Foamers
It didn’t really click until I read this post by Athenae on First Draft, but it seems crystal clear: there is an abnormally high concentration of complete Wingnuts in Congress. Yes, there have always been right-wing wackjobs (viz. Jesse Helms, Joe McCarthy, Strom Thurmond) on the Hill, but we seem to be overstocked all of a sudden. Why is that, you ask?
Well, I think part of the reason stems from “the Reagan (Counter-) Revolution” and the rehabilitation of selfishness and avarice as American virtues. Another factor was certainly the GingGrinch and his “(Let’s Take Out a) Contract With (On) America,” coupled with American dissatisfaction with the Democratic leadership. But just how in the hell do complete assholes like Jean Schmidt and Tom Coburn get elected? I mean, some of these people have no discernible verbal or written communication skills, are lousy speakers, and have all the personality of a stopped-up toilet. What would ever possess a congressional district or—worse—an entire state to allow themselves to be represented by complete bozos? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind—the wind that blew all the dust and debris and methyl-ethyl-badshit all over downtown Manhattan on 9/11. The ethics-free GOP played their “Terra!” hand so well that scared shitless Americans voted for the candidate who spattered the crowd with the most foam from their mouths railing against Islamofascist heathens who hate us, hate our freedom, and want to rape all the white women. How else could a chickenhawk like Saxby Chambliss beat a decorated war veteran—a triple-amputee no less? Easy—just say things like "we should turn the sheriff loose and arrest every Muslim that crosses the state line,” a statement Congressman (now Senator) Chambliss made in Valdosta, Georgia in 2001, after 9/11.
Let’s hope that sanity regains a foothold in time for November 2006.