It is horrifying. There is no other way to describe it. I don't know anyone in Norway either, but I sympathize with the poor, undeserving victims of a clearly disturbed man.
Sadly, no, the Tea Party isn't a joke party. Well, technically they should be, but they have wormed their way into the Republican party and warped it beyond all recognition, forcing formerly sane politicians to give in to their every demand or be faced with the possibility of losing his/her seat to a Tea Party challenger. We've started referring to the Republican party as the GOTea because they have become so indistinguishable.
Their current darling (who is from my state, not that those of us who are still sane like to admit it) is running for president against Obama and people are actually taking her seriously as a candidate despite the fact that she is very obviously insane. Her husband runs a clinic where he claims he can "cure" people of being gay through prayer to the almighty Jesus and she signed a pledge that sounds disturbingly like Mein Kampf. There's no way someone like her could possibly WIN a presidential election, but I'm afraid of what will happen now that these lunatics who support people like her have been given such a prominent voice. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing that happened in Oslo happened here.
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Sadly, no, the Tea Party isn't a joke party. Well, technically they should be, but they have wormed their way into the Republican party and warped it beyond all recognition, forcing formerly sane politicians to give in to their every demand or be faced with the possibility of losing his/her seat to a Tea Party challenger. We've started referring to the Republican party as the GOTea because they have become so indistinguishable.
Their current darling (who is from my state, not that those of us who are still sane like to admit it) is running for president against Obama and people are actually taking her seriously as a candidate despite the fact that she is very obviously insane. Her husband runs a clinic where he claims he can "cure" people of being gay through prayer to the almighty Jesus and she signed a pledge that sounds disturbingly like Mein Kampf. There's no way someone like her could possibly WIN a presidential election, but I'm afraid of what will happen now that these lunatics who support people like her have been given such a prominent voice. I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing that happened in Oslo happened here.