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Liquid Lunch
by Sandra NeishToday’s REASON TO BINGE DRINK: Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL), who is holding up ALL executive nominations (read: people President Obama has nominated for various posts) because he, Sen. Shelby, is pitching a giant temper tantrum that his earmarks are being held up! The “Party of No” is quickly becoming the “Party of No Brains” due to fuck-tards like this guy! (Talking Points Memo)
Tom Tancredo may drive a Harley, but that’s about the only smart thing to come out of his mouth at the Tea-bagger Ball! (Guanabee)
I know I’m laughing on this one: Sarah Palin is ripping Limbaugh! Let’s see where this goes…will he cave and apologize for his use of the word “retard” or will he tell her to pound sand? (The Plum Line)
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Posted on February 5, 2010 at 2:43 pm in Five o'clock somewhere Friday | RSS feed | Respond | Trackback URL
2 Responses to “Liquid Lunch”
February 5, 2010 at 5:17 pm
Unlike his good friend, Kentucky’s Senator Mitch McConnell, Richard Shelby does not possess the attributes of infancy that make for an endomorph. That is, he lacks the turkey-wattle chins and overall jellied-chitlins body style to be found as well in a Rush Limbaugh, a Roger Ailes, a Glenn Beck, or other members of this sub-species.
However, what Shelby lacks in these terms he makes up for in an obvious reptilian quality. It is most evident in his eyes. Those of us living in the Deep South are on close terms with reptiles, and can spot in certain people this holdover from an earlier period in human evolution. Photos don’t always reveal it, but Shelby definitely fills the bill as snake- or lizard-based human.
Oddly enough, the serpent physiology hints at behavioral characteristics. Just as snakes wait patiently, then strike, Shelby held out for just the right moment before attacking the American auto companies. Seeing them on the ropes and in dire need of both discipline and help, he did his best to destroy this key component of American industry. Arguing that any attempt to save GM or Chrysler smacked of socialism, he slithered silently past his own state’s having granted enormous tax breaks to German and Japanese auto makers.
The point here is that the opportunism true of any good snake applies to Shelby. Whether it’s destroying American companies in order to get more foreign plants built in his state, or blocking the justice system to get more pork for ‘bama, Senator “Snake” Shelby remains true to his basic nature.
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