a tale of lyndon

Tea partiers used to wear those tricorner hats, and the more fashion conscious of them used to complete the outfit with those tight pants that ended at the knee, and then they had some kind of stockings and some kind of ballet shoes I guess.  Well those were the ones featured prominently in the press.  Well you know the press, like in a gay pride parade they always go for the most flamboyant.

And they were all over the press, they got huge coverage, they were certainly never blanked out.  Fox is always claiming something gets no coverage in the lame stream media, that actually gets pretty big coverage, but they want their fans to think that the lame stream media is against them, and they don't have to worry about their fans finding out about this because their fans are proud that they never watch the lame stream media.  I know you are not a Foxie, but they have a big influence on all right wing media.

And it was a very smart move on their part to infiltrate the republican party.  On the left we had those dopy occupiers who were too pure to infiltrate anything, and just hung around their occupy places looking like a bunch of bums, and then faded away. 

Let me tell you a story about how Lyndon Johnson got his start in politics.  There were these guys, the Brown Brothers, who wanted to build a dam somewhere around Austin, but they needed federal funds which weren't forthcoming.  They needed a man in Washington, and it so happened that a representative had died and there was an opening.  A bunch of guys threw their hats in the ring, and among them was Lyndon, an up and comer.

The Browns (they are the ancestors of Halliburton) were extreme right wingers, and they despised the ground Roosevelt walked on, well would've walked on if he could, and Lyndon Johnson was screaming Viva Roosevelt all through the district because the people in the district loved Roosevelt.  What Lyndon actually believed has always been something of a mystery that we won't go into now.

Well the Browns saw it clearly, even though they hated Roosevelt, they knew that being for him would help Lyndon win the election, so when they handed him his bundle, they didn't ask him to tone down the Roosevelt, they just asked him to get the dam approved when he got in.

Which he did.  Lyndon tried to cozy up to Roosevelt after he won but Roosevelt thought he was some Texas hillbilly and didn't have much to do with him, so Lyndon cozied up to Sam Rayburn and began his rise to power.

And probably you already know that I am going to make a comparison between the Browns and the Kochs.  Among the rages of the tea partiers was taxes and regulations, which the Kochs also hate.  The other stuff, the religious stuff, the zany conspiracy stuff, the Kochs didn't care about much one way or the other.

But here was a gang of useful fools.  The Kochs started handing out dough financing candidates running against the RINOs, and in retrospect weren't all that successful, and probably lost the republicans some elections.  But they scared the shit out of the RHINOs who never knew what nut with a fistful of dollars was going to run against them in the next primary, and they all moved way to the right, which was just fine with the Kochs.

At the beginning of the tea party movement you had some of those guys railing against big business, but they never got any of the Koch dough and you don't hear from them anymore.  Oh sometimes there might be a peep against big business, but it's very vague and no specific bill is referenced.

Well most people, especially of your ilk don't know much about Common Core, which has nothing to do with making America look not so hot in the history books, but all you guys really care about is that Obama is sort of for it, and that is enough to get out the torches and the rope.

If you are a poor young pregnant girl there is no way you are getting down below to get an abortion.

Taco Bell food is not hot.  They have some kind of hot sauce which is not all that hot either, but maybe too hot for Beaglesonia, where Lawry's Seasoned Salt is the standard for exotic cuisine.  Myself I look to taste the meat and the heat, more for my money, like a good Bohunk.