Thursday, July 17, 2014

The Ziegler Award

By Baxter

Is it because of the 40th anniversary of Watergate that today's Republicans are paying unique homage to the master of misstatement, Ronald Ziegler?

You remember Ron: The former Disneyland tour guide turned White House spokesman who, after denying Nixon Administration involvement for ages, was forced by the scandal's steadily emerging smoking guns to say, "All my previous statements are inoperative"? Yeah, that worked.

Republicans in 2014 aren't having much more luck than the late, unlamented Ronnie Z.

Take the newest Republican bright light from Arizona, State Representative Adam Kwasman — who showed up with his fellow teabaggers to confront an allegedly arriving busload of undocumented children and oh, we don't know, shoot or stone them or something. Turned out the bus was from the YMCA, taking local kids to camp.

Kwasman tried to dodge the fallout by deleting a tweet and fumbling through a squirmworthy interview in which he claimed the YMCA kids — who actually were amused and taking pictures of the crazy old white haters with their cellphones — were "sad."

Amazingly, this Kwasman jackass is not the only Republican stumbling around verbally this week. GOP Congresswoman Renee Elmers advised her party to connect with female voters by bringing their policy arguments "down to a woman's level." And of course, there's the perennially creepy Todd Akin, who is continually fascinated with the subject of rape — and astounded that he keeps getting into hot water for it. What's the big deal? he whined today. "I misspoke some words."

You know what, Republicans? A party that tolerates idiots like this is a national embarrassment. As far as we cats are concerned, you're all inoperative.

(IMAGE: Ronnie Z was chinless before Chinless Ed Gillespie was.)

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