Those Evil, Ineffectual Republicans

I don't Tweet. I don't follow anyone's Twitter. I think the whole thing is unbearably stupid and dangerously egotistical. No one needs to know your every thought over the course of a day.

Nonetheless, despite my self-imposed isolation from the entire phenomenon of Twitter, I managed to catch a glimpse of a photo Tweeted by Margaret Cho of the comedienne meeting Our Glorious Savior, Barack Obama.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

The top comment on the photo, at the time when I saw it, was -- and no, I won't link it, because ew -- and I quote, "I support Obama 100% because he's doing the best he can against the evil Republicans."

First of all, O Dear Follower of Margaret Cho's Twitter and Commenter Thereupon, your comment is completely irrelevant to a picture of Cho and Obama -- Chobama? -- to the point that I wonder if you just created a macro for that statement and paste it whenever Obama appears anywhere with a comment box. And second of all, ODFoMCTaCT, I'm going to make this point again, and probably not for the last time (and in all caps, for emphasis): THE REPUBLICANS HAVE NOT BEEN MATHEMATICALLY CAPABLE OF STOPPING OBAMA'S AGENDA. I mean, technically, since the addition of Scott Brown to the Senate's roster, the Republicans have broken the filibuster-proof majority that was a spectacular failure. However, given that the Republicans' numbers contain Scott Brown, Olympia Snowe and Lindsey Graham, to name three stunningly disappointing RINOs (Republicans in Name Only), the Republicans have not been able to gain any traction in protecting our country.

So, is it evil to block the majority party from rushing to cloture five seconds after introducing a new bill that will fundamentally transform our financial system? Is it evil to just make sure that important pieces of legislation are at least debated? Is it evil to listen to the will of the American people and try to slow the steamroller of Marxism from flattening every single liberty that we, as the American people, have come to expect from our American citizenship? Is it evil to ask that before the President sends out his minions to denounce the Arizona immigration law, they might stop a minute to read it?

No, it isn't.