DANGER: Delicate Republicans at work
Just what kind of monster is Nancy Pelosi? Didn’t she know that her Republican colleagues are delicate, wan little specimens, likely to pass out in a fit of the vapours at the merest hint of nastiness? Lord knows how these people have made it in one of the toughest legislatures in the world:
Angry Republican leaders blamed Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Speaker of the House of Representatives, last night for shattering a mood of bipartisan cooperation and destroying the US government’s $700bn financial bail-out package.
Keen to shake off responsibility for failing to deliver votes from their own members, embarrassed Republicans said a feisty speech by Pelosi had been so offensive that some of their number shifted sides and voted against the plan at the last moment.
Who can really blame them? Faced with helping to save millions of jobs and homes (if not lives) who amongst us wouldn’t put our bruised pride, our eggshell egos first? I remember the time I let that little kid drown. He’d called me ‘fat privates’ the day before. It’s the Republican way and we should follow their lead.
It’s something you see quite often from quite a few right-wingers and not just in America. I call it the Withnail Syndrome. One minute they’re all roaring ‘WHICH FUCKER SAID THAT?!’ and the next, when confronted, it’s all ‘I have a heart condition… I have a heart condition. If you hit me it’s murder’.
And yet it’s left-wingers who are told they live in a fantasy world and should grow up. It’s a topsy-turvy world, folks.
Posted on September 30th, 2008 at 8:07am under US Politics
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Heh. Indeed.
Backword Dave´s latest blog post… Blair Invites Head Of International Paedophile Ring To UK
Apparently Joe Six Pack swamped the poor babies with calls opposed to the bailout by a ratio of 200 to 1 against the early retirement plan for Wall St. What more could they do but listen to their electorate, who will be offering to pay for their retirement plan in another few weeks. Forget the rest of the economy and the world.
Colin Campbell´s latest blog post… 700 Billion – Chump Change?
I heard Barney Frank’s comments on Radio 4 this morning, and I’ve been quietly chuckling to myself since.
In other news, a certain sad loner with anger management issues recently decided that someone deserved to get turned over by the tabloids purely because, once, they were not sufficiently polite to that master debater.
Tim Ireland´s latest blog post… SEO Seminar (10 Oct) – free ticket giveaway
We had nearly 20 years of good times and this is the mother of hangovers. The people I really feel sorry for are ‘joe public’ who will be paying for this for the years to come.
Let us hope that we learn the lessons of what pure greed does for the economy and legislate.
Capitalism with a moral framework is my suggestion. Possible?