Hey what happened with all those "patriots" up in Oregon?
You know, the ones who were willing to die to face down the jackbooted thugs of the Federal government.
Cliven Bundy's kid and the halfwits who followed him. The guys who like to play dress up, misquote the Constitution, take selfies with their beloved guns, and pretend they're defending something other than their own self-interests.
Turns out one of them got shot, and that was enough for the rest of them.
Not exactly Lexington and Concord, now was it?
Why didn't all their friends and fellow travelers across this great land of ours rise up and throw off the oppressive yoke of...
Oh, never mind.
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Monday, June 17, 2013
Trent Franks, Defender of the Unborn
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.
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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