There are a lots of rea­sons I would not be able to hold my head high and admit to being a mem­ber of the GOP but I will focus on one. Any­one that reads this blog knows I am opposed to the occu­pa­tion of Iraq and Afghanistan and regard armed con­flict in this respect as a com­plete and utter fail­ure of our diplo­matic corps. Nev­er­the­less, I hail from war­riors, my ances­tors fought their way up the Iber­ian penin­sula and ulti­mately set­tled in France and Ire­land endur­ing many hard­ships and incit­ing and sur­viv­ing many bat­tles on the way. Gen­er­ally regarded as fear­less and hardy I can only won­der what they would make of a panic dri­ven soci­ety that will­ingly lines up to remove their shoes before going on a jour­ney. And now we have to worry about underwear.…

Recently, while vis­it­ing the DMV I wit­nessed a diminu­tive, frail, old woman walk­ing in with a framed mar­riage cer­tifi­cate. It seems she had recently remar­ried and wanted to change her last name. After wait­ing her turn she gath­ered her bag and pic­ture frame and tot­tered up to the counter and began rum­mag­ing around pulling out bits of paper and ID. Alas, she was turned away by a very sym­pa­thetic DMV employee because she had not suf­fi­ciently proven she was an Amer­i­can cit­i­zen. 1) She needed an orig­i­nal Social Secu­rity card not a copy and she couldn’t locate her Medicare card. 2) She needed her mar­riage license, a cer­tifi­cate signed by her pas­tor was not proof she was mar­ried. 3) She would have to write to Cal­i­for­nia for a copy of her birth cer­tifi­cate in order to prove her state­ment “but I have lived here all my life”.

Ben Franklin famously said ‘Any soci­ety that would give up a lit­tle lib­erty to gain a lit­tle secu­rity will deserve nei­ther and lose both.” Not only have we lost secu­rity and free­dom but we have for­feited our dig­nity along with it. How shame­ful Con­gress sees fit to treat the cit­i­zens of this coun­try as poten­tial ter­ror­ists over the acts of a few.

The GOP con­tinue to cam­paign on fear and crow with mil­i­tary machismo, “my SMAW is big­ger than your RPG”, and leg­is­late dra­con­ian laws ini­ti­at­ing embar­rass­ing rit­u­als wherein we remove our shoes before board­ing a plane and peep­ing toms will be pro­vided with x-ray machines to facil­i­tate look­ing up our skirts. How degrad­ing and shame on the Democ­rats for play­ing along.

All I can think is what a bunch of fraidy pants. What colos­sal pussies. What are they over­com­pen­sat­ing for? If they sub­mit to nude x-rays we may find out soon.

My ances­tors are rolling over in fits of laugh­ter… I know it.