Today in STUPID

Senator Chuck Grassley (R) is mad that President Obama is a socialist and hates America.

"You know, I served with this guy in the Senate and had a few interactions with him as president, and I don't understand him," Sen. Chuck Grassley told BuzzFeed in an interview, adding, "I think his policies are leading towards the Europeanization of our economy. But I don't know if that's coming because it's his over all goal and he really wants us to become more socialist, or just the cumulative effect of a policy here and a policy there. But he's sure heading in that direction." [...]

"You'd think [because] he served in the Senate, it'd be different. But he evidently doesn't like to interact with members of Congress."

First of all, who can blame him for not wanting to interact with douchebags like Chuck Grassley?

Here’s the difference between Europe and America today. America (until the sequester) has mostly avoided austerity as a policy, while Europe has embraced it. The result? America’s economy is much more healthy than Europe’s because cutting government spending during a recession is monstrously stupid. Republicans like to scream that the President is making us more like Greece, but what has nearly destroyed Greece? Austerity, which the Republicans love. What have the President’s economic policies done for America? The stock market hit an all-time record high today.

In other news, the Republicans, having lied about and destroyed the community voter registration group, ACORN, are still voting to defund it, years after it ceased to exist. That’ll continue to teach them, if only they still existed!

In Iowa, a state legislator wants to make it harder to get a divorce, because he’d rather see people trapped in an unhappy marriage, else his granddaughter become a slut.

“This basically is an attempt on my part to keep fathers in the home,” Gassman said. “I sincerely believe that the family is the foundation of this nation and this nation will go the direction of our families. If our families break up, so will this nation.”[...]

Representative Gassman said the issue is “near and dear” to his heart because his daughter and son-in-law recently divorced, putting his granddaughter at risk.

“There’s a 16-year-old girl in this whole mix now. Guess what? What are the possibilities of her being more promiscuous?” Gassman said.

“What are the possibilities of all these other things surrounding her life that a 16-year-old girl, with hormones raging, can get herself into?”

Aren’t these guys supposed to be all about FREEDOM? Because this guy worries that his granddaughter may some day have (gasp!) sex, you can’t get a divorce from your abusive husband?

And finally, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) voted against the Violence Against Women Act because it protected too many people.

When you start to make this about other things it becomes an “against violence act” and not a targeted focus act… I didn’t like the way it was expanded to include other different groups. What you need is something that is focused specifically to help the shelters and to help out law enforcement, who is trying to work with the crimes that have been committed against women and helping them to stand up.

Yes, we definitely don’t want to protect everyone, because then certain groups will be less likely to be victimized and we can’t have that, can we? How else will they learn that it’s wrong and sinful to be a lesbian or a Native American woman if we protect them from getting abused?

And that’s Today in STUPID.