A little heartfelt and ever so justified Republican bashing

Big Brother sent a guest blog that I thought went a little extreme for a blog, but then my response to him got equally strident, so I figured, hell with it. With all of the over-the-top sanctifying of Reagan going on this week, a little balance is in order:

What's with Republicans? How is it that they claim to have such an upper hand on virtue when they pull pranks like this? Last week it was widely reported that the Bush campaign's was planning to enroll churchgoers to distribute campaign materials at their churches. In all accounts I read about the story there were concerns voiced by both political analysts and leaders of targeted churches that such a practice would endanger the tax-exempt status of the churches. So what do the Republicans do? Do they say, "So sorry. Our bad. We shouldn't oughta done this?" Are you kidding? No, indeedy. As reported in the New York Times today House Republicans added a measure to another bill that would give churches a "limited number of violations of the existing rules against political endorsements without jeopardizing their tax-exempt status"! What a bunch of slime balls! I can't believe I was ever a Republican! What a bunch of godforsaken rule-bending self-serving hypocrites!

But in the end, is it really so surprising that they would do this? It's just par for the course with these people. It's especially funny when you think about the fact that Racicot or one of those stand-up comedians chastised Kerry for quoting scripture on the campaign trail. Talk about "give me a break"! These whited sepulchres are instantaneous self-parodies. It's only too bad a good portion of the population has no sense of the monumental levels of irony being played out by the RNC these days - not for political reasons, just because of the sheer sickening amusement they provide for those to whom the self-parody is so grossly apparent. For example, when Racicot does as he's been doing for the past month, and repeatedly accuses KERRY of going negative. Not unlike Chalabi accusing Tenet of providing “erroneous information about weapons of mass destruction to President Bush, which caused the government much embarrassment at the United Nations and his own country.” Maybe Bush and Company are learning a thing or two from Mr. Chalabi after all...
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