Posted on 08/01/2011 5:56:12 PM PDT by 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.
Howz about some roast HouseHobbit de jeure, fried in gubamint lard&butter in a pot over the rotisserie and then dipped in gubamint cheese .. or we could order CapiTroll HiLL PunDiT PiZZa.. Ohhh do they deliver..
Love the graphics!
Not sure if this is the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end.. but it has and will continue to be an E Ticket ride that our future generations will end up being asked and then told to pay for.
I got to go find my shovel for all the media crap,, always good to have one handy lately.. news of late is full of it these days.
Reminds me of the tasty menus Grandpa Jones Hobbit used to deliver on “Hobbit Hee Haw”... LOL!
From the inimitable James Lileks' Gallery or Regrettable Food.
Sounds like a great bumper sticker slogan if I've ever heard one.
Then again I'm thinking: I'd rather be a Tea Party Hobbit than a Democrat Party Troll.
here is the infamous speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Xt5OE3_3zvM
I wasn’t for Sharon Angle but love her quote about him..
Lord of the TARP
The Tea Party has chosen to get in the way of The One and his minions so we’re demonized just as all his opponents are. The sheer absurdity of calling vast numbers of concerned citizens “terrorists” has got wake a lot of people up. The democrats have a chance if they back down fast enough and far enough but if they continue to ramp up the rhetoric and name calling their day of reckoning could be very harsh. We still have the ballot box on a regular schedule.
Battle cry of the Terrorist Hobbits....
“Who is Bilbo Baggins?”
I don’t think the dims could turn back even if they wanted to.
That recipe looks yummy!! It should be designated the official dessert of the Tea Party. ;o)
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