by William Jellick
Well, we now know we can't even use the Republicans as a source of occasionally-valid Obama criticism. Even I, a certified Republican-hater, was astonished at the depths and extent of brazen, shameless hypocrisy exhibited by Alabama Senator Shelby as he acted like a puppy caught in a bear-trap in lashing out over the administrations announcement to close some 'gubbmint' facilities in his home state of
Reading of this, yet another lapse of common sense coming from a Republican, I grew even more despondent over the fall from sanity that this party has taken. It's just too easy now to simply ignore them when you realize that ANYTHING that comes from their mouths, whether truthful or not, is too poisonous for normal, uncritical consumption. Forget for the moment Senator Shelby's hypocrisy over objecting to cutting government expense because it happens to come in his own back yard (including one which was one of his own EARMARKS (gasp!)) and his shameless use of calling the cuts tantamount to aiding the terrorists: we have, through his claim to block EVERY appointee, an elected official who has simply abdicated his duties as a US Senator. He might as well have said that he's decided never to speak again, because his words, truthful or not, will be dismissed as not worth the air used to form them. Like a schizophrenic in a mental ward, we'll never know if he speaks from a point of clarity or not. Yes, I'm glad that I no longer have to spend time fact-checking Republican claims, but honestly, I'd much rather do that than admit that they are now certifiably, unequivocally - irrelevant.
As Sarah 'her badself' Palin might have commented, 'Say it ain't so, Joe'!
Bill Jellick is a senior correspondent for Robbinsense
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