…I’m sure by now you’ve heard about lawmaker Joe Barton’s oil-money-fueled apology to British Petroleum earlier this week. He was later forced by his own political party to retract it, but that hasn’t stopped incensed citizens from coming up with mocking sites like this one.
This is definitely both amusing and appalling. I, for one, hope that he loses the next election (and his political career) over it. Though the chances of that are probably slim… maddening as it is, when elections roll around, US citizens have all the memory of your average amnesiac.
Sometimes I think it’s too bad that the Republicans have become a party of the imbecilic, rather than their glory days of smart cookies like Tricky Dick and the older Bush, but then again, they are at least less dangerous this way. 😉
Sorry, but I can’t agree. They’re just as dangerous now as then, they’re just easier to spot now. And that hasn’t affected their rate of being elected one bit.
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.”
— Bob Edwards
Yeah, one of the up and coming candidates is Carley Fiona, “I wrecked HP, elect me so I can wreck your country!”
On the bright side, maybe she’ll pull off a merger deal with the US and Canada. She did do a lot of those at HP. 😉
She can’t be worse than some of the yahoos we’ve got in there. And there’s zero chance that she’d get the Republicans to agree to merge the US with Canada… the Canadians are socialist, you know. 😉
True, she probably isn’t as dead from the neck up as much as some of the candidates, but she has a record of acting in accordance with greed and short-term interests, two qualities already too common in Washington.
She’d fit right in. Which, as you say, wouldn’t be a good thing.