Lonnie R. West

Republicans are idiots. There I said it. I'd been trying to be polite for all these years, but really, they just make it so damn easy.

Here's a quote from Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, concerning the President's request to Congress to not cancel programs like tuition tax credits and Pell Grants for students:

"No one wants to see students pay more for their education. This is just another effort by the president to distract from his economic record that is leaving the 50% of new graduates jobless or underemployed."

Point One: "His economic record?" Seriously? The economy was already FUBAR long before this President took office. We can thank two terms of "fuzzy math" and grossly short-term economic policies for that one. Does this ass-clown really believe what he's saying, or does he hope by saying it that the public will believe it?

Point Two: It's ironic that Boehner has to have Buck put that statement out there instead saying it himself... He's smart enough to know the statement is a lie and just a political gambit, and he's got Bucky as a fall guy if anyone calls him out on it.

Yes, more than half of politics is a publicity game: We all know that. Just don't be a blatant dumbass and assume the public are all idiots, OK?