What the Hell Is Wrong With America?

[xchrom]

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A politician who's in a tough re-election fight deleted a Twitter posting earlier today because he thought it would offend voters in his home state. I know, I know, these days "politician-deletes-thoughtless-tweet" articles are the dog-bites-man stories of American journalism. So let's see what outrageous and offensive thing Sen. Thad Cochran wanted to hide from the world:

Welcome home, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. A grateful America thanks you for your service. -- @SenThadCochran



Yikes! Welcoming home an American soldier after five years of captivity? No wonder Cochran is on the brink of getting the boot from the good people of Mississippi. Nor was he alone. Other politicians have been scrambling to hide the fact that they briefly thought an American gaining his freedom after a terrorist kidnapping in Afghanistan was a cause for celebration.

Here's another: Iowa's Joni Ernst, the Hawkeye State's newly minted U.S. Senate nominee. She removed this embarrassing display of humanity after just 25 minutes:

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl freed after 5 yrs being reported missing in Afghanistan. Thoughts & prayers go out to Sgt. Bergdahl & his family. -- @joniernst



Ernst, you may recall, is the candidate who won her primary after bragging about her ability to castrate hogs (she then vowed to "cut pork" in Washington...ouch! No, seriously, ouch.) But apparently Ernst lacks the cojones to stick to her controversial "thoughts and prayers" sentiments for the Bergdahl family, a profile in courage that suggests she'd fit in well in Washington. At least three other GOP politicians also yanked their tweets about what one had called "the wonderful news" of Bergdahl's release. Whoever said that your first reaction to something is usually the right reaction apparently never heard of the Fox Effect.

OK, maybe you're thinking that folks like Cochran and Ernst jumped into this without all the facts. Well, of course they did. Most politicians don't have most of the facts most of the time, and yet they speak up anyway. But what are we to make of all the Republican politicians who we know had been following the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl case because they'd been pleading publicly for President Obama to DO SOMETHING, including a prisoner swap, if it would win the soldier's freedom?

[CJCRANE]

1. Repubs have lost the ability of independent thought.

[kelliekat44]

6. As I have said before. Truly, Obama is the apocalyptic President.

He has caused the the unveiling of the insanity of racism, misogyny, bigotry, greed, and inhumanity all lurking under the surface of many people. The veils, and in some cases the sheets, have been ripped off revealing a ugly truths.

[Skidmore]

7. What is true is that Ronnie Reagan's "Morning in America" coalition

has been exposed once and for all for the PR campaign it was. The myth never matches the reality and I think that some of those deadenders of the Reagan machine cannot handle the truth about themselves or the nation they shaped.

[kelliekat44]

15. i agree with you. RR was the down-turning point for this nation as it was trying to remove the

stains of the past. The Reagan legacy ensured that it would not succeed.

[Stellar]

14. LOL! Yeah their like the Borg, from Star Trek: TNG, in that respect.

[pinboy3niner]

2. They didn't jump into it without the facts. They jumped into it without the talking points.

Oops!

[malaise]

3. Truthfully if Americans were serious about their country

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and heard the ReTHUG reaction to Bowe Bergdahl's release from capture, they would wipe them out in the November elections.

[Scarsdale]

4. Facts

Everyone should wait until the FACTS come out. Remember, Pat Tillman's friendly fire story was kept hidden until his parents went looking for the TRUTH. I have a feeling the soldiers who were there with Bergdahl are trying to make sure the TRUE story does not get out. The clowns on Faux, denigrating Mr. Bergdahl for growing a beard, should take a look at the duck dynasty asses. Maybe if Mr. Bergdahl wore a Stars and Stripes sweat band, he would look more patriotic?

[malaise]

5. Agreed

Wingers are trying to get ahead of the facts with their usual propaganda tricks.

[The Wizard]

8. The Pox News propganda jihad

calls the shots in the Republican Party and demonstrates that it is a neo-fascist reactionary death cult bent on dragging the world into the slime pit.

[freshwest]

16. +1.

[bemildred]

9. Profiles in Courage.

[xchrom]

10. indeed. nt

[Warren Stupidity]

11. Before the Soviet Union collapsed fanatic communists developed the DumbFuck Bomb

and detonated it over what has now become the CSA, the Christian States of America. It was their last gambit to win the cold war, it was a long shot, but it looks like it is going to succeed.

[DeSwiss]

12. I keep on sayin'......

...it's the idiots. And the FEAR, of course.

It's always been the idiots. They're referred to in history books as monarchs and nobles of some such or another. Mankind's history is replete with stories of their greed, stupidity and avarice which has prevailed over humanity because we're easily duped and/or led. And frightened.

They made matters worse by inter-marrying until they reach a point of crazy that we can't look at them directly but only askance. And then we refer to their acts as odd, or eccentric or amusing, when its really just crass, impolite and/or condescending that they really are.

But that was mostly back when nobody could read but them. So except for those who have been left behind since, and can't read -- then we really don't have an excuse for why we're so easily duped and/or led now.

- But, there is always the FEAR......

K&R

[nomorenomore08]

18. Unfortunately, millions of Americans are functionally illiterate and/or have never read any book but

the Bible. They mindlessly advocate theocracy without even knowing what that word means.

Fortunately for the rest of us, such people aren't the majority. But they're a large enough minority to cause serious problems.

[elias7]

13. You wonder if it was all a set-up

Republicans "pleading publicly for President Obama to DO SOMETHING, including a prisoner swap, if it would win the soldier's freedom" then immediately turn around and condemn.

[freshwest]

17. What the hell is wrong is that conservatives still exist and hold power.

Until every last one of them are booted from office, we will continue to suffer until the insanity burns itself out. With either a return to balance or a total surrender to the Handmaiden's Tale and other atrocities. It's up to us to chart the course by voting. Because we don't have the money and guns and the government is our 'union' to represent us. It's all we have to fight them.