Mr. Kos has hit the nail on the head with his post this morning that takes Republicans to task for our blind, unswerving, automatonic support for Karl Rove and The Evil One.
Reading his diatribe this morning, I almost wanted to weep. He has captured what I and most Republicans are. He has unmasked our conspiracy. He has described us to a tee:
But to modern-day Republicans and their apologists, they can do no wrong. No Republican’s action is worthy of scorn or censure. They are perfect. Flawless. Immune to error. Godlike.
Yep…that’s me all over. Although, my waistline could use a little work…But other than that, yep I’m immune and flawless. And “Godlike”...I like the sound of that. Come to think of it, I feel a little Godlike this morning. And because I feel Godlike, I proclaim Kos an apostate and a defiler of young boys who should be struck down and laid low by my omnipotent powers! Begone, I say!
How someone could be reduced to that level is beyond me. Republicans have now sent notice that they place allegiance to party and power above their allegiance to the United States of America. To them, the elephant flies above the Stars and Stripes
Well…he’s got the right idea but I sure hope he was speaking figuratively. After all, considering how big an elephant is, I think it would have a helluva time balancing on top of a flagpole above the stars and stripes. Maybe he means a pygmy elephant. And as far as flying, well I saw an elephant flying once but that was down in Tijuana back in the 70’s when my friends and I dropped a little blotter and drank tequila for three days straight.
It is quite instructive and shocking, even with this administration, that the outing of a CIA agent, her front company, and god knows how many other agents and operations, is met with a collective shrug from wingnut circles. While a blow job gave them the vapors, a genuine breach of national security gives them no pause, gives them no reason to abandon “the architect”. Political power trumps everything—even the safety of our nation.
Actually, this sounds pretty serious. Good thing its not true. Especially the part where liberals care one whit about “outing a front company” or other agents and operations from an agency that they’ve spent the last 50 years trying to destroy. Maybe if they hadn’t cheered when Philip Agee outed those agents back in the 1970’s and made him a hero their protestations would have a ring of truth. And I have to say that a blow job has never given me vapors although in my current Godlike state, I’d like to give it a shot.
The Democratic majorities were undone in large part to the endemic corruption that afflicted the long-entrenched Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. It’s the curse of any party that rules for too long, the insidious creep of hubris, corruption, and sense of entitlement which we, as a species, can’t seem to avoid.
The GOP is now facing those very same pressures, and exposing that corruption and hubris in spectacular fashion to the American public. A party that believes it holds a “permanent majority” is under no pressure to behave ethically and work for the common good above all else. Their missteps have been big. Their crimes increasingly brazen.
Just one question…When talking about “insidious creep” is he talking about me? Or himself? Other than that, yes I have a sense of entitlement. We Republicans wish to rule the world and would like nothing better if you liberals just all went away to some re-education camp where you could be indoctrinated with Christianity and love of Bush. The one at Gitmo is almost ready although the camp at Abu Ghraib is gonna need some more work.
And our permanent majority will become a reality when the smoking bodies of our political opponents lie crushed and unrecognizable on the battlements of democracy.
Yes…I feel Godlike this morning. It’s great to wake up and see that once again, you political opponents have made absolute fools of themselves.
8:44 am
I’m lmao imagining an elephant on a flagpole!
9:45 am
Joe Wilson uses the auspices of the CIA and Vice President to make frivolous claims against the Bush Administration, claims that were not the consensus view of the CIA, should not be questioned? John Bolton is considered dangerous because he followed the consensus line? Ambassador Wilson can say anything he wants, but Bolton beholds the language of the government must be rejected. Kos misses the real issue, the politicalization of the CIA is the real enemy of our national security, the people that allowed Wilson to publicly speak on behalf of the agency are the real traitors.
12:04 pm
I’m Godlike too. Quite frankly I’ve been frustrated. No matter how I try, the message just will not penetrate mortal skulls. Until now. I can’t begin to tell you what it means to finally win the recognition I’ve always deserved. But one thing troubles me. What act of homage should we require of the mortals?
Prostration at our feet, while certainly appropriate might not be workable. With the Republican party growing as it has, the thousands of mortals constantly flopping over on their faces would simply bring the ecomomy to a halt and the country to its knees. Ah! I’ve just answered my own question. A simple genuflection ought to do it. What do you think?
12:17 pm
GOP Godlike? This is news? C’mon, Rick.
Um, Rove-GATE? (sorry Rick) I thought that story was over on Friday when the NYT finally declared Rove innocent of any alleged name leak. Did they publish a correction?
Heck, Dean was giving Osama Bin Laden the benefit of the doubt in 2004, but early this year he was calling Tom Delay a criminal without a trial or even an indictment. A similar treatment is due Rove, I suppose—since he is, after all, Godlike.
Yup, I love the smell of beached liberals burning in the morning.
