scary clowns

Congressman Billy Long (R) from Missouri brought a picture he collected from Google to the Congressional hearing regarding the Ebola Crisis in ‘Merica on Thursday October 16. The printed picture showed some terrible conditions of an emergency room in Africa. Rep Long also had a copy of the Bloomberg News to share with the doctors, scientists of CDC, NIH and Homeland Security. In that article the reporter warned America that Ebola would come to ‘Merica even before the first patient died of the disease in ‘Merica. (How did he know to predict that) Rep Billy Long was stressed he wanted answers and if the doctors, scientists, homeland security people could not supply him with what he needed to hear then good ole Billy would not know what to tell his constituents who are terrified of this African born disease, except to have everyone go to Google and figure it out themselves.   Rep Billy Long was elected to Congress in 2011 after a very successful stunt in the World Poker Tour and as an auctioneer. Congressman Billy Long participated in a three hour version of a clown car, where one after the other all hell bent on politics and good media bytes, opened the clown car door and performed stunts not even worthy of a one ringed circus show.

Many other Congressman who were praised by the Chairman, Tim Murphy (R) PA for actually coming back into town during their recess, (Imagine being praised for doing the people’s work- you know the job you were hired to do) joined the clown car charade by asking their ‘gottcha’ questions permitting the respondents about three seconds to answer and then supplying their own answers the ones submitted by the Republican National Committee). (After all you know it is almost mid-term elections and as always being forceful and pretending to offer an answer is a great re-election ploy of the T-Publicans.) This same group of less government, government is good politicians who have sabotaged the CDC and NIH budgets were now clamoring ‘why has more not been done. The T-Publicans are always at the forefront to cut budgets and then feigning amnesia as to why the lack of funds in the first place led to an emergency. Chairman Murphy made strong recommendations that we find the funds to aid the CDC and HIH immediately. (If you look closely, however at the T-Publicans agenda you will see that until this moment they have been on record to not even place in motion a vote to increase or even at least maintain the last budget for health and safety.

As is the case of mongers of hate, exclusion found its way to the top surrounded with a creamy layer of fear, of course minus the facts. The immediate answer by the World Poker, Long player and other Republican luminaries was to immediately limit all flights from West Africa, (and if that didn’t do the trick probably the rest of the Obama homeland.) Not listening to the doctors or scientists, or homeland security panel who pleaded that isolation would only make us more vulnerable as to discovering and handling who is arriving in ‘Merica with a potential lethal disease, the T-Publican majority (thank God for gerrymandering, Jim Crow laws and voter suppression) band of uneducated fools pressed forward with very backward notions. And of course the fearful band of politicians never bothered to mention that only one person from Africa had Ebola with the rest of the patents already Americans. Ebola is very scary, but what is even more frightening are the clowns who have no idea how to listen, how to cooperate, how to respond and how to guide the country. Trying to place blame, pouting the fingers to find a scapegoat, avoiding the fact but preferring the fancy, playing politics has too often and now too long been the the real enemy of this nation. The clowns in the Ebola Clown Car fiasco just made life in this nation more dreadful and dire. Nothing funny about a scary clown!