Bill Maher: Governing With GOP 'Is Like Rooming With A Meth Addict'

[mfcorey1]

While Bill Maher didn't say anything as provocative on Real Time this week as, say, calling the Qur'an a "hate-filled holy book," it wouldn't be Bill Maher if he weren't antagonizing someone, and tonight he needled one of his favorite targets, the Republican Party.

Maher's main beef with the right wing tonight: a perceived lack of focus on real issues. He rattled off a list of what he called the "useless distractions that make up the Republican Party agenda" - they included public unions, Sharia law, anchor babies, the "Ground Zero mosque," NPR, and the "war on Christmas," among others. So bad is this problem, Maher said, that trying to govern with Republicans "is like rooming with a meth addict" who, instead of rent, is worrying that police bugged the air conditioner

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[madmax]

1. That was seriously funny

:rofl: Could you envision the scene in your head? :rofl:

[Cirque du So-What]

2. This may be the best analogy Bill Maher has ever made

and he has made some really good ones in his day. Thing is, however, the meth addict actually believes the delusions running through a fevered brain, but repugs are merely paying lip service to all those wedge issues in order to satisfy their base.

[hermetic]

3. So,

what you're saying there is that they are freebasing?

Thank you, Mr. Maher, for a hearty chuckle this early morning.

[felix_numinous]

4. He nailed it--

another analogy would be a family with insane addicted parents. How do the children deal with insane people in power, who squander their food and rent on drugs and give it all away to a church who teaches them to beat the kids and gives them a pass to trash the planet?

They attempt to manufacture their own news, their own consent, and print out their own worthless currency, they have manufactured their own God to sanction killing, raping and looting and incarcerating and torturing anyone who is not with their program. These addicts are able to ignore a crumbling infrastructure, hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, petitions and letters appealing to their better selves, and their rationalizations are sounding more and more dangerous and deluded as time goes on. We know what happens to this sort of an entrenched mentality, it is incrementally becoming very pathological indeed.

We the people have to wrench the power back from those who are not competent to have the positions they hold. They should be recalled, one by one, every one of them, on grounds of no confidence (being batshit crazy) and being a domestic threat. We the people have become sick too, like codependent abused children, we are awakening out of our denial and pain and finding our strength, and that we have the skills to recognize what is good for this country, and who we want hired to do our bidding.