Love and Racism

I just watched a commercial for the Simpsons. Bart Simpson was throwing cats into Principal Skinner's pants. After about the third cat, Skinner dryly stated that "this is not going to end well."

There is no deep or metaphorical meaning to that for me. I just found it very, very funny.

Anyway, here I am after another great weekend. I really enjoyed going home because I got to bring Ursula and have her meet all my friends. She is really, really amazing and I'm not just saying that because she's my only blog follower. I mean it. It seems like every time I go home now something important and meaningful happens. Without a doubt that happened again this weekend. I was not planning on it, nor did I not foresee anything so special occurring. Spontaneity sometimes makes things better. This time could not have been scripted better by anyone.

Ok so I have to segue. There is no smooth way to do segue here because I fell asleep writing last night and now find myself with totally different things on my mind. Mainly I am concerned with the overt racism, sexism, and other isms in certain realms of the republican party. Last week a Congressman from Tennessee asserted that if abortion was covered by a government plan then the current president of the United States might have been aborted. In order to make his comment seem less partisan but more racist, he then said the same thing about Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas and Obama have absolutely nothing in common besides their skin color. In fact, Obama stated that Thomas was the least qualified member of our current Supreme Court. If you are not a racist, comparing Obama and Thomas is not apples and oranges. Rather, it's more like apples and screwdrivers. However, Congressman Tiahart (sp?) is quite the racist. According to Jeff Sharlet, author of "The Family" which describes a neo, christian conservative pol group- Tiahart also argued during a closed door meeting that abortion needed to be outlawed because Muslims were out reproducing Christians and thus slowly falling behind in the birth wars. Again, racist.
And not to mention sexist. With this argument Tiahart assumes that financial troubles are the only thing keeping women from having abortions. That's just really fucking stupid. Raising a child costs more than an appointment at the abortion clinic. If you are low on cash you aren't going to say "Well, I guess I oughta just save a few bucks and keep this thing!" Raising a kid is a HUGE EXPENDITURE. Furtermore, pregnancy makes you lose time at work and causes a great deal of physical, emotional, and financial stress. So don't try to tell me that adoption is just an easy way out. Not only that but primarily women stress about abortion not because of finances but because they know that it is a huge and painful decision to make. Women don't get abortions because they're having a bad hair day or saw a Hugh Grant movie. It's a hard and painstaking decision that most every woman in that position must go through. So there.
What concerns me the most is this is not an isolated incident. Last week Senator Coburn(R) from Oklahoma said in his best Ricky Ricardo impersonation that Sonia Sotomayor "had some splainin' to do". RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that he would use fried chicken, collard greens, and potato salad to woo blacks back to the GOP. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Conservative TV and radio has been bashing Sotomayor for weeks because she has this crazy notion that being the only female, Latina Supreme Court nominee in the history of America makes her unique.
What am I getting to here? I hope this will go away soon and I will look back on this post and say "Man, I guess I just really needed to vent there." But I don't think that is how it will play out. I think the Republican party is like a conered animal right now. In other words, the ugly side is starting to show. We're seeing the most conservative and loud mouthed right-wingers take over the GOP. Rush Limbaugh is in the news on a weekly basis. Rahm Emanuel even said that Rush was the voice of the Republican party. The front runners for 2012 are Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. Both are about as socially conservative as you can imagine. Neither believe in evolution. I think it's a safe bet that since Palin doesn't believe in dinosaurs she probably doesn't believe in affirmative action either. Oh, and that Tiart guy? He's running for United States Senate. And he will probably win in Kansas.
Bleck. If anyone who isn't conservative reads this please take note. Do everything you can to stop these people from getting a grip on any more power in our political system. We can't have an America that is run by backwoods, racist, morons. We tried that during the Bush years and it was a total fail. Don't let us regress. Let's just keep moving on.

Abiding,

Tim