Evil Republican of the Week

Last Wednesday, I wrote about the evil and heartless Eric Cantor, who tried to hold up aid to tornado victims in Missouri until Obama agreed to take away Medicare from America’s old people.  That gave me the idea of making Wednesday Evil Republican Day.

Evil Republican of the Week Dana Rohrabacher

Actually, this is a way of limiting that kind of post to once a week, because there is such a bottomless pit of truly nasty, horrible people in the Republican party that I’m at risk of writing about that almost every night and there really are other things in the world which I could be blogging about.  For instance, I’ve been writing this blog for over a year now and I don’t think I’ve addressed my passionate hatred of leaf blowers even once.

This week’s winner is the Mexican hating torture apologist Dana Rohrabacher, congressman from a wealthy California district, for his suggestion last Thursday that we could solve the problem of global warming (if it exists, which he doubts) by cutting down all the rainforests.

Now, on the surface of it, this should win him a stupid Republican of the week award rather than an evil one.  It ignores 8th grade science, where we all learned that trees absorb carbon monoxide (the bad stuff) and create oxygen (the good stuff), so more trees equal cleaner air.  It also ignores the fact that trees predated mankind (after all, we descended from the trees) and helped create the atmosphere which allows creatures with lungs to exist.

But I’m calling it evil, because as stupid as Dana Rohrabacher might be, I don’t think he’s that stupid.  I think he just doesn’t like trees very much.  And not liking trees, in my book, is like not liking babies, or puppies, or pancakes on Sunday morning.  It implies an essentially flawed human character.

Hasn’t he ever read “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein?  Or “The Lorax” by Dr. Seuss?  Has he never seen “Silent Running” which was by far the best movie Bruce Dern ever made?

Probably not.  Not enough blood.