Today I opened my Southern Idaho paper to read that our governor, the Otter, has refused federal insurance coverage for over 30,000 Idahoans that have pre-existing conditions. How dare he decide who has coverage or not. With Arizona and the crazy bent in our Western politics, I feel like I am not even living in the beautiful country of Bates' "spacious skies and purple mountain majesties" anymore. I am way more liberal than most Idahoans, but now all our slightly moderate republicans are being challenged by tea baggers. I feel like we are being taken over by...voles!!!
A vole is a tiny species of predatory rodent. This destructive mouse-like creature has been destroying seedlings and plants around Southern Idaho at a ferocious clip. Along with the unseasonably cool weather, this field mouse is literally eating up gardens. I couldn’t help but make a comparison to this ravenous creature and the out-of-control elements in politics known as the tea baggers.
Like these pests devouring all the healthy plants they come upon, the teabag movement has grown at an alarming rate and is devouring any incumbent or candidate with common sense. Recently there has been some hope of bipartisan movement on attempts to rein in Wall street, if not, I fear, these shrew-like creatures will eat at the roots of healthy systems until the plant (democracy) is dead.
Once, before Reagan, our government functioned with bipartisan give and take from the conservatives and moderates and democrats alike. It is being eroded by factions; like these buck-toothed rodents. We have a chaotic bunch in charge in our state house who pasted extreme laws on giving pharmacists and doctors power over their patient's end-of-life and birth control decisions and required voter id. Then we see the GOP spending all their time blocking all legislation and in bed with ultra conservatives who want to ban gay marriage, pass legislation like the recent embarrassment in Arizona, and plot succession from the Union
Like the vole, the tea baggers pretend to be something that they are not.
Sometimes these voles [a.k.a. tea baggers] are commonly mistaken for other animals [a.k.a. conservative republicans]. Some voles, like the prairie vole are notable for their monogamous sexual fidelity (that will make the evangelicals among them happy), but these shrew-like animals also like to feast on dead animals(like John McCain). They will oftentimes utilize old abandoned homes of moles (the congress and senate) thus confusing the land-owners into thinking that moles [a.k.a. republicans] are active. They have similar tendencies and behavior and are a little bit like all the other animals (conservatives) they are commonly thought to be.
The voles have even joined the not-so-grass-roots rodents aka Dick Army and the Becksters that swarm onto teabagger expresses and try to devour their opponents and any republican that doesn’t agree with their radical agenda. These rodents like to masquerade as true patriots that will save our country, but they are a mostly white (89%), middle-aged (3 out-0f –four) male (51%) contingent who, often hold deep-seated racist views. A recent CBS/New York Times poll reveals that many are a bunch of sore-losers who supported George Bush by 57%, limit their news coverage to only Fox by 63%, and believe that taxes have been raised under President Obama when over 95% of Americans actually received a tax cut. This ability to ignore the truth and the plain facts in front of them, is the most troubling characteristic of this species. At the very least, they are uninformed and misled.
Unfortunately the voles have charmed the media. Broad coverage is given to their events even when only a handful of the faithful voles toting their guns attended a recent event in Virginia. So remember that a vole may resemble a republican, but even though they may share some similar characteristics and behavior, they are not the same animal. So unless you want your state to succeed from the Union, have no social security system, or highways, I suggest that you vote for someone that has experience in office and won’t lead our nation off a cliff.
One good thing is
the average lifespan of a vole is 3—6 months. They rarely live longer than 12 months and the record is only 18 months.
We can only hope that 2011 will bring some sanity into the country.
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