September 20, 2013 6:18 AM

Today on "(Not so) Great Moments in Teapublican Hypocrisy"

As historic floods of “biblical” proportions continue to ravage Colorado, President Obama signed an emergency declaration on Sunday — a move that was encouraged by a bipartisan letter last week from the state’s nine-member Congressional delegation. But the four Republican Congressmen who are now supporting disaster relief for their own state were among those voting earlier this year against the emergency aid funding for Superstorm Sandy victims on the East Coast. Colorado Republican Reps. Mike Coffman, Cory Gardner, Doug Lamborn, and Scott Tipton joined their delegation in asking the president to send emergency funds to help their constituents combat and recover from the more than 14 inches of rain that have flooded Colorado this month.

One of the things that amazes me about today’s crop of Teapublican nonentities and moral midgets (besides their desire to burn America to the ground) is their glaring inability to admit to- or even recognize- their own rank hypocrisy. Whether it’s a lack of self-awareness or just that they simply don’t care, Teapublicans seem to view all federal expenditures that don’t directly benefit them and/or their constituents is pork-barrel spending. It’s a pretty typical Republican mindset- the government is inept, incompetent, and incapable of efficient delivery of services…until they need it. When that happens, those services had damned well better be delivered YESTERDAY…or they’re whining about how the government is letting them down.

So…disaster relief in New Jersey is exactly the sort of wasteful spending American can’t afford…but the flooding and wildfires that have ravaged Colorado this summer are different. Why, of course we must rise to meet the needs of our fellow Americans; our constituents are suffering! Those people in New Jersey? Well, it’s not our problem, so why should we have to pay for it?

I could try to pass this off as perhaps another example of an egregious lack of self-awareness; perhaps Colorado’s Republican Congressional delegation really can’t recognize their own hypocrisy. The problem is that this attitude has become increasingly typical of today’s crop of Teapublicans. They care little for what’s best for the country. They’re unshakably wedded to an ideology devoid of common sense and compassion. Worst of all, they’re perfectly willing to burn America to the ground if they can’t 100% of what they want. Compromise is for losers and Liberals, don’tchaknow? Oh…and if it happens to me and mine it’s a crisis; if it happens to you and yours you’re on your own. We don’t want to create dependency and sloth, knowhutimean?

In a different time, the late Tip O’Neill called politics “the art of the possible.” That was then, a simpler time before the Tea Party movement led to the coronation of Congressman largely devoid of native intelligence, compassion, and moral gravity. Now politics could more correctly be called “the art of zealotry and brinksmanship.” Governing is less important that being an intransigent minority that sees compromise as an evil just this side of socialism and pedophilia. Congress is now home to a zealous, inflexible cabal intractably opposed to compassion, the social contract, and big government…unless that government can be employed to enforce their narrow, anti-woman, anti-democratic agenda. Or unless they need help recovering from a disaster.

WE DESERVE BETTER.

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