Tweedledee and Tweedledum – Rand Paul and Alice and Wonderland

 Time for the Sunday respite. Last week I posted a clip of Rand Paul as he took us through the looking glass with his “Alice and Wonderland” analogy. When I caught this music when making my rounds it seemed to fit perfectly. Am I the only one thinking we are living in an alternative reality?

 

One pill makes you larger
 
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you’re going to fall
Tell ’em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call to
Call Alice
When she was just small
When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you’ve just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice
I think she’ll know
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen’s “off with her head!”
Remember what the doormouse said;
“Feed YOUR HEAD…
Feed your head”

“Senators McCain and Graham, you have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of G-d, go!”

H/T: Predictable History, unpredictable past

From the post:  Rand Paul and his epic rant

 

“They say Lewis Carroll is fiction,” Paul said. “Alice never fell down a rabbit hole and the White Queen’s caustic judgments are not really a threat to your security. Or has America the Beautiful become Alice’s Wonderland?” Paul then looked down and began reading directly from Carroll’s text: “‘No, no,’ said the queen. ‘Sentence first; Verdict afterwards.’ ‘Stuff and nonsense,’ Alice said widely — loudly. ‘The idea of having the sentence first?’ ‘Hold your tongue,’ said the queen, turning purple. ‘I won’t,’ said Alice.”

Instead the Queen’s infamous exclamation, “Off with her head,” Paul read his own, updated line: “‘Release the drones,’ said the queen, as she shouted at the top of her voice.”

By connecting the Alice story to the drones debate, Paul was echoing the judge who early this year ruled that the Justice Department memos on the program could remain secret. Judge Colleen McMahon wrote in her ruling, “The Alice-in-Wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me.”