Shoot Them In The Head?

It seems that at one point in his show, Glenn Beck made some thoughtless comment about how political opponents should be dealt with: his advice was that you would have to "shoot them in the head." Well, now a Congressional representative has been shot in the head. And, of course, there's no proof of any direct link, of course, just as there is no direct link to Sarah Palin's placement of crosshairs over Gabrielle Gifford's district, accompanied by the comment that people would have to "take her out."

But, seriously, it is amazing to consider the amount of complete rhetorical barf that gets converted to filthy, unrepentant wealth. While decent people are unemployed and homeless. And congressional representatives are ACTUALLY getting shot in the head. Is there a problem with priorities here?

The conservative refrain used to be, "Get a job!" Now it seems to be, "Dig a hole!" Because that is the best deal many people down on their luck would get if some of these nutjobs actually governed.

Once you dig your hole so you will be out of sight, make sure you don't breathe too loudly, and maybe some edible fungus will grow on the walls. Because there aren't enough jobs to follow the old refrain: "Get a job, deadbeat!" And nobody will put the homeless in the huge amounts of empty foreclosed homes.

But here's a really scary prospect. Think about Glenn Beck actually running things through running for political office rather than wearing an overcrapped intellectual diaper and calling it a "university." There's a frightening concept. What is more scary in this scenario; the idiots who would vote for him, or the nihilists who won't vote at all because the process is so corrupt, thereby letting the idiots run rampant on the playground?