In Which I Continue To Despair Of The Rebranding

By Charles P. Pierce at 2:00PM
 

Tout le Beltway is abuzz over the double-barrelled attempt by National Affairs -- Motto: Conservatism Without Crayons -- to arrest the spread of the prion disease currently making the brains of the Republican party, and of American conservatism generally -- bleed out. I will pass over the one co-authored by the insufferable Michael Gerson because Gerson was a word-whore for the Avignon Presidency who has been attempting with varying degrees of pathetic to leave behind the perfumed lies he concocted on behalf of bloodthirsty morons and is thus unworthy of serious consideration. (If Gerson's pet war had not been the obvious catastrophe it has been, then Gerson would be down in College Station, polishing with his own dick the marble statue of C-Plus Augustus.) The other piece -- by Michael Strain -- which proposes a Republican push on a "jobs" plan is far more interesting because it contains within it political matter and political anti-matter in such close proximity that the piece ultimately annihilates itself.