by Michael Skinner

Created on: June 07, 2009   Last Updated: November 05, 2010

Fortunately, the torture party has passed into history.  It went into the ash heap of history  under the guidance of Dick Cheney, whose only military action was to get drunk, sneak up on a friend and shoot him in the face and Rush Limbaugh, who received a military deferment for an anal cyst; the conservatives will rally around the notion, that people who differ from the party stalwarts by race or religion, should be tortured on general principles.

Limbaugh, who demonstrated loyalty and perseverance by divorcing four wives and Cheney, who demonstrated devotion to the military as well as physical courage by getting deferred five times, are the proper standard bearers for the modern Republican Party. When you consider that the present state of affairs for the Grand Old Party was ushered in by George Bush, a conservative, who spent money like a drunken sailor, bankrupted the nation, and got the US into an unnecessary, illegal, nation building war in Iraq; the Republicans should be known as a party of lying hypocrites, who will torture anyone that frightens them, any time they feel scared.

Although Rush Limbaugh is the nation's loudest blow-hard, I think that the true leader of the Republican Party must be Dick Cheney. Dick Cheney cemented this role in my mind by his participation in the outing of a deep cover CIA agent for purely political reasons, holding a secret energy summit, the likely purpose of which was to raise the price of gas to $4 a gallon and finally forcing the CIA to twist and cherry pick intelligence; to support an unnecessary war in Iraq and then blaming the CIA when it all went wrong. There has been no bigger screw up on the national stage than Dick Cheney. He is a world class screw up and proud of it. Anyone who is stupid and proud of it, is the natural leader of the Republican Party. Gosh, it was so hard to pass up Rush Limbaugh for this "honor", but actions speak louder than words.

A dark horse candidate for the face of the party is Sarah Palin. Since she is still doing things like quitting the Alaska governor's job and then saying she is not a quitter, one can say she is still stupid after all these years. Conservatives like stupid, after all they loved George Bush.

One of the more interesting up an coming movements which, Thank God, might replace the old guard of the Republican Party is the Tea Party.  Among the Tea Party are some true patriots who believe in the concept of limited government and  who are not stealth communists or overt fascists.  There are also Birther and Truther nutz amongst the Tea Party but every party needs some party animals.

For those who don't know Birthers consider that the current occupant of the White House is a foreign born Marxist Muslim named Barry Soetoro whose rise to power was illegal because he is not a citizen.  Truthers think that George Bush attacked the United States on 9-11.  I can not hang with Truthers since in my estimation George Bush has never shown himself capable of attacking a bowl of pretzels so I do not believe he attacked his own country.

The Tea Party won the congress in November 2010.  Let us see what they will do with it.  A good start would be to cut the funding for NPR and the Department of Education to $0.00.  The EPA should be next to be reduced in size, scope and cost.

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