Bombs Away
by digby
To paraphrase Woody Allen, if George Orwell were alive he’d never stop throwing up.
Here’s the latest “who me?” obscenity from Bizarroworld:
Kicking off an annual Earth Day tradition, Western Tradition Partnership (WTP) announced Thursday Florida Congressman Alan Grayson is the first-ever winner of the “Ted Kaczynski Award.” The award will be given annually to a member of Congress who excels in hurling rhetorical bombs in the name of turning back the clock on human progress.
“When it comes to hurling bombs at those who believe in human progress, no one does it like lone nut Alan Grayson” said Donny Ferguson, WTP National Director of Media and Public Relations. “Whether it’s voting to destroy 127,775 Florida jobs or increasing the average Orlando-area family’s utility bills by $1,607.16 with a National Energy Tax, Alan Grayson is obsessed with turning back the clock on jobs and prosperity.”
“In Alan Grayson’s America, we’d all live in tiny primitive cabins without electricity, plumbing or jobs.”
While Grayson’s hostile, unstable rhetorical bomb-throwing launched him to the top of the nominees’ list, his 100 percent rating from a radical group calling itself “The League of Conservation Voters” clinched it.
LCV founder David Brower openly boasted of his prowess in destroying jobs, comparing timber workers to guards at Nazi death camps. Brower also declared human reproduction a threat to the planet and suggested it be allowed only to select people with proper government permits. According to Brower, LCV’s mission is to be among the most radical of extremist anti-capitalist groups.
“It says something about your commitment to radicalism when you get the highest-possible rating from a group obsessed with reducing the number of jobs in Florida,” said Ferguson. “Anti-progress activists are just ‘nuts’ about Alan Grayson.”
WTP, on the other hand, is committed to protecting jobs, property rights, energy development and human progress through the peaceful means of educating citizens and legislators.
I’ve never heard of the Western tradition Partnership or this fellow David Brower and I doubt anyone else has either. But I have heard of this guy:
I’ve decided that I’m going to give out The Tim McVeigh awards (we’ll call them the “Timmies”) this year, for the bomb builders who receive all that love from the multi-millionaire crackpot revolutionaries on the Right like Glenn Beck. I’m going to need a stockpile.
I nominate this guy for the first “Timmie” of 2010:
GLENN: Nice to meet you, sir. Tell me, tell me your thoughts on progressivism.
PAUL RYAN: Right. What I have been trying to do, and if you read the entire Oklahoma speech or read my speech to Hillsdale College that they put in there on Primus Magazine, you can get them on my Facebook page, what I’ve been trying to do is indict the entire vision of progressivism because I see progressivism as the source, the intellectual source for the big government problems that are plaguing us today and so to me it’s really important to flush progressives out into the field of open debate.
GLENN: I love you.
PAUL RYAN: So people can actually see what this ideology means and where it’s going to lead us and how it attacks the American idea.
GLENN: Okay. Hang on just a second. I ‑‑ did you see my speech at CPAC?
PAUL RYAN: I’ve read it. I didn’t see it. I’ve read it, a transcript of it.
GLENN: And I think we’re saying the same thing. I call it ‑‑
PAUL RYAN: We are saying the same thing.
GLENN: It’s a cancer.
PAUL RYAN: Exactly.
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GLENN: Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. I mean, I don’t think I’ve heard a politician, really, I’m looking at my producers. Have we had a politician on this show since when, when we first met Santorum maybe, maybe. DeMint is really, really good but I don’t know anybody, not even Santorum, I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody ‑‑ I need to find out more about you, Paul. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody ‑‑
PAT: Nobody’s articulated progressivism like that.
GLENN: ‑‑that is articulating the problem in this country and knows what the root is like you have…Paul, tonight and for the next five nights I am going to be softening the ground. I am laying out an idea of cutting the budget, doing what we did in 1920 after the first progressive ‑‑
PAUL RYAN: Yeah, Calvin Coolidge, sure.
GLENN: And I’m going to cut the ‑‑ show America that the budget can be cut by 50%. It’s going to cause pain, but it has to. It has to be cut or we die. And show a way that we can reduce taxes to be ‑‑ do what Georgia did to Russia. Just keep lowering the taxes.
PAUL RYAN: Right.
GLENN: So they could survive. We need to do that. And I’m telling you that it’s ‑‑ I’ve been telling the audience it’s going to be wildly unpopular. You are going to hate me by the end of the week because everybody will experience pain. But man, I’ve got to tell ya, I’m not running for anything. If you can get people in Washington to actually stand up and say, I mean, I’ll soften the ground and show people why it has to be cut, but we’ve got to cut this and we need somebody with a spine in Washington that will stand up. I’m ‑‑ boy, I hope I don’t find out ‑‑ you are not like a dirt bag, are you?
PAUL RYAN: Yeah, right.
GLENN: I just don’t want to find out, oh, jeez.
PAUL RYAN: Look, I ‑‑
GLENN: You don’t know Eliot Spitzer ‑‑
PAUL RYAN: No.
GLENN: Or anything like that, right?
PAUL RYAN: I’m not running for president. I’m not trying to be somebody else. I’m not trying to be somebody I’m not. I’m not running for president. I’m a ranking member of the budget committee. You know, my background is in economics. That’s my aptitude…
GLENN: God bless you.
PAUL RYAN: ‑‑ that has been certified by the CBO as doing what I say it does.
GLENN: Okay.
PAUL RYAN: So I encourage you to take a look at it.
GLENN: I will. Paul, and I would like to stay in touch with you. I appreciate your correcting my error and I apologize for that.
PAUL RYAN: Sounds good.
GLENN: Appreciate it. You bet. Bye‑bye. Oh, my gosh.
PAT: You weren’t already married, I think you would have proposed to him.
GLENN: Oh, my gosh.
PAT: I think you would have proposed to him then. I saw the look in your eye.
GLENN: You know what it is? You know what it is? Hope, why, because someone knows the truth and knows how to articulate it.
PAT: He really does and did. That was really good.
GLENN: Let me ask you something. Let me ask you something. I said that my time would be done when I found somebody else that would articulate it.
PAT: I think you are in the clear.
GLENN: Can I go home now? Can I go home?
If that isn’t an award winning interview, I don’t know what is. Congratulations Congressman Ryan for winning the first ever Tim Mcveigh Soul Mate Award for making common cause with a barking mad wingnut freak. It’s quite an honor. He must be so proud.
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