SLITHERING IN FROM THE GUTTERS

The Rev. Dana Prom Smith, S.T.D., Ph.D. (9/15/09)

Republican barbarism slithered from the guttered town halls and rallies into House Chamber when an obscurity from South Carolina accused President Obama of lying. Heretofore, the hope was that their barbaric base would remain in the gutter, but now the Republicans let it slip inside as though a little muck on the carpet doesn't matter. Reportedly, the obscurity suffered from the vapors and couldn't help himself. Wimp City.

The theory is that the Republicans appeal to their base. Well, the base has revealed itself in town halls and rallies throughout the country as, what was once called, gun toting "white trash." It slithered into the House Chamber, disguised as a representative from South Carolina.

Guns, amongst other things, are penile and testicular substitutes for those ill at ease with their own masculinity. In other words, guns are toted around town by those who are either powerless or feel powerless like in the last election. Socially and politically impotent, they feel compelled to show how tough they are, carrying their cajones holstered on their hips and slung over their shoulders where everyone can see them because they aren't where they're supposed to be. Elizabethan codpieces look ridiculous nowadays, but the gun toting, scrotal Republicans look even more ridiculous as well as barbaric.

Silence is frequently assent. The reptilian silence of Republican politicians about their barbaric base slithering into the House Chamber is an assent to political barbarism. How do you do bi-partisan with barbarians? You don't. You give them another drubbing.