Rude Pundit hysterically nails it

[henslee]

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com

(big snip)

10/28/2005/Patrick Fitzgerald: The Grown-Up in the Room:
There's a fantasy world that can be spun out among children frolicking in a playroom. The children can take heaping piles of garbage and dirty diapers and empty boxes and colored cloth and construct something they see as an elaborate castle, a wonderland, if you will, where they can enact their epic tales of glories, of princesses and pirates, of villains and dragons, of superheroes and fairies. If you are one of the children, or even a child who comes into the playroom late, you will become a part of the illusionary kingdom, a palette from which fears, anxieties, and wishes are played out to their often extreme ends. It's a beautiful, self-contained environment, the world of children, and grown-ups often harbor secret desires to become part of it.

But sometimes, into the fantastic realms of juvenile imagination, an adult must walk in and point out the reality of the situation. Looking around the destroyed room, the adult calls things by their names: No, Scooter, that's not a unicorn, that's a trash-filled bag with a used paper towel roll on it. No, Ann, it's not make-up and a wig- you're smearing poop from a diaper on your face and putting snot-ridden tissues on your head. No, Sean, you're not a fireman - you've just dropped your pants and pissed everywhere. And you know what, kids? It's time to clean up this goddamn room.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. As the mother of three young boys...

what an apt analogy.

[Rex]

2. Will Libby get 30 years or a pardon from his boss?

"Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer. In July 2003, the fact that Valerie Wilson was a CIA officer was classified...Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003."

Don't get much realer than that!

[Gildor Inglorion]

5. I'm old enough to remember Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

who were PUT TO DEATH for divulging classified information. My parents (God bless them!) were socialists within the Democratic Party, and were very saddened by the Rosenbergs' executions, and so, naturally, was I. I don't say that exposing a CIA agent is as serious a crime as giving atomic bomb secrets to the USSR, but still....treason is treason, isn't it?

[watrwefitinfor]

6. I remember them too, Gildor.

And I wasn't even a red diaper baby. But I thought it was so sad and I could not understand the hysteria. I have read a great deal about them since, and hope you have, too. They were, perhaps, not exactly as they have been painted. And how could they have been worse than this regime of mass murderers?

Wat

[tsuki]

7. I don't know. They also outed Brewster Jennings, a twenty year

covert operation that tracked WMD. Seems to me that knowing where those WMDs are in a time of WAR is very important. (Of course, if you are a conservative, it is not as important as your tax cut. Naturally not. First things first. Money, Money, Money, then your country's flag.)

[LostInAnomie]

3. That's awesome!

I love Rude Pundit. He sums up situations better in a few short paragraphs than all the pundits on TV could do in a year.

[henslee]

4. Don't he though? When I read something so good I just want to spam

the world with it... or at least my friends.

[Sydnie]

8. Great description - He WAS the grown up in Washington yesterday

Thanks for sharing!

[belle]

9. Gross, but apt.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. This nails the bullshit and the gloom and doomers

"To All Who Await Fitzgerald and Juries Grand and Petit:
Remember: as that tantric-practicing limey Sting would tell you, the best orgasms are the ones that take a long, long time coming."

That dude has his shit in one stack.