For anyone who does not subscribe to Rolling Stone Magazine either online or in magazine form, if you read one article this week, please, you must read two brilliant stories by Sam Wilentz and Tim Dickinson in the latest issue of the magazine, the Oct. 24th edition. I just finished these in depth stories yesterday. I like to think I know alot about the Grand Obstructionist Party but I came away knowing quite a bit more about how we got to where we are today, and what we are up against. And it made me angrier as well.
I did not know that Boner was exposed in 1996 on the floor of the House distributing checks from the tobacco lobby to Republicans! Sweet! What a guy! He was also the top recipient in the House for campaign cash from no less than 34 different industries in the 2012 campaign cycle. Love those family values John.
About a year ago, as some of you know, I had a political falling out with my brother, a hard right Republican who seems to be getting more and more hard right. We are back on speaking terms now a year later. I told him we could talk about anything BUT politics. The fallout was caused by him going off on the Democrats and President Obama whom he considers a "communist". He got that I assume from the Sarah Palin book he read. Its still not that easy to talk to him to be honest.
Shortly after we agreed to move beyond the "breakdown" he had mentioned to me something about seeing some type of program on some local educational channel ( he claims, but I suspect its more from Fox News) about some type of government conspiracy plot, where the rainbow colors one sees in the sky from a com-trail is really chemicals the government is using to seed the clouds with mind controlling chemicals! I thought to myself, I don't know where he got that from.
In Tim Dickinsons article " Inside The Suicide Machine" Tim mentions 8 Congresspeople and gives a brief description of an example of some of their ways of thinking, and I came across a story and pic of a Kerry Bentivolio from Ohio, who has talked to staffers about investigating a "chemtrail conspiracy theory, that aircraft are seeding the skies with government mind controlling chemicals." Wow!
This is paranoia in my book. I can't think of any other source other than Fox News where my brother could have picked this dilly up from. I had never heard of this one before! Of course our lovely miss Michele Bachmann is also featured under the "Confederacy of Dunces" feature within the story, about the Suicide Machine the Republican party has become. We all know the classics that have trickled out of her mouth before.
Like I said I came away knowing more than I did before about how the GOP has, and is operating and exactly what we all are up against. These stories should be required reading for every Democrat and Independant American. I hope you get a chance to read them.