Andy Sheds Despair And Channels His Rage

I'm increasingly convinced he writes these reader emails to himself. Feel his pain. But I wouldn't recommend touching anything else. Or, maybe this one's written by Conor? No, too direct for that. heh! h/t W in email.

Palin, McConnell, DeMint, Boehner, Cantor, Rubio, Scott Brown and the rest of the Ailes- and Limbaugh-warped GOP: Would you trust any one of these goons to greet you at Wal-Mart, much less govern our country? The question answers itself. They literally care nothing for America.

I simply cannot grasp what motivates these people, what compels them to thwart even the smallest attempts to clean up the enormous destruction they wrought under Bush and Cheney. Irresponsible, hateful, mendacious, sleazy, destructive - these words do not even begin to describe them.

I am unemployed and have not found a new job after almost a year of searching. I have a mortgage. I also have a preexisting medical condition, thanks to emergency surgery I had to undergo nearly 18 months ago. My unemployment benefits expire in five months, my COBRA not long after. Like untold millions of Americans, I am preparing for the worst as the economy slogs through its agonizing turnaround.

I voted for Obama with proud but open eyes, knowing full well not just the magnitude of the tasks he faced, but the pure, unrestrained malevolence of his opposition. Health care reform will unquestionably help people like me. And now some low-rent hairdo, whose sole claim to fame is posing naked for some ladies' magazine way back when, may happily destroy whatever chance this country has at moving in a more just, humane, and morally and fiscally responsible direction.

As you stated, the Republican Party of this new century is shot through with nihilists. Unabashed nihilists. But what leaves me shaking with anger damn near every day since President Obama's inauguration is the pure smugness and nonchalance of their nihilism.

Comments

[Jeffersonian]

Ya know, it's easy to feel good about what's going on in Massachusetts tonight. But it's really hard to read Andy's anguished, tormented words and not feel even better.

[Jay Guevara]

They literally care nothing for America.

Whereas diseased British faggots are well-known for their concern for this country.

[Robert Speirs]

It is hard for a man with a kind heart to read Excitable Andy's tragic, so obviously heartfelt lament without emitting a manly belly laugh!

[Tully]

At least he didn't say "Do it for the children!"

[Chris Moore]

I have been working on a blog for about 6 months now. I didn’t really want anyone to read it until I had a solid amount of work down so people would get an idea of what it is I’m doing. I am not an ‘internet’ guy and I have had to teach myself a lot of this stuff. I have now come to the point where I would like to have a little feedback so I can see if people will even care to read it. If you have the time please check it out and give me feedback through comments on the site. Thank you, Chris Moore www.ConservativeMission.org

[Patrick Carroll]

Dear Jesus H. Christ of a suckling pig. After I committed to my wife I sold my bachelor pad out in Lawrenceville, GA, and moved into Atlanta, buying a house 2X more expensive than I ever thought I'd ever buy. I did it because she'd settle for nothing else, and I was able to find an opportunity that allowed me to pay for it.

A couple of months later that firm took a hit, and I was laid off.

Here's the deal: I made the mortgage work. I refused to sink. I found a job. I kept the house.

Soon after, I switched to being a full-time contractor: There's more stability in life when you know your job could disappear tomorrow.

Mind you, you have to keep your wits about you, as opposed to becoming a sheep.

Sort of an anti-Obama world, I suppose.

[Silicon Valley Jim]

Andrew Sullivan, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and the rest of their ilk should notice the mistletoe hanging from the rear belt loop of my jeans.

[Mike Myers]

Tough to tell what is written by Andy and what is written by one of his two or three assistants. Of course like most of the "Agony Aunties" back in dear Old Blighty the questions, and the answers, and the letters to the Agony Aunt are all done by the same person.

[David R. Graham]

Andy and his party illustrate the adage: the faults you find in others are the faults you have in yourself.

Advice for Chris Moore:

-- If you need feedback, you're not a poet.

-- Fight them because they are evil, even if it is hopeless. Fight them because that is your nature. And don't lose, make them lose. Lose your life if that's what it takes to defeat evil. You will not have lived in vain.

-- When you are doing what is right, which is what you should be doing, you will have all the resources you need, without asking for them. If you have to ask for help, you are not doing what is right.

A college degree is not a golden begging bowl. It is an summons to duty.

