Interesting times… ABC News who just announced a bit of a reduction in staff…. From an arkle by By BRIAN STELTER and BILL CARTER…“ABC News is making no secret about what is behind the sweeping staff cuts it now faces: raw survival instinct.
“I just looked out at the next five years and was concerned that we could not sustain doing what we were doing,” said David Westin, the president of ABC News, as he explained the decision last week to jettison up to 400 staff members, a quarter of the news staff, in the coming months”

You and I know what was behind that. Rush has been predicting it for years. In the Wild News Kingdom, only the fittest survive. The newsbeest, instead of bulking up on tasty bits, daily opened their veins to bleed out a bit. All they had to do, as we well know, was to deliver to us, the audience, what we craved…namely news, and truth. However, the worser angels of their liberal nature was running things, and, well, we told you so! Nah-nanny-boo-boo. Dummies.

But before the staff gathered up their lunch buckets and headed for the door they produced a poignant interview with Nancy Pelosi, the leaderette of the House of Representatives and obtained some interesting material…  Straight from something called The Note Washington’s Original and Most Influential Tipsheet on the ABC News website, while it’s still online…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she has much in common with the Tea Party.   The speaker now says she shares views with movement she dismissed last summer as being “Astroturf” –  her suggestion that the grassroots of the Tea Party were a creation of the Republican Party.  In a “This Week” interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas, Pelosi said, “We share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop.  And that’s why I’ve fought the special interest, whether it’s on energy, whether it’s on health insurance, whether it’s on pharmaceuticals and the rest.”

The interesting but somewhat disjointed sounding part of the interview which took place over the weekend on “This Week” interview with ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas goes something like this… (The interesting parts are backlit in purple…)

VARGAS: Let’s talk a bit about the coming elections in November.  You had recently– and the Tea Party movement, do you think it will be a force to be reckoned with?  You had said last summer that it was a faux grassroots movement. You called it the Astroturf movement.

PELOSI: In some respects it is. Uh-huh.

VARGAS: Is the Tea Party movement a force?

PELOSI: No – No what I said at the time is, that they were — the Republican Party directs a lot of what the Tea Party does, but not everybody in the Tea Party takes direction from the Republican Party.  And so there was a lot of, shall we say, Astroturf, as opposed to grassroots.

But, you know, we share some of the views of the Tea Partiers in terms of the role of special interest in Washington, D.C., as — it just has to stop.  And that’s why I’ve fought the special interest, whether it’s on energy, whether it’s on health insurance, whether it’s on pharmaceuticals and the rest.

VARGAS: So, common ground with many people in the Tea Party movement.

PELOSI: Well, no, there are some.  There are some because they, again, some of it is orchestrated from the Republican headquarters.  Some of it is hijacking the good intentions of lots of people who share some of our concerns that we have about the role of special interests and many Tea Partiers, not that I speak for them, share the view, whether it’s — and Democrats, Republicans and Independents share the view that the recent Supreme Court decision, which greatly empowers the special interests, is something that they oppose.
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So, ummn…on the one hand, Nancy Pelosi has a lot in common with the TeaParty guys…but on the other hand, she wishes they would go throw themselves from a cliff and die horribly because they have no right to exist in the same space and time as she…. Hmmmn! Most interesting…

Friends, in the aminal kingdom, the strongest, bravest, most killerly lion, alligator, wildebeest, tiger, monkey, scorpion, giraffe, donkey, piss ant…you name it, becomes the leader of the pack. It says what goes. It gets the best food!

Why, the common corn weevil commands its countless inferiors whilst sitting atop the choicest piece of corn in the corn crib of ruin. King rat snarls warning from its fleshy cave amongst the tasty bits of the body politic. Even the lowly wombat soars over the heads of its lessers in its own personal jet plane stocked with all the things the wombat likes to dine upon.
The common theme here, of course, is that all the aminals must suffer while the strongest not only survives, but prospers.
Therefore how strange it is that while the little aminals have NO choice in the matter, for none of them know to take steroids to bulk up so they themselves can become the top dog, it is only the human that has a choice in the matter.
So, the very first decision by the verminous progressive liberals among us was to put the craziest, nuttiest, strangest, most vicious, craftiest, most hateful and unloving  leaders possible in control of ALL the tasty bits, knowing full well what was going to happen. And so it has.
We’re a nation of something more than 303,824,640 people, led by 535 lunatics, who are in turn led by Nancy Pelosi with her sidekick Harry Reid. Nancy has ALL the cheese, but lets Harry have a little if he’s real good. The rest get none, and LOVE it.

So, while the country suffers from historical and third world levels of unemployment and the economy is on track for a date with a buzz saw, our leaderette and her cronies writhe like a bucket of maggots awaiting their next meal of tasty bits carved from the living flesh of the nation. And the democrats put them there.
It’s a strange, strange political world we live in when the law of the jungle applies…by choice.