How Low Can They Go?

Santorum Conceding Defeat in 2006 Senatorial Election

Since the beginning of this millennium, I have watched in shock, disbelief and horror as the Republican party has wreaked havoc on the American economy, the Constitution, science, logic, intelligence, human decency and the Middle East.  Again and again I have wondered, “How low can they go?”

Well, this week they reached new depths, but I suspect they have not yet hit bottom.  I am seriously beginning to wonder if there is a bottom.

First, Republican Senator Mike Lee from Utah said that child labor laws,  federal food safety standards and disaster relief are unconstitutional.  Bring back the workhouses!  After all, how else can the U.S. possibly compete with China?

Then, the executive director of the Governor’s Highway Safety Administration Barbara Harsha said her organization doesn’t know why pedestrian traffic deaths had increased in the first six months of 2010 (by about half a percent), but the increase is notable because overall traffic fatalities went down 8 percent during this period, and the increase ends four straight years of steady declines in pedestrian deaths.

In the next sentence, however, she suggested a possible reason for the increase: Michelle Obama’s movement to eliminate childhood obesity.  That’s right, if those kids were sitting in front of a computer eating junk food instead of outdoors exercising, they wouldn’t be getting hit by cars.

Then,  former Republican Senator and anti-abortion fanatic Rick Santorum, who has said he may run for president in 2012, said this: “… I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say ‘now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.”  Santorum has a history of saying incredibly stupid and offensive things.  He opposed gay marriage on the grounds that it would lead to people marrying their dogs.

So, have they hit bottom yet?  No.  As long as people continue to vote for them, they will keep going lower, and lower and lower.