Louisiana Voice

Marjorie Taylor Greene is the living embodiment of why cousins should never marry.

The woman would flunk an IQ test.

She is the quintessential dumb blonde joke.

She not only resembles, but could well be, the missing link.

She’s proof that you can’t buy class. In her case, she can’t even rent it.

She’s the one person in Congress who can make Clay Higgins seem intelligent and KKK Scalise appear tolerant and broad-minded.

She was a train wreck long before East Palestine, Ohio, and every bit as toxic.

Unfortunately, she’s got lots of company with the likes of Josh Hawley, Matt Gaetz, Gym Jordan, George Santos, Lauren Boebert, Ron Johnson, John Kennedy, Rick Scott, and the aforementioned Scalise and Higgins. Even Kari Lake, though a failed candidate for Arizona governor, keeps up with the denial drumbeat. And of course, there’s Ron DeSantis lurking on the sidelines.

You would almost think that Jim Jones was alive and dispensing Kool-Aid to Republicans in Congress these days.

And before anyone goes there, I want to say that I’m very much aware that there are good Republicans out there. Some are in my family and I would never discourage them from following their consciences. By the same token, I know of Democrats who have served time for their misdeeds or resigned in disgrace.

I also know if you go back 50 years to the Nixon administration, you will find far, far more federal indictments and prison sentences in the five Republican administrations than you will in the four Democratic administrations. The BREAKDOWN in indictments during that time is 335 to three.

But in my nearly 80 years, I have never seen such a concentration of evil, ignorance, and downright incompetence as exists in today’s Republican Party. It’s as if there were an epidemic of malevolence turned loose on an astonishingly large number of members of the former Party of Lincoln.

But back to MTG. This mouth-breathing, Qanon-loving moron unbelievably suggested this week that America needs a “national divorce” that would separate the country by red states and blue states. “Everyone I talk to says this,” she tweeted.

Now, I don’t know who this so-called “everyone” is but I suspect it’s the same as the “many people” who communicate with the former guy on certain issues. In other circles, they are referred to as “imaginary friends,” or, “ghost employees.”

She says Democrats are putting “America last,” but to suggest a “national divorce” would seem to be to be accomplishing just that. She is all for just trashing the Constitution which created this country. That, by the way, is the same Constitution that the NRA falls back on in defending the proliferation of the country’s gun culture. But that’s another story.

Regardless, she obviously hasn’t thought this all the way through. For instance, what criteria will be used to determine red and blue states? In her own state of Georgia, nine of 14 House members are Republican but both US senators are Democrats. And Biden defeated Trump in that state. So, is Georgia red or blue? Oh, the governor’s Republican? Okay, the governor of Louisiana is a Democrat but five of six House members and both senators are Republican. MTG also didn’t take into consideration that the political winds shift and what is blue today could well be red next year – and vice versa. In short, her call for a “national divorce” is little more than the ramblings of an unhinged idiot.

She claims to be opposed to the so-called “woke” culture. But just who is attempting to re-write history books – and even certain math books? Who is doing everything possible to censor which books public libraries may offer? Who is it who introduced a bill in the Missouri legislature that would ban women’s right to bare arms? Who proposes a “don’t say gay” policy for an entire state? Those would be Republicans, one and all.

MTG’s latest rant ranks right up there with her Jewish space lasers and a few other of her nit-witted conspiracy theories. She’s an idiot, pure and simple. And she was reelected easily just four months ago. Go figure. I guess it’s the same mentality as expressed by a reader in response to one of my criticisms of Higgins: as long as he votes conservative, nothing else matters.

That’s it in a nutshell. Other things, like morals, intellect, compassion, honesty, and fairness don’t matter. Just vote conservative.

And now, you can add the name of Alaska State Rep. David Eastman to the list of Republican lunatics.

If it’s humanly possible for anyone to surpass MTG or Boebert on the dumb-ass meter, this man did it, in spades.

The Alaska legislator actually SAID during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on adverse childhood experiences that there might be economic benefits in cases where child abuse was fatal.

Here’s the actual quote: “It can be argued, periodically, that it’s actually a cost savings because that child is not going to need any of those government services that they might otherwise be entitled to receive and need based on growing up in this type of environment.”

That prompted Tervor Storrs, president and CEO of the Alaska Children’s Trust, to ask, “Can you say that again? Did you say ‘a benefit for society’?”

That was too much, even for Alaska’s House of Representatives, which has a 21-16 Republican majority. By an overwhelming 35-1 vote, Eastman was censured with his colleagues calling his remarks “despicable,” “atrocious,” and “indefensible.”

Now I’m certain that Eastman, who calls himself pro-life, was not suggesting that abused children be allowed to die. But what I’m equally certain of is that so many of these elected Republicans are so narrowly focused in their perception of reality that they actually allow the stupid to spill out of their mouths in the belief that they’re actually being practical and productive.

Whatever, Eastman’s callous remark, had it been made on the national stage, would have far overshadowed MTG’s divorce proclamation. Unfortunately, both statements, along with those of most of the others I’ve named here, are fast becoming the daily norm for the Republican Party.

We used to call that putting the mouth in motion before the brain was in gear.

A former co-worker described it as “letting your alligator mouth overload your jaybird ass.”