Garrison Speaks...I Listen

In case you haven't read it, Garrison Keillor has a book out titled "Homegrown Democrat".  There's an article excerpt here.  Here's a teaser:

In the years between Nixon and Newt Gingrich, the party migrated southward down the Twisting Trail of Rhetoric and sneered at the idea of public service and became the Scourge of Liberalism, the Great Crusade Against the Sixties, the Death Star of Government, a gang of pirates that diverted and fascinated the media by their sheer chutzpah, such as the misty-eyed flag-waving of Ronald Reagan who, while George McGovern flew bombers in World War II, took a pass and made training films in Long Beach. The Nixon moderate vanished like the passenger pigeon, purged by a legion of angry white men who rose to power on pure punk politics. "Bipartisanship is another term of date rape," says Grover Norquist, the Sid Vicious of the GOP. "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." The boy has Oedipal problems and government is his daddy.

Read the whole thing...or better yet, buy the book.

I kinda miss the old Republicans....

•  Remember Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-OR)?

  Now there was a Republican you could admire, or at least not despise -- his late-career sex scandal notwithstanding.

  by scorponic on Thu Aug 26, 2004 at 03:17:23 PM PDT