Lost amid the general irritation with the Administration Appeasement Bill yesterday was this little nugget -- to my mind the most nauseating bit of the whole sordid affair:
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio choked back tears as he stirred memories of the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. “After 3,000 of our fellow citizens died at the hands of these terrorists, when are we going to take them on? When are we going to defeat them?” he asked.
Fuck you. What else is there to say about that? Fuck you, you fake whiny demagogue, crying on cue about 9/11. Bathetic political theater played for stagey tears by invoking real tragedy, real corpses -- like a panto played in an abattoir. That's your modern GOP.
We need Marlon Brando to smack him upside the head and yell "You can act like a man!"