You know things are bad when elephants are becoming highway bandits to extract food from surprised travellers. Of course, the metaphorical possibilities are endless when it comes to our Republican friends and their current well-deserved decline, but it may well be best to let it speak for itself.
Meanwhile, making the reversaphor (a long story, best explored on its own merits some other time) complete, there’s this story of our own elephants, from the Rev. Moon-founded Washington Times:
"The Republican National Committee, hit by a grass-roots donors’ rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy, has fired all 65 of its telephone solicitors, The Washington Times has learned.
Faced with an estimated 40 percent falloff in small-donor contributions and aging phone-bank equipment that the RNC said would cost too much to update, Anne Hathaway, the committee’s chief of staff, summoned the solicitations staff and told them they were out of work, effective immediately, fired staff members told The Times."
