Trifecta

Preaching to the choir

Are they having these ridiculous GOP debates every week? Is that because it's like a sit com?

We have to admit we haven't seen any yet because, quite frankly, we'd prefer to stick steel spikes in our eyes and sticks of dynamite in our ears. But that's just us.

Apparently in last night's episode, former Tea Party darling, Michele Bachmann, who we understand used to be a tax attorney, opined that nobody should be paying taxes on their income. You earned that money, you should be able to keep it. Interesting stance.

Last night the bloodthirsty mob that showed up for the debate in person booed a gay soldier. This follows the first debate rabble's cheering Governor Rick Perry's 234 executions in Texas and last week's knuckle draggers' delight in having people die if they can't afford health insurance.

In many ways, the unwashed viewers are far more interesting than the debaters, but not in a good way.

Oxymoron or Just Moron?

Now that the OompaLoompa is the Speaker of the House, can total insanity be far behind?

Of course not.

Representative Michelle Bachmann Turner Overdrive has been appointed to the House Intelligence Committee.

Apparently the Congresswoman, who makes the other Tea Partiers look absolutely sane, has earned this spot so that she can add it to her resume when she runs for higher office. Obviously having or looking for intelligence was not a pre-requisite for the position.

Foxy Lady

Let me make this perfectly clear (as Richard Nixon would have said), I have a few rules that I live by. I don't give out my PIN number to total strangers, I do not stick safety pins in my eyes, and I don't watch Fox News.

Unfortunately I have seen clips from their programs and naturally I've come away with the impression that Gretchen Carlson is a total idiot. I remember watching her on CBS's Saturday Morning Show once upon a time and thinking she wasn't that bad, but something happened when she made the transition to the conservative Faux News.

Well, Jon Stewart has totally called her out on her 'dumb blonde' routine by pointing out that she was the valedictorian of her graduating high school class, attended Stanford University and studied at Oxford (not the Mississippi Oxford), and was the 1989 Miss America, playing a mean classical violin in the talent portion.

Disturbingly (although I didn't hear Stewart mention this) one of her childhood nannies in Minnesota was future congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, a well known idiot and member of the House of Representatives.

Could her future stint on Fox & Friends have been sealed at the knee of Representative Bachmann? Is that where she learned to so expertly 'dumb down?' It certainly would explain a lot of things. Perhaps we'll have to wait to read her autobiography.