Ghost of Christmas Past

You know it's a lie, but it still gets to you.

The blatant spewing of lies from the Great Right-Wing Conspiracy (yes, Hillary nailed it correctly from the start) brings back the deep depression they brought upon the nation at Christmas 1998 when they rammed impeachment through the House during the Christmas season. I recall nothing else from that Christmas except that which has some link to the impeachment hearings on NPR, picking up cookies from the Grand Bakery (now no longer with us) and listening to the hate fulminating from Henry Hyde (now no longer with us); circling the parking lot at Southdale (still with us) and listening to any number of hypocritical GOPs self-righteously fomenting from the floor who, we later learned, went back to there apartments with their mistress, their congressional page, their interns, or their high-priced bed-warmer.

So today Mitch and his nattering nabobs of negativism just sit back and object to everything. Maybe I shouldn't assume they have a conscience or a memory or an ounce of human decency--it's the only way they could continue in their role. And what do the voters in their states think? Can the unemployed coal miners in Kentucky really support Mitch McConnell, or could any of the 10.7% unemployed fellow Kentuckians support him? And then we have the seemingly good Senators from Maine--how can they align themselves so? How can they not at least go Independent? It does remind me of the old saying I grew up hearing, "The last good Republican was Lincoln."

Check out this posting on Media Matters (subscribe if you want to see some balance--you're not going to get it from NPR, they are only slight less nattering and nabobing that Faux TV and all the cable cacophony). Remember all the screaming about the Franken-Lieberman encounter. Read this piece. Check out the video (the first link in the text).
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200912180032

Merry Christmas!