I have to say one thing about the Republican Party’s devolution. At times, it has been downright entertaining. One cannot find a day in which one or more Republican politicians and pundits does not face-plant with words and/or deeds that push the boundaries of reality to a new extreme. Timothy Egan wrote an excellent editorial on Republican crazies. Here’s his introduction.
The tutorial in 8th grade biology that Republicans got after one of their members of Congress went public with something from the wackosphere was instructive, and not just because it offered female anatomy lessons to those who get their science from the Bible.
Take a look around key committees of the House and you’ll find a governing body stocked with crackpots whose views on major issues are as removed from reality as Missouri’s Representative Todd Akin’s take on the sperm-killing powers of a woman who’s been raped.
On matters of basic science and peer-reviewed knowledge, from evolution to climate change to elementary fiscal math, many Republicans in power cling to a level of ignorance that would get their ears boxed even in a medieval classroom. Congress incubates and insulates these knuckle-draggers.
Let’s take a quick tour of the crazies in the House. Their war on critical thinking explains a lot about why the United States is laughed at on the global stage, and why no real solutions to our problems emerge from that broken legislative body…
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You owe it to your funny bone to click through to read about the nuts that adorn the GOP fruitcake.
Comedic as this may be, we must not allow it to grow complacence within ourselves. As long as the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, feeds the sheeple, there will be hoardes of morons who guzzle the InsaniTEA and vote.
10 Responses to “A Panoply of InsaniTEA”
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As absolutely crazy as these Republican/Teabaggers are, there is something much crazier, much more sinister in a people that will be lead by the nose and not think! They have more power in our lives than we often give them credit for.
That is so true– they cannot take power unless it is handed them; We cannot be complacent Those of us who still can think-
I agree. Most likely the politicians who promote the ideas don't believe them, but do so to capture fools that do.
I am still trying to understand why the people of Kentucky elected Rand Paul instead of Jack Conway. There is no accounting for ignorance, I guess. Conway had a proven record in Ky as an attorney general who served the people of the state, not the corporations. The money went to Paul, whom I believe was bounced on his head as a child.
The Rand that campaigned and the Rand that governs are different people.
You can't fix ignorance.
I loved the NY Times article and it is so true> Especially this: "For if intelligence were contagious, his party would be giving out vaccines for it."
Me too!
If I were any of these nuts, I would not mention the name of GOD in any of my speeches. He might send a lightning sphere to take care of them. I do believe that GOD is in control of all, but also believe that he left us the earth and all the creatures to take care of , not destroy. He must be so very sad and angry at the ones who are destroying both.
About God, with that Himmicane bearing down on Tampa, she must have a sense of humor. 😉