Is there some sort of gop academy where they teach these bastards to smirk

[Pepperbelly]

They all have the same oily look to them ... Bush, Frist, Allen, Santorum, McConnell, et al. The smarmy, condescending, shit-eating grins they all bear, like fucking possums eating grapes. They are truly despicable slugs in want of a salt shaker. In desperate want, I might add.

They have girded their loins to destroy the republic. God help us all because we really cannot say where this will end up. I wish them ill in all aspects of their life: their sexual potency, their digestion, the state of their bowels, the states of their bladders and urethreas. Yes, to my shame, I wish them ill ... all the discomfort that can be summoned to punish these rat-bastards for their rat-bastard ways.

It truly disturbs me to have to see their sneering mugs while waiting for the next Democrat to shed light on the issues in support of freedom and the republic.

[ananda]

1. No, it's a contagious disease called..

SARS II -- Smirking American Rahrah Syndrome.

After she came to Washington, Katty Kay caught it. She's one of the worst smirkers around. Luckily, she's surrounded by sober reporters on BBC World that makes it just palatable.

Sue

[EVDebs]

2. They look like characters from the bar scene in Star Wars

quip courtesy of Kevin Phillips (at the time a Republican, former Nixon staffer) regarding the 1994 congress of Republicans.

[ismnotwasm]

3. I personally think it's some form of major personality dysfuntion

Or worse.It's enough to believe in X files type genetic engineering. They all remind me of this really cheesy horror film called The society, a group where all the people of power and money belonged, they would all meld together in these gross orgies, exchanging body parts and turning into this big gloppy mess of flesh. Now I just made myself sick dammit.

[musette_sf]

4. It's the Televangelist Smirk

They all wear the little pretend smile.

[lyonn]

5. You got it exactly

One new Repub got up there and started regurgitating their sick, trust me, godly smirk/smile thing they all have going for them along with hands clasped in front of them in a prayful pose. He learned so quickly. Ya gotta leave the room - they are insulting. Scares ya doesn't it to think there are people that luv that stuff, speaks right to them, course their mind is blank.

[musette_sf]

16. And while they're wearing their little smile

on, for example, TV programs where someone disagrees with them, you know they aren't listening at all to the opposition. They're just concentrating on keeping the smirk on till they can bloviate.

[killbotfactory]

6. It's because they know they're full of shit

they know you know their full of shit, but their base swallows every single bit of it.

[jayctravis]

7. It's not taught.

It's a natural reflex expression. You can reproduce it by filling your mouth with something unpleasant -- feces, lies -- and then trying to force a smile for the cameras without being really enthusiastic about it.

[autorank]

8. Yes, and it's the same academy where they teach them to be rude on TV

You know, interrupting when their opponent is making a key point, stepping on the conclusion lines of their opponent to kill the point, being 'all puffed up' and acting like they're on 'roids (the Coulter effect). You're right, they look smarmy and they act rudely. What a combination.

[getmeouttahere]

9. Haven't you heard, it's the Karl Rove....

School of Baloney!

[Dr Fate]

10. With Bush, it's a cocaine aneurysm. That or "owl glands."

I hear he & Cheney chew on 'em.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

11. Funny you should say that...

When Galloway was wiping up the floor with Coleman the other day, he looked like he had pissed his pants. But afterward, once Galloway was excused, he had that same repuke smirk plastered all over his fish face, and only then did the spineless bastard get all mouthy and opinionated.

[Outrider]

12. It's a natural response

That smirk is trademark of someone who has had every shred of decency surgically removed via rectal surgery.

[Pepperbelly]

13. You may be right.

I knew it was something.

[CWebster]

14. natural disposition

qualification for the job.

[radfringe]

15. yeah - it's the Banana Academy

they also teach how to spin while doing the two-step...

http://www.cafepress.com/radicalfringe