Much as I enjoy the NYTimes’ catty but clever Maureen Dowd (please remind me never get on her bad side), the Times’ funniest columnist lately day is unquestionably Gail Collins, a rising star at the Grey Lady.
In her latest column , Collins lampoons the Texas anti-tax secession “movement” and secessionist/poseur Gov. Rick “The Flying Squirrel” Perry thusly:
“We don’t want to blame all Texans for the high jinks in Austin. It’s a state full of lovely people, three-fourths of whom, according to a recent Rasmussen Reports poll, have no desire whatsoever to secede from the United States.
“But Perry really understands how that other quarter feels.”
She also draws this insightful conclusion:
“The answer is that what’s left of the Republican Party is intent on cutting off the knees of the administration before it actually manages to fulfill any campaign promises on reducing the huge economic gap between the top 5 percent of the country and the rest of the populace. In pursuit of that mission, fortune favors the hysterical and rewards politicians who behave like gerbils that just bit into an electric wire.”
And the GOP clown show continues.
It occurs that maybe what the Republicans need most is a good stool softener.