Garrison Keillor: We're stuck with a terrible war & a worse president &...

San Franciscophobia
We're stuck with a terrible war and a worse president, and all the GOP can do is scream, "Pelosi and her Nancy boys are coming"? This is pathetic.

By Garrison Keillor

June 7, 2006 | People who live in mud huts should not throw mud, especially if it comes from their own roofs. As Scripture says, don't point to the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a piece of kindling in your own.

I see by the papers that the Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be Speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.

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You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war and getting nowhere, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid.

It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.

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I love Lake Woebegone.

what a great column!

Classic.

Kicked!!!!

:rofl:

sounds lovely.

Maybe he is! Care to de-cloak Garrison?

:thumbsup: :hi:

... perfect!

:kick: and R! for GK!

when he had Jesse Ventura looking for him because of a column like this. Ventura was serious and Keillor really had to avoid him to keep from getting picked up by the ankles and having his brains dashed out.

:-)

He is such a good guy through and through.

A very good read. he comes down hard on the narcisstic cult of "ME ME ME."

I like it! Also, following the ninny loyally into the swamp.....sounds like lemmings.

I have to admit that I've never really followed his work, but I may check out that movie.

with it - they always left debt behind, Garrison dear.
Love your style, but you need to check your history again.