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Nevada: The fun started in the competitive primary when frontrunner Sue Lowden broke into the news for comments she made about healthcare reform. Her brilliant solution to the American healthcare crisis? End currency, because barter was just so much cooler. That’s right, efficient exchange of goods and services facilitated by commonly accepted measurements of value is so last week. Sue Lowden suggested that we go back to the days in which a patient would pay their doctor in chickens, because that would eliminate the necessity for insurance. Of course, if a person relied on a steady income of chickens that comes from a standard breeding rate, they may want to avoid the sudden loss of a number of chickens that comes from an unpredictable and expensive medical treatment. As such, companies would come to exist that accept relatively small consistent payments of chickens and in exchange, grant the short term chicken relief to supplement emergency costs. We could call these companies chicken insurance, but then inevitably, they would begin to charge more chickens and provide less in chicken benefits to meet a growing chicken profit margin and the best solution might be for the government to collect chickens annually from all citizens and pay all medical chicken costs so risk of huge chicken losses is diffused nationally. We could call that program, single-chicken-payer. I make this point about Sue “Chicken Lady” Lowden not to beat a dead horse, but to emphasize the fact that Lowden was the rational moderate in the primary which should give you an idea where Sharron Angle is. If you’ve been watching polls lately you may have noticed that Harry Reid has pulled even or ahead in matchups against Angle, which is astounding because his approval ratings are only marginally better than those of the Ebola virus. The hardest decision when talking about Angle’s crazy actions is where to start. Manders: So, in other words, rape and incest would not be something? Angle: You know, I'm a Christian and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that he can intercede in all kinds of situations and we need to have a little faith in many things. The above exchange was an interview in which Angle was asked whether there is ever a reason to have an abortion even rape or incest. So to rape victims, Angle believes that God wanted you to be raped. I don’t want to try to make a joke about that, because it is not funny. It is completely insensitive and shows a total lack of any sort of human empathy. Frankly, it disgusts me. Angle has also repeatedly stated that it would not be her job as a US Senator to try to create jobs in Nevada. This begs the question, what exactly does Sharron Angle think a Senator’s job is? As I understood it, the congressional softball game was just a harmless, fun diversion, but perhaps Angle sees a more serious issue. On the media, Angle has some, shall we say, interesting views. Don’t watch the following video if your jaw is prone to extreme dropping as viewing it may cause jaw dislocation in some cases. There. Popped your jaw back in yet? Ok good. Yes that was Sharron Angle saying she wants the media to be her friend and to ask the questions she wants them to ask. It was not couched in subtle language and you did not have to read between the lines, she outright stated that she wanted the media to be an explicit supporter of Sharron Angle. If this is her as a candidate, I can only imagine her relationship with any media criticism as a Senator. This next one is my favorite. Remember when Obama decided that it was a good idea to have the company, that has pumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ruining the livelihoods of countless Gulf residents and polluting the waters for years to come, pay for some of its damage? Remember when that company, in an effort to save its sagging public image (BP’s approval rating is somewhat worse than the aforementioned Ebola virus) agreed to Obama’s suggestion and created a $20 billion escrow account for victims of the Gulf spill? Sharron Angle remembers. In the days after the escrow account was announced Sharron Angle experienced a word spill, but to be fair, Angle’s disaster ruined only one career, her own. Angle joined representative Joe Barton in calling the escrow account a “slush fund” and declaiming the administration for advocating it. Without Angle, who would stand up for the poor beleaguered international oil corporation, whose income will be irrevocably damaged by the toxic garbage they dumped into our water? Like Rand Paul, there is so much more to say, but this is already a longer post, so I’m going to stop here. Sorry for the lull in posting, I just moved back into college and had my first classes, so the crazy will be coming much slower. That should be ok though, because it's August and I have until November. BackComments
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This is a special edition of my series of blogs on the ridiculous, flawed, unethical, foolish or flat-out insane things that Republican Senate candidates have said, done or proposed doing.