I'm sorry Ish, are you being heavy handed sarcasm impaired? If you want a URL, there's this one. It doesn't quote my original creation, but mentions various sources of the sentiment.
In their who-blew-impeachment debate, the Clinton adversaries are even turning on each other rather than accept any culpability for their ill fortunes. The hard right bashes G.O.P. conservatives, and House managers like Mr. Barr trash their Senate colleagues for short attention spans and failings of principle. But the greatest anger -- and blame -- is directed at the idiotic, craven, morally bankrupt American people. William Bennett's yearlong lament over the death of public outrage is rapidly becoming his party's post-impeachment platform.
Over the weekend Henry Hyde called for an "abnormal psychologist" to do "a dissertation" on our ethical failings. Andrea Sheldon, whose Traditional Values Coalition cheerleads Republican gay-bashing, declared last week that "the American people are really messed up." James Dobson, the party's most influential religious-right power broker, has decreed that "our people no longer recognize the nature of evil." Somewhat more elegantly, Bill Kristol has suggested that "the Founders were right to have a certain distrust of democracy." His contempt is breezily fleshed out this week in the pages of his magazine, The Weekly Standard, by the humorist P. J. O'Rourke, who describes "the American people" as "masses waddling into airports, business offices and churches dressed in drooping sweats or fuchsia warm-up suits or mainsail-sized Bermuda shorts, each with a mobile phone in one ear and a Walkman in the other and sucking Diet Pepsi through a straw." (http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/rich/012799rich.html)
Or to paraphrase the unreconstructed Rev. Pilch, they're all a bunch of filthy whores. So many slogans, so little time. |
