The Descent of the GOP Brain

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A sort of corollary to the IOKIYAR we've seen most recently this past week (ahem) is that the first rule of the post-Bush era is you don't talk about the Bush era (though it's apparently still ok to blame Jimmy Carter for everything from the heartbreak of psoriasis to the economic collapse of 2008); anyway, oddly I come to praise Shrub or at least damn him with faint praise...

Because as much as he was and still is a zero, he's nonetheless head and shoulders above what's followed. Sarah Palin and, since word salad might be too much credit, word slaw? Bachmann's unique navigation skills/GPS of the mind? Petroleum based polymer Mitt Romney? Herman Cain and his three page bill limit?

By Herman Cain standards, The Pet Goat, or at least the reader containing The Pet Goat, is about five times too long. The Constitution? Four pages. The Old and New Testaments are right out, with most if not all of the individual books.

Dubya had signing statements longer than three pages.

But that said, when you're comparing, for lack of a better term, "the Bush intellect," favorably to just about anything, you know a monster's been unleashed.

I suppose it's not that much of a shock to say I watch a fair bit of MSNBC -- lately they've run a promo featuring Tweety saying something like "the problem with [wingers] is that they won't say 'Obama is as much an American as I am..." etc. etc. Actually, that's really more a source of hope...i.e., provided the collective IQ of this country is at least still barely in triple digits, let's hope we'll reject a crop of candidates that...make George W. Bush look like an intellectual.

Comments

[OkieBlue]

The wingers scare the hell out of me. Every day there is another wingnut with a "serious" budget proposal that is absolutely laughable and noboby will point out how insane they are. They think this is a winning strategy and maybe they're right. Voters have proven they are willing to elect candidates that are several sandwiches short of a picnic and not even give it a second thought.

I think we are rapidly heading towards "Idiocracy".

[CVS]

Republicans have always been about thinking with the lizard brain, so I'm not sure there is much of a decent going on there :-)

[pansypoo]

the clinton econmy is ignored as well, ESPECIALLY HOW it perked up AFTER tax hikes. and gee. paying down the debt too.

[MichaelF]

Re: Idiocracy, you know I'd almost say 'bring it on' except I'd probably get swept away in the riptide along with lord knows how many others.

And I've already been through/seen one major downtown -- Louisiana in the mid to late 80s saw the bottom fall out of the oil market, and that reverberated throughout the broader economy. To be sure, I was young and minus much employment experience, but when you can't even get a job working the night shift at a convenience store (should I wear a uniform or a target?) it can do a real number on you...