Today's Dispatches From The Stupid Party

Drawing from an inexhaustible well, we bring up a few buckets of Rethuglican/ New Confederate Party un-distilled stupid:

Even though many Rethugs are calling the latest budget hostage-taking ploy by tea baggers in Congress a "bad idea," there's always Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz (Anchor Baby-TX) willing to make a last stand at the Alamo Senate well in order to tell the American people that it wasn't Rethugs who shut down the government over Obamacare:

We've got to stand up and make the argument and win the argument that, 'No, that's not true. We have voted to fund the federal government. We want to fund the federal government. Why is President Obama threatening to shut down the federal government? Because he wants force Obamacare down people's throats.'

Please run fly with that, Tailgunner Ted!!  We're certain the general public is with you and won't parse the clever political ju-jitsu you're practicing here.  They'll come to the conclusion that, yes, even though Rethugs have been publicly strategerizing about using Obamacare de-funding as a poison pill in the budget negotiations, it will all be Obama's fault if the gummint shuts down 'cause he dint agree to kill his signature legislative accomplishment!  Brilliant!

Perhaps Tailgunner Ted is relying on the "incurious" intellects of Rethugs, represented by the likes of  North Carolina Gov. Pat "Duh" McCrory, in which case, he may be onto something:

Pat McCrory, the Republican presiding over the dismantling of the state's relatively reasoned approach to race and the law, declared Friday that he was eager to sign the state's restrictive new voting law, the most suppressive of its era, even though he had not read a key part of it. "I don't know enough, I'm sorry," the governor told a reporter who asked about a provision in the pending measure that will preclude pre-registration for those under 18 (because, after all, if there is anything this nation needs to do when it comes to encouraging civic participation it is to make it harder for eager young people to vote).

In his confessed ignorance of the details of a discriminatory voting law in a Southern state, McCrory is no outlier. His incurious approach to such vital legislation is yet another form of the willful ignorance that has animated much of the national debate over voting rights over the past half decade or so.

 "I don't know enough, I'm sorry."  A rare instance of self-awareness by a Rethuglican, but "willful ignorance" is useful if you're advancing the anti-democratic goals of your Stupid Party, no?