Wed 5 Apr 2006
I came back from the Young Dems of Georgia Convention this weekend thinking that there’s a serious flaw in the concept of letting 22 and 23 year olds run a political organization, but as always, national news reminds me that we’ve got bigger problems as a party than kids being kids.
The Republican Party, as we all know, seems to be coming apart faster than a medium sized Arab country that ends with a ‘Q,’ but even in this shining moment when the only thing dominating the headlines should be TOM “THE HAMMER” DELAY WITHDRAWS FROM RACE BEFORE HE WINDS UP IN FEDERAL POKEY, we have to go and steal the thunder of incompetence and crank it up to 11. Rather than lay low and allow the real news to be about criminal behavior having consequences for corrupt politicians, Atlanta’s own Cynthia McKinney has to jump up and down screaming, “Wait! Wait! Look at me! I’m crazy, too! Hey press, don’t forget us! We’ve got wackjobs over here, too!”
Yeah, I said it. Wack. Job. I can’t flip on the TV today without watching Congresswoman McKinney sit there with a smug smirk on her face, not answering the obvious questions while her lawyers offer up vague non sequiturs and the interviewer gets more and more testy. When McKinney does pipe up, it’s to dodge the issue even more and ramble on and on with her pre-written tirade while blithely ignoring everything the interviewer says. And then, like a tennis player returning to ready position, she resumes her crazyface.
Yeah, I said it. Crazyface. To wit:
Like good liberals, the folks over at Blog for Democracy are getting into it with each other, arguing about racism, anti-semitism and gay-bashing while we let the sweet sweet taste of Tom Delay going down in flames fade away. I’ve resisted all day jumping into the fracas to defend white male Democrats who can think Cynthia McKinney is a nut without it being about racism or misogyny. Lady, get off your high horse — it ain’t ’cause you’re black, it’s ’cause you got crazy eyes! I don’t care if you’re the Runaway Bride or the Runaway Congresswoman, when you hit a cop, you done screwed up; “inappropriate grabbing” my arse. And really, if you’re not going to answer the damn questions, just stay the hell off the TV-box and let the media frenzy go swarm around that Texas criminal where it should be, you don’t have to accept any of those invitations. I would not be surprised a lick if this thing was entirely orchestrated so McKinney could get some free airtime when she knows there’s no other way to get it.
