Next Time, Please Don’t Sugar Coat It
Posted by
tgirsch
From a DCCC fundraiser/action e-mail from Paul Begala:
Apparently, it didn’t take long for the “Grand Oil Party” to come unglued. After I called their fat-cat funders a bunch of dirtbags in my email to you on Sunday, they started squealing like a pig stuck under a gate.
House Republicans are crying so hard over my “dirtbag” comment, you’d think they just found out they were forced to spend the Fourth of July quail-hunting with Dick Cheney.
So I want to take a minute to do something I don’t do often enough: apologize. I am very sorry for calling those fat-cat plutocrat Republicans “dirtbags.” Doing so was grossly unfair. To bags of dirt. After all, dirt is good. Things grow from the dirt. I myself raise tomatoes and corn and pumpkins, jalapenos and cucumbers and lettuce - all from the good earth.
No, it was too kind, too generous to call them dirtbags. Probably better to call them oilbags or toxic-waste-bags or chemical-pollutant-bags. So I’m sorry.
Ha!
[As a side note, I didn’t really read the “from” at first, and from the sound of this, I expected it to be Carville.]
