My show started late this morning. I was at my daughter’s school for a routine conference that got a little more complicated while I was there. She’s 12 years old, so I expect to have some adolescent problems with her for the next few years. I don’t like it, but realized that that’s the ride that’s in store for me.
But I expect more from our elected leaders – even of those with whom I agree on virtually nothing. I still expect them to act like adults, and not threaten to hold their breath until their collective face turns blue. But that’s the sort of thing we’re dealing with on a daily basis.
I was a bit out of sorts this morning anyway, but when a tweet crossed my screen this morning near the end of the show that proclaimed that Eric Cantor said “no aid for Joplin, MO tornado victims without cuts” to offset the costs, I was blown away.
GottaLaff (of The Political Carnival) joins me every Tuesday morning to dish on the news, and we had just spoken, at length, about the lack of compassion in today’s GOP, and the hypocrisy of so many of the right wingers who call themselves Christian but are filled with hate and vitriol instead of charity and compassion and common decency, when I saw the tweet. It led me to Think Progress, and the piece “Cantor Says Congress Won’t Pay For Missouri Disaster Unless Spending Is Cut Elsewhere.”
To Eric Cantor, and to John Boehner who says he won’t budge on raising taxes and will hold the debt ceiling vote hostage until he gets his way, and to the rest of the right wing of Congress who threated to hold their collective breath … grow the fuck up. Or hold your breath. That way the whole country can turn blue!
