Republicans. They are a psychological conundrum. An enigma wrapped in a riddle and basted with bullshit. It’s their whining. It’s their false outrage. It’s their lies and misdirection. It’s their mind boggling pettiness.
Sure looks like an astronaut to me.
The latest example is the Republican attack on California Democratic congressional candidate Jose Hernandez’s use of the title “astronaut” on the ballot for his House race.
He is listed on the ballot as “astronaut/scientist/engineer” which is all true. He was a crew member aboard the Space Station Discovery in 2009. The Republicans are filing a lawsuit to make him drop the astronaut part of the description, saying that’s not a title for life.
Which is like a Catch-22. If the only astronauts who can run for office are currently in space, and someone who is currently in space can’t be serving in Washington, we can never have any astronaut politicians, which strikes me as unfair discrimination against a single profession.
Second, I suspect that the Republicans are just flat out lying again. I see no problem with calling somebody an astronaut even if they are a retired astronaut. Governors, senators, presidents, military and police officers, doctors and professors wind up tagged with appellations that follow them to the grave. Why not?
If people were going to be scrupulously literal about their professions in that space, then they’d all have to list themselves as politicians, now, wouldn’t they, QED and res ipsa loquitor.
But what amazes me even more than the pettiness, the meaninglessness and the meanness of this court case is the stupidity of it.
Do they really want to draw attention to the fact that this man is a scientist and a hero? An explorer and a member of a very, very elite group? That he has slipped the surly bonds of earth, that he has seen the planet from above, that he has looked out upon the stars unobstructed, that he has “The Right Stuff.”
I’m not complaining. Let them bring their silly law suit which, even if they win, they lose.
I’m just mystified.
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Those “people” who vote for repug ‘ah,ah,ah clowns’ are more mysterious.
For example, “how did that teabanger manage to blink his eye?”