[rookwood]

You know, there are just way too many parts to this story to stand the smell test. Reminds me of a story from a (somewhat) newspaper blooger a few weeks ago about Joe (or some guy) who was down and out, no job, no healthcare, sick kid, turned away from hospitals, yada yada yada. A quick investigation by another reporter discovered the guy was covered under Medicaid and had been accepting treatment for his daughter from a local hospital.

Too too contrived to fit the message.

[Nomilk]

Queen Mary Jane Milky Loads has her panties in a bunch again. Happens about once a day, so no big woop.

[anon]

Andy is deranged and unbalanced. It is incomprehensible to me that The Atlantic hasn't taken him aside and told him to tone down his hysteria and stop posting about Sarah Palin's pregnancies, or possibly suggesting he see a mental health professional.

[Rick]

"Ya know, it's easy to feel good about what's going on in Massachusetts tonight. But it's really hard to read Andy's anguished, tormented words and not feel even better."

Man, I really, REALLY wish I'd said that. Well done, Jeffersonian.

Cordially...

[ambisinistral]

Isn't one of andy's new favorite words nihilism? Odd that it should pop up in that letter.

[Mark]

Must be nice to get enough in unemployment to afford the Cobra payments. I was unemployed since July and finally started a new job this week. This upset in Mass. made my week even better. Looking forward to liberals taking more hits, including whoever wrote that ignorat/propganda email to excitable andy.

[JorgXMcKie]

When I read a [purported] email like that, I have visions of laughing maniacally as I kick that idiot down the stairs. Really.

[Christopher Calandro]

Patrick Carroll? You are my hero. Especially for getting the hell out of Gwinnett County.

[Xavier]

Conor....what a sad, sad story…..very moving…..touching…..heart rendering. Now take two aspirin and STFU!

[SC Mike]

"Palin, McConnell, DeMint, Boehner, Cantor, Rubio, Scott Brown and the rest of the Ailes- and Limbaugh-warped GOP: Would you trust any one of these goons to greet you at Wal-Mart..?"

Yup, I would. They’d know that their job is customer service, taking care of the customers’ needs, not venting their own demented feelings and illogical opinions. If it were raining outside, they’d provide me with a plastic bag for my umbrella, not a tirade on how the weather gods had conspired to spoil the daylight hours with a depressing downpour.

Why bother reading his scribbling? Cannot one gain greater wisdom and understanding by studying the droppings of one’s neighbor’s dog?

[John Burgess]

It seems that some people are just constitutionally unable to step back and say, "Hey, maybe I'm wrong about this!"

There, right on the wall, it says, "Mene, Mene, Tekel u-Pharsin." But people like Andy are busy with, "Oh, look! Something shiny!!"

[AST]

Andrew S. has never realized how far he has strayed from being conservative. He has become a statist, because the populace aren't willing to grant him the wish dearest to his heart. This country is not a kritarchy, nor should be, nor is it a system of men. In the end, elections still count. None of those people whose names he hisses between gritted teeth fits his description. They all care more about America than he does. To him, this country means nothing more than the ability to claim whatever privilege he wants as an inalienable right. He couldn't care less that the nation goes broke through excessive spending, or that the rights of other citizens be diluted and destroyed in order for him to have his own will.

[Teeny Tim]

Scott Brown is a nihilist? Really? A guy who served his country for over 30 years in the military? A guy who didn't respond in kind when accused by Coakley of wanting to force hospitals to turn away all rape victims? A guy who ran a totally positive campaign based on the issues? A guy who wants to keep the government from bankrupting us, controlling every aspect of our lives, and extending the rights of American citizens to terrorist enemy combatants? A nihilist?

I don't think that word means what Andrew thinks it means.

[Steve Poling]

Nihilists? Just a little while back he was kvetching about the GOP being full of Christianist fanatic snake-handlers or something. There's just no pleasing some people.

[David Gillies]

Excitable Andy's tears of anguish are a tincture in the cocktail I am drinking right now. Yes, there'll be the inevitable come-down when we realise how low the Dems will stoop to frustrate the people's will; there are battles ahead. But right now, Sullivan's bawling stirs within me the guilty joy I got as a bratty seven year old of grabbing my sister's Barbie and hitting her on the head with it. It's mean and wrong to whale on those weaker and less fortunate (and in Sully's case, less compos mentis) than yourself, but sometimes it's a whole lot of fun.

