Quick! Half of You Guamians Head South!
I know this video of Hank Johnson explaining his rather Verne-like opinion of geology is ancient, in Internet Years, but I have a couple new things to add. Besides, it still makes me chuckle when I see it.
Okay, here’s the setup. Johnson, who took over the Congressional seat once warmed by famously insane Cynthia McKinnney, sits on the House Armed Services Committee. He recently sat in while Admiral Robert F. Willard, Commander of U.S. Pacific Command explained the military’s plans to station more personnel in Guam, which, as you know, is not a terribly large island. Eventually, Johnson’s turn to ask questions of the Admiral came around. That’s when hilarity ensued.
Yep, folks. You heard him correctly. He’s afraid that we could add so many people to the island that it will capsize. His office put out a statement later to explain what the heck he was talking about. Alas, it didn’t help matters any.
I wasn’t suggesting that the island of Guam would literally tip over I was using a metaphor to say that with the addition of 8,000 Marines and their dependents – an additional 80,000 people during peak construction on the tiny island with a population of 180,000 – could be a tipping point which could adversely affect the island’s fragile ecosystem and could overburden its stressed infrastructure.
No you weren’t, Congressman. Want to know how I know that? Not only did you actually lean to the left and making a “thing turning upside-down” motion with your hands, which is usually a dead giveaway that you’re talking about something turning upside down, but there were also the comments you made right after that. See, you brought up the ecosystem as a separate second point. The words “and also” were the biggest clues that you have two separate points: 1) the ecosystem could be stressed, 2) assuming the island doesn’t actually tip over so that the whole ecosystem is underwater. You might as well have said that you thought you were talking about the Lost City of Atlanta.
Just admit it, Congressman. You have no early idea what the heck you’re talking about, but you’re hoping beyond hope we’ll let this slide. No dice. We get that you’re sick, but you’ll get no sympathy from me. If you’re so sick that you can’t think straight, then you have no business in Congress, much less casting a vote for the 2000+ page Obamacare bill. After all, if you’re too sick to remember that islands don’t tip over, you’re definitely too sick to understand a piece of legislation that will reach into my life in ways no one can predict right now.
The good news for the rest of us is that we can do better. There’s a pretty good candidate running against Johnson in Georgia today. Her name is Liz Carter and she’s not too shy to throw a well-deserved roundhouse to Johnson’s chops.
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Category: Our New Democratic Overlords
Good Blog .
Ha! That's funny. The first thing I thought when I saw this was I wished the admiral had said to him "well only if they all run to one side". LOL
I can't imagine how many responses ran through the Admiral's head in that half-second before he started talking.
[...] Maybe we could discuss the wacky “offbeat” behavior of the House member who thought a few thousand more people on the island of Guam would capsize it or the House member whose knowledge of history and geography clearly came from the Dimension of [...]
Smart people never choose to be a politician, so good old Hank, with an IQ of 50 or so, was elected by people who had an even lower IQ, so the majority of legislation coming out of Congress is endorsed by other people like him. I predict Alvin Green will make it to Congress, and I hope, sit by Hank so they can confer on similar matters.
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