Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president

Anyone who knows me knows I love a good rant (just ask me sometime about the normalizaton of millitary uniforms in fashion-- do you think Hitler would have been half as popular with the kids if Hugo Boss hadn't designed the uniforms? ). And I have to say Garrison Kellior has a great one in the middle of his excellent essay for the August 26th In These Times
"We're not in Lake Woebegone Anymore"

Here's the best passage, if your'e in a hurry:

"The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong’s moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt’s evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk. Republicans: The No.1 reason the rest of the world thinks we’re deaf, dumb and dangerous."

excellent.