Today's GOP: Party of Drama Queens. Everything's a national tragedy, or hadn't you noticed?

Today's GOP: A Party of Drama Queens - Everything is a national emergency/tragedy, or hadn't you noticed?

I'm going to share a little secret with you, and I promise you will NEVER look at a Republican again without thinking about it:

ALL REPUBLICANS ARE DRAMA-QUEENS!

Big honking, melodramatic Chicken Little drama queens. Every thing's a National Emergency/Tragedy. There are no _SMALL problems when it comes to todays' GOP (unless it is a *real* problem like Global Warming). Every triviality is a tragedy on an epic scale.

Some background: I live in Texas, so I am required by law to have at least two Conservative friends (I have three). One believes WMD's were found in Iraq and Saddam may have been involved with 9/11, one still thinks Democrats want to give all his money away to illegal immigrants and drug users on welfare, while another is preparing to move to New Zealand the moment George Bush takes military action against Iran sometime in the very near future. My father is a dyed-in-the-wool Ditto-head Fox Newz watching Conservative, and I was raised believing "Democrat" was a dirty word. I myself was raised Republican and supported Republican candidates.

Then I turned 12.

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Caught totally unprepared like Dan Quayle in a National Spelling Bee, George Bush has spent his presidency trying to make up for his failure to prevent the murder of 3,000 American citizens a mere eight months into his first term. (This is what we call "locking the barn after the horse got out".) He didn't see the catastrophe coming that some had warned him of, and since then makes up for it by quashing over-hyped "made up" threats in order to create the appearance of "protector of America"... the job he failed at so miserably on the morning of 9/11.

Because of this, the "threat" Saddam Hussein posed to the United States was ratcheted up to "end-of-life-as-we-know-it" proportions. Talk of "mushroom clouds" and "unmanned aerial vehicles spraying nerve gas" over every major city in the country became a constant theme in just about every speech members of the Bush Administration gave in the months between 9/11/2001 and March 2003. A color-coded "Terror Alert" was created to tweak the nation's anxiety whenever they needed a compliant Congress to pass another piece of "right-infringing" legislation because they found working "within the rules" was too restrictive. Getting the job done is so much quicker and easier when you don't have to worry about whether or not you're violating someone's Constitutional Rights.

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Just think of any issue that has riled up the Republican Party. Anything. As mentioned above, "Social Security" is on Death's Door if we don't enact DRASTIC reforms today... despite the fact that Social Security is probably solvent till the middle of this century. Meanwhile, MediCare... which arguably truly IS in crisis... is never mentioned. "Gay Marriage" is not just something they disapprove of, we actually need "a Constitutional Amendment" banning it before it destroys America. Ditto for "Flag Burning"... an offense of which there was a whopping THREE incidents of in 2005. More recently, MoveOn's "Patraeus/Betray Us" newspaper ad drew the wrath of the Republican Party. One need only search YouTube for all the videos condemning MoveOn for daring to suggest that many Americans feared being "betrayed" by Bush's Commander in Iraq. The nerve!

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When a 2006 movie with cute cuddly cartoon penguins ("Happy Feet") dare suggest "global warming" as a threat to their existence, out came the outraged GOP global warming deniers accusing Disney of sneaking "environmentalist propaganda" into a children's film... a move worthy of Joseph Goebbels himself. But a REAL emergency like Global Warming "still needs more study".

And I think that if you look, you'll find this is typically (always?) the case: tiny things are hyped to "catastrophic proportions"... Saddam, Social Security, MoveOn's "Betray Us" ad, and now Iran... whereas genuine problems: al Qaeda, MediCare solvency, Global Warming, etc... continue unabated; greater threats today than they were when they took office.

(...) the next time you hear Republicans in an uproar over something, I guarantee it'll be over an issue that isn't worthy of all the hype the media gives it. You'll think the world is coming to an end the way they'll rant & rave over something a Democrat said about someone or something, or whether or not a report in that days news exposing another Republican pervert/crime/scandal is true, followed by weeks of "damage control" denouncing the messenger.

I GUARANTEE you, the next time you hear a Republican feigning "outrage" over some non-issue like it could lead to the end of the United States as we know it, just emember two words:

Drama Queen.

I GUARANTEE you, the next time you hear Bill O’Reilly bemoaning the “War on Christmas”, Ann Coulter accusing “Liberals” of “Treason”, or any Republican feigning “outrage” over some non-issue like it could lead to the end of the United States as we know it, just remember two little words:

Drama Queen.