Last week the wretched jackass Eric Cantor said of his party's preposterous Balanced Budget Amendment: "We want to be able to go home to the people who elected us and show them that we are not going to allow this kind of spending to continue."
Were I a House Democrat I would go to the floor and agree to vote for Cantor's amendment, but only if he first agreed to vote for my recently proposed Anti-Dumbfuck Demagogue Amendment. This serious legislation and evidently necessary Constitutional add-on would not criminalize demagoguery -- for that would exterminate politics -- yet it would ban its extreme practice by conspicuously wretched jackasses.
There was a time when the American electorate and even the United States Congress were perspicacious enough to recognize, condemn and effectively catapault the most wretched of political jackasses from the public arena; one thinks, most prominently, of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, left to finish off his censured butt with a final, liver-blowing jug of hooch -- just about the only friend he had left. Today? The American electorate indeed recognizes these jackasses, but only episodically, such as in 2008, and woefully temporarily, in view of 2010.
I realize that such an amendment -- i.e., the A.D.D. amendment -- would essentially obliterate our two-party system of governance: absent the Constitutional right to practice political jackassery in its most perniciously ruinous incarnations, whole platoons of congressional Republicanism would surrender and retire overnight, literally speechless. I also realize that once we arrive at the execrable point of having to outlaw the most egregious stupidity of political jackassery merely because we ourselves aren't smart enough to vote against it, then all is lost. In fact, my argument is but a benign counterpart to Hermann Goering's, who, shortly before his last pill, much like Joe's last bottle, rather logically argued against unfettered democratic rule, if such rule meant national suicide. There remains however some legitimate gist of my reductio ad absurdum, notwithstanding Herr Hermann.
So how about it? you jackasses. Are you willing to risk your reactionary wretchedness against even more reactionary outrage? You may not be willing, but you're sure forcing the issue.