‘Lemmings With Suicide Vests’

Posted by | October 1, 2013 10:16 | Filed under: Politics


That is an apt metaphor for the House Tea Party caucus, and a phrase one might expect to hear from Stephanie Miller or Ed Schultz — or (darn, I wish I’d said the) yours truly. But when it comes from a source like this, you have to sit up and take note.

Republican Congressman Devin Nunes weighed in today about the insanity of House Republicans, and particularly the Tea Party wing of the GOP, planning to shut down the entire federal government tonight at midnight because the President won’t let them defund Obamacare.

He called the GOP Tea Partyers, forcing a government shutdown when polls show the move is wildly unpopular, “lemmings with suicide vests.”

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By: dave-dr-gonzo

David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.

* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.