The Assholes Are Crying! The Assholes Are Crying!

The father of disgraced lobbyist/GOP-helping heathen Jack Abramoff is tattling to news reporters that George Clooney's remarks about Abramoff's last name at last week's Golden Globes ceremony--Clooney lewdly compared it to the term "jackoff"--made Jack's itty-bitty baby-waby 12 year-old daughter cry. CRY!! OBviously she was watching the show with the wrong crowd--she coulda come to the Cabinet's GG gathering for chili dogs and cheeba, and she would have had a lot more fun.

This comes on the heels of prospective Supreme Court judge Samuel Alito, Jr.'s wife, Martha-Ann, "breaking down" and blubbering, her little lip aquiver, because the committee members' questions were apparently hurting her sensitive feelings. If you ask me, the only thing hurting was my sweet tooth, which apparently isn't as easily manipulated as most folks' when somebody else so obviously cries a big load of crocodile tears. She's the wife of a judge and she freaking cries when he's under pressure? Has this woman not left her house in the past few decades?! (Okay, maybe we shouldn't pursue an answer to that question.)

Does anybody else feel sick when they realize that the GOP so successfully uses the bully pulpit while it's also playing the emotional card?