2012年12月29日星期六

Dick Armey's Golden Parachute and other observat

Thar's a new sheriff in town and he's a Dick! Dick Armey that is, the former Republican House Majority Leader and major mouthpiece (and manipulator) of the (alleged to be) grassroots Tea Party. 

Recently it was reported Armey quit his job as the kingpin of his Tea Party group,Offer hermes handbags, hermes kelly and many other styles. FreedomWorks. He got an eight million dollar golden shower … err … parachute as his exit kiss. The money came from FreedomWorks donor and founder of Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Richard J. Stephenson. Don't really know about Armey and golden showers, but what the hell, let's start a rumor.Shop the latest christian louboutin boots handpicked by a global community of independent trendsetters and stylists. 

As reported in the Washington Post,2012 has been an amazing year for SAXO BANK Cycling have been some of the best ever! Armey marched into the offices of FreedomWorks with an armed assistant, Beau Singleton, a retired Capital Police officer, and forced two employees of FreedomWorks, Matt Kibbe and Adam Brandon out of the building, apparently under threat of getting shot. Why else would you bring an armed man to a pissing contest? That's the threat. It says, “This man has a gun and he will use it if I tell him to.” 

Please don't try to argue it means anything but that. 

It's like drug dealers. They go someplace to close a deal. Most of the participants are armed, but the dealers bring along these scary looking guys who have Mac-10's or Glock 9's under their jackets ready for use. It's really quite impressive when some short, fat … guy … let's say, walks into the men's room of the Landmark Lanes — as a totally random example — to meet another guy of equally questionable fashion sense and moral character and each one of these guys has two “body guarFind RadioShack Cycling and running devices, heart rate monitors .ds” in tow.Welcome to SKY Cycling, we supply most popular and valuable wholesale products. The bodyguards stand there looking menacing as the two principles conclude their business. 

It's impressive if you put aside your fear of what could happen if someone sneezes wrong or the guy taking a dump in the stall — who no one knew was there — flushes the toilet unexpectedly. Seriously, when that toilet flushes the safeties get switched to the “off” position and the fingers are resting on the trigger guards. Instantly. It's impressive. 

Much as it must have been impressive last September when Dick Armey marched into FreedomWorks with his armed guard and told the people who pissed him off to, “Get the [expletive deleted] out!” 

The Baltimore Post-Examiner's rules of decorum prevent me from using the verbiage that is more appropriate, but this is an upstanding news outlet and they have standards. I'm OK wit dat. 

So what would you do if you were working away taking the hard-earned money of Teabaggers everywhere and the sorta boss walks in with an armed man who looks like he might have been a member of the Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) at one time and tells you, “You're fired! Get out!” 

You'd look at the armed guy and then gather up your things and leave. Or, you'd start crying uncontrollably, which is what four of the people working for FreedomWorks did. Apparently the crying won over Armey who said they could stay. 

The two guys who were marched out at threat of gunpoint came back, Armey was forced to resign and the rest is, as the old saying goes, history. 

Just a show of hands: how many people would take a golden shower for eight million bucks? I'm raising my hand. I've endured plenty of indignity in my lifetime and if I could get paid $8,000,000 for just one moment of it, what the heck. Then I'm done being humiliated cause after that, why care? 

Anyway, that seems to be the story all over the GOP-slash-Conservative universe these days. One faction is fighting that faction; this group of Republican Congressman is stabbing those other Republican Congressmen in the back — hell, the conservative talkers on “The Five” are even arguing amongst themselves over what this fiscal cliff business means. This one thinks that one is wrong, the young guy trying to look too cool for school is acting bored … there's no joy in FoxWorld tonight. 

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