Republican SOTU Responders Are BOTH Loons

Michelle Bachmann certainly deserves the ridicule she's getting as she steps up to offer up a fulminating megalomaniacal second "Tea Party" Republican response to the Republican response already being offered to the President's State of the Union tonight.

If you are having trouble remembering CNN broadcasting Bernie Sanders or Russ Feingold's Democratic wing of the Democratic Party responses to Bush SOTU's in addition to the wan DLC approved official responses, that's because obviously they didn't take place in "the liberal media," so called.

An unfortunate effect of all the well deserved ridicule Bachmann is getting, however, is that the GOP's official responder Paul Ryan seems, when presented against the backdrop of Bachmann's saucer-eyed idiocy, to be constructed all too often as some sort of "serious" guy, a guy I have heard described more than once, flabbergastingly enough, as an "intellectual," of all things, an "ideas guy."

Let us be very clear about this. Paul Ryan is a laughable light weight. Only in America would his brand of smarmy salesmanship be peddled as "intellectualism."

Paul Ryan wants to eliminate Medicare and Social Security because he decries their "collectivism."Paul Ryan thinks Obama is like a villain in an Ayn Rand novel. Ryan presumably thinks the social democracies of Europe are tantamount totalitarian death camps. He is an utterly unserious person.

Paul Ryan's facile libertopian double talk is just as outside the bounds of acceptable or even remotely useful assumptions as is Bachmann's patent nonsense. Nobody the least bit sensible has anything to gain by enabling this foolishness. Bachmann and Ryan are both utterly ridiculous people. They should both be laughed into comparative harmlessness and then out of government for good.