Bullseye!

Writing in "The American Spectator," Andrew Cline of the New Hampshire Union Leader comes up with a deadly accurate satire that skewers the GOP with surgical precision: "Pigs Take Wing". Here's how it begins:

WASHINGTON -- The Republican Party announced yesterday its members in Congress have sold the party's spine to the rival Democratic Party for a small slice of pork.

"Some have questioned whether the Republican Party still had a spine," read the press release issued after Republicans helped Democrats pass a massive farm bill yesterday. "Today we proved that we do have one by removing it from storage and selling it to the Democrats for some much-coveted pork."

"What a deal!" exclaimed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky. "I got a tax break for racehorse owners, and all it cost us was one lousy elephant backbone that nobody even used anyway! Awesome!"

Go read the rest of it – then try very hard to come up with one good reason to vote for any of these whores. I've been trying my best, but I keep coming around to "the lesser of two evils" rationalization.

When you get right down to the basics, though, "to rationalize" means "to tell ourselves rational lies."

One other consideration keeps gnawing at me: the lesser of two evils – is still evil.