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May 28, 2008
Just Words
Taking a cue from Deval Patrick (or maybe it was Barack Mohammad Obama...or am I confusing him with Joe Biden? Those plagiarists all look alike), I've decided to forgo creating a new set of words in the form of sentences & paragraphs in order to elucidate what today's strip from Prickly City is all about, since having already seen this one at least a couple of times, it's not necessary and has already been well covered and critiqued. (Because that's what we do here at Shrubville - critique Prickly City. You could look it up on Wikipedia, it's true!)
Aww, isn't this cute?
(Oops, let me start over - this is Prickly City we're talking about here)
AHHHHHHHHHHH, isn't this cute? Carmen has her own elephant, named "GOP," and she needs to remind him that as a Republican he's supposed to spend less and make smaller government. Thank god and the spaghetti monster that Scott Stantis is willing to stand up and let us know just what exactly the Republican party is all about.
You know I might have a little sympathy for the guy, as well as the rest of the "Republicans" out there, if they hadn't supported President Bush EVERY SINGLE DAY OF HIS PRESIDENCY. Gee, you'd think if they were so upset with his out of control spending, his ballooning deficit, his ever-expanding government, his lying to invade other countries, and his illegal spying on Americans that they would have voted against him in 2002 and 2004 to send him the message they sent in 2006. But nope. It wasn't until a few weeks ago, after Iraq has turned into a complete nightmare (years after Democrats warned this would happen), outrageous gas prices, and a party so bloated and corrupt running the U.S. into the ground for their own personal gain that the folks on the right said, "Duh, maybe we shouldn't vote for these guys, uh, duhhhhh." I'm surprised they were able to use those touchscreen voting machines after having their fingers plugged in their ears for the last six years not wanting to hear how bad things have gotten in this country.
So Stantis - like every other Republican talking head - is jumping on the band wagon that says, "Oh, these Republicans in power weren't REALLY Republicans - they weren't conservatives like us and that's why "we" voted them out." Yeah sure, right. Nope, you brain dead zombies still came out and voted for Republicans. It was the moderates and the independents who weren't scared anymore by the President saying, "if you vote for Democrats, the terrorists win and America loses!" Nope, the average American who doesn't blindly follow the REPUBLICAN party has gotten so sick and tired of 8 trillion dollars in debt and a war with no end that we were lied into in the first place and the Mark Foleys and Bob Ney's of the world that they voted with the one party that's actually promised to listen to them instead of whatever The Leader wants them to do.
So maybe we should remind you, Stantis, of what you really are: a Republican, through and through. You had your chance to speak out against the party years ago. You didn't. You voted for Republicans in 2002, 2004, and I'm betting 2006. You voted for Bush in 2004. You've had plenty of chances to complain about the leadership. Instead, you didn't pull out your oh-so-original term "Republicrats" until just a month or so ago. And that was because the writing was on the wall. YOUR party, the Republicans, were on the brink of losing at least the House, and you were hedging your bets. Now you've admitted you want to fight tooth and nail AGAINST the Democrats, who have inherited the "small government, less spending" platform that used to be held by the Republicans 20 years ago.
In other words, Scott Stantis: Super Republican. Live with it. You made your bed - lie in it. Because that's all your party seems to do anymore. You lie to the public, and you lie to yourselves. But I guess that's never stopped you from trying to rewrite the history books as history happens. The difference now is that the the majority of the country has wised up to how big a joke your party has become.
But hey Scotty, it's not to late for you to worship another animal: the jackass. That might be a perfect fit for you.
Comments
I lived in a country in Southeast Asia a few years ago. There was a coup after 35 years of terrible fascism. The day after, all these bootlickers got on TV and swore, 'oh, yeah, we KNEW there was something wrong all those years, we're really sorry, yup.' we called them palawan kesiangan: afternoon heroes.
Stantis and all of his ilk should be wearing, forced to wear, placards that say "IT'S NOT A TYPO: I STOOD BY EVERY WORD HE SAID, EVERY TIME HE SAID IT."
Posted by: Anonymous at May 28, 2008 10:26 AM
I couldn't have said it better myself. Oh, wait... :)
Posted by: The Furnace at May 28, 2008 08:46 PM
