Spank me, then let's do lunch, Mark Morford

[madokie]

How many hypocritical Republicans can dance on the head of a sex scandal?


In my more subdued moments of delighting in the pathos and adulterous whinings of incalculable greasy right-wing politicians, I oft wonder at the threshold, the limit, if there is some sort of karmic boundary that will eventually snap and recoil and strike them all down on the spot, some sort of grand tsunami of wayward justice that will sweep them all to the great Thai brothel in the sky after one too many gay lovers, meth addictions, adulterous affairs, teen boy fetishes comes to light and the world says, you know what? Enough of you. Back to the primordial slop you go.

It's a fantasy, I know, and an unrealistic one at that, given how there appears to be no mechanism in the reptilian political mind to allow for nuance, no space for notions of responsibility and consequence. It simply doesn't exist.

Really, half the GOP congressman in Washington could admit to a gay affair and the other half to snorting blow off the tailbone of a needy lobbyist/hooker/intern in front of a church on Sunday, and still the party leadership would say, gosh, that's too bad, what a shame, let us now respect the privacy of the families involved at this difficult time and leave them alone and hey by the way, Obama is a socialist tyrant who wants to indoctrinate your babies. Fear him!

So it is we observe the end of the puny political career of California state assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Riverside County (AKA the dystopian wasteland of Orange County, to you and me), the classic chubby, glad-handing political slug if ever, boasting to a colleague of his rather gross sexual exploits with not one, but two different mistresses -- one allegedly a lobbyist with whom Duvall did regular state business -- on a live microphone he thought was turned off. Ah, technology, will you ever cease to bless us with your copious gifts? ...

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[SpiralHawk]

1. "no space for notions of responsibility" = Modern Republiconism in a nutshell

Morford is spot on with the ugly truth.

[SpiralHawk]

2. This is a rudely pungent quote about the Republicons

"...Who by now hasn't seen the miles-long list of 'ethics-based' Republicans who have gladly stuck their fingers into the socket of any power skirt who walks by?

"Another day, another 'family values' Republican praised for his ethical fortitude but who's really about as moral as a cobra at a Mouseketeers reunion..."

[SpiralHawk]

3. OMG - this is funny. Beer Bong Week...

Forgive me, Morford has hit my funny bone this AM

"To imagine Washington as somehow slightly more pure or principled than, say, your average Midwestern frat house during Beer Bong Week is not merely naive, it's downright ignorant."

[Berry Cool]

5. And yet they are all about personal responsibility for others.

Can't afford to pay for your own health care? Too bad. Get a job, or a better job, or whatever. Not their problem. Gotta pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, you know.

Meanwhile, they're using THEIR bootstraps to spank their married mistresses.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Calling World's Dirtiest Jobs...

Spanking that shit-ass David Vitter!

GOP = Greedy Old Perverts