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Would that I could say, with any self-satisfaction, that at least I’m not from Minnesota, the state that hatched Michele Bachmann, or from Iowa, a state that gets to claim both Charles Grassley and Steve King, or from Texas–omigod, where to start? with Bush or DeLay? (who is currently ruining Dancing with the Stars for me).
But we Missouri progressives can’t afford to be smug. Not with Roy Blunt, Cynthia Davis (with guffaw-inducing foibles too multiple to bother linking to any one of them), Tim Jones, and a host of others. And in case home grown isn’t embarrassing enough, we import nutballs: Joe Wilson will be speaking next weekend in Springfield to the Missouri Republican Assembly, which bills itself as the “Republican Wing of the Republican Party”.
Scott McGill who secured this luminary for his group on the ratinale for inviting Mr. Wilson:
Probably? Something to say? Doesn’t Mr. McGill know? Of course, any random person you meet on the street probably has something to say although, I have to admit I can’t guarantee it would be timely.
But at least most of the adults who “probably have something to say” have also probably outgrown the ruse of claiming that “she/he did it first” whenever they are caught doing something forbidden. Not so Mr. McGill:
This even though, if he is honest, Mr. McGill would have to concede that booing and applauding seems to have become almost a tradition and that both differ markedly from calling one’s president a liar in a formal venue (particularly when he is demonstrably telling the truth).
Well done Missouri Republican Assembly.
Hide your bread we are all gonna die. Soon we will all be able to see Russia.
The Tea Party rallies have a recurrent theme in their attendees of the need for a new party. I think Joe Wilson would make a fine VP for Sarah Palin.
Really….no…really.
I think the Republican Party (Cokie Roberts pronouncements aside)is finished.
RIP.
My hope and prayer of course, is that the public has the sense not to elect these later day brownshirts.
Am I naive?