THE CONGRESS MAY NOW BE REPUBLICAN, BUT THE GOP WACKO’S ARE ALL STILL OUT THERE

 

Now that the US Congress is run by the GOP, we cannot assume that the new Republican Congress will have any fewer Nut-Jobs than in the past.  The activist web news organization Alternet News has now made us all aware of the new crazies in the Congress, and some of the regular conservative nut-cases that are still with us.

First let’s look at one of my long-time favorites, the anorexic author, Ann Coulter.  As Alternet stated, “Ann Coulter is still an idiot, in case you were wondering.”



Ms. Coulter stated this week that President Obama’s plan to make community college tuition free is totally wrong. She’s against that, saying further education is bad. More education makes people turn against Republicans.  So according to her, educating people leads them to have more progressive ideas. As Alternet also stated, “That is, of course, very bad. Then who would buy her books?”

Next we have the new Republican Senator, Thom Tillis, from North Carolina.  Tillis calls himself a “free-market conservative”.  He now thinks that the health and hygiene laws go too far when they require food servers to wash their hands after using the rest room facilities.  Per Tillis, “It’s just this sort of onerous regulation that is killing American business.”

Upon hearing this, the comedian Jon Stewart suggested, “Maybe we could get a cholera epidemic going here. Boy, that’d be good for business!”

Tillis of course, had his solution at the ready, “Restaurants would just have to put up a sign saying they do not require employees to wash their hands, and then the free market would just work its magic.”

Tillis was so amused at his own cleverness, that he showed not one glimmer of awareness that his answer would be just another onerous government regulation.

 

Now one of the worst cases from these wacko’s comes from the great state of West Virginia.  Representative lawmaker, Brian Kurcaba, must have thought he was totally enlightened when he acknowledged, that, yeah, “rape is awful.” If you sensed that there’s a “but” coming, you’re right. And it’s a whopper. “What is beautiful is the child that could come from this rape,” Kurcaba told the Charleston Gazette.

I rest my case.  No further comment needed.

 

Utah’s GOP Rep. Brian Greene was considering whether to vote yes on a bill if unconscious victims of rape should really be considered rape victims.

Strangely, this was something he seriously needed to think about. “I hope this wouldn’t happen, but this opens the door to it. An individual has sex with their wife while she is unconscious, I don’t know—could a prosecutor then charge that spouse with rape?”

Well, yes, a prosecutor could, as having sex without the woman’s agreement is still rape.  But I guess he thinks that if they didn’t wake up…..?

In a first date scenario, Greene allowed, it would be rape if you had sex with someone while they were unconscious. “But to me,” he said, “not where people have a history of years of sexual activity."

Eventually, Mr. Greene voted to pass the bill.

But isn’t it great that he shared his thoughts, as they were some very deep ones.

 

Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks is very well-known for his hate-filled anti-immigrant positions. But this time he really came up with a doozy.  He’s now stated that those people he calls “illegal aliens” are possibly responsible for the latest Measles outbreak.  Now, is there any evidence of that? Nope! Absolutely none!  But per Rep. Brooks: “It’s the enterovirus that has a heavy presence in Central and South America that has caused deaths of American children over the past 6 to 9 months.” 

“It’s not their fault though”, he adds disingenuously, because they haven’t had as good healthcare as American children. He said he has “sympathy for their plight.”  And yes, he expects us to believe that he has serious sympathy.

But finally, we cannot forget the unforgettable, Mr. Glenn Beck. 

Per Mr. Beck, “ I’m just like Galileo because God gave me a brain, and I say no to vaccines.”

Glenn Beck is pretty sure there’s something up with the measles vaccine.  Here’s his thinking regarding the latest Measles outbreak: "God gave me a brain. God gave me personal choice and responsibility for those choices," he said on his radio show this week. "I'm going to say no to those vaccines because I've done my homework."

And I dare to ask, just what kind of homework might that be?

“See, people who oppose vaccines are being persecuted, just like the Catholic Church persecuted Galileo”, Beck said.  "Here's another group of people that are now being rounded-up and pointed at and called morons and idiots and crackpots and crazies," he said. "Just totally discredited ... Where is anybody saying 'my gosh, we're living in the days of Galileo'? The church has become the state and if you don't practice their religion exactly the way they tell you to practice it, you're done."

 

 At this point I totally agree with the writer at Alternet who wrote: “Who can we blame for all this outbreak of stupid?”

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