x-posted from SquareState
Finally!
After all the tap dancing they've been doing for, well, forever, the GOP let the booze flow early this Friday, and gave the kiddies the keys to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans website.
One can only assume that this post today was an attempt at humor, using well known Republican C. Montgomery Burns:
Republican Senate hopeful Montgomery Burns today joined with Mayor Joe Quimby, D-Springfield, to support the Senate's gazillion-dollar SCHIP bill.
"If the poor children can get a piece of the action, why can't I?" explained Burns at a MoveOn.org rally in Capital City. "The little darlings are needy? Me, too. I need somebody to pay. Quimby here says he knows a bunch of low-income nobodies who are ripe for the picking. Excellent."
The "funny" conintues below...
"You need this?" wondered the mayor. "Well, why not. I’ve got needs, too. Why, I’ve got 27 paternity suits pending and to quote the Speaker, ‘suffer the little children.’ The Quimby Compound is overflowing with those little sufferers. Vote Quimby."
Inexplicably, the mayor then leaned toward a comely MoveOn organizer and whispered in her ear, "Ah, if anyone asks, you’re my niece from out of town and you don’t get SCHIP."
"But Uncle Joe, I am your niece from out of town, and I do get SCHIP."
"Good Lord, I’m a monster!" exclaimed the mayor.
Mr. Burns shrugged and pressed on with a stirring call to arms: "Truth and fairness, these are the demons we must slay if we wish to save the tykes."
His patience was tested when a ruckus arose from a restive crowd of backdrop-toddlers who’d been rented by MoveOn for the photo-op. "Get these props away from me," Burns hissed.
"Kids? Who needs ‘em? Rahm, release the hounds!" added Quimby with a spreading grin. "Ha, I’ve always wanted to say that, Burns."
The 37 rental children fled and were not seen again, but the arf-arf-arfing of their pursuers could be heard well past sunset.
Paul Krugman nailed in in his Oct 5th column:
Today's leading conservatives are Reagan's heirs. If you're poor, if you don't have health insurance, if you're sick -- well, they don't think it's a serious issue. In fact, they think it's funny.
Isn't that funny! Poor kids being chased by dogs! Hahahahaha! Serves 'em right for not pulling their bootstraps hard enough.
This wasn't Michelle Malking, nor Rush Limbaugh, but the elected leadership of the GOP.
How longer before we learn this was either
a) Disgrunted former employee
or
b) Mistake by an intern.