Ritalin For Republicans
I just spent 30 minutes resisting the urge to toss the skillet I was using to make a grilled ham-n-cheese through my television. I'm glad I am not prone to acid reflux and heartburn. Although I have not vomited in at least 25 years, it was getting tough there for a minute.
Clearly, having just listened to C-Span for that fairly brief period, it is time to rush a truckload of Ritalin to our Republican friends.
The House ATTEMPTED to debate a simple bill to re-authorize an allocation for beach water testing with some minor modifications that mandated the use of newer testing methods that provides for more rapid turn-around of results.
The whole time I was listening, it was one idiot Republican after another scolding the floor for 'debating' a bill on water testing (which is vitally important for a slew of reasons) when there were truck drivers outside circling the Capital in protest over high energy prices. Then they each went on wringing each of their hands over the Democratic Congress's inability to reduce energy costs before they won the majority.
It should be noted that largely they each also conceded that they thought the bill on the beaches be passed, but then each went on to waste their allotted time to harp on energy policy; many of them essentially wanted to blame on today's cost on - yup - the Democrats.
Perhaps if they had some Ritalin and they had been on the regimen even two years ago - they might have been able to STAY ON TASK and pass or fail legislation efficiently. And maybe they could remember that they - the Republicans shut down attempt after attempt by Democrats in the last Congress to head off the problems we have today as regards the fuel costs. Of course none even suggested that a good part of the problem resulted from our thinly veiled war for oil and the costs impact brought by the degraded dollar value that was is a result of what? Oh yeah, that damn war and all the money we have had to borrow from our greatest competition for the oil that exists - China.
Come to think of it - they need Ritalin <b> and</b> Aricept as the latter just might help their memory, too.
Well maybe not the Aricept - they sure didn't forget to play their favorite red herring - the low Approval rating Congress has, is clearly the fault of the Democrats.
It is a well known fact that repugnicans do not need H2O. Their preferred source of sustenance is mass fear and generous prickery. Today's deli special was the latter.
I addition to the basic physiologic benefits of water for maintaining body circulation, water is a key ingredient of many chemical/metabolic processes such as oxygen/carbon dioxide exchange.
This would explain the impressive indifference of repugnicans to elevated levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.
I hope this sheds some light on what you witnessed on C-Span.
April 10, 2008 4:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Haha! TPartier, you are my kinda guy/gal (?)! I'm glad I'm not the only one taken with throwing things at the television. I generally use slippers or my kid's soft toys. It really stills give you the satisfaction without the destruction. My favorite shoe-throwing shoes? Dan Abrams, for his constant third person references to "the media," Morning Joe, for his attempts to pass self-righteousness off as regular-guyness, and Wolf Blitzer for his complete lack of understanding about, well, really anything.
April 10, 2008 6:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm a guy, I guess I could find something soft to heave, maybe one of the toys I keep around here for my granddaughter. Well, maybe not - she still has that mouthing tendency - who knows what might come back through the screen.
I have to agree with you on all three of the programs you mention. I largely have very little respect for the MSM though I keep it on often for background noise while I work. I do like Cafferty for his old geezer f you if you don't like it crotchety attitude. He can be accurately blunt when he wants to be.
Once in a great while they partially redeem themselves, Olbermann, though occasionally shrill, is not too terribly bad.
I find PBS newshour, Bill Moyers and a few other outlets to be much more reliable.
One can't forget Colbert and Stewart either.
April 10, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hah... the slim Democratic majority is responsible for high energy prices, not their Texas oilman President or his energy/defense contractor VP. How many times have they demanded that their own party leadership disclose the minutes of Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force meetings, the blueprints for the Bush administrations energy policies (or lack thereof)?
Oh, here's a fun one that you can feel free to disregard: Did they once mention Dr. M. King Hubbert or peak oil production?
I can see why you had to chew it back. It's certainly rich.
April 10, 2008 6:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah - I just can't believe these clowns and am forever amazed at how stupid one can be and still get elected. Such a statement on our educational system.
The amount of groveling the Republicans will do to defend some of the most reprehensible policies and corporate misdeeds in history never ceases to amaze me. That Darell Issa guy out in California for astute spinning even the most blatant evidence against his positions, Lynn Westmoreland (Ga.) and Marsha Blackburn(TN), and that McHenry(NC?) guy for complete and utter ignorance that shows and shows. There's others for that last category - but I only have so much time, and wouldn't want to test the limits of the servers at TPM.
No - I think they wrote Hubbert off as a nut case (again, they failed to find a mirror) in the 70's or so. Of course if you bring the guy up now, they all act like they never heard of them -- if only this had come to our attention before....
April 10, 2008 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink