THE PLANK OCTOBER 14, 2009
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Red State maestro Erick Erickson has a plan for dealing with heretics, even if it requires conflating the worlds of Narnia and Oz:
Olympia Snowe has sold out the country. Having been banished to our world after Aslan chased her out of Narnia, Snowe is intent on corrupting this place too.
So we should melt her.
What melts snow? Rock salt.
I’m going to ship this 5 pound bag of rock salt to her office in Maine. It’s only $3.00. You should join me.
It is a visible demonstration of our contempt for her. First she votes for the stimulus. Now this.
It’s time to melt Snowe. ORDER YOUR BAG HERE.
Tea, salt, who knows what foodstuff the right will seize upon next to reify their political petulance?
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As I sat in a little cafe in a village in Bohemia on a quickly cooling July night, watching the Czechs lose to Greece in Euro 2004 on a video screen set up on the town square, I tried to order tea with cream and sugar. But I spoke no Czech, and the waiter no English, so I tried to order in German. The waiter gave me one of those "is he dangerous-crazy, or just crazy-crazy?" looks, shrugged, and went to the kitchen. Instead of tea with cream, I was served tea with rum. Or, more accurately, hot, vaguely darjeeling-flavored rum. Worst. Tea. Ever. But rum tea is probably better than salty tea. Anyway, I'd respect conservatives a lot more if they would just learn to keep their metaphors straight.
- rhubarbs
October 14, 2009 at 1:50pm
You know, she would just take all those bags of rock salt and donate them to poor communities in Western Maine to help offset the costs of road cleaning this coming winter, while holding a splashy news conference about how she is helping her under-served constituents, etc, etc.
- wildboy
October 14, 2009 at 1:58pm
There's a comment on Erikson's discussion thread as follows: "Rock salt is good….but here’s something else to try: removerinos.com . We’re on a mission to defeat every RINO who ever runs in another GOP primary. Our main vehicle is a website, removerinos.com, aimed at compiling an e-mail list of 25,000 potential donors to any candidate who’ll oppose Snowe and/or 22 other RINOs. With over 500 citations (2/3 from the ACU), it’s also one of the most informative sites on the subject of RINO voting records. After Snowe’s vote today, THIS truly is the time to start putting together donor lists to try to beat these RINOs. Please go to removerinos.com to see what you can do. We can still put a lot of pressure on Snowe’s before the final vote." I like the sound of this. Something tells me that 2010 and 2012 are going to see more GOP guts slithering over the floor than we might think. Not good for a national realignment of the party.
- ironyroad
October 14, 2009 at 2:50pm