Once in a great while you read something so brilliantly written, so overflowing with sharp stick adjectives, so venomous yet hilarious that you can't not share it. Such is Matt Taibbi's article on Paul Ryan.
(You remember Ryan, he who the media crowned "king of courageous" for daring to suggest we drop Medicare and give more tax breaks for the rich.)
The following two paragraphs by Taibbi are guaranteed to have you standing and shouting "Amen, brother" and where do I click to read the rest?"
It's Friday night, you need a laugh. Link below the swirly doodle...
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
Paul Ryan, the Republican Party’s latest entrant in the seemingly endless series of young, prickish, over-coiffed, anal-retentive deficit Robespierres they’ve sent to the political center stage in the last decade or so, has come out with his new budget plan. All of these smug little jerks look alike to me – from Ralph Reed to Eric Cantor to Jeb Hensarling to Rand Paul and now to Ryan, they all look like overgrown kids who got nipple-twisted in the halls in high school, worked as Applebee’s shift managers in college, and are now taking revenge on the world as grownups by defunding hospice care and student loans and Sesame Street. They all look like they sleep with their ties on, and keep their feet in dress socks when doing their bi-monthly duty with their wives.
Every few years or so, the Republicans trot out one of these little whippersnappers, who offer proposals to hack away at the federal budget. Each successive whippersnapper inevitably tries, rhetorically, to out-mean the previous one, and their proposals are inevitably couched as the boldest and most ambitious deficit-reduction plans ever seen. Each time, we are told that these plans mark the end of the budgetary reign of terror long ago imposed by the entitlement system begun by FDR and furthered by LBJ.
See, I told you it was good! Now follow the link and read the rest of the article.