So I'm a little late to the pile....

Alright,

I've been off for a few days from my amatuerish attempts to write a blog venting my contempt for all things well, for lack of a better term stupid that I see in politics, what did I miss?

-Haiti imploded with up to 100,000 dead
-President Obama showing he's a lot more responsive to foreign crises than "Mr. Security" Bush rolled out a relief response in 1 day
-By the way, incidentally not only was Bush much slower to respond to the "shoe bomber" Richard Reid (6 days) than Obama was to the "Magical Exploding Cock Bomber" (3 Days) but Bush couldn't even respond to Katrina in less than four days, and that was in New Orleans! major props to Obama on this one, now if only he showed this sense of urgency on health reform...ending the Iraqi War...well, at least he's your man in a crisis, Obama I don't think was reading "My Pet Goat" (upside down as well....god Bush was a clown) and sitting for seven minutes...he was responsive, exactly what we needed our President to be on 9/11, Katrina...I digress.

-Conservatives and Republicans, after the intial attacks failed "he responded TOO swiftly!" as a contrast to bashing him for taking three days waiting for the fact in the case of the "cock bomb who killed no one" (except a young man's manhood). We've arrived at this denominator already, sadly. Being a "conservative" or a Republican no longer amounts to philosophical positions or even a semi-coherent (though loaded with cognitive dissonance) worldview anymore; being a "conservative" or a Republican now amounts to snipes, invective and vociferous hatred tossed at anything or anyone in the Democratic Party or anyone associated with the Democratic Party. Antagonism, obstinance, being childish, namecalling (like that stupid "Democrat Party" thing), and just plain hatred describe today's conservative. I'd also toss in a healthy amount of conspiratorial insanity (yep, the John Birch Society is clearly back) along with following stupid and lazy people because they're pretty faces who can rile a crowd.

Alright, I went to find an abstract for "Game Change", ran into a conservative blog addressing "Game Change" and flamed it. I guess now I'll go off subject for a moment and ask, why do conservatives consider taking someone else's position, not addressing it and instead attacking someone else as legitimate debate? I notice this tactic up and down the right wing. Ruminating on this, can it be possible that even Righties know they can't actually defend many of their positions so rather than sinking into policy and minutaie they respond with hatred? It would seem that's how they handle matters; reaction, anger and more ignorant spewing of the usual name calling (COMMUNIST! SOCIALIST! LIBRUL!).

Conservatives are being inhuman about this tragedy and it's not being confined to the idiots who command the legions of morons this time. Steve King, possibly the biggest douche in Congress, and that's saying a lot has a solution to the horror in Haiti: deport the Haitians so they can be relief workers. Not only is that one of the most disgusting solutions I've ever seen offered (I won't go there, the Hitler is used too often) but it is one of the most innapropriate comments made during a time of misery. What's most galling about this kind of disgusting bigotry, this politics above all, even humanity, this putrid display of indifference and oppurtunism; this is an elected official saying this! Steve King should be censured IMMEDIATELY for saying such disgusting things and everyone on the right should disavow him (yeah, right).

The rhetoric coming out of Capitol Hill has become so toxic in this past year it's become like a cancer. Republicans like King, Bachman and Virginia Fox aren't talk show hosts, they have responsibilities to this country to comport themselves civily. Saying health reform is a plot to kill old people is irresponsible, claiming you'll refuse to fill out a census because you're afraid of Nazi tactics being used on you is abhorrent, but those are typical lunatic fringe statements. But Steve King and Rush Limbaugh litterally take the cake. Haiti is in a terrible HUMAN crisis, possibly 100,000 people have died by the quake itself; the capitol city is ravaged and raised, people will die from lack of aid in droves and all these people can think about is POLITICS? I have an idea, let's send Steve King to Haiti, make him assist the Red Cross, let's pull Limbaugh out of his multi-million dollar rant house (shut-in) and let's make him assist the Marines in distrubting aid, let's make Pat Robertson's phony charity money actually go to relief for people (instead of his diamond mines). Let's take every person who says something completely disgusting about Haiti or Haitians and let's do something they've either never done or have been so removed from they forget what it even is: let's immerse them in human misery.

Let Rush Limbaugh tell Haitians in Port-Au-Prince up close and personal that President Obama only aided them to shore up support with the black community; let Pat Robertson tell a gathering of sick and injured people in the capitol that they got what they deserved and need to convert to God; let's let Steve King tell refugees seeking sanctuary from this horror that they need be deported so they can offer up aide. Let these human horrors confront those who suffer and continue to suffer that cheap, racist attacks on the president and indifference to their plight means more than pulling up our sleaves and trying to help rebuild and heal these Haitians, our brothers and sisters as humans. Let them do SOMETHING aside from sit on their inscrutible seats of power, in comfort and warmth and health and pass judgement on those who died from afar; let them look a man, or a woman or a child in the eyes and say their condemnations.

These people have revealed who they really are and what they are isn't something myself or anyone with morality or empathy would ever aspire to be: these are reptilian-brained and disgusting people. Cloke thier neighbor in misery and watch them complain about his suffering obscuring their view; these people are the real elitists of this country and they are disgusting; they are garbage. I'll go ahead and close out this rant, which wasn't initially going to be a rant with one final, famous quote, from Army Attorney Joseph Welch to Senator Joe McCarthy, another great human being, "At long last sir, have you no decency?" I can't think of a better quest to ask any of them.