Senator Al Franken, D-MN
…Senator Franken. At long last. I hope you don’t regret it.
Talking Points Memo has the rundown of the Neo-Con overreaction here. I for one can’t wait for Franken to get onto The Daily Show with John Stewart.
No question that the newly-minted senator has an uphill battle in Congress. It shouldn’t be that way, given that the GOP continues to get crazier than a shithouse rat by the nanosecond. One would think that, given recent hijinks, even their base would be fleeing them, as rats flee a sinking ship.
TheFoldBlog so ably sums up the last couple of weeks or so:
- “Thrice married and convicted drug dealer Rush Limbaugh blames President Obama for Sanford cheating on his wife. Says it was so out of Sanford’s character that Obama drove him to do it.
- “Total psycho Michelle Bachman (R-MN) says the recently passed climate bill in the House was a choice between liberty and tyranny. Tyranny of course belonging to those who favored the bill
- “Former maverick John McCain, says House is almost an autocracy with Pelosi in charge. His dementia must have kicked in because he neglected to mention Republican Dennis Hastert served for 8 years.
- “Phil Gingrey, Republican representative from Georgia, compared Democratic rule of Congress to the governments of Iran and North Korea. Also compared Republican minority to that of the voices of freedom being silenced in those same countries.
And then there’s Gov. Mark Sanford’s recent hiking trip down the Appalachian Trail (I had no idea trail went so far south!). That one really sticks in the craws of some Neo-Cons, because Sanford was one of the more vocal critics of Obama and the stimulus plan. I imagine that, in all the spin that’s going on, there will be attempts to separate Sandford’s lying and cheating from his stand against Washington.
I swear, it’s like they’re all paranoid schizophrenics, and they live in a world where “positions we don’t agree with” is equivalent to “assaulting children and blowing up the planet”.
I used to be a Republican. I still want to be one. But until the GOP remembers the values set by the likes of William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, even Eisenhower and Barry Goldwater–I’ll be over here, writing checks to MoveOn. org (who, ironically, seems to have values more in line with fiscal conservatism and the old-guard GOP than the current party does).
