The MPS Tribute to XristiM: The Churlish Carbuncles and Toadies
The MPS tribute to our fallen comrad, Xristi, continues. Using her own words is the best way to remember Xristi.
Please note that there is now a “Xristi” category. Anytime you want a quote, you can click on that link and find the quotes.
Various scafflows within the Bush Administration were a favorite target. Small fry first to the big Kahuna.
On Mehlman
- I’ve always thought there’s a strong family resemblance between Mr. Santorum and Mr. Mehlman — I mean, apart from any other relationship they might share.
- Am I the only one who can’t escape the odd sensation that there is an almost familial level of resemblance between Mehlman and Tony Snow? Maybe it’s the carefully coifed hair and button-down-everything style of dress…or (sinister music in minor key here) is it “something else”?… Of course, it could just be that neither can construct a declarative sentence that isn’t a lie or temporization.
On Hadley
- He makes it from smarmy, rolling-eyed piety to fear of heavenly reprisals with stops in between at punctilious earnestness in almost certain error and ineffective discplinary efforts to quell dissent.
- But credit where it’s due: A man who can tell a different lie from each of his two faces simultaneously obviously has a great career ahead of him in politics or diplomacy. And if a “forked tongue” betokens a fib, this man is managing to talk with a shredded one.
On Condi
- Hmmmmm…gee, Condi, all that brown and green… I have the impression of a seriously confused tree.
- Notwithstanding that, I bite my lip and pronounce she is without scruple, without honor, without principle — and words cannot express how much I wish she were without job.
- The cacophagous, fawning bitch cur that slithers and crawls behind her master. A gourmand of whatever shit he deposits, she mixes it with her venomous digestive juices, then vomits it forth before the leaders of the world.
On Lynne
- Tengrain, at my post of “A New Creature in Eden”, you were speculating on young Brando for Adam, Ms. Bissett for Eve, but confessed yourself stumped by casting for the serpent. In the spirit of bipartisanship to which Mr. Bush is giving such lip-service lately, we might consider Lynne. I don’t think gender was much of an issue in the Eden scenario.
On Blam-blam
- Mr. Cheney, if his claim be true, will have discovered a new physical law as important as that of Archimedes: It is possible to be above the law and beneath contempt… And it has a corollary: It is possible to preach duty while attempting to avoid responsibility. Conclusion: My dear ol’ mum was wrong. It isn’t true that there’s some good in everybody.
- Would I invite [Lieberman] to dinner at my house? Oddly enough, yes. I am one of life’s truly wretched cooks, notorious for kitchen disasters involving firemen and emergency service personnel. But, of course, the first invitation is to Mr. Cheney.
- You’re supposed to leave the horribly disfigured portrait in the dark in the attic and wear the forever-nice-and-young face in public!… I just knew this would happen when he skipped school to go baby-seal clubbing and missed the lesson covering Wilde’s Portrait of Dorian Gray.
- A crapulous sack of rotting guts, maggot-bait, conceived in madness, spawned in filth in the bowels of the earth — cacophagous, anthropophagous, a walking plague!… And I’m not crazy about his tie, either.
- I suspect he was a boy of evil tendencies whose manhood is fulfilling the dire promise of his youth…
- I also hope eventually to starve the Veep into disclosing his true colors…familial cannibalism. He could start on spouse and offspring. And I personally have no objection to his beginning on the Bush ankles.
Thank you, Tengrain, for posting some of these marvelous eruditions by which we came to peer into that extraordinary temple of Xristim’s soul. Her spirit and her thoughts seemed very fused and very focused. And I am not sure that she could even entertain the notion of duplicity, let alone engage in it.
Although I miss her, her life is our gain.