Dragging Dead Weight Toward the Future

More Republicans are withdrawing their support for the Iraq War:

In the last two weeks, three GOP senators — including one of the party's leading voices on foreign affairs and one of Bush's strongest allies — have urged the president to change course now so U.S. troops can start to withdraw.

And Friday, in interviews with the Los Angeles Times, two more Senate Republicans bluntly voiced disappointment with the president's approach and pressed for change.

"It should be clear to the president that there needs to be a new strategy," said Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. "Our policy in Iraq is drifting."

Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who helped lead the charge earlier this year against Democratic efforts to oppose Bush's troop buildup, said: "We don't seem to be making a lot of progress."

It is vital to have "a clear blueprint for how we were going to draw down," he said.

Did Republicans just fall off the short bus? Are they finally realizing what the Democrats (maybe with the exception of Hillary Clinton who might have also been on that short bus) have been saying is true?

Conservatives are always the last ones to get a clue. They were dragged kicking and screaming into the civil rights era, they cling to the past and create a dead-weight for progressives who have to drag their sorry asses toward the future. This country is cursed with a preponderance of stupid, fundamentalist, backwards-thinking, narrow-minded people with no vision. It baffles the mind of a forward-thinking, rational person.

The Decline and Fall of American Civilization.

We've all observed that the GOP behaves like pack animals. When Bill Clinton was president, the herd attacked him for having a sexual tryst and tried to remove him from office for it, but when one of their own subverted our constitution, lied us into a disastrous war, broke international law and enabled war profiteering, the herd could see nothing amiss. They blindly followed their leader while stuffing their pockets with cash from lobbyists. They trumpeted loudly that gay marriage would wreck our social institutions while they secretly boinked their gay lovers and chased underage boys.

Just when it looks as though the Democrats have an opportunity to take control of the House and implement some oversight, this frightening rumor has appeared:

From Steve Work:

Human Events claims there's a rumor in D.C. that Justice John Paul Stevens has received "grave medical news and will announce his retirement by year's end."

If this rumor is true, the Supreme Court will be filled with more pack animals and justice will be damned, just like the souls of these stupid, greedy, irresponsible herd animals. The experiment in American democracy will have failed. We'll honor our country's founders for their valiant efforts and we'll accept that we've become a "banana republic"; a nation ruled by corrupt leaders unfettered by the rule of law.