What the hell is wrong with you people??!?: part infinity

Oh, GOP. You make my teeth hurt, what with all the clenching. I half expect Margaret Chase Smith to rise from the grave and slap the ever-living crap out of most of you any minute now. (Though that raises the question of what would be left of you afterward. Hey-oh!!)

Seriously. I can't understand why you cannot tell the difference between principled opposition to your political rivals' goals and hateful, essentially seditious demagoguery.

Let's start with you, Jim Greer. The estimable Mr. Greer is the head of the Republican Party in Florida. How has Mr. Greer contributed to the steady recession of my gums? Over to you, TPM:

I just spoke with Florida Republican Party press secretary Katie Gordon, regarding state party chairman Jim Greer's denunciation of President Obama's upcoming national address to schoolchildren on Tuesday. Gordon stood by the party's press release -- and said that children should not be subjected to what she said is a clear attempt at political indoctrination by the Obama administration. Indeed, she said parents should be able to opt-out their kids from the speech.

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"Our point is that there are some questions about this address that need to be answered, and parents need to be given the option to choose whether or not their children who are students are going to be expected to watch this propaganda in a public school," Gordon later explained. "Students can't pray in school, but they can discuss new ideas and actions that the President is challenging them to think about. Well, I know that a lot of the President's ideas don't reflect my values and don't reflect the values that I would be teaching my children. And to be quite honest, there are a lot of the President's ideas that I wouldn't want my children discussing in a public school. It's not appropriate, the place for that is in the home."

Sweet merciful crap! This is the President of the United States of America, you cretins! What kind of absurd world do you live in, that you would decry the potential "indoctrination" of our youth by a speech the President of the United States of America would deliver to them? He is not Mullah Omar. His speech will doubtless be full of hearty exhortations to do well, study hard, and strive to achieve greatness for themselves and their country. Have you lost your minds?

Look, I think I have made my overall loathing of the most recent former POTUS pretty plain. By the end of his second term, I could barely stand to see his face on the television. But never, not in my wildest, most partisan fever dreams, would I ever have accused him of "indocrinating" our youth. Because, like most basically sane and civil American citizens, I confer a certain degree of respect for the person who holds that office, which includes a presumption of basic decency. It is patently obvious that partisanship has overwhelmed the Florida GOP's sense of same.

Oh, and they changed the language those mouth-breathers found most objectionable, so hopefully nobody skipped school.

And now, there's you, Sen. Inhofe (R - 14th Century). I see, via the Dish, that you have chosen a less temperate criticism of the President than I would have hoped. What was it you said?

He continued, “I don’t know why President Obama is obsessed with turning terrorists loose in America.”

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“Those of you who think like I do,” Inhofe said, “hope this country can hang on another 16 months.”

Those of you who think like he does, I hope you don't miss your appointment for ECT.

This man, dear readers, is a sitting member of the US Senate, and is telling his constituents that the President of the United States of America wants to "turn terrorists loose in America." Which he either cannot really believe, or he is too deranged to safely fill the office of municipal dog catcher, much less sit in the most august elected body in the nation.

I know there must be a few honest, intelligent and sane conservatives out there. I just wonder which bunker they've decided to hide in while the lunatics who ostensibly speak for them run rampant.