This is the moment when, in an unbridled fit of rage, Spencer Tracy takes a full-on smack across the chops by a pissed-off Kathryn Hepburn.
"Shut up! Shut up, will you! SHUT UP!"
But by now it's too late. Tomorrow we'll all be quoted by the Oxycontin Cow, and made to look like disorganized, jilted crybabies.
Why do we always do this to ourselves? We find an issue that ignites a fire that no one in their right mind can argue with, like spying on Americans, weapons of mass destruction, Abramoff, weapons of mass destruction, Tom Delay, oh and did I mention ... you know. Plenty of issues that Americans hate them for, and are our prime opportunity to remind them who can change it. And then we get that look in our eye, like Shemp used to get everytime Moe said "Niagra Falls". Then we take a left turn and just fall apart like a 10th grade school play and forget what we were doing. My God, if John Arivosis does one more thread on Chris Matthews instead of his trademark, ass kicking political venom about someone who's actually running for something, I'm gonna THROW UP!
Keeping Samuel Alito away from anything that even looked remotely like a Supreme Court robe was an excellent cause - WHEN IT WAS A CAUSE!!! But you and I both know it was the chess piece we were supposed to give away, because we knew there was no way in hell we could have saved it.
We knew when Mr. Kerry tapped the microphone Friday that no one would be listening by Monday. Still we took our whole dozen eggs and poured it right into the basket, broken shells and all.
Why do we keep doing that?
These are not the Army of God we're up against here! They're moral zeroes! They're empty, phony, carcasses dressed up like humans, splashed with Aqua Velva; hair slicked back with a Ralph Reed sized dallop of Brylcreem. Their faces are painted with that plastic smile without an ounce of real human emotion behind it. And God knows, they don't need anyone's help in proving that everything they do is doomed to utter failure! So why do we let our eyes drift from the prize so easily, when it's pratically handed to us once every three months on a fucking platinum platter!?
This is not going to be our week. It may not be our month, for that matter. Let's just accept that and realize that need to keep our traps shut for a few days, let the Hannities and the Drudges blow their wads while we pump a little iron. If you think this piss ant barroom brawl was a fight, you ain't gonna have it in ya come November. You might as well just call a press conference and say "Osama bin Ladin is a human being with feelings and a soul" on live TV right now, and give them the tape.
Alito was not the end-all be-all. We simply allowed ourselves to be mesmerizing into thinking he was. I know, I know ... lifetime appointment. If he lived until he was 90, that's not even a full chapter of American History when you consider how far we've come, and how far we have to go.
Do us both a favor. Shut up.
Just for a few days.
Before we do anymore damage?