rational geekery

Justin has a great post on the collapsed bailout. Following reports that the GOP are blaming Senate leader Nancy Pelosi for their own people voting against the bill - on the grounds that she was excessively "partisan", Justin had this to say ::

Who can really blame them? Faced with helping to save millions of jobs and homes (if not lives) who amongst us wouldn’t put our bruised pride, our eggshell egos first? I remember the time I let that little kid drown. He’d called me ‘fat privates’ the day before. It’s the Republican way and we should follow their lead.

It’s something you see quite often from quite a few right-wingers and not just in America. I call it the Withnail Syndrome. One minute they’re all roaring ‘WHICH FUCKER SAID THAT?!’ and the next, when confronted, it’s all ‘I have a heart condition… I have a heart condition. If you hit me it’s murder’.

*clap clap clap*