Posted by
AlongTheWatchtower on Friday, September 07, 2007 7:58:41 PM
What really can be said about NY senator Chuck Shumer? To call him a lying snake or a slimy slug is an insult to innocent reptiles and gastropods everywhere. He is: as vile as vile can be; a power-mad liar without shame, honor or decency; a detestible dementor of our people; "lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut". His comments that the 2007 Surge's summer of success in al Anbar was "in spite of" American troops, who have died in their thousands to secure what has been gained there, are ... beyond abominable, beneath contempt. He refuses to apologize and is an execrable human being who should be shunned.
I would wish him go away immediately to repent forever by taking a vow of silence, but he remains in two ways useful, first as an encouragement to our enemy, which makes them strike too soon (see my post "In Praise of Pusillanimity"), and second, because he is one of those handful of people so pathologically dishonest that they can be reliably used as an inverse indicator of the truth: whatever he says, the opposite is sure to be true.
And the same goes for the rest of that cynical callous craven crowd now leading the once-noble party of FDR, Truman, and JFK ever deeper into the postmodern asylum/sewer. I used to self-identify as a liberal, but nevermore; if these be the standard-bearers of Liberalism, with betrayal their byword, self-loathing their mentality, and mendacity their MO, then this much I know for sure: I can never again be at home with those delusional, power-mad and ...unhappy few, that Band of Bothers, for he or she who shreds his or her principles with me here today shall be my weak sister...
And I of course mean no insult to any real sisters, living or dead, weak or otherwise, and beg of them--and wordsmyth Will's whirling ghost--the literary licence. All rights reserved.
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