As we enter day four of the government shutdown and its accompanying clown show, there appears to be a flicker of light inside the increasingly dark tantrum tunnel. The New York Times learned last night that Speaker John Boehner announced to his colleagues in a closed-door meeting that he intends to hold a vote on the debt ceiling later this month, which would side-step a potentially crippling blow to the American economy. The votes are evidently there, and, at least for now, the vote appears to be on.
This is about as good it gets in the wake of a harrowing fiasco in Washington, DC during which a woman with apparent mental health issues plowed her car into a series of barricades outside the White House and was subsequently pursued to Capitol Hill where a gunfight ensued.
The incident seemed to magnify and exacerbate an atmosphere of insanity spreading virally through the halls of Congress — and, as we’ll observe presently, elsewhere. Indeed, the shutdown has turned our collective attention directly to the self-beclowning instigators behind the shutdown, further exposing the fact that this particular litter of congressmembers are not only terrible at conducting political theater, but they’re truly despicable human beings — especially knowing that they’re all members of an exclusive club intended to be populated with 535 of America’s best and brightest. Instead, the shutdown has once again highlighted that there are way too many incompetents and crazies voting (or not voting) on laws that directly impact the governance and citizenship of the most powerful nation in the world.
Take for example Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX) who’s collecting a $170,000 annual government salary as compensation for being an all-day, all-night Twitter troll; ejaculating the most childish, unprofessional, bile-filled awfulness into public view practically around the clock via two separate Twitter accounts. Stockman is a talking, tweeting bumper sticker who, if his 140 character screeds are any indication, is a disgrace to the office to which gerrymandering has unjustly elevated him.
For example, there was this… [CONTINUE READING]