The Reign Of Morons Is Here

[Playinghardball]

In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them. There have been lazier Congresses, more vicious Congresses, and Congresses less capable of seeing forests for trees. But there has never been in a single Congress — or, more precisely, in a single House of the Congress – a more lethal combination of political ambition, political stupidity, and political vainglory than exists in this one, which has arranged to shut down the federal government because it disapproves of a law passed by a previous Congress, signed by the president, and upheld by the Supreme Court, a law that does nothing more than extend the possibility of health insurance to the millions of Americans who do not presently have it, a law based on a proposal from a conservative think-tank and taken out on the test track in Massachusetts by a Republican governor who also happens to have been the party’s 2012 nominee for president of the United States. That is why the government of the United States is, in large measure, closed this morning.

More here: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Shutdown_Blues

Discovered on the ObamaDiary

[hobbit709]

1. H. Beam Piper back in the 50s wrote Day Of The Moron and Null-ABC.

In some ways he was a prophet.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Just saying...

and just observing.

It looks like one of Cantor's horns is still showing.
He's gotta learn to put that stuff away in public.

[NuclearDem]

3. The combined IQ of that room would barely breach room temperature.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. A must read - he sums up the situation well, but the writing is beautiful

And he makes sure to note that Reagan holds a significant amount of blame for this clusterfuck.

Put that in a future history class, and you'll not only have a good piece giving the atmosphere of these absurd times, you'll get an extra 50% of students signing on for more history.

That's if there's such a thing as schools or colleges left, after the morons have trashed the country.