There are serious issues that need Congressional action-unemployment, immigration, gun violence, national security, equal pay for women and others. Somehow the Republican Party can't focus on improving the lives of the American people. Sadly, the GOP won't take on these problems, but they continue to take 40 useless votes to repeal Obamacare, introduce legislation to challenge Roe v. Wade, and even to still dabble in Birtherism.
A classic example comes during the Rick Wiles conservative talk show
Trunews. On his March 4 show, Wiles pontificates that there are biblical signs that our president is "evil", commands the plagues of flies and locust visited on Pharaoh and is "spiritually sodomizing the nation". He tells his audience that our president is "not just a smooth talking, jive talking street thug that talked his way into the White House", but is "a foreign plant", a manufactured person deliberately placed here as a child".
Maybe no one cares what this wacko conservative radio host is feeding his listeners, but we should care about our elected leaders colluding with him. Enter his special guest Congressman Jeff Duncan (R-SC). In response to Wiles birther allegations and suggestion that Congress purse the president's "phony identification papers", Duncan chuckles saying "We had a chance to get rid of him in November...people should have voted him out and I'm afraid that wouldn't get to the Supreme Court where it outta get". When Wiles suggests "why not go back and say maybe the first scandal (Obama's citizenship) was a lie too", Duncan agrees saying "There you go. I'm all with you...(we should)question the president's validity."
Jeff Duncan first garnered national attention 10 months into his first term in Congress, when he compared the country's illegal immigration issues to a house without a door that allows "any kind of vagrant or animal" to come in.
It's bad enough that Jeff Duncan lacks the courage or is too stupid to refuse to engage in the birthier conversation, but it's totally frightening that this Republican South Carolina Congressman is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Oversight Committee.
All I can say is "Stop the madness".
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