Monday, August 4th, 2008
Joe Republican and the American Crossroads (Part 2): Neal Boortz’s Wet Dream

A Day in the Life of a True Conservative
Source Unknown (First seen on Thom Hartmann’s web site)
Additions by J. A. Baker

Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.

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Joe Republican and the American Crossroads (Part 1): The Way We Were

Posted at 20:05
by J. A. Baker
in Politics; GOP Bizarro World; Election '08; Good Stuff

Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m mostly using these two posts to reprint the two most forwarded versions of the “Joe Republican/Joe Conservative” story. But I do so because the stories carry a degree of truth that we can no longer ignore. America is at a crossroads in this election, and the choice we in 92 days will determine whether we start to reverse the damage done by eight years of a president in the pocket of Big Oil, or continue our free fall off The Cliffs of Insanity* (in our Handbasket to Hell). For the most part, I will leave the original(s) intact. However, I will be adding perhaps a line or two to the second allegory in response to some right-wing rhetoric that I feel needs to be nipped in the bud.

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