In a mere three paragraphs, Dan Larison says what, perhaps, I should have said earlier today about Republican senator's meddlesome letter to the Iranian government. He labels the missive a "serious and extremely unusual interference by members of Congress in an ongoing diplomatic process"; he rightly denounces it as "ignorant"; and he notes as well that it makes a sham of all their talk about U.S. "credibility" — the GOP signatories "have no problem with the idea of reneging on carefully negotiated multilateral international agreements when they happen to dislike the content."
Larison's post nicely says it all. And I just wanted to apologize to you, gentle reader, for not bothering, for skimping, for earlier so briefly rebuking the majority clowns of the U.S. Senate. But, I also wanted to explain myself.
In these times, we are faced with a new Republican outrage almost hourly. Tradition means nothing to them and the "constitutional system" they so valiantly hail and self-righteously cite is but a plaything, as are the nation's security and general welfare — both of which they once pledged to defend on their sacred Bibles. There is no cheap political trick beneath them, no honor they refuse to trespass, no skullduggery unworthy of exploitation, and quite simply no bottom to their infamy and deceit. Every day we suspect they have finally hit some imaginary bottom, but they always surprise us.
I no longer believe there is a bottom for these hooligans. Their disgraces are as endless as they are unfathomable. Indeed, their rolling disgraces are so predictable, I no longer even find merit in itemizing at any length the transgressions entailed or detailing the absurdities. I reckon that anyone who still fails to see these gangsters for what they are — naked buffoons of the worst sort of demagoguery — never will.
So at most I might brush up against the latest Republican outrage, but explaining the grotesquely obvious is, to me, racing in a hamster's wheel. I suffice it to note that they've merely hit a new low; however tomorrow is another day, and another low — a yet lower low — is still to come. Of that, we can rest assured.