"but at least did it with pinky finger properly cocked"

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/01/frum.debt.republicans/index.html">David Frum, going, "I say, old chap, maybe inviting this frothing, flea-infested, mangy were-panther to our lovely garden soirée was a bad idea."

I feel about this the way I feel about people who keep grizzly bears and gorillas and tigers as pets. They keep animals that outweigh them as pampered houseguests, feeding them raw salmon and steak and putting cute little collars on them and shit, and then are ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED when their "best friends" get bored one day and eat their faces.

I mean, COME ON. Did you really not think you'd be lunch at some point? It's one thing to know it and have a death wish. People jump out of planes. People do all kinds of shit they know is dangerous as hell and it's kinda sexy to live that far on the edge, but only if you know. If you've got yourself a degree in Advanced Self-Deception and you think it is going to be okay to keep a zoo animal in your living room because it owes you something for naming and putting a little hat on it, I don't even know what to do with you. That kind of idiocy exhausts me down to my bones.

They nurtured these freaks for years. The entire apparatus of the sensible Republican Party of which Frum is so enamored, which started unprovoked wars and slashed necessary funding for programs that helped people but at least did it with pinky finger properly cocked, was RUN on keeping people like this chained to the machines. We've all seen these movies. The slaves always rise up and kill their masters. Free Willy always breaks out of the whale enclosure. Thinking you can use and use and use people and there won't come a point when they'll start demanding the right to choose their own names and clothing and get their own elected to Congress, that says more sorrowful things about the intelligence of those running the party than even the debt ceiling crisis can.

http://www.first-draft.com/2011/08/they-thought-they-could-control-it.html

[Brigid]

1. I'm old enough to remember a more sensible Republican party.

But that was decades ago. It's sad. :(