This is one of the funniest manifestations of clinical dissociation I've ever read.
In a letter to congressional Republicans signed by "more than 140 prominent conservatives"--including redstate.com's Erick Erickson, aspirin-between-the-knees Foster Friess, and Justice Clarence Thomas' flaky wife--said Republican pols are commanded to demur at any budget "deal" or "compromise" (quotation marks faithfully original) with the wicked Democrats, since said Republicans, according to said prominent conservatives, "have a mandate to fight for conservative principles that is arguably much broader than the one that narrowly reelected President Barack Obama claims to have for his leftist agenda."
It gets better. "The letter," reports The Hill, "doesn’t outline what scenario would be acceptable in reaching a deal to avert the 'fiscal cliff.'" Well of course not. That's already explained. There can be no "deal." And if there is a "deal" ... see "ostriches."
What's really funny is that every day congressfolk receive hundreds of unhinged letters from unhinged letter-writers making a variety of unhinged requests--everything from getting to the bottom of W.'s explosives-wiring of the Twin Towers to exposing the U.N.'s black helicopter ops to assisting that nutjob of an Arizona sheriff who's still investigating Obama's birth certificate. The letters are routinely ignored and trashed because, well, they're unhinged. Yet this letter--whose watermark is doubtless a dunce cap made of tin foil--will be duly noted and shown all undue respect by said congressional Republicans.
Good grief. The Founders would be absolutely horrified, and yet here we are, laughing. See what these lunatics have done to us?
Excellent news. Obama wins again! Over the cliff we go. Wheeeeee!
Having shot themselves in one foot, it's hilarious to see the GOP taking aim at the other. Come the debt ceiling, they'll be pointing the gun at their heads.
Posted by: shsavage | December 12, 2012 at 02:29 PM
So the brainpower of 140 conservatives, apparently, is roughly the equivalent of the brain power of my 14 year old beagle. Wait a minute. I didn't really mean to insult her like that.
Posted by: japa21 | December 12, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Why do we even care what these people say or do anymore? It is beyond time to move this country forward without them. Paying attention to them only emboldens them.
Posted by: Jimiskin | December 12, 2012 at 03:17 PM
I'm not laughing. Those sick fucks can do a fair amount of damage while they control the House, and can prevent anything remotely productive from being passed and signed into law. And thanks to their mad gerrymandering skillz, they're probably in the majority for the foreseeable future. (hey, why can't they be as good at governing as they are at gerrymandering? what the hell!)
It's clear they have no shame, and no low they can't sink beneath. And I find that scary.
Posted by: Turgidson | December 12, 2012 at 04:33 PM
When was the last time today's republican party stood up for actual conservative principles?
Posted by: AnneJ | December 12, 2012 at 04:58 PM
When was the last time today's republican party comprehended actual conservative principles?
Posted by: Janicket | December 13, 2012 at 09:10 AM
That 140 list is generously sprinkled with astroturfs, dead-enders, and never-beens. Hilarious.
Posted by: Bulworth | December 13, 2012 at 09:44 AM