Rep. Shikus: Iraq War Is Like ‘My Beloved St. Louis Cardinals’ Facing ‘The Cubbies’
Today on the House floor, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) compared the war in Iraq to a Major League Baseball feud, asking fellow members of Congress to “Imagine my beloved St. Louis Cardinals are playing the much despised Chicago Cubs….The Cardinals are up by five finishing the top of the ninth. Is this a cause for celebration? Is this a cause for victory? No. Unbelievable as it may seem, the Cubbies score five runs in the bottom of the ninth to throw the games into extra innings. There the score remains until 1:00 AM five innings later. However at the top of the 15th, the Cardinals fail to field a batter. The entire team has left the stadium. ‚Äö√Ѭ∂ Who wins? We know it’s the team that stays on the field.”
All right, y’all. Repeat after me: WTF??? Of all of the ignorant, self-serving, half-assed, thoroughly clueless statements to emerge from the mouths of Republican supporters of the war in Iraq, this probably tops them all.
I’m sure that somewhere in his pointy li’l haid, Shimkus thinks that he was saying something perfectly sensible. Really, though, exactly HOW is baseball like war? Until Cubs fans start setting off car bombs at Busch Stadium, and unless Cardinals baserunners have to worried about being picked off by an IED, then baseball, even in St. Louis, is nothing like war. I’ve been to Busch Stadium, and while I haven’t ever been to Baghdad, I feel pretty comfortable saying that it’s NOTHING like Baghdad. Nobody dies in Busch Stadium, and there’s no dying in baseball.
There are few things more offensive than clueless dickweeds like Shimkus displaying just how little they understand the consequences of war. Then again, when you don’t have to worry about whether your loved is going to return from Iraq intact or in a box, it’s all good.
It’s certainly better to be thought a DUMB@$$ than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Then again, if you’re John Shimkus, you’ve long since passed the point of being a suspected DUMB@$$; yes, Shimkus long since removed any doubt.
