In today’s New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd compares the tea party debt crisis situation to one big monster party with President Obama playing the captain in Jaws and saying he is going to need a bigger boat. What she doesn’t understand is that Captain Obama has been eaten by the shark as was the case in Jaws or even in Alien where the space ship captain is dispatched early on.
What needs to be decided now in this monster ball is who is going to play the police chief in Jaws or the heroine in Alien. Might I suggest Andrew Cuomo and Hillary Clinton respectively?
Of course you do have Abbott and Costello or rather Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Reid trying to chase down the tea party wolf man and of course with a change of costume these two can play Laurel and Hardy in Babes in Toyland and chase down some tea party bogeymen.
But what is the best comparison for the tea partiers themselves? The choice is obvious, they are the living dead cannibals in Night of the Living Dead and of course we have Obama in this movie as the African American hero character but unfortunately he is dispatched here as well only this time by his own the local police force having survived a night with the monsters.
But this tea party phenomenon is more like a collective taking over the nation with loving joyful sharing Americans becoming selfish angry demons. Not quite Invasion of the Body Snatchers but more like the Thing with Democrats hoping that Obama turns out to be like the Kurt Russell character in that movie keeping their fingers crossed that he has not been taken over by the tea party Thing.
We could go on forever but let’s end it with a cameo by tea party poster boy New Jersey Governor Christie as the blob except in our movie there is no Steve McQueen character to save the day just a blob that is getting bigger by the day.