Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, December 31, 2010

Zombie of the Year!

Braaaaaaiiiiiiiiins.  I have no braaaaaaiiiiiiins.

The first annual Brain Dead, Soulless Zombie of the Year goes to... Christine O'Donnell.

Rarely is the question asked, is our political class learning?  O'Donnell represented all that was wrong about 2010's election season.  She was batshit insane and as intelligent as a lamppost.  She knocked off a popular moderate Republican and insured - along with Runner-Up BDSZotY Sharon Angle - that the Democratic party would retain control of the Senate.

And yet, like a crippled, inept Brett Favre, she sucked up the attention of the commentariat that should have been focused on substantive issues.  As Professor Hippie Longwhiskers notes today, someone should have been asking the GOP how, exactly, returning to the same policies that led us into this trainwreck would get us out.  Instead, we had to endure countless breathless stories about the Tea Party and simpering idiots like Christine O'Dumbass.

I bet O'Donnell is actually very sweet.  I agree with tbogg on this.  But the idea - which we can ascribe to that rat bastard Andrew Jackson - that any common idiot can be trusted to run things leads us to disasters like the Bush Administration.

It will be interesting watching guys like Boehner riding herd over the cast of idiots that the Tea Party snuck into the House.  Senate races draw a lot of attention, and the O'Donnells and Angles and Millers and McMahons went down to well earned defeats.  But in the House, no one really pays attention to the insane people that they have elected.

Watching Steve King pursue a racist pogrom from his committee chairmanship or Michelle Bachmann do... well... anything will be sad and disturbing.

And some of that credit goes to people like O'Donnell, who sucked all the attention to her craziness and distracted from the ultimately more damaging craziness of people like Pat Toomey.

So, congratulations, Christine and good luck with the investigation into your witchcraft campaign finance irregularities.

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