The Usual Suspects

These imbeciles were raised by wolves. Which is to say, they were deprived of loving human contact as little ones ..., and now the wolf-rearing philosophy of every wolf pack for itself is their normative course in life. So naturally they're drawn to the "We're-all-in-this-alone" Republican Party and its top snarling dog, George W. Bush.

The Times story put me in mind of an article I wrote for TomPaine.com back in April 2000, titled "A New Theory of American Politics: One Out of Three of Us Can Usually Be Counted on to Be Negative." You will note the year -- 2000 -- which is important. A Democrat, you see, happened to occupy the White House at the time, so all was gloom and doom for this peculiar minority of one-third. The same people who today see nothing but roses popping out of George W.'s ass -- notwithstanding his seven years of unremitting fiscal and foreign disasters -- then believed that Bill Clinton's eight years of peace and prosperity were an unbearable burden on the Republic. More...