The Brain Dead Zone (With Update)

"I think, personally, it would bring stability to the world markets."

-- Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), on breaching the debt ceiling.

Now I'm not posting merely to point out that this Yoho character is a piece of shit.  What I found a bit interesting -- in an unnerving way -- was that right after I read that quote, this scene from "The Dead Zone" popped into my head:



Let's face facts. A lot of the very same Baggers who are intentionally trying to crash our economy are also heavy-duty Bible beaters. You know the kind: they think that the Earth is 6000 years old and the End Times are just around the corner (e.g., Michele Bachmann) -- or worse yet, they believe the End Times are just around the corner and they feel they have a personal role to play in bringing them about.

We've seen that kind of crap before, but never for such high stakes or with such a high level of accompanying lunacy. Who could forget this oldie but a goodie from the Bush years:

Many conservative Christians say they believe that the president’s support for Israel fulfills a biblical injunction to protect the Jewish state, which some of them think will play a pivotal role in the second coming. Many on the left, in turn, fear that such theology may influence decisions the administration makes toward Israel and the Middle East.

Anyway, has anybody considered the possibility that perhaps these Tea-Baggers who want to bring down our country are just, well . . . how do I say it --  religious nutcases who want to usher in the Era of the Anti-Christ?

UPDATE:  Right on cue:

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) accused President Obama of arming al Qaeda militants in Syria and said it was evidence "we're in God's end times," The Hill reports.



Said Bachmann: "This happened and as of today the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists. Now what this says to me, I'm a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God's end times history."