Like the Berliners of 1945-46 who picked through the rubble to separate still usable bricks for re-building from that which was destroyed beyond repair, the Republicans now start the same lamentable process of finding something of value in the rubble that was their majority. And just as the Berlin of today is physically both similar to and different from the Berlin that stood before it was flattened during WWII, so, too, the new Republican majority that someday will be rebuilt will be similar but not identical to the one that was constructed in the Reagan-Gingrich era.I guess it's alright to compare Republicans to Nazis if you do it in a positive way. Take note, MoveOn.org!
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Hitlerrific
Conservative commentator Tony Blankley has an, um, interesting metaphor for the rebuilding process that the Republicans will have to go through:
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This could alter the application of Godwin's Law for years to come.
Jeez, maybe I gotta dig up some of those Fuhrer Bush and Hermann von Cheney jokes.
My least favorite literary tool is the one this guy uses:
...both similar to and different from...
It is the easiest but most cerebral-sounding way to say "I haven't though this all the way through so this makes no point that can be argued."
"Well it is, but it isn't..."
"It's both a pro and a con..."
Noncommittal, pseudointellectual bullshit.
It is also too close to the beginning of the 3rd worse novel of all time:
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."
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