Now if only we could find a better use around here for Maureen Dowd than as ballast, she’d be a shoo-in.<\/p>\n
Tea Party budget-slashers didn\u2019t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.<\/p>\n
They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country\u2019s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved victims, Boehner and President Obama. They were like the metallic beasts in \u201cAlien\u201d flashing mouths of teeth inside other mouths of teeth, bursting out of Boehner\u2019s stomach every time he came to a bouquet of microphones.<\/p>\n
via Washington Chain Saw Massacre – NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
While the point she is making is neither sophisticated nor original, she does actually refrain from being offensive. \u00a0In fact, she sounds downright admiring. \u00a0Well, thanks.<\/p>\n
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Tea Party budget-slashers didn\u2019t sport the black capes with blood-red lining beloved by the campy Vincent Price or wield the tinglers deployed by William Castle. But in their feral attack on Washington, in their talent for raising goose bumps from Wall Street to Westminster, this strange, compelling and uncompromising new force epitomized \u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers\u201d and evoked comparisons to our most mythic creatures of the night.<\/p>\n
They were like cannibals, eating their own party and leaders alive. They were like vampires, draining the country\u2019s reputation, credit rating and compassion. They were like zombies, relentlessly and mindlessly coming back again and again to assault their unnerved … Continue reading