving the already dubious notion that they couldn't be worse than the Republicans.

Even if all that comes to pass, and the rest of us are forced to stand by and watch as perhaps an entire branch of the government of the last, best hope for mankind descends into a fit of complete and total lunacy for a season, I will at least find solace in the fact that I wasn't complicit in it.

On top of that, the jokes will pretty much write themselves.