When he was elected, future congressional blight and potential challenger for the title of America's Dumbest Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI) made some mutterings as to how he was going to have to buckle down and not give his many detractors ammunition to use against him. You know, by continuing to say stupid things out loud. Alas, 'tis a vow
more easily made than kept.
Anti-poverty aid programs are nothing more than a bribe to keep low-income people from getting married or going to work, according to a new U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin.
“When you look at that amount of money, which is in essence a bribe not to work that hard or a bribe not to marry someone with a full-time job, people immediately realize you have a problem,” Rep.-elect Glenn Grothman (R) said on a statewide television show aired Sunday evening.
This would be Grothman explaining to his radio listeners that our welfare programs are too damn generous these days. His reasoning is, of course,
extremely flawed, mostly because nobody gets to be a Republican member of Congress without a deep and fundamental understanding of how to find the very best of nonsensical talking points, how to gut those talking points and how to wear the mangled entrails of those talking points as a fashionable hat. For example, Glenn Grothman wants to cut food stamps but does not himself understand that plenty of people on food stamps do indeed have jobs and work very hard at them. (Google
food stamps, Walmart for one of the better known examples.) That would seem sort of an important thing to know, if you wanted to be an actual Goddamn Congressman seeking to cut those programs.
Ah, but soon-to-be-Rep. Glenn Grothman was not elected because he knew things. He was elected because he had an (R) after his name and the voters in his particular district are in aggregate a bulging sack of stupid who would vote for a factory-farm hog if you told them the hog was an honest family hog that didn't like taxes or immigrants or differently hued presidents, and you may freely quote me on every bit of that if I ever run for something. Which I won't, because it would mean having to constantly "debate" these things with such American visionaries as Glenn Grothman, Ted Cruz, or that damn pig.