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Grumpy: Mouse, I am trying so hard to be myself (you know, grumpy) these last weeks but the season keeps intruding. I’m sure that come January when the bills arrive and a new Congress takes over I’ll be back to my old self again, but for now my grump seems to have abandoned me!
Mouse: It’s impossible for me not to enjoy this time of year. How could you have the holiday without the mouse in the poem that doesn’t stir on Christmas Eve? Ya wanna know why it’s not stirring? ‘Cause it’s beat from running up and down the tree putting decorations on it and then wetting its whistle with some nice Cognac. Oh yeah… I looove this time of year!
Grumpy: Not the least of my less than grumpy mood comes from Congress going away for the rest of the year. Somehow I think, however, that their foolish ideas like a fake war on Christmas are sure to try to intrude on what should be a season of good wishes and joy to all.
Mouse: For a group that is supposed to admire Jesus, the man who preached peace, Republicans sure love war… any and all war, even if they have to make one up. It’s terribly sad.
Grumpy: Speaking of Congress going away, some of our favorites will thankfully not be returning. But, oh, how we will miss the comic antics of some, like the ever-humorous Michelle Bachmann. Now in the “end times” of her Congressional career she doesn’t even fail us. This is what she claims to have said to the President at this year’s White House Christmas party:
“I turned to the president and I said, something to the effect of, ‘Mr. President, you need to bomb the Iranian nuclear facilities, because if you don’t, Iran will have a nuclear weapon on your watch and the course of world history will change.”
Mouse: I pity Stephanie Miller. She won’t have the good times of poking fun of Bachmann any more on her show, and we won’t have the laughter of it all. But what’s that you’re saying? We’ll have other Republicans for comic relief?
Grumpy: As the old saying goes, “when one door closes another opens” and so it is here. We seem to have a more than adequate replacement in Senator-elect Joni Ernst. Fresh off the campaign trail, here are a few gems from the soon-to-be Senator:
“You know we have talked about this at the state legislature before, nullification. But, bottom line is, as U.S. senator, why should we be passing laws that the states are considering nullifying?”
“[...] we have lost a reliance on not only our own families, but so much of what our churches and private organizations used to do. They used to have wonderful food pantries. They used to provide clothing for those that really needed it. But we have gotten away from that. Now we’re at a point where the government will just give away anything.”
There you have the incoming Senator from Iowa, with a belief that nullification is a viable option and food pantries dependent on charity are preferable for feeding the poor to everyone sharing the burden of (as Christ would surely have put it) helping the least among us. It looks like the clown car that is the Teapublican party of the 21st century remains filled to overflowing.
Mouse: I’ve always wondered who Jesus would starve. Apparently Republicans have never read about the miracle of the loaves and the fishes.
Grumpy: We don’t even have to wait for the new year to begin enjoying the delicious Teapublican civil unrest. Dare one call it a civil war? Why, just in the last week we saw the continuing emergence of the Cruz/Lee wing of the Teapublicans in the budget battle. Cruz seems to have single-handedly caused the party to abandon the Reagan doctrine of never speaking ill of another Teapublican. Several of his fellows in the Senate were not in the least shy in their criticism of the Cruz/Lee moves and some were quite personal.
Mouse: Republicans and war, any kind of war, seem to go hand in hand. They’ll never learn.
Grumpy: You’re right Mouse. Even a civil war in their own ranks!
Happy Holidays Mouse!
Happy Holidays Everyone!
Mouse: Happy Holidays Grumpy!
May you and everyone have a joyous New Year!
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