[Lightmore]

Excitable Andy-One-Note would vote for Satan himself if he promised to legalize "ghey" "marriage".

And to think I used to respect this guy and visit his blog daily.

[Fen]

Dear Andy,

I love to ride my motorcycle around without a helmet. I know the risk, I do it anyway.

When I inevitably end up in the ICU, I'll be sure that the hospital bills you.

[Jenn]

The "diseased British faggots" comment is a pretty obvious "plant," as the kids at aintitcool say.

This allows lazy Andy and his ghost writers to attack the entire piece without dealing with the accusation.

[Alex]

The oozing entitlement from that email and the attitude that he's right and the other side is evil and the enemy explains why there will be many more Browns in the future. There is no desire in those words to figure out how to make things work with the other side - why should there be when they are nihilists and evildoers (why is it the left can only bring themselves to use the word evil in relation to the right in the US and never with islamic fundamentalism).

[Mark Well]

Re: Andy's obsession with Sarah Palin's womb. The thought occurs that if Freud was right and young girls have penis envy, perhaps infantile gays have uterus envy? Just asking.

[Gunga]

Good thing do happen to good people...but when they do, it makes the crazies just a bit crazier.

[x11b1p]

probably the first time Andy was teabagged and did not like it.

[bandit]

I'll offer some free advice to the lib losers - running against Bush and Cheney only makes you look clueless and out of touch to the rest of the country that is dealing in the present stage of reality. Maybe it works at your little hatefests but those people are already voting 4U. To everyone else it's just excuses that nobody wants to hear. They want solutions now not your endless whining.

[david r]

I feel for the guy writing that letter, but he should get over blaming Bush and recognize that we are where we are because the Dems picked someone who is unqualified to lead, just like they did with Carter. Dems love the quick fix. While the Dems have a majority in both houses, there is 10% unemployment that shows no signs of getting better, yet the poor letter writer continues to drink the Kool Aid and blame Bush. And is it me, or does the Dems' egalitarianism fall a little short when it comes to electing women? Aren't they part of their great coalition? I think women stand a much better chance of getting elected as a Republican.

P.S. "probably the first time Andy was teabagged and did not like it." -- hilarious !

[kevino]

Sully and your readers:

Get a grip on reality. The Brown-Coakley election was very much a referendum on healthcare reform. It lost. It lost in MASSACHUSETTS. Polls, including the exit poll, show that more MA voters are AGAINST the healthcare reform bills than are for it -- by 10-15%.

If Democrats have screwed up healthcare reform so badly that they can't sell it in deep blue Massachusetts, your party is really screwed up. You can't blame this on evil Republicans: this is on you.

[templar knight]

Damn, now where is that windex? I'll bill you for it, X11.

Best comment of the year, I might add!

[Joe]

I am not sure what to make of Sullivan anymore.

I remember his outrage with the Bush Medicare Drug Entitlement Expansion. I shared his outrage. It was a huge entitlement expansion with benefits going immediately to those who never paid for it. A shameless Rovian ploy to gain votes. Seriously, do you think that piece of crap helped Bush defeat Kerry?

But now Obama, who will in a matter of months have spent more in his short stay in the White House as Bush did over eight years, who is pushing through a massive change and expansion to entitlements, who has massive budget deficits for as far as the eye can see...is the adult and the conservative one? WTF? And when Republicans like Brown reject that and say we should focus on cutting taxes, government and stimluating the economy that way, he says they are nihilists and have no ideas? That was Ronald Reagan's plan! And Sullivan wonders why people think he is insane.

[mojo]

"I pulled the trigger with proud but open eyes. I didn't expect the thing to shoot me!"

[richard mcenroe]

That letter "to" Andy Sullivan is about as authentic as John Edwards letter "from" the mother who couldn't afford a winter coat for her little girl in the "Second America..."

[medulla oblongatta]

Thanks for going over and retrieving this bile. I was interested in what Sully's reaction was going to be, but I didn't want to stain my cache with his embecilic rantings.

[equitus]

"...whose sole claim to fame is posing naked for some ladies' magazine way back when."

Not just "some ladies' magazine"... is was Cosmo. Hear me? Cosmo! COSMO!!

Geez, some people don't have a clue.