Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Garrrison Keillor On The Republican Party

While I can't stand to listen to his voice, I do enjoy the content that Garrison Keillor produces. In Salon, Keillor compares the republican party to your elderly father. From Salon:


It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.
That's the truth, in fact the republican party has been awful busy selling our inheritance to every snake oil salesman that comes down the pike. In less than scrupulous marketing, there a lot of shady lists you can buy, lists that contain the names of people known to have Alzheimer's and other diseases that take away your mental faculties. These are used to con the elderly out of their money.

These days those lists probably contains every republican member of Congress, and every one of them has their hearing aids turned up to full volume to make sure not one earmark goes unfulfilled. Let's see, bridge to nowhere, check. Panama Canal era document discombobulatron integrator (scanner), check. Rotating Turbine Falling Machine (V-22 Osprey) check.

Hell, just look at how often you see a televangelist standing near a republican member of Congress. We know these people know an easy mark when they see one. That's not piety, that's paydayity. I just hope the Nigerians don't get their e-mail addresses.

Found via Attaturk

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