"Tell me, or I will make you do terrible things"
by digby
You probably already saw this, but just in case you haven't, here's Newtie's spokesman earlier today:
"The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding," Tyler wrote in an e-mail. "Washington cannot tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world."
He continued: "The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness.They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment's cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods. Now they are left exposed by their bylines and handles."
As for Gingrich's role in this drama, Tyler cast him as a fantasy hero straight out of Arthurian legend.
"But surely they had killed him off," he wrote. "This is the way it always worked. A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won't be intimidated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces."
TPM notes that this is fitting considering the novels his boss has been writing for years. Some of you oldsters will recall this passage, which was later deleted from his novel 1945 when people realized that the leader of the Family Values Republicans probably should keep his turgid ... prose in his pants.
'Suddenly the pouting sex kitten gave way to Diana the Huntress. She rolled onto to him and somehow was sitting athwart his chest, her knees pinning his shoulders. 'Tell me, or I will make you do terrible things,' she hissed.'
‘Even though it had been only minutes since their last lovemaking, John Mayhew was as ever overwhelmed by the sight of her, the shameless pleasure she took in her own body and its effect on him. Since he wasn't sure what to say, he made a production out of lighting up and enjoying that first, luxurious after-bout inhalation.’"
She teased the panther.
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