June 11, 2006

The national flap over the genuinely nasty Ann Coulter is actually a tempest in a teapot. Coulter represents, very clearly, a portion of the Republican Party that delights in executions, torture, physical control of minorities, special economic privileges, total support for Israel, gross religious intolerance for everyone not a white-bread right winger, and anyone not white. Coulter is cold and calculating (and a great deal older than she lets on…one more face lift and she’ll have to shave every day!) People like Bush and his trained dwarves love her because she so clearly articulates their own wizened souls. Like the crazy DaVinci Code novel, Coulter has her circle of devoted followers and delights in making vicious jabs at widows and mourning mothers that would make even Cheney wince. Most of the decent people on the White House staff have left the Monkey Palace quite a while ago and they have been quickly replaced with the Coulter types. What, one wonders, will happen when the giant Permanent Republican Control shatters to pieces? Where will these shallow, vicious people find work? Gassing kittens at the ASPCA? Masked pedophiles lurking near playgrounds in unmarked vans? We ought to stuff the lot of them in the torture cells at Gitmo and give them all sharp razor blades with the hopes they will use them. Gitmo is America’s Auschwitz in all its fascistic glory. And creeps like Cheney and Rumsfeld won’t be able to make huge, illegal profits from their various under-the-table investments in government supported companies. In the meantime, we have to deal with Coulter, the latter-day Bitch of Belsen.