While most great thinkers are still wrestling with the ideals of post-modern and the consequences of the information age, the Republicans have moseyed on over to the Post-Ironic culture era. Though right around the corner for most of us, the ever forward thinking Republicans have finally out done themselves.
They have written their own Onion article as reality.
Explaination below the fold:
Now, the echo chamber that is the Republican Party media machine looked like a juggernaut that no one, not even Jesus, could stop. Luckily like most such monsters in history, they finally stopped themselves.
This is all started when I saw:
Bungling meant leak letter leaked... on the Drudgereport. Either Drudge is seriously off message, or the wheels are falling off the wagon in the most deliciously ironic way, güey.
So I run over to the article and expect to see some shill about how Harry Reid screwed over Frist, but seems Frist has been doing just fine screwing himself:
A leak suspected to have come from the office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) complicated, confused and nearly derailed a joint effort by Senate and House Republican leaders to seek an investigation of the unauthorized release of classified information.
Wow, so this is the mighty GOP that we have been fighting to knock down a few notches? These wonderbreads of Machiavellian schemes leaked their own leak investigation? Surely this isn't a sign of weakness, a party falling apart from the sheer daily irony of their messages versus their actions in the realm of freedom, terror and fiscal responsibilities?
Well:
The mix-up renewed the criticism often voiced by House Republicans that it can be difficult to coordinate party message with Senate Republicans.
"It's very hard to get the Senate to partner in the message," said Rep. Jack Kingston (Ga.), vice chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and head of the House GOP "Theme Team." "The Senate is not a cohesive group. Even within the Senate's [55] majority senators, you can't get them to coordinate."
Kingston said the last time there was such a communications mix-up was before the August recess, when Frist announced his support for legislation expanding stem-cell research, something conservatives vigorously oppose, without consulting with the House. That announcement eclipsed the planned Republican message touting the passage of long-stalled energy and transportation legislation.
Who knew? I always thought these guys were just clones that Cheney would activate from his undisclosed location. I had no idea they each could operate on their own ambitions. Besides the point that their dyke seems to have sprung a leak, I wonder how many other 'stem-cell' moments our fearless Democratic leaders have missed. Thank god we got Reed to find his soul at the exact moment we needed him most. But that is not ironic, just unfortunate for the Republicans, like needing a fork and only having a spoon.
Ironic is:
On Tuesday at 11:36 a.m., the Drudge Report reported that Frist and Hastert would "announce a bicameral investigation into the leak of classified information to The Washington Post regarding the `black sites' where high-value al Qaeda terrorists are being held," catching Senate and House Republicans off-guard.
Okay, why? Well Drudge is referencing himself in an article which he is referencing himself. So by pushing the leak of the leak, the leaker, Drudge, is leaking the leak's leak of where the leak came from. Forget the Onion, Jon Stewart couldn't even write that. But with truth becoming more surreal than fiction, how to bring this puppy home.
Frist's communications director, Bob Stevenson, said that it took Frist so long to sign the letter merely because it had been such a busy day in the Senate and that Frist had to work on the Department of Defense authorization bill. Stevenson said that Frist merely didn't have a chance to sign the letter before the late afternoon.
Okay, I hope the Republicans get my memo that Americans are not so stupid that we think it takes more than 30 seconds to sign your name. Ask my mom, she says it only takes 30 seconds to call home ever once in awhile, so it seems like a senator would have to check in on national security. So why?
What is the crux of why this is post-ironic? Why would the leak letter being leaked enter that realm?
And the cause for the mistiming would likely have been a leak from Frist's office.
Okay, there you go. Blood is the water, not only are they corrupt, but incredibly incompetent. And to end this post-modernly: Now is the time for all good men to come forword for the defense of their country....