12:38 pm
How about we just get over Rove and worry about the terrorist that want us all dead. If Rove committed a crime get him out. Let the CIA, GOP, and the Liberals and all the morons in the media go back to work and quit worrying about this BULLSHIT!
12:53 pm
I am feeling a bit Goddess-like today…
POOOFF!
“SCREW-EM” KOS, you are now only a trailing bit of vapor…
Now, let me go see!
12:53 pm
Minor roundup
So yet another anti-Bush jihad has seemingly flamed out, the latest of the Patriotic Left’s painstakingly contrived calumnies having bitten the dust in a most embarrassing fashion (this one being THE! BIGGEST! SCANDAL! EVARR! right up till the point w…
1:07 pm
better G*d than Allah – one doesn’t want you to kill yourself or others for Him.
better G*d than Gaia – have you smelled them lately?
1:07 pm
I didn’t see Kos ranting when the NY Times out a CIA operation and put real lives at risk exposing anyone who had anything to do with moving terrorist prisoners around the world to attack and exposure. But he will do anything to protect an admitted liar who was try to undermine the government. Must be great to be godlike and fly above the flag as a jackass.
1:24 pm
> To them, the elephant flies above the Stars and Stripes
Clearly, this is far more along the lines of something the ass does—after all, we all know what happens, sooner or later, and it isn’t people on the Right who consider it de rigueur to defecate on the flag…
1:26 pm
> Especially the part where liberals care one whit about “outing a front company†or other agents and operations from an agency that they’ve spent the last 50 years trying to destroy.
You missed noting the fact that they just recently outed the CIA front companies which handled airline duties for the CIA, its agents, and operations, amidst much mutual backpatting for their efforts.
2:47 pm
Kos has issues with being omnipotent challenged – it started when his mom started ignoring him somewhere in the middle of his “terrible two’s”.
2:49 pm
Republicans: Godlike, or just pretending, like the Goa’uld?
Silly, silly Kos. Maybe he means this sort of ‘Godlike’. Anyone seen Rove’s eyes glow? Checked Bush for the presence of Naquadah? And are the rumors that Ari Fleischer quit because he was pissed about covering up his forhead tattoo…
3:10 pm
Congrats, you Godlike Blogging Genusrrrrr Geneiousrrrrr Geneyussrrrr^r really smart guy.
4:08 pm
I’ve taken to calling the whole kerfluffle “Nothingburgergate”
4:54 pm
What a tantrum? Give that man(kos) a pacifier! He must be teething.
5:16 pm
Kos and kompany have serious mental problems. They project the faults of themselves and their party onto Republicans.
5:57 pm
“Although, my waistline could use a little work”
Was not Buddha godlike? Didn’t he have the perfect waistline? Wasn’t he a white, Christian republican?
It’s all coming together now!
6:19 pm
I read a piece recently (don’t remember where) that laid the blame on Wilson himself and Corn of The Nation.
7:24 pm
What made us Godlike and immune to error was four decades of incessant and asymmetrical liberal media scrutiny.
8:00 pm
How easily Kos forgets the GOP’s removal of Trent Lott as Senate Majority Leader once said leader began praising Strom Thurmond too enthusiastically. Kos also…ahem…forgets…the considerable push exerted by the rightermost side of the blogosphere in the Trent Lott case.
Democrats not only cannot be bothered to police up racist relics of America’s past, they outright lionize them. I’m thinking, of course, of Robert Byrd, former Klansman, who Democrats like to imagine as “the conscience of the Senate”.
As if.
2:34 am
Kos is a jerk and his community as tedious as littlegreenfootballs but it is not incorrect to say power has corrupted the Republican establishment and skewed its priorities which, unless Republicans are God-like, is something one would expect of a successful political organization and its affiliates. But so what; what goes up, must come down. Happy landings.
4:40 am
Another god here, actually just a demi-god. We neocons don’t reach godlike status intil 2018 if my calculations are correct.
You know this would all be over if Bush would just quit. what’s wrong with him?
6:27 am
Just simple substitution like replacing Bush’s name with Clinton’s or Kerry’s and replacing “Republican” (sorry, Rethuglikkkan) with “Democratic” actually makes more sense. If there is a party that has demonstrated it puts party politics before country since 9/11 it’s been the Democrap Party.
I’ve also felt the thinly-veiled lies at DailyKos were always good for a laugh. This guy must really be swilling the kool-aid if he can’t see liberal Democrats for what they are: feckless, seditious liars. So Zuniga is in good company.
Next thing we’re going to hear from DailyKos is how the American Founders were all atheist progressives and Jesus was a card carrying liberal.
1:46 pm
You want to know what motivates Kos (and Andrew Sullivan, for that matter)? Just check and see how much he gets paid for his BlogAds. Then go see what Glenn Reynolds gets.
Kos and Sullivan shook the money tree, took one look at the stripes of what fell at their feet, and the rest is history.