The Jerk, the Undead, and the Whack Job
Three Republicans are making news, and comical news at that. David Vitter, the Jerk, got caught screaming at airport security, Tom DeLay, the Undead, is making a comback, or trying to do so, and Sam Brownback, darling of the whack job extremist right, has pissed off the God Squaders. Such very sweet developments!
First in our report is Senator David Vitter (R-Diaper), who was late to his flight at Dulles International the other day. He threw down a big old “Don’t you know who I am” tantrum when he was late for his flight the other day. According to RawStory in a story from Roll Call, Vitter verbally abused the airline employees and then when called on it he slinked off. The man is positively a prima donna. I suppose he couldn’t face security because he’d wet that diaper and needed to find a call girl to change it for him.
Perhaps that is far more scandalous than the notion of Tom DeLay coming back and pretending to be some kind of sage. Republicans should avoid Tom DeLay like he carried the black plague or something. As the article in Daily Beast notes, DeLay was instrumental in both the rampant spending by the Republican regimes over the last ten years, and also involved hip deep in the culture of corruption that the GOP still has not rooted out of their party. I’m thinking they need a DNA transplant to get rid of the culture of corruption, but one thing for sure, Tom DeLay is not going to help them one little bit. Still, I bet Rush Limbaugh books Tom DeLay on his program. Putzes all.
Finally, Sam Brownback, one of the leading Senators in the right wing Christian whack job brigade, is getting flack from his BFFs over on the Christian right, notably from the folks at the Donald (Duck) Wildmon’s American Family Association. Evidently Wildmon is not happy that Brownback isn’t pitching a hissy fit over Kathleen Sibelius’ nomination for HHS. The Family Research Council, led by whack job Tony Perkins (Movie star!) another of the whack job Christian groups, is also up in arms. Here’s the story from Talk to Action:
Wildmon’s OneNewsNow, a right-wing agit-prop arm that masquerades as a news service, ran stories accusing Brownback of throwing unborn babies “under the bus” and charging him with engaging in a “sell-out.”
What had Brownback done to incur the wrath of his pals in the Religious Right? He announced he would support the nomination of Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Sebelius holds (gasp!) pro-choice views on abortion, and the Religious Right had expected Brownback to come after her with guns blazing.
But word is that Brownback plans to run for Kansas governor in 2010. Sebelius has been a popular governor, and Brownback has no reason to antagonize her. Politics, we all know, does make for some curious alliances.
Like most Republicans, Brownback subsumes his supposed values to the notion of “winning,” and he wants to win as Governor. What a complete putz. And, no, the opposition he faces from Family Research council and the American Family Association makes him no less of a putz.
There you have it, the GOP follies of the day.
Vitter is one of the three smarmiest people in Congress — along with Patrick McHenry and Lindsey Graham. Each one of these three sets my teeth on edge.
In response to my email to my senator about not playing politics in this time of economic crisis, Sam sent me back a message telling me, “We can’t spend our way into Prosperity.” Like the rest of the republicans, he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about and what this country is facing.