And Now... A Few Words About Jo Ann Emerson

An office corral mate of mine rode the Pink Pony today and said, "Wow, you're really tearing into that lady!" And that made me get all reflective. Am I being too mean to the distinguished Representative from the great state of Missouri (as re-imagined above (click for bigger!) by Pony Pal™ Senior Fellow Uncle Splatty)? Am I a bad pony? Gosh, what did Jo Ann Emerson ever do to me? Is it going too far to publish such obviously churlish pictures like this one, sent in by Krimpet:

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And then I snapped out of it, because Jo Ann Emerson epitomizes the absolute worst of the Republican Party. She was a lobbyist, and then married a Congressman, and then became a Congressman when he died, and then remarried... a lobbyist! She's an anti-hairdresser bigot, she's against a woman's right to choose how to handle certain medical decisions (kids, ask your parents), she hypocritically embraces the Christian fundamentalists even as she attends ridiculous new-agey "love seminars" in Santa Barbara... do I really have to go on? She's a Bush-toadyin', phony-baloney glad-handler with a devil-may-care conservative agenda who only once --once!-- bucked the Republican machine by timidly mumbling her support for stem cell research. This blatantly awful woman is riding high on a wave of misery, idiocy and madness. Fuck her. Oops! I mean LOVE HER LOVE HER LOVE HER!!

OMG, if you want to see the scariest thing you've ever seen in your whole entire life, courtesy Pony Pal™ z7q2, click the picture below: