Republican Solution to Drowning? Add Weights.

Hanging out near Mercersburg, Pennsyltucky, where nephew Josh will attend boarding school in the fall. Beautiful campus, great teaching staff, smart students; I’m jealous!

So anyway, just when the Republican Party seems to be careening into irrelevancy, they go and reinforce their racist cred and target the fastest growing demographic in the US of A. Michelle Malkin can’t stop saying, “I told you so. Dirty Mexicans are infecting us!” She’s getting an amen from Sean and Rush and Anne and Laura and all the other usual bullies. Besides being patently false (the infections apparently were in Americans who had traveled to Mexico) it’s extremely insulting to Latinos, the only group that could make Republicans relevant again. Why do these people hate hard working, family oriented Catholics? It makes no sense to me, but then again, racism is very deeply ingrained in the Republican Party, and requires very little logic. First generation Korean-American Michelle fails to see the irony in her anti-immigrant screeds. Unbelievable.

So, basically the decades of one party rule that Karl Rove envisioned looks about as silly as the Thousand Year Reich. Every election cycle, more Republican (angry, old, white, Southern) are dying, while the young voters coming up are overwhelmingly Democrats. Good riddance to bad beliefs, bad policy and bad governance.

Let’s look at a few of the pointless issues muddying the minds of listeners to right wing talk radio.

1. Obama is spending more than anyone ever!
Actually he inherited a $10 trillion deficit that included tax cuts for the rich (I pay zero federal taxes) and an unnecessary war. At least Obama wants to spend it on us.

2. This is tyrrany!
Um, I wanted to vote in November, but jack booted thugs from the Democratic Party kept me from the polls! Oh wait. No they didn’t. It’s not called “tyranny”. It’s called “losing”.

3. He’s trying to make us socialists by nationalizing the companies!
Actually, the banks and auto companies came to the government, not the other way around.

4. He wasn’t born in America!
This one slays me. How did his birth announcement make the Honolulu newspaper the next day?

I think if one spends an hour with Diane Rehm and an hour with Hannity or Limbaugh, it would be really, really hard to say they were all anywhere near balanced. Diane usually has conservative guests who are allowed to speak their minds without interruption. I have never heard her put down or shut off a guest. Sean? Yell them down. Rush? Never get past the screener.

The Republicans and their media pals are killing their party.

Good.