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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Republicans On the Playground


Republicans are not just those bullies who bark to distract from their wee willies, they are also those brats who expect there will always be somebody handy to clean up their messes for them (and who abuse and deride the ones who do clean up their messes, precisely because they do). The rest of us really should stop pretending otherwise until they clean up their act.

1 comment:

jimf said...

> . . .not just those bullies who bark to distract from their
> wee willies. . .

Of course, this is a characterization of bullies that
prepetuates the (increasingly discredited, one gathers)
notion that bullies are that way because they're really
suffering from low self-esteem.

Roy Baumeister (author of _Evil: Inside Human Violence and
Cruelty_
http://www.amazon.com/Evil-Inside-Human-Violence-Cruelty/dp/0805071652 )
is one of the contemporary psychologists who now suggest
that bullies in fact have (as common sense might lead one to
expect) exceedingly **high** self-esteem. Their willies are
in fact bigger than yours, and they bully because they **can**
(and they're entitled because of their big willies, big
muscles, big brains, big mouths, and other personal advantages).

Challenge or expose their narcissism for what it is, though,
and you'd better run for the hills Mr. McCoy, because
Mr. Hatfield wants **your** willy for the pickle barrel.