I love Roy Blunt. What a scaz. He dumped his old used-up wife about 10 years ago, in favor of a new, better lubricated model. Now he is the leading house guy promoting family values.

i think blunt loved the joke and had to tell it to his right wing nut supporters. i think blunt probably heard it told that way associated with washington by some lobbyist or other asshole.

it teaches that government is the problem. and it does so -- these days -- with a nice juicy racist innuendo.

blunt must think he is cool as shit.

Not only did Roy the Adulterer fuck around while married, he did it with a lobbyist. He attempted to subvert legislation under her direction, because if he did so, she would do more interesting things in the bedroom.

Maybe if we don't want the media to see race everywhere (see next post by Steve), we should stop seeing it everywhere. Just a thought.

It is hilarious - Blunt and the republicans are the monkeys in this: they are the ones swooping in on the healthcare reform and throwing the ball with their lies about death panels and all the rest of that bollocks.

... and they can't even spot the analogy? deeply amusing.

Eh. The crowd also thought Carrie "Miss Disgusted" Prejean was hilarious. Never mistake malicious stupidity for mere malice.

Ok, so monkey balls are the new symbol of Republican political thought in today's Washington culture. Good to know.

Roy Blunt: "Why does Steve Benen always play the race card?"

That's the thing with these guys. Many of them are racists, and when you call them on it, they put you on defense.

Note to all Dems...With regard to politics, go on attack and stay on attack. When you're on defense, you're losing.

And every now and then an elephant storms out of the jungle and stomps all the golfers to bits, or a tiger pops out and eats the golfers for lunch. That's the part I like.

"Note to all Dems...With regard to politics, go on attack and stay on attack. When you're on defense, you're losing."

Absolutely correct. When you're explaining, you're losing.

The Repukeliscum are a target-rich environment. Blunt is a serial adulterer. Why don't people pull that out? Get him on his heels. He's a turd. His entire family is degenerate. His son, Matt, Governor of MO in the last term, only lasted one term, and is now a lobbyist.

Go after them with hammer and tongs.

Even leaving out the racist bit about monkeys, which of course was the whole point of Blunt's story, is he even aware that the British soldiers were OCCUPYING India at the time? Only a Republican could make the British Army the sympathetic figures here.

I understand the poor blokes also had to continually restock their supply of rubber bullets after they shot them at Catholics in Northern Ireland...

Republicans apparently like to infer the broadest possible meaning, even if it doesn't logically follow, from the statements and actions of others. Jimmy Carter said that some of the opposition to President Obama is based on racism, and Blunt interprets this as "You're a racist if you disagree with Obama's policies." When Bush's wiretapping program was revealed and Democrats said he shouldn't be wiretapping without authorization (a crime), Bush interpreted this as "Democrats don't want us to catch terrorists." Why do we let them get away with this? It's a rhetorical question. I wonder how we possibly could respond to such bullshit without sounding like whiners.

If Blunt has been telling this story for more than a year I'll give him a pass on overt racism (not on venality and ignorance); if not, it just reconfirms what we already knew about him.

It's a strange tendency of these old white guys who don't like to be called racists to prove their point by telling jokes about monkeys. Is this possibly a form of Tourette Syndrome?

Actually, it's pretty funny. Someone told this to me about forty years ago, the first time I heard it, and it had nothing to do with race. It's a resigned acceptance of pragmatic necessity in D.C. You begin work with what you've got before you, and not necessarily what you want. I won't argue, however, that Blunt The C*** used it as a racist dig. I put nothing past those peckerwoods.

I trust somebody has this on tape, and can play it during an attack ad. Let Blunt explain two weeks before the election how comparing Obama to a monkey wasn't racist when a reasonably skilled tv producer does some editing with video of the President of the United States awarding the Medal of Honor, or something, and some basic stats on veterans denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions in Missouri.

But I can't resist adding my personal favorite British Empire golf course story: the British never thought the Japanese could attack Singapore, and what defenses they had prepared, which were pretty formidable, all faced the wrong way. BEHIND Singapore, through a narrow peninsula, is how the Japanese -- riding bikes, of all ungentlemanly things -- successfully outflanked them. It was a true military disaster, of which the Brits had considerably more than their share, as befits an empire on which the sun never set (until it did).

But there is something uniquely British about the way the Singapore defeat finally happened -- scrambling to defend against the Japanese and their bikes, the desperate, doomed British army realized that the best ground for trying to hold 'em off outside the city was a fancy golf course for the colonial elite. So, being British officers, they drove their trucks full of soldiers to the club's offices.

Which responded, in all seriousness, that they would certainly take up the question of Army use of the facilities.

At the very next scheduled meeting.

Who cares about the monkey? The real issue is, Roy Blunt is so elitist that he even tells golf jokes! Most probably, he plays golf, too. Typical for the beltway upper ten. Good ole bowling, softball or football isn't good enough for them! How detached from middle class Americans can a Congressman be?
Tell that to his voters!

Bob Cesca: "...if the Democrats don't cut the crap with all this bipartisan horseshit, my head is going to explode. These Republicans do not deserve one second of deference from anyone. They're quite possibly the most cartoonish and flagrantly self-contradictory group of political doofs in American history."

Republican: "Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger, socialist facist commie Arab muslim Indonesian Kenyan Hitler Peron nigger nigger nigger! You lie! Not in My House! Grovel! Die! Nigger!."

Democrat: "Hey! Ain't that a bit racist?"

Republican: "Oh . . . throw the race card! Always the race card!"

Democrat: "Sorry. Won't do it again. So you disagree with Obama. Where can we find common ground?"

Republican: "Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger, socialist facist commie Arab muslim Indonesian Kenyan Hitler Peron nigger nigger nigger! You lie! Not in My House! Grovel! Die! Nigger!."

Blunt should have a 'ball' with the sublimnals in this little ditty:

http://www.8bm.com/diatribes/volume02/028/573.htm

"Republican: "Nigger nigger nigger nigger nigger, socialist facist commie Arab muslim Indonesian Kenyan Hitler Peron nigger nigger nigger! You lie! Not in My House! Grovel! Die! Nigger!".

Michael Richards (aka Kramer) could do himself some good (PR-wise) if he incorporated his unfortunate rant into a you tube video that attacked dog whistle racism in American politics.

Blunt and his audience are a shit filled abomination. Enough said?

I don't give Blunt a pass. I don't give any Republicans a pass. After decades of race-baiting they're the Party of Rich White Assholes. Period. End of discussion.

"I don't give Blunt a pass. I don't give any Republicans a pass. After decades of race-baiting they're the Party of Rich White Assholes. Period. End of discussion".

Great minds think alike, Max.

Odd that Blount would talk about monkeys when he is not very far up the evolutionary ladder himself.

Sorry, I think this is pretty thin gruel for a racism charge. It's an amusing anecdote about the way that outcomes are not entirely under one's control.

Rush's recent comments about the school bus beating seems like a much better candidate for outrage.

Who are the monkeys in this story? It's Republicans that delight in causing chaos for the governing party and nation, so to make any sense out of Blunt telling it, he must be whistling a racist tune.

Except, Republicans are also notorious for hyper projection, taking their truest and most ugly traits and putting them on everybody else, so actually on second thought his inner self realizes he's the monkey, but he wishes it were the other way around.

Who knows? And, does anybody know where the real monkeys pitched the balls? Up the fairway more often than in the rough? So little time, so much of it wasted. The less this shrinking faction is covered in the press, the better.

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