From Anger to Laughter

I was appauled when I watched Zell Miller. Then I looked into him a bit more. He is clearly addled. I want to show a bit more flip floppage.

The real story of what happened to ‘We the people’ is that the Republicans sold us out, with a generation of trickle-down economics that blew the deficit sky-high, drove poverty through the roof, squeezed the middle class like a lemon at a county fair. They gave themselves the gold mine and they gave the rest of us the shaft.

--Zell Miller, 1996

Just two years ago, Miller expressed support for the creation of a 9/11 commission with "far-reaching powers," one that will deliver a "full and complete accounting of the circumstances surrounding the attacks." But last week, he took to the Senate floor to blast Richard Clarke and declare that the Commission will "energize our enemies and demoralize our troops." Miller went on to accuse the President's critics of treason

Miller is admirably contrite about his 1960s flirtation with Jim Crow. He expresses particular regret for having called Lyndon Johnson "a Southerner who has sold his birthright for a mess of dark porridge," and pleads guilty not to racism but to having "followed the Pied Piper into the quicksand of political expediency."

His interview with Chris Matthews showed what dementia does. And it is sad:

( Portion of the aggressive and insane Zig-Zag Zell Miller behind cut )

 

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