My seventh brief conversation with Senator Robert Byrd's (D-WV) Grand Kleagle hood
me: “You following the latest kerfuffle started by your boy Senator Cracker?"*
hood:
me: “This time, the esteemed gentleman from West Virginia compared the Republicans’ efforts to circumvent a Democratic-led filibuster of federal judges to the tactics of Hitler and the Nazis..."*
hood:
me: “...though in his defense, I don’t think he really expects Bill Frist to shove Barney Frank or Joe Lieberman into a large convection oven...”
hood:
me: “...so in that sense, at least, he’s being figurative.”
hood:
me: “Still, if anybody would know about Hitlerian tactics, it would be a former Grand Kleagle, right...?”
hood:
me: “...I mean, aren’t Kleagles pretty well-versed in the tactics of history’s most efficient racial purifiers?”
hood:
me: “Or is Bobby just, y’know, bent on proving that he’s as confused about his history as he is about racialism and foreign and domestic policy...?"*
hood:
me: “Because I, for one, would admit to being unsurprised by that.”
hood:
me:
hood:
me: “So.”
hood:
me: “Anything you’d care to add, hood...?”
hood:
me: “Or maybe offer in the Senator’s defense...?”
hood:
me: “No --?”
hood: “-- What, you’re serious? The man compared Republicans to Adolf freaking Hitler, boy. I may as well try to defend abortion to the Pope. The miserable papist sonofabitch.”
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