A few years ago, our sitting vice president and heart attack man Dick Cheney used the words "last throes" to decribe the supposed terrorist cadre that was killing our soldiers in Iraq. The phrase, in that context, turned out to be the delusion of a group of men so convinced of the righteousness of their deeds that they still have not admitted their fault to this very day.
Today I'd like to invoke that phrase to describe the utter chaos that has engulfed the Republican Party.
That's right - its elected officials, its pundits, and the extremist supporters who invoke racism and hatred with their every word and action in support of those officials - are in their last throes.
I remarked in an earlier diary that these people were domestic terrorists. That indeed is still true, and some actions to enforce that label may still come to fruition. However there are much more telling signs since, signs of chaos and desperation and confusion, to show that their end is indeed near.
They may flail and shout and toss labels of anti-Americanism and of a real America, and even blacken their eyes and carve themselves, all the while trying desperately to use the tired old arguments that have worked for their ilk in the past. Their attempts to scare will not work anymore, for they are the people who cried wolf. We now know that the wolf they cry about is themselves. And we've got the shotgun.
So let them come and do and say as they please. For when the Republican Party falls to its last throes in America, no one will care enough to hear it hit the ground. We've got more important things to do, like fix the country.