The conservative implosion continues

The ugly, funny-if-it-wasn’t-scary truth about our right wing overlords keeps emerging as 2012 comes to a close. Last week we learned that House Speaker John Boehner is a pathetic hostage to the Tea Party crazies in his caucus, while the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre shared his delusions at a post-Newtown press conference where he memorably intoned: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” – ignoring the fact that gun “enthusiast” Nancy Lanza was murdered by her own guns, which then slaughtered 20 first-graders and six educator-heroes, plus her disturbed and ultimately suicidal son Adam.

Then over the weekend we discovered that the late Andrew Breitbart’s empire of hate is imploding, and the ridiculous Dana Loesch is trying to use the lifeboat of labor law to flee the ship of bullies she once helmed.

Most recently, on Christmas Day those of us who loathe Dick Armey received the gift of Amy Gardner’s Washington Post expose, which detailed the way he tried to take over FreedomWorks backed by a gun-toting thug, and wound up, defeated, with an $8 million golden parachute. Here’s the gist:


[Armey] walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey’s enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks’ top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.

Yes, the attempted coup took place over Labor Day weekend, but the fact that the factions are continuing to use the media for revenge is just another sign that the forces of backlash unleashed in 2009 are coming undone.

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/the_conservapocalypse_continues/