They laughed and applauded!

I have not seen any confirmation of the claim that Al Gore has put together an exploratory committee for a possible run for the Presidency. However, I have been assured by my source that this was announced publicly by someone who should know at the just completed Democratic Party meeting in Boise. Many people heard it. I assume it is true.

As you must know by now (as it has been replayed monotonously on tv), the horse-faced major Fluff Girl of the Republican Party, made a remark so outrageously stupid and uncalled for that her audience of Republicans burst into laughter and applause. Any decent person who heard this absurd anti-gay, anti-Edwards slur should have hissed and booed at the top of their voice. But did this group of conservative Republicans do that? Of course not. They thought it was wonderful. This group, by the way, included Romney, who actually introduced this vicious, unprincipled, unbalanced creature, Gingrich, Brownback, and other high level mucky-mucks of the conservative branch (is there really any other branch) of the Republican Party. Coulter's remark was not only ridiculous, based on nothing but malicious intent, but was also just plain stupid. Her Republican audience ate it up. What does that tell you about these people? Those who lie down with dogs get fleas. Coulter is a true dog who should have been mercifully led to the psychiatric dog pound long ago. Republicans think she is wonderful. Do Republicans think? Apparently not.

Why do Idaho Republicans hate children? For years and years they have refused to adequately fund our schools. Indeed, one of them once proposed to change the Idaho Constitution so the state wouldn't even be responsible for education. Our schools have degenerated, deteriorated, and gone downhill for years because of their refusal to come up with adequate funds. It's like they not only hate the children, they apparently also hate education itself. But their hatred for our children has now reached heights to atrociously awful to be virtually unbelievable. A bill designed to improve child care, to supervise those who provide child care, including the screening out of sex offenders, to establish minimum safety standards, has failed. Idaho is ranked dead last in child care in the United States. Some Republicans suggested that mothers should just stay home and take care of their children. Others suggested there was simply no way they would ever allow their children to be cared for by providers. Republican Steve Thayn (Emmet) thinks all early childhood education should be by parents in the home environment (no early childhood, no pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, etc.). He also thinks school should not be more than four hours per day, Social Security, welfare, and public education are charities that we don't need, and, indeed, families should be in complete control of education. Furthermore, there should be no mandatory education. Great ideas! Why shouldn't we allow our uneducated parents to supervise the education of their children? No doubt they could teach them how to shoe horses and make cannon balls, to say nothing of how to skin a buffalo and eat peas off the blade of their knife. We don't need no microwaves and computers, no classes in science, no stinking watches (there is nothing wrong with sun dials). Doesn't it make you wonder what century these guys are living in? I wonder if they even know what country they live in.

How is it that Idaho has the apparently unique capacity to elect and support utter nitwits like Thayn and Sali? We apparently enjoy being the laughingstock of the country, to say nothing of having no credible voice in the management of our country. No mandatory education, abortions that cause breast cancer, black helicopters poised at the border to take away our lawn chairs, gays and women having rights? Keep 'em in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant I say. At least they'd have time to teach their children something - like maybe the alphabet and the multiplication tables. I loved my father very much. He had a fourth grade education. I'm glad he was not entirely responsible for my education (and so was he). Here in Idaho we say: give us our stupid, our uneducated, our narrow-minded, bigoted, racist, uninformed (except for Rush Limbaugh), and 18th century philosophers, we need them for our Idaho legislature.