Pendragon_6
10-05-2006, 09:26 AM
Thursday, October 05, 2006
THEY'D BETTER BEWARE
By: Phil Brennan
If anybody asked me what was new with Republicans over the last few days, recalling an old story I'd say that the dog died.
It seems like an appropriate response in these dark days for the Grand Old Party. A farmer who'd been visiting the city was met at the train station on his return by his hired hand who replied to his question as to what was new at the old homestead by telling him "nothin much, except that the dog died."
"The dog died? the farmer said. "What killed him?"
"Eating burnt horse flesh" the hired hand explained.
"Burnt horseflesh? Where did he get that?"
"From the horses that died when the barn burned down."
"The barn burned down?' How did that happen?"
"It caught fire from sparks from the house."
"Sparks from the house? Are you telling me my house burned down? How did that happen?"
"It started when one of the curtains caught fire from the candles around your wife's casket." the hired hand said.
When you look at the events of the past few days, it's true - it wasn't a dog, however, but the GOP elephant that may have kicked off when the House leadership burst into flames from sparks ignited by an e-mail sent by then Rep. Mark Foley.
This in turn set off a media firestorm and as is usual in such conflagrations, the resulting smoke so blurred the facts that the public has been seriously misled about the truth of the matter.
In Full
Ether Zone (http://www.etherzone.com/2006/bren100406.shtml)
THEY'D BETTER BEWARE
By: Phil Brennan
If anybody asked me what was new with Republicans over the last few days, recalling an old story I'd say that the dog died.
It seems like an appropriate response in these dark days for the Grand Old Party. A farmer who'd been visiting the city was met at the train station on his return by his hired hand who replied to his question as to what was new at the old homestead by telling him "nothin much, except that the dog died."
"The dog died? the farmer said. "What killed him?"
"Eating burnt horse flesh" the hired hand explained.
"Burnt horseflesh? Where did he get that?"
"From the horses that died when the barn burned down."
"The barn burned down?' How did that happen?"
"It caught fire from sparks from the house."
"Sparks from the house? Are you telling me my house burned down? How did that happen?"
"It started when one of the curtains caught fire from the candles around your wife's casket." the hired hand said.
When you look at the events of the past few days, it's true - it wasn't a dog, however, but the GOP elephant that may have kicked off when the House leadership burst into flames from sparks ignited by an e-mail sent by then Rep. Mark Foley.
This in turn set off a media firestorm and as is usual in such conflagrations, the resulting smoke so blurred the facts that the public has been seriously misled about the truth of the matter.
In Full
Ether Zone (http://www.etherzone.com/2006/bren100406.shtml)