Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer...

[glaucon]

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments’
Richard III, Act 1 Scene 1.

Xairete! Rejoice!

From the dark, frozen gloom, from 5 long years of spiritual hibernation, from the slick and rancid mud of a sinister nightmare, we are emerging into the heady light of warm, clean air.

Consider, brothers and sisters:

John Bolton, submerged, fights for breath through the thinnest of reeds. www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000782.html


Rove twists like a skewered wolverine, spitting and clawing for his life. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8600327/site/newsweek/


The Dauphin’s numbers have dropped below the danger point, well into screaming-meemie panic-land. www.smirkingchimp.com/article.php?sid=21964&mode=&order=0


The God Only Party cowers, fearful of the Dauphin’s wrath, fearful of the vast Middle Earth of America, fearful of the beast Dobson and it’s little cubs. www.wjla.com/news/stories/0605/235946.html


Social Security Privatization is deader than disco. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050608-112511-3638r.htm


Rummy’s mean and lean war machine is flying apart at the seams faster than a Rube Goldberg Device. www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/2/11236/37342


Condi Rice flies from one warm spot to another, creating in the process one hot spot after another. www.antiwar.com/orig/hadar.php?articleid=6689


Beam-Me-Up Scotty McClellan bobs and weaves faster than a carnival clown, his hair on fire, with a big-assed bulls-eye painted on his back. www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/07/20050711-3.html


Cheney sleeps by day in his crypt, but the MSM, emboldened by fake courage like the mob from a Dracula movie, wooden stakes in hand, sniff about for the tendrils of slime he’s left behind in Rove-gate (soon to be Cheney-gate). www.antiwar.com/justin/


And The Dauphin? The Dauphin skips and frolics, wrapped in swaddling linens, his brow dabbed with rose petals and his loins oiled with incense. Nero would be proud:


Epaphroditus accompanied Nero when he fled from Rome with Domitian, a Roman general, in hot pursuit. When he realized that his situation was hopeless, it was Epaphroditus who helped the deranged tyrant to kill himself. Domitian, afterward, put Epaphroditus to death for this service to Nero.


This time, I say: Let Epaphroditus live.

Give him a condo in Santa Barbara, and let there be...



Peace,

Glaucon

[Aristus]

1. This idol of idiot-worshippers......."

Julius Caesar, Act I, scene 1.

[firefox]

2. Fool me a hundred times and then ask for money and votes

fool-
1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.

2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion

3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe

Isn't Bu$h truly the leader of fools?

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

3. I loved this ! Bravo! n/t

[charlyvi]

4. As You Like It

Epilogue:

"Good wine needs no bush."

[hootinholler]

11. After seeing that,

All I could think of is the one with the chickenhawk...

-Hoot

[BillZBubb]

18. I demand you remove this insult to Foghorn Leghorn!!!

A true comic genius should not be compared to true incompetent nitwit.

Foghorn rules...doo dah, doo dah...

[H2O Man]

5. Well done!

I think this sums up the feeling of the grass roots very well.

[KittyWampus]

6. Hey! In The Thread Placing Rove In A Movie, I Chose Richard III

this whole cabal is Shakespearean in nature.

[glitch]

9. I see bush in the title role

especially in the movie version with Ian McKellan.
:scared:

[knowbody0]

7. recommended and Praised, by me, knowbody0

[stubtoe]

8. Terrific!

Only the Bard's glorious language could capture the depth and breadth of our glee. We few, we HAPPY few! indeed.

[roguevalley]

10. Sounds like they suffer from too clever by half disease. :)

I love posts like this, full of fun and erudition. Thank you.

[Just Me]

12. Thank you. Inspiring!!!!

:hi: Welcome!!!!

Let us proceed. :kick:

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Mixing Richard III and Henry V is risky, but you did it!

Hats off!

[Arugula Latte]

14. You are a poet.

Thanks for this! :hi:

[La Coliniere]

15. Beautifully rendered...

I thus approve!

[bunny planet]

16. Thanks for making me smile.

This was wonderful.

[Pharlo]

17. If I were going to use Shakespearean characters

to reflect this administration:

Macbeth: The Fearless Leader.

Lady Macbeth: The conscienceless puppet master (aka Cheney).

Iago: The behind the scenes manipulator (aka Rove).

The three witches around the bubbling cauldron: Robertson, Limbaugh, Hume.

Envision the scenes:

Puppet master Lady Macbeth (Cheney): "Out, Out, Out damn Spot!"
Fearless leader on phone to wife (Laura - doing a so-so rendition of Ophelia in a stupored daze): "When did we get another dog?"

Meanwhile:
Rumsfeld J.Ceasar is in the Rose Garden yelling at the top of his lungs: "Cry Havoc! And let slip the Dogs of War!"

Back in the Oval Office, Fearless Leader is trembling in panic that someone may confuse him with Richard III and attempt to give him a horse in exchange for his kingdom. Not realizing that his first concern should be that the Moor woman has played Puck and turned into Bottom (as if he needed help.)

And every couple of weeks he takes Yorick Bolton off the shelf and attempts to acquaint him to the UN.

And the audience must ALWAYS remember that during this administration, the wind has always blown North - Northwesterly. Never Southerly - not during this Fearless Leader's stolen reign (apropos of either Macbeth or Gertrude's Husband, The King, in Hamlet).

[dw]

19. Shakespeare to Disco to Dracula

I love the span.

And I love the subtlety of your handle.

I look forward to more of your art. Thanks for this.

[Zorbuddha]

20. Where is the Insane Clown Posse?

Answer me that.

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In the past week, the tone of Matt Drudge’s dispatches (DrudgeReport.com) has been feverish and desperate. During the first week of June, the Drudge Report was filled with crackling denunciations of a book called "The Insane Clown Posse," not yet published. Drudge is claiming that it unfairly attacks the personal lives of the Clinton-haters (particularly Kenneth Starr and his merry pranksters) who have worked so tenaciously to bring down the President. Drudge was frantically trying to keep the expose from going to press, and launched a scorched earth attack on TALK/MIRAMAX, the erstwhile publishers of the yet unedited book. By Friday, June 9, it appeared that Drudge’s efforts at editorial intimidation succeeded. TALK/MIRAMAX will not publish the book, according to Tina Brown, chairman of Talk Media, Inc., in an announcement issued by the firm.

Matt Drudge fashions himself the cyber Walter Winchell, but his prototype is really a right wing town crier, delivering the news in blaring tabloid headlines about politics, entertainment and freak stories. He posts a steady diet of salacious tidbits about the Clintons and other Democrats fed to him by a well-organized right wing consortium of lawyers(working through "foundations"), opposition research professionals, the right wing press, and the conservatives on Capitol Hill. He is a hero to the remaining members of Newt Gingrich’s 1994 class of junkyard-dog-"Contract with America"- congressmen and their staffs. Together with conservative lawyers filing cases against Clinton, they form an ongoing pipeline that feeds Drudge a steady supply of sludge aimed at personally attacking the Democrats, particularly the Clintons and Janet Reno. His efforts reached their highpoint when he printed the lascivious details of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, giving the sexual details enough credibility for the mainstream press to accept them as fact.

Yes, Drudge does post "inside" political strategy and policy leaks attacking the Democrats. But the heart of Drudge’s appeal to the right wingers is his unrelenting personal assault on the Clintons.


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http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/04/07/edi04050.html


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