Charlie Pierce kicks Dancin' Dave in the nuts

Welcome to NBC News where the primary qualification for stardom is making sure that Rush Limbaugh doesn't shout loudly enough on the radio about what you're doing for your bosses to hear it.

We have had our fun with the Dancin' Master, but it's past time to recognize that the way he does business is actively hurting the politics of this country and, therefore, thousands of people that he does not know, and would not give a passing glance if he passed them on the street and their heads were on fire. It's not just the smugness, or the fact that his panels generally would not have been out of place in Versailles in 1789. or the resolute determination not to explain what is plainly in front of him. It's the fact that all of this adds up to an deliberately cultivated obliviousness to what's really going on in the country. Get off the veranda on the Vineyard and report something. It started right off on Sunday.

There is one reason and one reason alone why "Congress" is not "doing its job." "Congress," at the moment, is in the complete thrall of the Reign Of The Morons, now entering its third smash week. This is plain to everyone with eyes. This is plain to everyone who doesn't think Paul Ryan to be a visionary, Ted Cruz to be a prophet, or Sarah Palin to be Cathleen ni fking Houlihan. The Republican party, as a perfect manifestation of everything it has been about since at least 1980, has determined to commit vandalism on the American political commonwealth. The Republican party, as a result of everything it has been about since at least 1980, has become fundamentally demented and has taken to screaming in the streets. David Gregory, quite simply, is too much of an abject chickenshit to acknowledge this fundamental reality.

(And before you start, remember how thoroughly NBC was in the tank for the Iraq war, and how thoroughly all of them ignored the antiwar movement before that little adventure started.)


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