Is anyone surprised that Trent Franks said something stupid again? Didn't think so.
Take a good close look at Franks, yet another of Arizona's illustrious Congressmen.
Would you say he's one or two chromosomes shy of completeness? Yep.
Franks keeps getting re-elected for one reason and one reason only: his district includes all of the dried up douche bags, male and female, in Sun City.
These are people who haven't been fertile since the Truman administration. Yet they get all worked up over "the rights of the unborn".
The operative theory goes something like this: Fetuses have rights, old people have rights, everybody else who isn't rich and white can suck it.
And Trent Franks, who isn't as dumb as he looks (it's close though), knows how to pander to their fears with the usual litany of right wing paranoia: immigration, the black man in "our" White House, etc.
Normally, these are the "get the government off our backs!" crowd. Why won't they just leave us alone!
Except when it comes to a woman's right to control her own reproductive system. Then the government should jump in with both jackbooted feet and punish the bitches!
These folks rely on government assistance of all kinds--but they hate the Federal government with a passion.
Oh, those meddlesome Feds, with their hot lunch programs, and Head Start, and public education, and welfare, and regulations, and taxes! Oh, don't get them started on taxes...
Get rid of all that stuff. It's socialism!
But keep your goddamn hands off our Social Security and our Medicare and our Medicaid!
It's cognitive dissonance like this that keeps the Trent Franks of the world in office.
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