Oh, Alabama should be proud....

...of our ass-clown Republicans:

Take Representative Terry Everett, a seven-term Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence.

“Do you know the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite?” I asked him a few weeks ago.

Mr. Everett responded with a low chuckle. He thought for a moment: “One’s in one location, another’s in another location. No, to be honest with you, I don’t know. I thought it was differences in their religion, different families or something.”

To his credit, he asked me to explain the differences. I told him briefly about the schism that developed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and how Iraq and Iran are majority Shiite nations while the rest of the Muslim world is mostly Sunni. “Now that you’ve explained it to me,” he replied, “what occurs to me is that it makes what we’re doing over there extremely difficult, not only in Iraq but that whole area.”

(from "Can you tell a Sunni from a Shiite?", Jeff Stein, The New York Times, 10/17/06. Emphasis added.)

Oh. Dear. Lord. This man is vice-chairman of the House subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence, and he can't even differentiate between the two factions fighting a civil war in Iraq? (And yes, Fox News -- it is a civil war, not sectarian violence.)

This is so typical of the Republicans in Congress -- they've been such a rubber-stamp legislature for our Moron-in-Chief, they don't even understand the issues. For the past six years, if President Bush proposed it, they approved it, calling anyone who disagreed traitors and "unpatriotic." Isn't it strange that Rep. Everett needed a newspaper columnist to explain to him why "what we're doing over there [is] extremely difficult"?

These idiots have to go. And fortunately, it looks like the Republican-majority Congress (at least the House) has a mere three weeks to live. Good riddance to bad rubbish.