Desperate For Publicity, Zack Wamp Berates Rush Limbaugh

Straighten your posture & prepare your apology, you silly Wamp

Zach Wamp is a clownish Republican from Tennessee's 3rd CD (Chattanooga and Oak Ridge) who's trying to run for governor. Wamp's undistinguished rubber stamp, zombie-like voting record has nothing whatsoever in it to recommend him and nothing that stands out from any other garden variety lunatic fringe Bible-thumper whose irresponsibility brought on the Depression. He hasn't been able to make any progress in the Republican primary contest against front-running multimillionaire Knoxville mayor Bill Haslam and also has to contend with Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey and Memphis D.A. Bill Gibbons. No one outside Chattanooga knows who he is... or cares.

So, in a quest for some coverage, he denounced Rush Limbaugh on CNN yesterday. That got him a tiny bit of notice and after he abjectly apologizes he'll get even more press. Wamp referred to the de facto leader of the Republican Party-- at least in terms of setting the agenda for the congressional caucus-- as a "mere 'entertainer,' and suggested that rather than listen to Rush, we should listen to 'serious' people on how solve our economic crisis." Expect to see poor, befuddled Wamp to wind up here soon. Or will he appear on the Tyra Banks Show next?

And while the clownish Wamp prepares his abject apology to the Republican's fearless leader, another GOP clown, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan found someone else to apologize to: Europe. Actually Ryan seems to think he's being a jokester but is further exposing the disarray in the GOP, this time about how the kooks and loons feel about Europe. Many on the lunatic fringe feel the same way as Mormon fruitcake, Bishop Rob Bishop who spent two years running around Germany in the early 70s unsuccessfully trying to persuade people to join the bizarre cult. Later he became head of the Utah Republican Party and has always harbored extreme hatred towards Europe-- and monkeys-- because of his daily rejection by German people when he tried getting them to just try on the funny underwear. “The European mindset is still government solutions to everything-- high taxes, high government spending, high government safety net, government resolution of all the problems," babbled an angry Bishop. Ryan, on the other hand, has come around to seeing Germany and other European countries as the model the U.S. should be following. I have a feeling he hasn't cleared this with Limbaugh yet. “We owe them an apology," explained Ryan, "because our budget is worse than theirs. To suggest that we’re turning our budget into a European kind of a budget is unfair … it’s unfair to Europe." [Throughout the partisan budget debate, Ryan warned that America is moving closer into turning into a European society.] Barney Frank is watching the Republican pie fight and scratching his head. "The argument that if you have a better social safety net then people will get lazy and won't work is an extraordinarily dumb and mean argument and it's contradicted by the facts," he tried explaining to Ryan, Bishop and the other bickering Repugs. "I know people on that side have a propensity to see socialists everywhere. But the people who are most lecturing the American Government are the president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, and the chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, two conservatives. So [this] invocation of socialists lecturing us is a further example of the propensity to see socialists where they are not.” Poor, Ryan just can't seem to get anything right. Maybe he should go back to being a lobbyist. You can help him with that.