Of Tornados and Stupidity

The sharp increase in the number and intensity of tornados in the midwest has been much in the news lately. The degree of devastation caused by these terrible storms is horrifying and gives cause for reflection on the awesome power of nature.

But there's another sort of wind that, while it doesn't cause the sort of terrible destruction beloved of television newscasts, wreaks havoc in its own insidious way.

I refer, of course, to the totally stupid and unrestrained political rhetoric pouring out of the mouths of politicians who should know better.

The latest example of this mindless stupidity comes from Florida Republican Representative Allen West, who has accused 81 Democratic members of Congress of being members of the Communist Party.

You'd think we'd have learned a lesson about this from the wildly irresponsible excesses of Senator Joe McCarthy's "red scare" in the 1940s and 50s but - alas - this seems not to be the case.

Commentator and political columnist John Avalon has pilloried Reprehensive West's stupidity far better and more eloquently in his article than I can here in the single hour I have to write my post. But as he points out, the fact that a serving member of Congress could utter such irresponsible drivel is of less concern than is the absence of any expressions of outrage on the part of others who should know better. It's all a part of the complete lack of common sense and simple common courtesy that are the hallmarks of our government today - on both sides of the aisle.

Perhaps we need to add a modest but justifiable amount to the Federal deficit that might yield some improvements in our government ... or, at least, in some of the ass clowns we somehow manage to elect to positions of responsibility ...

It couldn't hurt. Because this is what our so-called leadership of both parties has been reduced to ...

If you're not disgusted ... with both sides ... you may as well just call the coroner and have him come and pick you up. Brain death has set in.

Of course, if you're on the extreme right or left, you'd never notice.

Have a good day. Support responsible, thoughtful political speech.

More thoughts tomorrow.

Bilbo

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B.