First there was U.S. Rep. Michele Bachman, R-Minn., who offered this ominous X-Files take on swine flu:
"I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. And I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence."
There are too many nuggets of stupidity packed into this one short comment to just let it fly by; it needs to be parsed, like a line of Frost, to be fully appreciated.
First, there’s the “Democrat (sic) president” bit. It really is adorable how a few righties of the lowest uncommon denominator still do that smirky little thing of using “democrat” (usually with a small “d” if they can write at all) as an adjective. It’s like listening to little kids call each other “doodoo heads.”
Then there’s the part about not blaming Obama, which of course she was, which of course is why she brought it up in the first place.
Finally – and OK, this is nitpicking – the last outbreak of swine flu was in 1976, when Gerald Ford was president. Oops.
Not to be outdone in Red State moronics by a Yankee, Kim Hendren, a state senator from Gravette, Ark., enlightened a meeting of the Pulaski County Republican Committee last week by referring to U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as “that Jew.”
Hendren apologized to Schumer, and then finished the job of making everything right with this disclaimer in the Arkansas News: “I don’t have any issue with Jews or Jewish people or whatever the politically correct term they wish to be identified as.”
Oh . . . OK. So this isn’t about Hendren being a bigoted nitwit. It’s about the tyranny of political correctness.
Actually, pols of this caliber should be saluted, not scorned.
These people are, quite obviously, complete cretins. As they could be elected to public office only by other complete cretins, their strict adherence to the code of complete cretinhood is true constituent service. This is representative government in its purest form.
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