Barney Frank’s Retirement Signifies the End of an Era

Barney Frank has announced that he is retiring from Congress after 30 years of service to the United States and its citizens. For those of you who are unaware as to who Barney Frank is, he is one of the most well-known and prominent openly gay Jewish elected officials in the United States. Seriously, this guy is like the living, breathing embodiment of everything liberal. Only thing he needs now is two lesbian mothers to flesh it all out. But not to worry, we’ve got this guy, so all is well.

Also, unlike most infamously closeted gay elected officials who tend to run on ‘family values’ such as Phil Hinkle, who allegedly offered an 18 year old a bribe consisting of an iPad, Blackberry and cash to keep quiet, Frank has never been shy or quiet about his own orientation and who he is as a person.

The GOP’s Problem with Facts

Okay, fresh off the great Rick Perry “Oops” debacle, we have Herman Cain with his own ridiculous political blunder. For those of you who don’t know what happened here yet, during an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board, Herman Cain was asked a very simple question: Was he in favor of the actions taken by President Barack Obama in Libya? Cain then proceeds to breathe heavily, look around vacantly and muss about with his water bottle as he desperately searches for an answer in his own head. Take a quick look for yourselves.

I’ll be honest, this flub is not quite as bad as the Rick Perry debate, but his inability to give a straight answer does give the impression of one of two things. First, he actually does not know the issues at hand well enough to form a coherent opinion. Second possibility is that he does know and simply is trying to figure out which answer is the one that Republican voters want to hear.

Bachmann Sucks. Santorum Sucks. Who Else?

Oh yeah, that’s right, Rick Perry sucks too, and he just proved it spectacularly. I was trying to actually avoid dealing with this particular debacle, but Perry’s royal screw up is kind of like when you’re throwing a college party and ‘that guy’ no one knows gets so drunk and sick he can’t remember where his own house is. When you’re a political blogger, you just can’t ignore something like this.

It's kind of like that, but with a leftist spin.

So, what’s to be said about the Rick Perry brain fart? For one, it shows that almost none of the GOP candidates seem to have thought of a political position that goes any further than “we need to cut big guberment!” Seriously, cutting, that’s all they’ve got going for them. Bachmann wants to repeal the EPA; Cain, when not being accused of some nefarious sexual misdeed, wants to ‘cut’ all taxes down to 9 percent; and Rick Perry seems to have already cut the connections to and from his own prefrontal cortex. For those of you who haven’t witnessed this clusterfuck yet, I’ll let you guys take a look at this mess for yourself.