An apologetic bow to insanity

Apologies for my earlier outburst. I was as temporarily deranged as Rush Limbaugh is permanently demented. When I heard his audio clip--a mockery of the White House at the expense of 20 slain babies--I went a trifle berserk, lurching for the keyboard. And had the despicable Limbaugh been near, I instead would have lurched for his goddamn throat. Brutal joking at any politician's expense is one thing, but joking in relation to the unfathomable slaughter of innocent children should, in my unChristian opinion, render said jokester to any available, damnable hell.

Which brings us to that sick joke called the House of Representatives. Reports Politico, to absolutely no one's surprise:

Interviews with multiple House Republicans from the Midwest and Northeast reveal almost zero appetite to vote on any sort of sweeping gun bill. In the month after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., none have brought up the issue with Speaker John Boehner. Without internal pressure from such center-right Republicans ... Boehner would seem to have little political incentive to move on guns.

Hence the reason I've written as infrequently as I have on various gun-control proposals dominating the news--for in this country, at this time, "political reality" means little more than political insanity.

Comments

[japa21]

Apologies for what? Seemed like a perfectly rationale, well-reasoned and appropriate response to something that has less redeemable quality than a pile of dog doodoo.

However, although "political reality" says that little will be accomplished (I do think some cosmetic measures will get through) everything that is happening right now is bringing the darkness into the open. More and more people who are saying the right can't be that insane are finding out that they are, indeed, that insane.

When Rupert Murdoch is on the right sider of an issue (meaning correct, not opposite of left)something is starting to move.

You wrote a few times yesterday about Obama's luck. Yes he has some, but he is also doing an amazing job of doing things that bring's out the insanity of the right even more.

[Peter G]

Ah well I had forgiven your outburst before I had finished reading the post. I sing of PM, who like Olaf, has discovered there is some shit he will not eat. On the whole though, I am glad I am not morally obligated to help make your bail, as I doubtless would have felt compelled to do had your reverie become fact.

[Botelho]

PM, you're doing something right in your counter-Limbaughian commentary when you can make Peter G drop his Wodehouse and grab for his Cummings. (Perhaps he was changing clips...) In any case, all responses short of an actual hammer assault to Limbo's giant forehead should be considered restrained.

[Beauzeaux]

I'm even opposed to the shooting of guilty children since I was once one of them.
Also guilty adults shouldn't be shot sunce we all have something to be gulty about.

[Beulahmo]

The outburst seemed uncharacteristic but wholly understandable. We all felt the same way. We ALL have limits. Witnessing that worthless sack of ___ mocking anxious children would've provoked Ghandi into punching him in the nuts.

[AnneJ]

There is nothing to forgive, I probably would have said worse if I were off my meds. He's never had children of his own (thank goodness for small miracles, he didn't reproduce) and has probably never suffered any kind of hardship in his life and has no capacity for empathy, that kind of talk usually comes from people who've had relatively easy lives. But he's just a stupid shock jock whose only talent is in spouting incendiary rhetoric and without that, he'd probably be living in a van in a Wal Mart parking lot. The really sick people are the ones who have the power to do something about all of this senseless violence perpetrated on innocents but no desire whatsoever to take action. The political reality is republican sociopaths infesting the halls of congress. And that is tragic for all of us.