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Can we please just get rid of Steve King? This stunt he pulled during the debate on SCHIP is just childish name-calling that is based on no facts whatsoever.
But when you’re reduced to having your staff make up large visual aides to assist explaining your insults, I think perhaps satire won’t cut it anymore, and we have to devolve to out-and-out mockery.
So fine. Let’s play the game, Republican style. Representative Steve King, of Iowa’s 5th District: you support al Qaeda. I don’t have to prove it. I don’t have to back it up. I just have to say it, and it becomes true. And now the debate can be about why you support al Qaeda. Is it because you are “soft on terrorism?” Is it because you are living in a “pre-9/11 mindset?” Is it because you “hate America?” It is because you were beaten senseless by river otters during your own sixth birthday party, and now harbor a deep grudge against our native American fauna? I don’t know. I don’t have to know, because all of America is now ruled by the Fox News Schoolyard Taunt. Blah blah blah, flag pin. Blah fart blah, unpatriotic. Blah fart cough, Hillarycare.
The truth of it is, if the Republicans could tie healthcare for children to an external enemy in need of retribution, they’d be all over it — but unfortunately for America’s children, you can’t bomb car accidents. If they could tie the needs of children and families with crippling unforeseen medical expenses to an al Qaeda plot to harm those children, they’d find a way to divert a token one or two percent of the half-trillion dollars of Iraq War funding towards covering them all. Perhaps. Yes, if we made caring for our children an act of patriotism, perhaps the Republican Party would show some interest.
But for some reason, caring for our children isn’t considered patriotic, and so those children can go rot.
