Democrats hold house floor in election-year sit-in on guns. Erica Werner (AP via HoustonChronicle.com)
At one point overnight, the two sides nearly came to blows after Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, approached the Democrats and yelled, "Radical Islam!" Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., started yelling back. The two came within inches of each other, both screaming, only to be separated by colleagues.
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House Republicans used their prerogatives as the majority party to muscle through, with no time for debate, a partisan bill that provides money for the Zika crisis. GOP lawmakers overruled Democrats' objections and then acted to adjourn the House into next month. Democrats cried "Shame, Shame!"
Unreal. We've reached a point where re-enacting the bell-ringing, naked Cersi, walk of shame from Game of Thrones, and two utter morons hollering each other like children (although I doubt either of those fools would ever actually have the guts to come to 'blows').
The problem is GOP members, and their current alt-right majority followers, are backing the childish outburst of Rep. Louie Gohmert while Democrats, and their current majority of unthinking followers, are backing the immature screaming of Rep. Corrine Brown.
A pox on all of their houses (pun intended) as the current gang of fools that we've elected to represent us shows, once again, that they are incapable of adult behavior.
The problem is that most of us (except 12% of poll respondents who have their head in the sand obviously) don't like Congress as a whole, but think that the jerks that represent us might indeed be jerks, but they're OUR jerks and are jerky in a manner that we prefer.
And that's the problem. It's why Gohmert, a man who has the debate skills of a rabid grizzly bear, and Brown, who is one of the dimmer members of Congress, continue to pull money from the taxpayer trough.
A healthy source of blame also needs to be laid at the feet of those who blindly follow party over principle, those same people who are now supporting The Bronzed Ego and Anointed One respectively.
What we're seeing now is the new normal, because (and we don't want to recognize this but it's true) Congress is a fuzzy mirror of our collective society as a whole. If we don't require of them adult behavior, and if we don't show it in our political discourse among ourselves, then we're going to be in for much worse before it gets better. If it ever can at this point.
Society (and politics) always finds a way to plumb the bottom. Always.
