"New Rule: The Republican leadership in America must produce their birth certificates! Not because I doubt they're Americans, I just want to make sure they're not eight-years-old. I mention this because a major talking point on Fox News and hate radio these days is that, after a year and a half of Obama, it's time to bring the "adults" back into power, so they can rein in our deficit, defeat terrorism, and focus on America's real enemy: cleaning ladies in Arizona. But I must protest the premise, because conservatives are the ones who tend to believe in magical ideas, like: America is never wrong; you can defeat terrorism militarily; and lower taxes will somehow fix the deficit. And I'm not even mentioning the stuff about how Jesus used to fly around on a pterodactyl and just hated it when homos ate wedding cake."
" Rush Limbaugh is a child, a primal scream of a man, but he gets his way because he's the fat bully on the playground; and Glenn Beck is the weepy kid who's always crying because he's insane and you don't know what he's going to do and who he's going to take with him."
"For example: to solve our debt crisis, a bunch of Republican senators suggested a bipartisan debt commission, which is te adult thing to do. But when Obama agreed to it, immediately seven of them said no -- now they're against it."
This really is the type of thing I hate the most. The clowns in this country have really taken over the discussion. As Bill points out the anti intellectual low brow standard is what is now considered the only "true" Americans...... or "Mericans" as they normally pronounce it (don't ask me why they tend to drop the A.. perhaps its because the letter always stiffed them in school). We need the intellectuals in the country to run things! Where the hell did this attitude come from? We used to be seen as the country that put a man on the moon. Now we are seen as the only country that has a significant portion of its population doubting the moon landing ever happened. So now our political leaders (mostly the Republicans... sigh) have decided that they need to constantly pander the the most ignorant and simple minded of those amongst us. No longer are we having real debates about issues. We are simply trying to rehash basic facts about the world and by the way the rest of the world is laughing at us (they should also be shaking in their boots because when a nation this powerful begins to be run by its lowest common denominator......... watch out)
