Is there a method to the Republicans’ obstructionist madness? Yes and it is called Dadaism?
If the elders of the party of obstructionist hypocrites (AKA Republican Party) are going to be successful at passing the torch to a new generation what will be their standard of success? If the young generation of hypocritical obstructionists has truly heard the teachings of their party’s elders should the next generation of obstructionists: A. (Apparently) Completely reject the teachings and values of obstructionism? Or: B. Meekly and with a great show of subservience to the elders, accept unquestioningly the tenants and precepts of obstructionism?
If the young obstructionists harass and disrupt the (in relay racing terms) passing of the baton, doesn’t that demonstrate that they have learned their lessons well? On the other hand, if the younger generation of those who embrace political chaos quietly submits to the parental authority of the older obstructionists, wouldn’t that smack (do they know what the term "smack" really means?) of uber-hypocrisy?
Isn’t the allegation that the Republican Party has come to exemplify what it would be like if a national political party embraced Dadaism be denounced by that same party as being absurd and therefore become an irrefutably true premise?
The suggestion that, in this era of awards for everything, Democrats should just give out annual awards for hypocrisy would be refuted by Republicans who would stoutly maintain they don’t need or deserve awards for hypocrisy and that would be the clincher for proving the premise that such awards are long overdue in the contemporary American culture.
Is it hypocritical to accept with effusive praise a hypocrites award you don’t think you deserve or would it be more appropriate to refuse the award and denounce the ceremony?
The Republican strategists delight in putting their political opponents in a lose-lose binary choice situation and therefore if the Democrats turned the tables and put the Obstructionists in a similar box canyon ambush, it would vindicate the Republican philosophy of cutthroat tactics and therefore Democrats giving Republicans awards for hypocrisy would be something to be admired as an outstanding example of bipartisanship.
Rather (Hi, Dan!) than giving awards for hypocrisy that wouldn’t be appreciated, the Democrats should immediately implement an annual attempt to bestow Dadaism awards and give them out (Daddy, what does " in exstentia really mean?) to folks who think that both houses of Congress are meant to be a practice batting cage for Surrealists.
Do members of the Teabagging Movement have a jaw dropping moment when they learn the hippster’s definition of tea bagging?
Decorum? You want decorum? Republicans know that you can’t handle decorum, so they have embraced the Brown shirts philosophy of "My way or anarchy!" The jolly swag men on K Street call it "Chaos for fun and profit."
The Republican Party reaction to Horton the elephant would be to burn the tree down.
On showdown weekend, the Republicans made a Dadaist dinner look tame in comparison.
What do the John Birch Society and Teabaggers have in common? Things go better with money from the Koch family?
The Republican Party is to civilized debate what Kid Shelleen (Lee Marin) in "Cat Ballou" was to justice.
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." Thus a war that was to cost "80 billion max," which has so far had a cost overrun of $920,000,000,000.31, is of no concern when there is a chance to scare the voters with the allegation that a health care bill might be an example of fiscal irresponsibility.
Now the disk jockey will play "Mares Eat Oats," "Hotel California," and the Kingsmen’s recording of "Louie, Louie." We have to go find some surrealists to help us change a light bulb. Have a "food fight in the space station" type week.