We are not worthy:

Oct 1, 2013

The Reign Of Morons Is Here

By Charles P. Pierce at 9:10AM

….In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them. There have been lazier Congresses, more vicious Congresses, and Congresses less capable of seeing forests for trees. But there has never been in a single Congress — or, more precisely, in a single House of the Congress — a more lethal combination of political ambition, political stupidity, and political vainglory than exists in this one, which has arranged to shut down the federal government because it disapproves of a law passed by a previous Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, a law that does nothing more than extend the possibility of health insurance to the millions of Americans who do not presently have it, a law based on a proposal from a conservative think-tank and taken out on the test track in Massachusetts by a Republican governor who also happens to have been the party’s 2012 nominee for president of the United States. That is why the government of the United States is, in large measure, closed this morning….

….We did this. We looked at our great legacy of self-government and we handed ourselves over to the reign of morons….

….Among other things, the Library Of Congress is closed as a result of what the vandals have done. Padlock study and intellect. Wander aimlessly down the mall among the shuttered monuments to self-government. Find yourself a food truck that serves monkey brains. Eat your fking fill.

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Blunt Instrument

Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is a dolt who currently should be learning to run the Slurpee machine at a convenience store on a logging road outside of Branson, and not fouling the atmosphere of the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body….

….Oh, and not for nothing, but isn’t the fact that Blunt has to make this particularly stupid argument in defense of his completely stupid bill an admission that what a lot of people are saying about his completely stupid bill is true.

Legislatamalism is so confusing.

That’s so unfair to convenience store employees.

We are not freakin’ worthy:

….Why in the hell do we insist on giving do-overs to the people who enabled the worst experiment in government since the elevat[i]on of Caligula’s horse?….

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We are not worthy.

For the new year, Charles Pierce at Esquire:

….And, of course, we must never make the perfect the enemy of the good. But you know what else is the enemy of good? Timidity is the enemy of the good. Cruelty is the enemy of the good, and so are selfishness, bigotry, and ignorance. Why perfection is the only enemy of the good that ever seems worth fighting is a good question with which to launch the new year.

It is a dead-level time for us as a people. There are now 146 million Americans who are ranked as “low-income” or “poor.” Somebody really should do something about that. How we treat them in our politics is going to be the ultimate test of our moral credibility as a nation. Do we treat this situation as the national disgrace that it is, and commit ourselves as a nation to eliminating it? Or do we turn away from them, blame them for the malaise we feel in our lives, and drink deeply again from the supply-side, trickle-down snake oil? Do we look at the president – a Democratic president – and scream that this is no longer tolerable to us as a people? Or do we nod sagely and deplore the lack of civility and bipartisan cooperation in our government and hope that cooler heads will prevail, that the great national purpose of our age is to deprive ourselves further of what was supposed to be the promise of the country in the vague and futile hope that somehow, somewhere, things will get better down the line?

The moral act is to scream.

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In the music business some of us speak of the genius musicians who pop up so infrequently and astound us with their effortless virtuosity.

There is one such person in the world of comments and snark on progressive political blogs.

We are not worthy.

via the left coaster, Charles Pierce in the comments at Altercation:

….You can’t have missed the fact that the president this week gave the dumbest speech in the history of that office. You would not think you could stuff that much stupid into a single human being, but they managed to do it. Turns out, Iraq is Vietnam after all, if it’s not Korea, and it’s still World War II, unless it turns out to be World War IV….

….For the people who write our politics, presidents don’t fail. They simply succeed less than some of their successors. Watch this happen. Tell me I’m wrong. Just the other day, Justice Stephen Breyer popped onto our local NPR station to talk about the anniversary of the Dred Scott decision, saying he thought it was the most destructive decision in the history of the country.

Guess again, Steve.

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