These Go to Eleven

I have been mulling over the current Republican dilemma for days. At first I thought the Republican Party may be like the Martian machines in War of the Worlds. Earth's natural germs would defeat them because they were being eaten from the inside out. Then I realized the degree to which the media is helping them commit political suicide. American news organizations have become so corporate in nature that their pundits will say absolutely anything to keep raking in their millions. How much is too much? The right wing answer in America has become, "But these go to 11". The right wing of American politics has completely lost its dictionary that defined wretched excess. When you have reached ten, where else are you going to go?

Where they are going is down with the ship of fools that call themselves real American Christians. They have painted themselves into a corner. They have turned all the Marshall amps up to 10, and they feel they have no choice but to go to 11. Spinal Tap made a desperate attempt at a national reunion tour, but they couldn't even display the real cover of Smell the Glove. What they want is for Sarah Palin to stand up and yell kill all the liberals and have Michael Steele kiss her butt and present the Nazi salute as he exits stage right.

The mainstream media are handing out anchors, not life jackets. There is no 11, you morons. Like most power amps, the American voters only go up to 10. If you try to push them any harder than that, all you will get is distortion and a lot of feedback you may not like. The harder the pundits try to push the agenda of the right wing crazies on us, the closer we get to loading up the lifeboats with all the moderates and Independents we can carry.

America gets crazier every day. At least that's the way it seems if you watch much cable news or keep up with the real news on the net. Whereas the record label had enough sense to put the kabosh on the sexist nonsense Spinal Tap actually wanted on the cover of Smell the Glove, the MSM is doing much of nothing to squelch the right wing's screams toward 11. Tap wanted to show a naked girl wearing a dog leash attached to a macho heavy metal musician, and I'm sure the original German release of Scorpions' Virgin Killer inspired that idea. The wingers want to stomp their feet and shout out for a zero percent tax rate on billionaires, hoping we don't get the joke in the name of religious fervor. The only thing that keeps me from laughing my head off about the whole affair is that I know there is always a possibility these clowns will regain power and bring their whole Nazi regime down on the rest of us. Of course if I was truly concerned that these hatemongerers would succeed, I wouldn't be comparing them to a rock and roll band that is really a band of clowns. Didn't Stephen King write a book in which a clown was the monster?