Well, I sure called that one.

A couple of days ago I posted that it wouldn't be long before the Republicans went to work to lose their new power in Congress.
Yesterday someone posted on Facebook that that idiot Mike Huckabee is going to push for a federal law outlawing gay marriage which is now legal in 32 states. It will be in three more because the federal appelate courts have paved the way for it.

Someone else said they heard a Republican mumbling something about abortion which in unconfirmed but it sounds like par golf to me. The Republicans are already working hard at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

And so it begins. The Republicans are already setting themselves up for a shellacking like they have never seen in '16. Make way for Hillary Clinton and a congress of Democrats.

Keep talking, Huckabee. Maybe if you keep it up you'll talk the American public into voting in a supermajority in both houses on top of putting Hillary at the top.

Picture Piccolo, 100 pounds heavier in an ill-fitting suit, a fedora and a big cigar as a big shot in the RNC. There's Mike Huckabee sitting across from me.

"Mike. It's like this. Keep your mouth shut. Stay away from the social issues. I mean it."

"OK, Boss."


Two weeks later, there's Piccolo at RNC HQ watching Fox and who appears? Why, it's none other than Mike Huckabee! There he is in front of Bill O'Reilly babbling away about how they ought to outlaw abortion, saying that women can't get pregnant from rape, and how they ought to keep marijuana illegal because it makes college kids rape goats. Along with a few other politically stupid things.

Piccolo picks up the phone. "Don Corleone. I need a favor... Yes, Don Corleone... I'll make that go away...Please send Frankie, Johnny Three Fingers, Vito, and Louie the Strangler over. I have a little job for them...You are too kind, Sir....Thank you."

A few hours later. "OK,youse guys. I want you to find that jerk Mike Huckabee and yank his vocal cords out with a pair of needle-nosed pliers. After that I want both his big toes chopped off," says Piccolo, handing out four envelopes.

Three months later Mike Huckabee arrives having been summoned to RNC HQ. Piccolo knows he's coming and has a sign language interpreter sitting in the room with him. He also has his office door open so he can watch Huckabee arrive.

Huckabee started lurching down the hall. Bam! he hits the wall. Pow, he glances off of the coke machine and falls into someone else's office and lurches back into the hall, glancing off the fire extinguisher and bouncing off of the opposite wall.

The interpreter looks at Piccolo. "Nice touch chopping off both his big toes," he says. "That'll keep him off the platforms."

Piccolo grins. "Thanks. I learned it from Don Corleone himself," he replies. "He used to do that to numbers runners that cheated him. After that they couldn't walk much less run."

Huckabee approaches the door and enters, bouncing from the jamp and hitting the open door. The door hits the wall with a loud bang. Then he bounces off of the chair back and falls into it.

"Well, Mike," says Piccolo. "I see you learned to keep your mouth shut."

Huckabee opens his mouth and a gargling sound comes out."

"Whadja say, Mike?" asks Piccolo. "You don't sound so good. You don't seem to get around too good, either, Mike. I guess your political career is over, huh? Too bad."

Huckabee's eyes open in realization that his situation wasn't a random mugging. He's as white as a ghost. He gets up and starts to stumble out, hitting the door, the jamb and lurches his way down the hall, bouncing off the walls along the way.

Piccolo looks at the ASL interpreter and smiles. "I think we might have to have a  little talk with Rick Santorum," he says."But let him have a few words with Mike first and see if he smartens up on his own. Of course that's doubtful. That's why I keep Don Corleone on speed dial."

That's about what it is going to take for the Republicans to stay in office come '16.


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