Cliff's Corner (A Bit Abbreviated)

The Week That Was 10/20/06

Another week. More preposterousness to report.

I keep thinking I've lost the ability to be shocked by the GOP, and yet continue to discover that a party whose organizing philosophy resembles Caligula can find ways to continually astonish me. Crazy Curt Weldon is accused of illegally funneling lobbying funds to his daughter and threatens supporters of his opponent. Nevada gubernatorial candidate Jim Gibbons Don-Sherwoods a woman (not to be confused with Mark-Foleying a boy) during the final weeks of his campaign.

Is there a company out there like Manchurian Global that manufactures all Republicans, so that they’re predestined to be pernicious and sexually perverted? A place, perhaps, that may help J.D. Hayworth to act homosapien in public while nourishing his Neo-Wagnerian social values in private?

Because something's got to be going on here when we reach the point where the Republicans spew false religiosity but are literally representative of everything the Bible warned against. Who doesn’t think that if a Republican officeholder saw a man who needed help on the side of a highway, they would behave slightly differently than the Good Samaritan?

I'm thinking they might ask him if he were gay or had illegally crossed the border, and before he answered, insult him for being poor and cut his healthcare services while signing him up to go to Basra.

I mean have you read about this Craig Schelske character? He ran for Congress as a Republican in 2002 (on family values of course) and is now involved in a messy divorce with Dancing With The Stars dropout Sarah Evans. Now Schelske wasn’t just satisfied to fill his computer with pornography, oh no, he allegedly needed pics — to use popular GOP lingo — of himself doing Mark-Foley’s-priest-type-things to women who were not his wife and, I am not kidding, scores of online photos of himself naked and erect.

Nice hard drive pal.

We had better close the deal on this one, Democrats, or this entire country is going to become that alternative universe Marty McFly returns to in Back To The Future II.

There is just nothing quite like the potent mixture of sleaze and faux-piety that is today’s GOP. Nothing.

Well one thing.

Joe Lieberman.

(I apologize for the brevity, I have been a bit busy taking care of my newborn son (sorry, just beaming a bit).)

Very funny episode of Republican Sexcapades on The Young Turks this past week.

Finally, I was on a show called The White House Chronicle on PBS today. It will be on WHUT in DC on Sunday at 6:30 PM Eastern. If the rest of you are interested, look up the show, it should be on sometime this weekend on your local PBS affiliate.