Jon Stewart has once again put Georgia's own Congressman Paul Braun in the national spotlight -- but not in a good way. Speaking about both Braun ("evolution is a lie straight from the pits of hell") and fellow Congressman Todd Akin ("women don't get pregnant from rape") -- both members of the House Science and Technology Committee -- he called them, exasperatedly as only Jon Stewart can do, "fucking crazy."
And he used them as examples of why it would be such a terrible idea to leave more and more of the big decisions up to the states -- such as converting federal assistance programs into block grants to the states, as the Republicans are determined to do.
Ralph
PS: Here's how smart Braun is (and I think the Medical College of Georgia should re-examine his records to see if he really qualified to received his MD degree from them):
On the road into my home town of Sandersville, which I visited recently, there is a large, full-sized campaign billboard, complete with Braun's picture, for his re-election to Congress.
What's crazy about this is that Sandersville is not in the district he is running in. Never has been; not even next door.
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Add another to the list of Republican candidates who are "fucking crazy," in Jon Stewart's pithy phrase.
ReplyDeleteA state legislator is Wisconsin, I believe, whom Paul Ryan had endorsed. But after the guy made a reference to "some girls are easy to rape," Ryan withdrew his support.
Now, to be fair, the guy was quoting what his father had said to him when he was a youth, as a warning about girls who willingly participate in sex, then the next morning, when their parents find out -- they claim they were raped.
But it's the height of political dumbness, in this day and time, to even utter such words in public (or private, for that matter). You never know when someone has a cell phone making a video of it; and it will be taken out of context.