Michael Matthew Bloomer, October 16, 2013.

(If you’d like to jump right to the “movie poster, click here!)

The 1990 movie, I Love You To Death, featured a philandering cad of a man (Kevin Kline) whose devoted spouse of many years (Tracey Ullman) accidentally discovers his years of completely indecent womanizing. Then an actual newspaper, The Washington Post reported (there are no spoilers in the excerpts):

Joey Boca, plumber, landlord and owner of Joey’s Pizzeria, he’s a smooth-operating Lothario cruising on olive-oiled wheels. With women, Joey has the knack; he’s an artist, and, by the scores, they tumble for his velvety pickup lines. In fact, he cheats on his wife, Rosalie, so much that he can’t keep track of the numbers. And how much is a lot? You know the figures for the national debt?

As for Rosalie, she refuses to consider divorce; she’s a devout Catholic. Murder seems a better choice. The Post continued:

. . . After Rosalie begins plotting her husband’s demise, “I Love You to Death” — written by John Kostmayer from a real-life story — becomes a comedy of murderous ineptitude. As killers, Rosalie and her confederates are far from accomplished. . . But Joey, as it turns out, is a hard man to kill.

Sound at all familiar? “A comedy of murderous ineptitude . . ?”

Replace the term “comedy” with “drama”;

switch out Joey for Tea Partiers like Ted Cruz, Michelle Bachmann, and around 20% of American voters;

replace Rosalie with America’s credit rating; and

oust the hapless (potential) murderers with Democrats, the Obama administration, 70% of the American public, nearly all Wall Street government bond traders, and most disgruntled Republicans and you might come up with this:

(Click poster for larger image)

It’s similar to Senator Cruz’s first movie, opening this holiday season, and promoted here on October 2, 2013, Opening Christmas Day 2013, A Club for Growth Production : ‘Mr. Cruz Goes To Washington,’ Poster Unveiled.

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Michael Matthew Bloomer spent the 24 years between Reagan and Bush II on Capitol Hill as a legislative research and policy wanker at the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, an agency in the belly of Congress’s across-the-street library, the aptly named Library of Congress. Now retired, I’m freed from nonpartisanship and have “come out” as an aggressive progressive at my site, They Will Say ANYTHING! Here you can delight in skewering GOP Congressloons, Senadorks, and others of that herd. Sometimes serious, sometimes funny, nice graphics, and always aggressively progressive. You can subscribe by entering your email addy in the box at the upper right of this page. I’ll use your email only for new posts and a very occasional newsletter. Thanks for stopping by!

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