27%
Is the number, says Brother Drifty.
The hard bottom supporters of the feckless incompetent worst President in U.S. history number roughly 1 in 4.
And I have to ask, just how many of those closeted GOP bottoms like it... rrrrrough?
Before we hear Driftglass sing us some truth, let's warm up with Keith Olbermann:
DriftglassAmen.
So this one goes out to Keith Olbermann, who, Lord knows, does the Lord’s work.
Dear Keith,
Beneath the farts and flourishes of failed amendments, procedural votes and resolutions passed, one fact remains:About a quarter of the people in this country are just awful fucking human beings.The walk upright like us. Eat and shit like us. Reproduce like us. But they are not like us.
We are groaning under a debt his Administration created, an unnecessary and catastrophic war his Administration manufactured, and a failed foreign policy his Administration authored.
And for his sins and crimes he continues to enjoy the blind, rabid canine loyalty of the 27%, whose proxies in Congress -- the same wingnut hirelings who screamed themselves hoarse chanting “Up or down vote!” every time a single GOP nomination got snagged -- continue to happily obstruct even the mildest effort to curb their Dear Leader’s Forever War or in any way mitigate his “Bomb them ‘til they’re Christian” vision of world peace.
He was preceded by as moderate and center-seeking president as we have seen in my lifetime.
One who made it a point to appoint Republicans to his cabinet, give the Right a voice, and triangulate away to them a lot of what they asked for.
For his troubles he endured the blind, rabid reptilian rage of the 27% for seven years.
And then they impeached him.
These are the pod people that keep O’Reilly propped up, keep Limbaugh on the air, and keep Fox News profitable. The kept Jerry Falwell from being run out of Christendom on a rail, and keep James Dobson from sinking back into the tent-show fever swamp from whence he came.
They are the reason the Minority Party knows it will pay absolutely no price for thwarting the will of the majority of the America people.
They are the reason the War Party has, finally, resorted to simply lying outright about Iraq; because they know which side of the Mason/Dixon line their bread is buttered on.
The truth of the matter is -- like the segregationists and slaveholders from whose degenerate ideologies and DNA the modern GOP base springs -- thanks to these people and their leaders, the next President of the United State is going to have several genuine, historic disasters that need simultaneous and focused attention.
And as these people and their leaders amply demonstrated during the Clinton years and over the last nine months, they are perfectly willing to sacrifice the good of the nation to advance their narrow, odious agendas.
With an unbroken record about being completely wrong about every fucking thing, at this point -- if we were dealing with sane human persons -- owning up to being a Republican should be as filthy and shameful a thing as being caught abusing puppies.
Millions of Americans still wake up every day button-poppin’ proud that George W. Bush is their Preznit and Chief-Christian-In-Charge, and fatback-on-a-hot-stove sizzlin’ mad that Evil Liberal are still allowed to walk abroad in the daylight, plotting and scheming to destroy their beloved Jebusland.
Because the ugly truth is simply that the problem with the Republican Party is not George Bush, or Dick Cheney or Dough Feith or Rush Limbaugh or Pat Robertson: the problem with the Republican Party is Republicans.
The ugly truth is, Keith, that whether or not we’ll be able to weather the storms that are to come depends in large measure on how much longer the GOP base is allowed to control any significant part of our media, our politics or our faith.
I don’t know how much longer we can last until someone swings their camera around, points it at them and says: “You are the problem. You are a cancer on this good land, and whoever stands with you, votes with you or sides with you is unfit to call themselves good American.”
Without the Base to prop them up, the Republican Party would revert to what it always has been: the Natural Law Party as run by closeted gay men.
And without their front-men in the media, the Congress and the White House, the Base would lose the luster of the limelight that creatures like Coulter are for some reason allowed to wield and would once again have to settle for being no more or less than what they have always been: the last, slavering remnants of the Confederacy.
Squatting in the moral abyss of their Conservative White Jebus-festooned double-wides.
And whining impotently about Jews, queers, Negroes and uppity women.
One of the best pure writers around, I'm one of Drifty's fans from the jump.
Go get yourself to Castle Driftglass and read some damn fine writing. And start figuring out how to do what Driftglass says.
Make it crystal clear the real problem is the 1 out of 4 people who are Republicans. They shame all of us, and they're destroying our country.
It's time to end this crap and remove their grubby fingers from anywhere near the levers of power. For good.
Starting from kindergarden, just as we teach kids "Good touch-Bad touch", we need to teach our children, their children, and our great-grand-children, how to identify the authoritarianism crazies, so this never, ever, happens again. "Good leader-bad leader."
First, we need to take our country back from the 1 in 4 who besmirch it with their un-American foul ravings, lunatic beliefs, and disgusting behaviors. Enough is fucking enough already.
Out of courtesy and misguided fair play the Democratic Party has put up with enough bullshit to choke a Superdome drowning in parliamentarians and experts on Robert's Rules. And the traditional media simply has gone along for the ride, phoning it it, with some organizations such as Fox clearly part of the Republican power structure.
It's time to cut through the crap.
The Republican's have no interest in playing by the rules. They've been trying to win at any cost and don't care if they wreck a 220 year old Constitutional Republic in the process. Most of the 1 in 4 we're talking about would be much happier being ordered around in a Theocracy anyway. So long as it was their Jebus in charge. Probably get plenty bloody, figuring out whose Jesus was greater.
It's time to end this, fast, hard, and without mercy.
It's time for our elected officials to stop playing games.
The Republicans are not our friends.
Those of us who elected y'all to your offices, pay attention: The Republicans are the enemy of everything we stand for. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.
Stop playing nice. Nice is for after this is over and we have our country back.
Right now, get it done.
Get it done fast.
Sincerely yours,
Three out of Four Americans
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