Wile E. Republicans
During the fall election campaign, I kept seeing John McCain as Elmer Fudd, but there was no roman a clef to be made out of that image because, clearly, Obama was no Bugs Bunny. Biden, maybe, but not Obama.
Turns out I was strumming the wrong toon.
Rick, our director of metaphorical forensics, points out that Obama has lately done a brilliant impression of the Roadrunner vis a vis the Republican version of Wile E. Coyote.
They never learn. Like the Coyote, the Republicans keep cooking up one grand, quixotic scheme after another –complete with crates of Acme contraptions and explosives – to bring the Roadrunner down, and MEEP-MEEP it blows up in their faces or sends them off the edge of the cliff, feet churning in midair until they look down.
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Track of the Coyote:
“Stand back, folks – Here’s a bombshell to blow Obama out of the water….”
Obama’s budget is loaded with pork! Loaded with pork! Loaded with …
MEEP-MEEP
Most of the pork turns out to belong to Republican pigs.
Aieeeeeeeeeee
“Hmphhh. Now what? Oh, here it is! ”
We have our own budget! Nyah, nyah!
MEEP-MEEP
Hoots and heehaws from the press room. The Republican budget doesn’t have any numbers.
Eyaaaagh!
“Time to go nuclear. What’s the scariest thing we know?”
Obama is a socialist! Socialist! Socialist!
MEEP-MEEP
As if anyone under 70 cared about socialists anymore, Rachel and Keith and DailyKos and even some of the neutered mainstream media remind them that it was their own George Bush and his treasury secretary who asked for the TARP and bought into the banks.
Awk! Ulp!
“But, but, but, BUT — we’re tough and they’re weak on national security … ”
Obama is a sissy-pants, can’t stand up to the pirates! Can’t stand up …
MEEP-MEEP
Navy Seals take out the pirates on Obama’s orders and rescue the captain.
sssssssssssPFT
Then they opened up a crate of teabags and donned their Paul Revere hats, egged on by Fox “News,” Newt Gingrich, and Dick Armey.
A dick army, led by a newt, with a deranged fox as drummer boy, tub-thumping the decadent cadences. How could they possibly fail?
Like Wile E Coyote, the Republicans will keep on trying, bless their black hearts, constantly thumbing their cliff notes for yet another disastrously discredited idea whose time has come and gone.
Where is Herbert Hoover now that they need him?
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All of what you say is pretty much true, except that the people who need to hear it are precisely the ones who are genetically programmed not to believe it. I mean, what kind of life could you possibly have if, in a flash, you realized that listening to Fox was pointless? Sadly, people who tend to cleave to dearly help opinions can never be swayed by fact … not that facts actually have any place in the American political lexicon. “Socialists bad! Republicans good! Socialists bad! Republicans good!” Such is the power of the mantra. And look what happened at the end of Animal Farm: “They looked from pig to man and man to pig, and no one could tell the difference.”
Comment by Steve Alber — April 21, 2009 @ 11:27 am
Perfect analogue! And isn’t it nice to see them apply that grim determination to shooting off their own feet?
Comment by Al — April 21, 2009 @ 9:34 pm
Are you suggesting that in the end, they’re defeeted?
Comment by Steve Alber — April 22, 2009 @ 8:53 am
Ah, yes. Karl Rove’s “permanent majority” is circling the drain, and John Boehmer was on ABC this past Sunday using the cow fart defense against carbon dioxide being involved in global warming. Sounds like he’s getting pretty close to the bottom of the barrel.
Comment by Al — April 22, 2009 @ 2:39 pm