Anchor Struck

It’s midday here.  Half the solstice gone and still no sign of the apocalypse.  Oh, sure,

there are indications that some of the population is going to disappear.  John Boehner

just suffered his worst defeat as Speaker of the House and simply backed away from the

cliff talks.

The NRA finally responded to the Sandy Hook killings with an outrageous idea — that

armed guards patrol schools.  U.S. Congressman Chris Murphy, a Democrat whose

district includes Newtown, tweeted “Walking out of another funeral and was handed

the NRA transcript.  The most revolting, tone deaf statement I’ve ever seen.”

Louie Gohmert, Republican colleague of Murphy from Texas, was actually more tone

deaf.  He wished Principal Dawn Hochsprung had had an assault rifle to take Adam

Lanza’s head off.  Gohmert, a fount of gibberish who enjoys an “A” rating by the NRA ,

showed no indication that he saw the irony in that.

Small wonder.  Irony in Texas is not only illegal, it’s a felony.

Let me assure you that I believe a multi-party government is vital to democracy.  So it’s

vexing for me to watch the Rabid Right tug the GOP into the sea of oblivion. It has learned

nothing from last month’s election, not even that it lost.  It’s commitment to cluelessness

is truly breathtaking.

As we all still search for answers to this most recent paragraph of violence, a gunman in

central Pennsylvania today killed three others along a rural road before police killed him.

Elsewhere in the state, a Philadelphia teenager was arrested for threatening to shoot up

his school.  Two handguns were taken from his home.

Congressman Gohmert, would you advocate armed guards along all U.S. highways?   If so,

at what point would you remember that you’re a fiscal conservative and opposed to bigger

government?

That was a trick question.  A contradiction like that is too close to irony.