Zepp Jamison, May 20, 2007
The other day, Paul Krugman wrote a column called “Don’t Blame Bush.”
Drastically boiled down and rendered into varnish, his point was that
while Putsch may look and sound like a demented moron, it wasn’t
entirely his fault, because the whole fershluggeneh GOP was demented.
The eleven lawn jockeys at the Faux/GOP debate promised nothing but More
of the Same (with the exception of Ron Paul, who the GOP wants to ban
from future debates). Krugman pointed to the candidates’ debate as an
example, in which 10 of the 11 candidates applauded the gulag at
Guatanamo. (Guiliani even said he would “double” it, leading an ecstatic
Jon Stewart to shout, “He landed the double Guantanamo! No one’s ever
done that before!”). Stewart watched the debate and saw the same thing
that Krugman apparently did: that some or all of the eleven clones
standing there must have forgotten to pay their brain bills or
something, because they all sounded like drooling idiots.
This all came out on the same day that Al Gore’s new book, “The Assault
on Reason” came out. It deals with the ignorance and stupidity – often
willful – that has become so prevalent in US politics. Gore’s book
reminds us all that the powers of viciousness and stupidity overcame the
will of the American people in 2000, and installed a man who can’t even
read a book, let alone write one. Gore also notes that far too many
people are complacently happy to be led by people who think evolution is
a secular hoax, or that scientists have a political agenda but that
politicians don’t.
Having GOP candidates sound like drooling idiots isn’t exactly new. They
wouldn’t be where they are today if they didn’t sound like drooling
idiots. Look at the White House. Would Present Occupant be there if he
hadn’t managed to convince a lot of drooling idiots that he was the kind
of guy they would like to sit down and have a beer with? Nothing at all
like that guy Gore, with his correct English and ability to name the
capitals of foreign countries like Canada and New Mexico!