Even the stenographers are starting to notice:
But Putnam, host of the war room, had only begun to fight. He called a news conference in the Capitol basement with Boehner and distributed orange juice made with fruit his family had grown in Florida. Sipping the juice, he repeated his dueling points: (a) "This is just the first step to defunding troops in harm's way," and (b) "This week's resolution is really just a stunt."
The Post's Jonathan Weisman asked for a clarification. "Is this resolution a meaningless stunt or is it very consequential?"
Boehner struggled through an answer about "two levels and two different points." Putnam frowned but said nothing.
Right. They are two different points. Two different points that contradict each other.
Then again, Republicans "supporting the troops" has always contradicted not giving them a body armor, and then cutting Veterans Administration funding. Or with sending them to war with no plan. Would it be too much to ask that these contradictions be pointed out?
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What's the prissy, precise technical Latin term for this?
"Disputatum par pastafarium" or something like that?
Translates to "argument by spaghetti." Throw everything you can find up against the wall. See what sticks. Then quickly draw a circle around its landing space and proclaim that THIS is what you meant to say, and in fact all you ever said, all along, and you can prove it because see? it's right there in the center of the target.
These guys are good at that. Or used to be. The wall being increasingly coated with duram wheat stains these days, people are starting to notice. Or at least the roaches have. That's what losing your exterminator will do.
[waves to Mr. Civilian Nobody DeLay, standing outside the big plate glass window waving wildly in hopes someone will notice him, becoming increasingly red in the face and stamping his little feet upon the ground.]
“Disputatum par pastafariumâ€
I love it!
No authoritarians were tortured in the writing of this post.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi