Here is a great illustration of what I mean. On Forbes today Republican Congressman Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee wrote an article discussing the TSA and its lack of authority. She entitled the article "The TSA is Coming to a Highway Near You."
Her article very nicely sums up why Republicans are morons. First, she is not utterly condemning the TSA even though it recently ran a random roadblock in her state seeking nothing more than to intimidate and oppress. Now, I am no congressman but Republicans used to defend state sovereignty and personal liberty. Not anymore.
Second, Blackburn is actually praising herself (a decidedly liberal trait) for, get this, introducing legislation that would actually REQUIRE these TSA thugs to be trained as law enforcement officers and given the same authority as law enforcement officers. Seriously?!? Where does this idiot come from? The intelligent people of this country do not want federal police to exist let alone have the authority to govern our daily behavior. We already have state police, county sheriffs, city officers, and mall security guards. We hardly need one more babysitter. How could a Republican miss that issue if she has any brains at all? But she doesn't just miss that point, she punctuates it by arguing for, and trying to require, MILITARY STYLE training for these thugs. This is Bizarro World at its best.
Finally, Blackburn actually thinks her legislation and arguments will somehow "rein in" the TSA "on larger issues of concern." Wow. This is moron Republican logic at its finest. They actually think that giving a federally (and illegally) empowered police force more training and more authority will somehow cause that police force to be "reined in." She even argues that her stupid legislation is about "truth in advertising." What a crock. Blackburn simply doesn't understand that her so-called "truth in advertising" is really just changing the carpet to match the drapes and that is a very bad idea when the drapes are NAZIS.
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