The official Republican position on bipartisanship is evidently:
— Democrats are required to display bipartisanship (and to be mercilessly excoriated at all times for failing to do so, even if they actually display it)
— Republicans are forbidden to display bipartisanship (and to be mercilessly criticized, and censured, if they actually display it)

Here’s the latest, and most blatant, piece of evidence:

On Monday, the Charleston County Republican Party’s executive committee “took the unusual step” of officially censuring Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The local GOP committee admonished Graham for stepping across party lines to work with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) on a bipartisan clean energy bill and other pieces of legislation. The censure stated that Graham’s “bipartisanship continues to weaken the Republican brand and tarnish the ideals of freedom.”

Since the Republican Party is so top-heavy with brilliant thinkers, any day now we can expect one of them to step up to the mike — based on the “fools rush in” principle, my money would have to be on Michael Steele — and explain to us the political mechanics of one party displaying bipartisanship all by itself.

His only success in his one-year term as president is taking America apart, piece by piece. Could it be he has had 20 years of subconscious programming by Rev. Wright to damn America?

Don’t blame Voight, though, for the nonsense he emits. We have it on good authority that one day, many years ago, while Voight had his head lodged deep in his ass, he accidentally passed his peanut-sized brain.

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With this post, we also introduce two new categories: “The Dick Army” and “Full of Sound and Fury”.

“The Dick Army” is a collective noun for tea-baggers, birthers, tenthers, and their ilk; in short, all the Indians whose chiefs are Beck and Limbaugh and Palin and Bachmann. And Dick Armey. The term was coined, of course, by MSNBC‘s David Schuster back in April, when he was subbing for Keith Olbermann one night. Watch as he goes “… if you are planning simultaneous tea bagging all around the country, you’re going to need a dick army” on national TV.

“Full of Sound and Fury” is a bipartisan category. (The operative part being the next two words in the quote which, since brevity is the soul of wit, we left out: “signifying nothing”.) It automatically applies to any pronouncements by footsoldiers in The Dick Army, or by any of its many generals (Q: What do you call a general in The Dick Army? A: Dick-head.). It will also often apply to pronouncements of the Obama administration (e.g., when they keep making promises to the LGBT community). Or the pronouncements of political transvestites (“Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Joe Lieberman!”)