Let’s be honest, sometimes politicians make friends with some pretty fringe people to get out some extra votes. For the Republicans this is the religious whackos who still think the fossil record is just a joke God is playing on us and for the Democrats its just about every other conspiracy spouting flake.
Hell, John Edwards hired one of those flakes to run his electoral blog for a little while before he figured out what an insane hate filled bigot she is.
So a motley collection of “Impeach Bush” fruitbats and no doubt a fair amount of 9/11 “truthers” along with a selection of your basic pacifist hippies has taken up residence outside of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s house. In the process they have proved a few things…
- That you would be a fool to try and ally with the insane
- That every homeless squatter should simply hold up a political slogan and thus beat a vagrancy rap
- That most of these people have no job and no life
Predictably war profiteer and professional vampire Cindy Sheehan was in on the act looking to extend her 15 minutes of semi-relevancy into hour 20.
Frankly Pelosi’s response to the insanity went a small way to convincing me that the Democratic party may not be totally stupid. It is probably they are just humoring these flakes but have some idea that actually listening to them would be stupid.
“We have to make responsible decisions in the Congress that are not driven by the dissatisfaction of anybody who wants the war to end tomorrow,” Pelosi told the gathering at the Sofitel, arranged by the Christian Science Monitor. Though crediting activists for their “passion,” Pelosi called it “a waste of time” for them to target Democrats. “They are advocates,” she said. “We are leaders.” – Nancy Pelosi showing a little bit of spine
There may be some hope. Meanwhile the fringe is totally frothing at the mouth that no one takes them seriously.
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