Politics Schmolitics

I’m not really a political junky, but you have to pay attention to be educated enough to vote intelligently.  That seems to be getting harder and harder with all the misinformation news networks and politicians spread nowadays. 

I don’t consider myself a member of any particular party.  I do my research and vote basted on the person, not whether they have a (R) or (D) next to their name.  Lately though, the GOP has been so wacky, I can’t honestly vote for any of them.

My main gripes about the GOP is how anti-science they are.  Anybody that denies global warming, or evolution, and wants to dumb down our children by teaching creationism in science class, is not fit to run our country. 

They GOP is so hell bent on cutting taxes for the rich, and cutting spending.  Isn’t a tax cut mathematically the same thing as increasing spending?  So they really want to increase spending and cut spending?  What?

What inspired this blog post was this video of Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann.  How she got re-elected I have no idea?  I thought Minnesotans were smarter than that.

In the video she goes on and on about some made up numbers pulled out of someone’s ass about the cost of Obama’s India trip.  It doesn’t matter how wrong them numbers are, she says them over and over, and other news networks will pick it up and pretty soon misinformation is as good as true.  It’s one thing for political pundits to pull numbers out of their asses, but a politician?  They should know better.  It’s this kind of misinformation spreading that drives me nuts. 

Then Anderson Cooper tries to get her to tell us where they are going to cut spending.  That was one her key re-election topics, and she had no idea where to make the cuts.  I guess it was just something that sounded good to get re-elected.

In a perfect world both sides would deal with only the facts and work together for the benefit of the American people.  Sadly it’s not a perfect world, so the American people are left confused to what the facts really are, and have to wade through all the misinformation, to decide who to vote for.

Oh well, at least the Sun will come up tomorrow.