Imagine a Congress in which all the Tea Party candidates have won seats. Sharron Angle, now Senator from Nevada, is concerned that Sharia law prevails in Dearborn, Mich. and the now-nonexistent town of Frankford, Texas.
“It seems to me,” Angle has said, “there is something fundamentally wrong with allowing a foreign system of law to ever take hold in any municipality or government situation in our United States.”
Seems there’s something fundamentally wrong with allowing the candidacy of somebody with a full-blown delusion to take hold in any election situation in our United States.
Glen Urquhart, now Representative from Delaware, has offered a novel dictum: “The exact phrase ‘separation of Church and State’ came out of Adolph Hitler’s mouth, that’s where it comes from.’ Give that to the Texas Board of Education and who knows what happens?
Rand Paul, Senator from Kentucky, is convinced that “our system of capitalism” leaves people sleeping in their cars in America better provided for than people in foreign parts. “The poor in our country are enormously better off than the rest of the world,” Paul has said. Notice that he didn’t say the poor in our country are better off than the poor in the rest of the world. A lot of people driving BMWs around Europe—not sleeping in them—must be surprised to hear how bad off they are.
Ron Johnson, Senator from Wisconsin, may roll back auto emissions standards to promote forest growth. Excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Johnson has said, “gets sucked down by trees and helps the trees grow.’ And Delaware Senator Christine O’Donnell informs us that “America is a socialist economy. The definition of a socialist economy is when 50 percent or more of your economy is dependent on the federal government.”
Swooping into the fray from above is Sarah Palin, who billed Georgia Republican Karen Handel’s gubernatorial campaign $92,000 for a chartered jet to fly in and stump for Handel (who lost her race anyway). This month, general admission to GOP rallies in Anaheim and Orlando was $20.10, but tickets to Palin events there cost $950. When did a failed bid for the vice-presidency ever equate to such pricey celebrity? But in this election cycle, reason flew away.
