The GOP needs a big dose of common sense

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I was trying to decide what to write today.

You see, there was a lot to choose from.  Yesterday there was an article about a Republican representative from Georgia making it known that even though he was on the science committee; he thinks a lot of science is straight from “the pits of hell.”  There’s a man with a mind screwed on straight. And then there was the article about the Republicans voting down the U.N. disability treaty that their own Bob Doyle came onto the floor of Congress in a wheelchair to advocate. The radical right felt like it was infringing on the rights of families?  Really? Have they actually read the act?  Doubtful. It is about helping those with disabilities, just like our own Americans With Disabilities Act protects. The UN version would make it active the world over. But some nut job from Utah is afraid it is going to give Ugandans the right to come to America and put our families in jail. For a state that doesn’t drink a lot, these guys sure think like their minds are made of sour mash.

I was trying to decide which stupidity of the GOP would get my wrath today and I decided that neither deserved it.

The GOP has gone so far overboard to the extremes of the “Christian Right” and the No-Taxes at any costs party, that it is ludicrous to even consider them thoughtful members of our society. Unfortunately they still have enough votes to control certain acts in our legislative process.  Something we will need to change rapidly in the up-coming, mid-term elections.

We need to rid ourselves of the no-tax, science-hating, fear-mongering, build-the- Pentagon-budget-on-the-backs-of-poor-folks, limit-those-who-can-vote, pledge allegiance to Grover Norquist, abortion-is-the-only-issue-I-care-about Republicans. 

Where have the truly smart conservatives gone?  Where is the leadership we expected to emerge?  Did the GOP not learn anything from the 2012 election? Their platform went down in flames. Instead of sound judgment, we get the silly-ass Michelle Bachman’s and the likes of her Tea Party stalwarts still trying to make headlines in Washington.  Enough America. Let’s get rid of these radicals.

It is time for common sense in Washington.