This is one of the most surreal things I have ever read:
In the past 48 hours I have had call after call after call from members of the United States Congress. They’ve read what I’ve written. They agree. But they feel the hour is short and the end is nigh.
So some are calling looking for alternatives. Some are calling looking for energy. Many are calling looking for absolution.
And so I address them and put it here so you can see my advice.
I can give no absolution for what you may be about to do. I can offer no alternatives.
This was written by witless idiot blogger Erick Erickson, people. Elected members of Congress are calling a wingnut blogger with less intelligence than most turnips and asking for absolution?
Of course, Erickson’s “one call after another” may have been one returned call from Paul Ryan’s office manager, but still …
Jeez, you’d think if they confessed their sins to him, and bathed HIS feet, Pope Erickson would have absolved them.
So, is this the new Republican Trinity?
The Father – Rush.
The Son – Grover.
And the Holy Ghost – Erick.
You apparently need approval from all three fat tubs of suet.
Boehner called Rush and told him his new plan before the told anyone in the House.
We know Norquisling’s schtick – ‘No taxes on nothin’ – ok, ‘cept the poor and middle class.
And now we have Erick “The Red,” with delusions of grandeur, egging on the House members to destroy the economy – he double-dog dares you! And no foregiveness if you back down.
And what’s this sentence about?
“Some are calling looking for energy.”
Well, share some of the fine Columbian Marching Powder you’ve got in your XXXL pants, you greedy fat bastard!
I wish one thing were true – and that’s that THEIR hour was short and the end was nigh.
The only way I can think of to bump the absurdity up a notch would be if the “Confederate Yankee” had written it.
Tea Party Patriots
That government Of the 2%
By the 2%
And for the 2%
You got it, Doug.
This was written by witless idiot blogger Erick Erickson, people. Elected members of Congress are calling a wingnut blogger with less intelligence than most turnips and asking for absolution?
I don’t sully my mind by reading the writings of wingnuts, and so I have no idea how influential Erick is in that domain. I really doesn’t matter if a turnip would make a more intellectual companion, what matters is how much influence this guy really has – and have no idea about that. Given how tenuous the whole Tea Party nexus is, I can envision a scenario where frightened Congresspeople (or at least their staffers) are indeed turning to people in their media, begging for absolution.
moonbat — RedState actually appears to be genuinely influential on the Right. Among teabaggers it’s probably much more influential than Weekly Standard, for example. Erickson gets time on Fox News, and there are news stories that members of Congress circulate his columns among themselves. And not just for giggles.
Did I mention that Erickson probably could be outsmarted by your average lawn chair? On the stupid meter, he’s easily in Jim Holt territory.
I saw that yesterday as well. Erickson seems to think he is some major powerbroker? His pitiful little blog is full of nut-job posters, in fact if you look at his commenter’s most of them comment four, five, six times on the same post, I read it occasionally for giggles, but it is far from serious commentary. Then throws in “absolution” like he’s some wing-nut religious figure. Aren’t the teabaggers always debasing liberalism as a religion? High Priest of Crazy, exactly!
“Forgive me, Erickson, for I must tax.”
This isn’t really about the 2%, for most of them will not like a default. It’s about the 2% of the 2% who are positioned to profit from national ruin – or at least lose less than everyone else. 98% of the 2% are not so positioned. What we have here is a Marxian “contradiction within the ruling class”.
It is also possible that rival foreign powers have a vested interest in American national bankruptcy, and have funded congressional campaigns accordingly. The “Citizens United” ruling has made such subversion safe and simple.
The teapartiers are of course dupes of those foreign rivals and economic royalists, but they also have an internal revolutionary logic of their own. How better to destroy a behated plutocracy than by debasing the currency? Of course Main Street will lose big, but Wall Street just might lose bigger. It’s hard to argue against thinking like that, except by noting that if they like the 2%, then they’ll love the 2% of the 2%.
They wouldn’t call, you know, an actual ECONOMIST?
He’s a legend in his own mind.
Down here in Florida( Tampa Bay area) Rove’s organization Crossroads GPS is blitzing television ads about the debt crisis and Obama’s profligate spending. The ads are featuring grey haired ladies concerned(white knuckled and near terror stricken) about Obama driving us off a cliff with his refusal to curtail wasteful government spending. To the uninformed it delivers a powerful message. We are going to perish if Obama isn’t stopped.
If Erickson can offer no absolution then maybe he can pick up a couple of bucks by selling indulgences.
Swami,
If Chaucer had written the story of Erick, he might have called it “The Arseholes Tale.”