Republican Party of Extraordinary Gentlemen
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The Puppet Master
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The Fulminator
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The Brain
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The Human Newt
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The Black Sidekick
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Captain War Hero
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Ice Girl
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Up-and-Coming Boy
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Dr. No
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Junior
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dhahahahaha
I am speechless. I have to think about this.
Great idea, great blog, great pics
Everytime I see Karl laugh I want to pummel him with a baseball bat.
In fact, I think they all bring out the best in all of us. Do you not think?
April 29, 2009 10:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Everytime I see Karl laugh I want to pummel him with a baseball bat."
And you, d-day, evidently, have the power to read my mind. Although, you may not have picked up on the following small detail. I was picturing an aluminum bat.
April 30, 2009 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha. But Newten, I am always reminded of DeNero as Capone hitting that guy with wood in the Untouchables. ha
April 30, 2009 9:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
LOL!
April 30, 2009 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, I see that you have come close to discovering my secret identity, damn.
April 30, 2009 10:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Obama----
The Dude
Primary Power
Making conservative heads explode
Secondary Power
Michelle
Heard Stephanie Miller jokingly suggest that Rush, after pointing out Obama was south of the border and swine flu broke out, was next going to blame him for the dinosaurs' extinction.
Obama did kind of put a stake in the heart of DINOism, and seems likely to help usher the GOP into the next world, i.e. history.
April 29, 2009 10:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think that these gentlemen (and lady) are quite capable of showing themselves out.
April 29, 2009 11:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Junior had trouble finding the door after a presser somewhere.
April 30, 2009 12:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
A humble suggestion for the above pantheon...
Michele Bachmann
Loony of the Lakes
Primary power: Disintegrating foes with lasers focused through saucer-sized eyes
Secondary power: Ability to strip facts and logic from any situation
April 30, 2009 12:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yes, that's it!
The Land o'Lakes butter squaw except with that stare.
Ay carrumba.
April 30, 2009 12:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
That was good. I was trying to describe Bachmanns' special brand of insanity that falls out of her mouth to a friend and I couldn't do it justice!
April 30, 2009 4:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
...butter squaw screed?
April 30, 2009 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow, this could be "V for Vendetta" but without Natalie Portman's fake Brit accent!!
Well done, Genghis!
April 29, 2009 10:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good post, as usual.
Human Newt - LOL
And the level of technical expertise here with photos arranged in two columns -- simply breathtaking.
April 29, 2009 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
My favorites are:
As anyone who listened to All Things Considered, today can attest.
Priceless.
April 29, 2009 10:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
My favorites are:
Dr. No
Primary power:
Legislative sabotage
Secondary power:
No secondary power
?
Primary power:
Unknown
Secondary power:
Unknown
April 30, 2009 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alan Moore's not gonna speak to you if this ever gets made into a movie.
April 29, 2009 11:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, all.
Quinn, I'm doing lunch in Hollywood tomorrow. You want a part?
April 29, 2009 11:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm trying desperately to figure out who in the Republican party relies on nosetubes and hangs out with weasels.....
....I'd have to say Quinn should play W.
April 29, 2009 11:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm holding out for Swamp Thing.
Big Green Dude could take any of these GOP freaks.
April 30, 2009 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
All Hail the Mighty Genghis!
Beautiful!
April 29, 2009 11:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
A late night stab:
McConnell's primary power:
Is an old white guy in the South
Secondary power:
An accomplished bean counter
April 30, 2009 1:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Genius!
Another power: can shapeshift into Mr. Smith as played by James Stewart
April 30, 2009 11:42 AM | Reply | Permalink
wc - I want to change the secondary power to:
An accomplished pork and bean counter
April 30, 2009 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I LOVE THIS!!!
Mitch McConnel
Primary Power
Holding Positions of Power with Muted Presence
Secondary Power
Astonished Righteousness (possibly recieved too many wedgies in school)
Okay these are too word but best I could feel out my experience of this slightly Homer Simpsonish type dude.
April 30, 2009 1:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
"Cannot be killed." How true is that.
Find a place for DeMint and Michelle Bachmann in this pantheon of fulminaries and I'll buy you a donut.
Great blog.
April 30, 2009 2:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'll have to work on DeMint, but we've got">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/genghis/2009/04/republican-party-of-extraordin.php#comment-3453544">got Bachmann covered. :-)
We need an entry for Steve King, too...
April 30, 2009 12:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
DeMint
Peppermint Pat
Primary Power: Ability to pitch his freedom tent at a moment's notice
Secondary Power: Ability to level opponents with his fresh breath.
April 30, 2009 1:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
Breathtakingly astute. Super-clever presentation. I wish I was a teacher cause I'd give you A+++++
April 30, 2009 8:03 AM | Reply | Permalink
OK, so I'm going to get that award for first comparison of the day between the GOP and the Nazi party. Republicans are forcing their best and their brightest out to the fringes and at times out altogether. The Nazis did the same.
