(Foulmouth Fourthbranch concept inspired by KingUbu, completed by WeikuBoy)

Shorter Dean of East Egg: Ol’ Deadeye Dick may be the most dangerous nutjob to prowl the corridors of the U.S. government’s undisclosed locations since Dr. Strangelove and Gen. “Buck” Turgeson — but we can all rest easy knowing the nucler trigger is solely in the capable hands of the Black Sheep of the Bushes of Kennebunkport.

The kind of centrist who compared Bush to Lincoln. Broder’s ‘centrism’ has long been pretty much just a garbled, watered-down Republobabble, though he doesn’t seem to be aware of how far he’s wandered into the fever swamp of the right.

A lot of the media aristocracy seem to have quite genuinely lost its grasp of what’s going on around them. Broder’s take on Cheney is pretty breathtaking, but Sally Quinn’s recent piece was downright surreal, with its dreams of a delegation of Important People flicking away this irksome Cheney character like dandruff from an evening gown, so that Bush can heal our troubled nation by appointing the soothing Fred Thompson.

Speaking of surreal, that picture of Mark Noonan a few threads down is messing with my brain real bad. Those eyes, man, those eyes…

Never use tongs. You’ll dismember the bastard and leave festering bits still inside.

The way to dislodge a tick is to lay the tip of a burning cigarette on his ass and he backs himself out, nice as pie.

I know this is right ungentlemanly of me, Sir David, but I’m giving your butt a shove into the cold North Atlantic on this dark night, and taking your privileged place in one of the remaining boats. My impoverished family in the Old Country needs me alive and working in Brooklyn, where my cousin has a job waiting for me, and the failures of your doddering ruling class won’t stop me.

SAY POPE CATHOLIC, in the NY Daily News style.

PATTERNS OF URSINE DEFECATION, from Psychology Ptoday.
RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION OF THE PONTIFF, from the same.

Or at least they’ve decided that saving the Oval Office for the Repubs is going to require a more substantial human sacrifice than Scooter and Gonzo combined. And, to say the least, “substantial” and “Dubya” are not a defensible combination. The Quinn/Broder “They’ve trashed the place and it wasn’t their place” anti-progressives seem to be realigning behind the meme that Republicanism didn’t fail America, but a certain select subset of Republicans may have failed Republicanism.

I’d worry about this re-framing more if I thought they had any chance of blasting Darth Cheney out of his undisclosed Oval Office location. He’s dug in like an infected tick, and it’ll take more than all the Conventional Wisdomers’ silver-plate cocktail-weenie tongs to dislodge him now.

for real?????

mikey

P.S. Fire It Up!1eleven11!!

[I]t has turned out to be altogether too liberating an environment for a political entrepreneur of surpassing skill operating under an exceptional cloak of secrecy.

Well…duh.

Gawrsh, who could have known that this Cheney fellow was such a scamp? Sweet bleeding Jesus… Broder is impossible to parody.

Looks like the “Old Families” have decided to pull the plug on Fouthbranch’s heart machine.

So it seems. But I think that Broder and Quinn and the other mandarins are going to find that they have no control over this administration of maniacs.

Confit the afflicted? Afflict the comestibles?