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July 13, 2013

The Flying Monkey Caucus

Charles P. Pierce certainly is fired up over at Esquire. Rightfully so: The Republican Farm Bill drops food stamps for the poorest while keeping plenty of subsidies for big agribusiness.

Earlier this week, [Speaker John] Boehner pretended he was leading the House when Steve King and the flying-monkey caucus pretty much killed off the possibility of immigration reform for the balance of the president’s second term. Republican senators wanted a bill. Republican power brokers wanted a bill. Hell, Boehner wanted a bill. But the House is not being led by John Boehner at the moment. He is no more the actual Speaker Of The House than Julia Louis-Dreyfuss is vice-president of the United States. The House Of Representatives is being led by the vicious and demented Id of one of the two major political parties that we have allowed ourselves to have in this country. The House Of Representatives speaks with the savage vocabulary of ancient and durable prejudice. The House Of Representatives speaks with the twisted syntax of frustrated white supremacy. The House Of Representatives speaks with the cruel and singular voice of unreasoning prejudice and inhumanity. There is no Speaker Of this House. The Id speaks, and it speaks for them all.

via Republican Party Farm Bill – The Republican Flying Monkeys Triumph – Esquire.

Harry Reid: I Feel Sorry For John Boehner (VIDEO) (huffingtonpost.com)
House Republicans cheer as they pass farm bill without food stamps or a future (dailykos.com)
Anti-Immigration Hard-Liners Remain Most United in GOP Caucus (usnews.com)
“What’s A Speaker To Do?”: The Farm Bill Failure Has Disastrous Implications For John Boehner (mykeystrokes.com)
Republicans frantically whipping votes for divided farm bill (dailykos.com)

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

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Tags: agribusiness, Charles P. Pierce, Congress, dailykos, Esquire, flying monkeys, food stamps, House of Representatives, John Boehner, poverty, racism, Steve King, United States, United States farm bill, unreasoning prejudice

One response to “The Flying Monkey Caucus”

mileswhoward

July 13, 2013 at 10:09 am

“The House Of Representatives is being led by the vicious and demented Id of one of the two major political parties that we have allowed ourselves to have in this country.”

I would argue this also applies to the constituents who have enabled the current House and emboldened their resolve to gut social services for the poor; as if they’re the sole bane to our existence right now. It’s tragically misguided.

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