It was a tough weekend for poor ol’ Harry Reid.
Here he was, having just succeeded in helping pass through Congress one of the most significant social reforms in the last 50 years and he’s celebrating by shooting guns in Vegas with the long-time head of the National Rifle Association.
But down in his dusty desert home town, a whole bunch of folks in pick ‘em up trucks and campers all got together to hear some woman from Alaska act like Donald Trump on his teevee show.
“You’re fired,” shouted the pretty lady from Alaska, clutching her notes in a desperate attempt to keep them from litterin’ the desert in the blowing dust.
Whoa! They sure have a curious way of dealin’ with elected officials in Nevada. Sure, there are lots of things legal in Nevada that are illegal everywhere else but, Lord have mercy, I didn’t know a whole bunch of folks could just get together in the desert and simply fire elected officials.
Oh well…guess that’s it, then. Did they appoint somebody else in his place to be Senate Majority Leader? No? Hmmm…shouldn’t they have done that, too?
Wait…nevermind…realize what was happening, now. It was the teabaggers gettin’ together in the desert in a kind of Burning Up Man Festival to snort and snoot and roar and make really stupid home-made signs.
“Beelzebub Obama,” read one sign, misspelling accepted, pretty much expected.
“Yes we can…kick you out,” read another.
“Stop the Marx Madness,” read still another, perhaps a bit confused between college basketball and Groucho, Harpo & Chico.
“Harry Reid you suck big time. We are going to vote your pathetic socialist ass out!! Go back to Searchlight and run for dogcatcher,” read still one more.
Wait, you mean they DO still hold elections in Nevada? You mean a bunch of angry white folks can’t just get together and fire somebody?
Not to worry, the Nevada rally was just the start of the 24-city tour of the Burning Politicians Festival, one that will culminate in Washington on April 15, Tax Day, when we will no doubt hear lots and lots of jibber-jabber about how much everyone hates to pay taxes…and other unique anti-government stuff.
Okay, sure…there are plenty of angry, frustrated people around these here United States. After all, eight years of the Bush Administration is enough to make anyone snap.
But we really need to understand, violent revolution is soooo 18th Century in the U.S. We take that to other countries, now!
Maybe someone will explain that to 70-year-old Harry Weisiger of Nashville, Tennessee who late last week decided to take matters into his own hands.
Weisiger was charged with reckless endangerment, DUI and leaving the scene of accident after he rammed a car driven by Nashville teacher Mark Duren. It seems the teacher had just picked up his 10-year-old daughter from school when Weisiger alleged spotted an Obama bumper sticker on the Durens’ car – a Prius, no doubt – and rammed him, repeatedly, before fleeing.