I don't think this comparison is hyperbole at all -- not when I read and hear actual Republicans speak of "purifying" their party. Truth now: Can anyone NOT be put in mind of Nazi Germany when that nonsense is said?
My conservative friend has argued to me that things were worse for the party, post-Nixon. I've stopped debating with him. He's a bright guy himself but at this point completely deluded by his own wishful thinking.
The electorate has changed. The way we communicate has changed. Our problems have changed. And the leader of the Democratic party has a high-energy plasma beam tapped right into all of that.
In sharp contrast, the leaders of what's left of the loyal opposition are a proven bunch of buffoons, capable of losing the Presidency by an electoral landslice, legislative seats on a huge sacle, safe district special elections, and now a Senator without even bothering with an election, while simultaneously losing the support of the American business community?
I've been saying for some time now that the GOP had deep problems that could jeopardize its very future. Any economic recovery by the elections of 2010 probably pushes the GOP past the point of no return. Even if they hold half the governorships and a decent number of state and local legislative seats, party membership, fundraising, infrastructure, unity, policies, and most important, the candidate pool, will all be damaged beyond any near-term repair and their identity as a national political party will end for a generation. Maybe forever.
April 30, 2009 10:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Comparing anyone who does not believe in a master race or support genocide to the Nazis is the epitome of hyperbole. Why go there? Was it necessary to make your point?
As for the "permanent Democratic majority" you envision, I give you this quote from the NYT, November 2004:
The party is led by bozos for the moment, but these things can change quickly.
April 30, 2009 10:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Let me amend that. The party has been led by bozos for a long time. But that did not stop them from controlling both houses and the presidency. The point is that the electorate is fickle.
April 30, 2009 11:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
The hallmarks of the Nazis were the myth of the master race and genocide, but I could go with fascist. Maybe a Franco or Mussolini kinduva resmblance, except w could never get the trains to run on time, nor much of anything else.
Michelle Bachmann
Primary power:
Obliviates reality
Secondary power:
Appeals like a train wreck
April 30, 2009 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doc - have you met Fred Barnes, the always wrong editor of the nonconservative rag, The Weakly (sic) Standard?
This is Fred after the 2004 election:
I love the part about a "center-right president".
Less than 5 years ago the Republican party thought it had attained its ultimate goal - a permanent majority.
And then ...
April 30, 2009 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
That is why we will NEVER take our new majorities for granted. Right Seashell. Good cite.
April 30, 2009 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
This nearly made me pee my pants. Loves it.
April 30, 2009 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
Glad to see someone else is incontinent...I'm right with you.
Brilliant post, G!
April 30, 2009 2:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
For what it's worth, many thought the Democratic Party dead many times, 1984 especially.
It's worthwhile remembering that the majority of this country don't identify themselves as Republicans.
Or Democrats either.
And as Arlene Specter shows, you can move from one side to the other. And back again. So what does that really tell you?
One final point: don't confuse the fact that the GOP is beating itself up in many ways with the idea that the Dems have a strong central ideological platform. At present, the Dems are not so much strong but rather the GOP is looking for an identity. There's a difference.
April 30, 2009 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
McConnell
Primary Power: None
Secondary Power: Blending in with the scenery
April 30, 2009 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Larry Craig - "The Wide Stance"
Primary Power:
Mindboggling hypocrisy
Secondary Power:
Bad timing
Joe Scarborough - "Morning Joe"
Primary Power:
Invulnerable to facts
Secondary Power:
Getting away with murder
Tom Friedman - "The Mangler"
Primary Power:
Mind ray that simultaneously mixes metaphors and inundates otherwise normal sentences with adverbs and adjectives that do not agree with the subject or object.
Secondary Power:
Adapts to conventional wisdom
April 30, 2009 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heh, I'm starting to think that you aren't a T. Friedman fan......
April 30, 2009 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Friedman is the worst columnist in our nation's history. Worse than Stossel. Worse than Winchell. Worse than all of Hearst's pseudonym's combined. And he has a porn-stache.
April 30, 2009 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wait--Stossel or Friedman with the porn stache? I think they both apply.
I'll give you Friedman--I liked the two books of his I've read, though "Hot,Flat, and Crowded" was a bit redundant to almost every other book I've read about global warming (except a few of his "solutions"). But his columns can be an occasional abomination. I read this week's torture one--what an ass.
April 30, 2009 6:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
I could've sworn Dr. No's secondary power was crocodile tears?
April 30, 2009 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very funny. Thanks for the pick-me-up.
April 30, 2009 7:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Very funny. Thanks for the pick-me-up.
April 30, 2009 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink