Favorite Conservative Punching Bags

[Dechristo]

Sunny Bono?

[ivan]

been reading gibbon's "decline n' fall of the roman empire" lately - just came across a good quite to describe this favored punching-bags:

 

(in describing the asshole opponents of pertinax, a new and virtous emperor who followed the monstrous tyrant commodus)

 

"his honest indiscretion united against him the servile crowd, who found their private benefit in the public disorders, and who preferred the favour of a tyrant to the inexorable equality of laws."

 

seem to describe most of the bushII-era crony ass-fucks

 

so, is that tome worth muddling through?

i'm enjoying it capitaly, but then i'm me - i'm also reading a much shortening version that's only 700 some odd pages long, instead of the 3000+ uncut version (maybe i'll do that later) - jayb had a lot of great quotes from it in an old thread, i've found many more i've dug - i think its amazing how readable it is, given that it was written in the 18th century, not so known for its readable prose...