Today Among the Malevolent Fredos
By The competition Erik announced last week has a clear winner for the day. Meet Mr. Ted Yoho (R-Florida). He starts out with some more traditional boilerplate:
“I see one side of our government, or two-thirds of it, running 100 miles an hour toward socialism,” Yoho said, meaning Obama and the Democratic-led Senate.
If by this you mean “20 miles an hour towards technocratic liberalism,” sure. Then we get senseless analogies:
So, Yoho said, conservatives “are like Fred and Barney in the Flintstone-mobile, trying to stop that.” This year, that meant trying to defund Obama’s health-care law, even at the risk of shutting down the government.
Well, I would say that “stone age” sums up Repblican ideology quite nicely, and the shutdown scheme seems to be based on logic about as sound as a typical Fred and Barney scheme.
All this is just standard-issue wingnuttery, though. This is special:
“I think we need to have that moment where we realize [we’re] going broke,” Yoho said. If the debt ceiling isn’t raised, that will sure as heck be a moment. “I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets,” since they would be assured that the United States had moved decisively to curb its debt.
Right. And if the American banking system collapsed things would get really stable.