Maybe Dick Pombo Wouldn't Be The Best Suicide Prevention Counsellor For Marilyn Musgrave

Suicide is painless

A few weeks ago we talked about how, in 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc captured the attention of Vietnam-- and that of many in America-- by killing himself, the method a very public self-immolation. I know Republican members of Congress, both those experiencing their last days at the public trough like Ric Keller and Robin Hayes, and those who have been left behind and feel the noose tightening-- how many more fundraising days before November, 2010?-- are down in the dumps.

Few, however are as down and dumpy as extremist loon Marilyn Musgrave, whose constituents turned her out in an angry landslide against her right-wing values and right-wing voting record. Not even Mark Sanford, Tony Perkins and Grover Norquist could make the preposterous claim that her overwhelming defeat was anything but Colorado voters giving a big thumbs down to the far right and all it stands for.

Musgrave is the nastiest of this year's batch of discarded Republicans. While some, like the aforementioned Ric Keller and Robin Hayes are moping around the gloomy Republican Capitol Hill Club asking long defeated old hacks like Dirty Dick Pombo how to drum up some lobbying business, Musgrave is refusing to face reality. Like Virgil Goode (R-VA) and Randy Kuhl (R-NY), Musgrave has been unwilling to concede defeat, even though she lost by double digits. Perhaps she has already heard Pombo's bleak assessment of what lies in store for defeated wingnuts-- he admits he's been "scrounging for business"-- but Musgrave has been in hiding.

Not congratulating the victor may be rude but it's far from unheard of from Republican losers. But Musgrave has gone way beyond that, refusing to even thank her dedicated-- if delusional-- campaign staff for their hard work on her behalf. She's hardly a Buddhist or a monk-- she's a Pentecostal Assemblies of God fanatic-- but wouldn't it just be a national tragedy if she set herself on fire on the steps of Capitol Hill? No one in recent times has put more pure hatred and vitriol into tormenting gay families than Marilyn Musgrave and making their lives more difficult and dangerous.