'Republican Survivor' spoofs party: Democratic Congress members behind Web-based cartoon
Now THIS is a game I can get behind. If only it were so easy....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Want to vote a Republican off the island? How about all of them?
If so, Democratic congress members are here to help with a new Web-based cartoon program, "Republican Survivor."
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Rep. Katherine Harris and conservative commentator Ann Coulter are the cartoon contestants in a program patterned after the hit reality television show "Survivor," in which contestants live in harsh conditions and one is voted off each week by TV viewers.
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia makes a late appearance as the "immunity fairy," whose function is to designate contestants who can't be voted off the island.
The cartoon moderator, no friend of any of them, says the overall instructions are to "lie, cheat, steal, coddle, cuddle and pander. In other words, do what comes naturally to you."
Interesting, isn't it, that George W. Bush and his ilk ran for election on the idea of "restoring dignity to the White House". Yet his lies and deceptions have resulted in the deaths of more than 800 American servicemen in Iraq. Tom DeLay has consistently used his non-profit organization to skirt campaign finance laws. Dick Cheney seems to have been just a wee bit too cozy with Halliburton. Antonin Scalia seems not to care that he has made a joke of the Supreme Court's supposed impartiality. John Ashcroft sees no contradiction in destroying our Constitutional rights in order to save them. Katherine Harris, if not for her complicity in the theft of the 2000 Presidential election, would still be mired in the anonymity she so richly deserves.
In short, Republicans have proven to be no more honest than the Democrats they derided for their "dishonesty". They have, however, in the case of George W. Bush, proven to be a significantly greater risk to the lives of American soldiers.
We deserve better....
