I have serious doubts about the ability of most Congress to either read or comprehend the Bible or the works of Rand, even the Cliff Notes versions. They celebrate being dumb as a post, and let lobbyists write the laws.
]]>– Badtux the Waddling Penguin
]]>Well, other people have implied or said it was a racial problem, Badtux, but I’ll stay with ignorance. I don’t doubt that some of the people in Congress think Africa is a borough of New York City.
Since they don’t occupy this space/time continuum it is difficult to determine why Repubs act like they do.
]]>The Libyans being Arabs rather than Negros probably is what tripped him up. Everybody knows that Africa is where black Americans came from — not the tea-colored Americans, the by-god black ones. It can’t be Africa if the residents aren’t at least as dark-complected as President Obama, right? 😈
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
]]>I don’t expect them to know where every country in the world is, but I expect them to be curious enough to find out where the countries we are currently bombing are located. It becomes rather pointless to “consult with Congress” when Congresscritters don’t even know what continent is under discussion. These are the sorts of things that Congressional staff would once brief their bosses about, but the staff seem to have become just as ignorant as the Congresscritters.
If they want oil, Hipparchia, they can suck it off my beaches, because I want the sand, not the oil.
OWL, you probably stayed awake and listened in school, so that makes you part of the “intellectual elite” in the eyes of everyone in Congress with a R after their name, and too many with a D.
]]>“I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.”
John Stuart Mill in a letter to the Conservative MP, John Pakington
H.L. Mencken once said that democracy is the notion that the common folk know what they want and deserve to get it, good and hard. As long as Americans continue to vote for the most corrupt candidate (i.e., the one who has accepted the most bribes err “campaign contributions” and thus has the most petty lying attack ads on the air) rather than the best candidate (the one who is most intelligent and has the best solutions for the nation’s problems), well.
– Badtux the Cynical WASF Penguin
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