Feeling Like Slim Pickens On the Bomb

Waving my hat and yelling "Yahoooo." (Not in the internet way, but rather in the Pickens way, with the exhilaration of going out with a bang.) In the sense that events may be overtaking themselves in momentum and severity. The news stations are already in clear-the-decks this-looks-like-some-bad-shit mode. A new logo has appeared at the bottom of the screen.

Somewhere a neo-con is clapping his hands while the rest of us are wondering if a couple of missteps could lead to U.S. forces crossing over into Iran, or at least bombing it. The Republicans have proven that it doesn't take much for them to order up more weapons and ammo from their friends. And if you buy it, you gotta use it, right? And what better way than to have it all coalesce right in Bibleland. It's a slam-dunk.

With the rest of us riding the Republican bomb, Pickens style.

At a time like this, it is critically important that our leaders speak the truth to us. What we're faced with is a group of people so pathologically successful in their lies, that when we hear them now, we figure that the truth is whatever opposite to what they're saying.

Republicans lie. Republican lies. Easy to say. These four words should always be handy when discussing current affairs. Republican lies: two words joined at the hip. Synonymous even. I don't have to enumerate. Just about everything of any significance they've ever said in public has been carefully constructed and brilliantly conceived lying.

Hey, I appreciate the talent, thanks for the bomb.

Republican hate is another thing that makes me want to wave my hat as I dive through the clouds. This afternoon, the same old white racist evildoers from Georgia are in the U.S. Congress trying to destroy the Voting Rights Act. Here is the mating of Republican lies and Republican hate. A double-dip, not only do we get to fix some elections again, but we get to screw Negroes.

It must be fun to be a white racist Republican Member of Congress, or any Republican.

This is why I feel like a Pickens-on-a-bomb. Their demonstrated lack of the ability to govern and operate a government, not to say a super-power sits me astride the nuke, screaming. I don't think the Republicans have it in them, at best, and at worst, it may allow them to unleash the war they'd really like to fight.

I'm kissing my ass goodbye.

This can also be seen on huffingtonpost.com (although why would you go there to read it again?)