Some Country for Old Men

And it’s coming from inside the House! The House of Representatives, that is.

Yeah yeah yeah, at this point no one should be surprised that a Republican member of Congress is a big racist. From leading the birther movement to fostering the teabagger nonsense, these folks rarely miss an opportunity to whip their white troglodyte constituents into an anti-black or anti-Jew or anti-intelligence fervor.

Proving that their short-sighted simplistic over-the-top hate is cyclical, their newest target is Muslims.

Note, even thought this story is from Politico (which is totally ghey), it’s real. Check it!

Four Republican lawmakers have accused the most prominent Islamic advocacy group in Washington of trying to plant “spies” as interns on Capitol Hill.

The claim was quickly denounced as “racist” and “insidious” by the Council on American Islamic Relations, and the effort appears to have little support from GOP leaders.

In an unusual announcement this morning, four conservative Republicans — Reps. John Shadegg (Ariz.), Paul Broun (Ga.), Trent Franks (Ariz.) and Sue Myrick (N.C.) — formally asked the House Sergeant at Arms to launch an investigation of the Center for American-Islamic Relations. They accused CAIR, a non profit group, of trying to infiltrate Capitol Hill with interns and staffers.

Granted this appears to be an effort of just a few “rogue” GOP members, it’s still retarded. Take for example, the evidence these jokers cite to support their claim of infiltration:

The lawmakers also released a one page “strategy” document they said they obtained from CAIR. But the document basically lays out a fairly straight forward public relations and lobbying strategy and indeed, one of the goals is “placing Muslim interns in congressional offices” and registering people to vote.

[Ibrahim] Hooper, [CAIR's communications director], ridiculed the claims.

“All they can come up with is that we are political active?” Hooper asked. “The terror threat is that Muslims are politically active?”

Naturally, Democrats have already denounced the whole deal — in a cheap attempt to score political points, no doubt — but still, is it asking too much that Republicans do the same? These people — on both sides of the aisle — are the problem. They’re the reason political discourse is poisoned, and the fact that (in this case) Republicans won’t call a spade (retard) a spade (retard) contributes to Washington’s continued dysfunction.