A Tea Party Patriots co-founder met with freshmen Republicans today to enforce contemporary conservatism's charming new doctrine of apocalyptic nihilism, telling them that
the vast majority of her organization viewed even the Republicans' Cut, Cap, and Balance vote, which she called "posturing," a capitulation because its passage would include voting for a debt ceiling hike.
The inevitable imagery: a shirtless Robert Duvall, in a colonel's cavalry hat, squatting on some exotic beach and bespeaking the transcendent pleasure of Napalm's aroma.
If you don't care for the Tea Party Patriots' approach of iron will and steel discipline, perhaps you'll warm to the Tea Party Express' emailed method, which is, simply, to turn reality on its admittedly battered head:
"Barack Obama's operatives and administration officials ... [and] liberal politicians have reached a new low and are absolutely shameless," wrote the TPE's Ryan Gill, since -- are you ready for his shameless part? -- "[t]hey can see the public pressure building against raising the debt ceiling."
Now if only I could decide which I find more charming: authoritarian nihilism or Goebbelsque fantasy.
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