Once upon a time, a malevolent band of Hobbit terrorists armed with sugar-coated Satan sandwiches

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[RummyChick]

Once upon a time, a malevolent band of Hobbit terrorists armed with sugar-coated Satan sandwiches wreaked havoc across the fruited plain!

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Forget cowboy poetry! In a few short days Washington, DC, has seen a renaissance of political poetry - verse about as elegant as the sausage-makers crafting it.

If we weren't so deep in debt and on the brink of another recession, it would be funny, too.

Joe Biden, that bard of the West Wing known to seize every opportunity to mix flawed concepts with flawed verse, reportedly called Tea Partiers "terrorists" today. Just a little over one month away from the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, too. Classy.

He wasn't speaking extemporaneously, either. He was supposedly repeating what Mike Doyle, a Democratic congressman from PA, exclaimed in a closed door meeting. Doyle said, "We have negotiated with terrorists. This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money."

So Biden apparently had time to think about it before repeating the line.

This comes not long after a formerly obscure and unknown Democratic congressman, Emanuel Cleaver, called the debt deal a "Satan Sandwich." This comment has lit up the blogosphere and already inspired Satan sandwich contests and the like (for those interested in making an actual sugar coated Satan sandwich, the Daily Caller offers this recipe).

Of course, those "extreme" Republican Tea Partiers are the terrorists cooking up those Satan sandwiches.

And then, on the right side of the aisle, we had John McCain, channeling the WSJ editorial board, calling the rank-and-file, pro-BBA Republicans "Hobbits."

What's really interesting in all of this is that, despite any naive calculations they may have made about default, the conservative caucus in the House has been the only straightforward, transparent group of people in Washington.

At least it's good to know that when they get active, they provoke the deeper sentiments of Washington's poetic class.

[MtnClimber]

This from the party that refuses to call real terrorists “terrorists” and chooses to call terrorism “human-caused disasters”.

[RummyChick]

[P.O.E.]

Sugar-coated Satan Sandwich Recipe

Basically a red vesion of the moon pie.

[SuzyQue]

Ah, yes, however it seems we are the ones who have chosen to do the terrorizing.

(The whole idea cracks me up; all those grandmas and grandpas and middle-class, non-confrontational, pick-up-your-trash-after-the-tea-party types being called terrorists! It’s absolutely upside down world.)

[RummyChick]

Michelle might have us eat this:
deviled ham, peas and cauliflower

[gitmo]

Only hobbits were able to resist the evil in the ring. Even Gandalf feared to touch the thing.

Only hobbits are able to resist the evil of congressional power.

And Obama looks on from 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue.

[LibLieSlayer]

My family!!!

LLS

[RummyChick]

RT @BenjySarlin: What goes in a Satan Sandwich, you might ask? Demon Sheep.

One of the more bizarre campaign ads..and she won.

[Dianer0839]

As the great King Aragon says: Hobbits bow to NO-ONE!!

[Ellendra]

And devil’s food cake for dessert!

[OrangeHoof]

If we weren't so deep in debt and on the brink of another recession, it would be funny, too.

What??? Paul Krugman says we're in a depression. He's an economist, you know. And since he, among many others, claimed that Obama had rescued us from the Bush Recession, that means we're in the Obama Depression.

Just clarifying the record here.

[RummyChick]

http://www.forevergeek.com/2011/01/this-is-how-hobbits-eat/

Hankering for some hobbit fare? I am sure that you have spent practically all day watching the Lord of the Rings Trilogy at least once. Tell me honestly, after one of those occasions, didn’t you feel like having some of the food that those fuzzy little creatures had in the movie?

If you’re thinking that I may be taking this a little too far, wait till you hear about this tradition that the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has started. Soon after Return of the King came out, they came up with the idea of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy Hobbit Feast: almost 12 hours of LoTR goodness PLUS 7 meals. How do those little critters fit all that food and drink into their frames???1

Checking out their menu and the photos of the food, though, I totally understand how spending a whole day this way can be pleasurable. How does this sound?

First Breakfast
Fresh Hens eggs, nice crispy bacon, grilled mushrooms and rosemary carmalized orange
Canella Blood Orange Mimosa , Italy

Second Breakfast
Strawberries, creme chantilly, Round Rock honey
Cristalino Brut Rose Cava

Elevensies
Pan seared sausage and tomatoes with English cheddars, ale braised cabbage, ginger pickled beets
Oberhof Mead (Texas WIldflower Honey Wine)

Luncheon
Grilled New Zealand lamb chops, cabernet mint demi with mashed potatoes, roasted baby carrots
Concannon Petite Sirah, Livermore, California

Afternoon Tea
Baby arugula and flower petals in blackberry-garlic vinaigrette, salted pork-goat cheese galette, black salt shortbread and ginger snaps
Hot tea

Dinner
Stewed Coney with taters, carrot, parsnips, celery root and leek, finished with fresh garden herbs and sherry, served with crusty bread
J.K.’s Scrumpy Apple Cider

Supper
Swirl of tomato and spinach soups wild mushroom crouton, apple pie
Schloss Vollrads Riesling, Germany

[RummyChick]

tweet:

b_cubbage Brian Cubbage
Thanks to @SuzeMB, I now know what a Satan Sandwich is. I’ll take one plain with Hell Fries and a Mr. Pibb of the Damned.

[TigersEye]

Yep, I like devil's food cake, deviled ham, deviled eggs and nice crispy bacon.
I'm a terrorist Hobbit alright.

[Kickass Conservative]

I think the Concession guys were selling Satan Sandwiches to the Tea Party crowd at the Coliseum while the Liberals were being fed to the man eating Hobbit Terrorists.

[TigersEye]

That menu doesn’t have roast chicken on it. I brought my own salt just in case!

[RummyChick]

There is such a thing as Hell Fries:

"a huge plate of hand-cut french fries dusted with cayenne and doused in Inner Beauty Hot Sauce. The fries were fresh and crispy, sweet and spicy, and really really good. Garnished with cilantro, the single order is easily enough four people, I think I ate half of my plate nearly inducing instant food coma"

http://www.flickr.com/photos/onefoodguy/4402851146/

[Dianer0839]

OMG..I can’t move after reading the daily menu and thanks I think I gained 5 pounds. /sarc The fairy bread that keeps you full sounds like a plan.

[Kickass Conservative]

Great minds, from a Hobbit Terrorist to a Terrorist Hobbit.

[TigersEye]

It doesn’t matter which way you look at it, Mr. Frodo. If there’s an out of control budget that needs terrorizin’ there’ll be a hobbit there to terrorize it. You can count on that!