Since most Americans cannot correctly tell you which parties control which houses of Congress, this whole accountability idea is pretty tough. I wish people could just scroll through the recent articles at Political Wire. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) sneaks up on a fellow congressman to “photobomb” him. Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) may have accidentally legalized marijuana in DC while attempting to oppose decriminalization. Republican members of the Virginia House of Delegates broke into Governor Terry McAuliffe’s office on a weekend to “deliver their budget.” Virginia Republicans bribed a Democratic senator into resigning his seat with promise of a job, cell phone, and a car. Mississippi Tea Party leader kills himself after getting into trouble for his participation in an illegal entry into a nursing home to film Sen. Thad Cochran’s (R-MS) demented wife. That doesn’t even get into the Republican who is accusing his primary opponent of being dead and impersonated by a body double or John Boehner’s announcement that he plans to sue the president for something he hasn’t decided on yet. There’s also something, something, IRS, The Benghazi! Committee, Govs. Scott Walker (R-WI) and Chris Christie (R-NJ) dodging prosecutors, Sen. Jeff Sessions opposing the Voting Rights Act, and Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) calling for the deportation of DREAMers. There’s Ann Coulter on a jihad against soccer and people at Fox News speculating that the World Cup is itself a conspiracy to take people’s minds off President Obama’s travails.
There is always some set of b.s. that the right-wing media are humping, but there seems to be a confluence of streams of b.s. all coming together at the same time to create some kind of polar vortex or SuperStorm of Bullshit.
Bullshit criminal behavior and bullshit rhetoric on anabolic steroids.
The only saving grace for Republicans is that most people don’t even know what they do, or what they’re supposed to do. They just sense that Congress sucks, without appreciating just how sick this patient has become.
