GOP glossary

There's an old adage or axiom or old wives tale floating around out there that says we get the government that we deserve. Even if that's true, I'm not sure that we deserve the Republican Caucus of the newly-installed 118th Congress, which features a slew of election deniers, incompetents, hypocrites, crazies and idiots. Most of them have single-handedly lowered the collective IQ of the House of Representatives.

Here's my abbreviated list (or glossary, if you will) of the absurdists in government:

Lauren Boebert, 3rd District of Colorado: The other day, while pointing out that the United States owns 46 percent of the world's firearms, this election denier told Congress that she thinks we need to own even more. In a country that sees mass shootings almost every day, where is her logic? She serves on the Natural Resources and Oversight committees in Congress. She also owns a bar called Shooters in a place called Rifle, CO. Enough said.

Matt Gaetz, 1st District of Florida: An election denier, he is currently under investigation for sex trafficking involving a 17-year-old female. Admittedly, the case has stalled for witness credibility issues, but Gaetz, with a 9 percent approval rating, is close enough to the case to draw interest. Anyway, Gaetz serves on the Armed Services (he's never served in the military) and Judiciary (he is a lawyer) committees. Perfect.

Marjorie Taylor Greene, 14th District of Georgia: Perhaps the nuttiest of them all, this election denier claimed Jewish space lasers caused the rash of fires in California last summer. She claims 9-11 was an inside job. She stalks survivors of the Parkland school shooting. She asked for the common man in the street to shoot down the Chinese spy balloon, 10 miles in the sky. My favorite, though, is when she compared the Biden administration to the Gazpacho police. She meant the Nazi's Gestapo, of course, not cold soup. Maybe she was referring to the soup Nazi, who knows? She serves on the Homeland Security and Oversight committees. God help us.

Paul Gosar, 4th District of Arizona: A dentist by profession, and an election denier by choice, he once posted a cartoon of himself shooting Democratic colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and President Joe Biden. He is so right-wing extreme even his siblings have called for his removal from office. He serves on the Natural Resources and Oversight committees. Indeed.

Jim Jordan, 4th District of Ohio: Flamboyant, often without a sport coat to show how hard working he is, Jordan recently took his position as chairman of the Judiciary committee. This is rich: he is currently issuing subpoenas to the Department of Justice to investigate anything the Democrats have done while ignoring subpoenas served to him by the Jan. 6 Committee for his alleged involvement and support of the insurrection riot. And don't even ask him about his days as an assistant wrestling coach at The Ohio State during those sex scandal allegations. He didn't know a thing about it. What a joke. He is promoting government by retribution, and not for the people.

George Santos, 3rd District of New York: This guy, a pathological liar, at least voluntarily gave up his committee posts. Which means all he does now is walk the halls of Congress happily telling the media more lies. Sheesh.

There are others Republicans of concern: Kevin McCarthy, the wishy-washy House speaker who made impossible promises to get his speakership on the 15th ballot; Mark Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff; Scott Perry, a Representative from Pennsylvania who is so deep into Jan. 6 that he asked Trump for a presidential pardon; Florida governor Ron Desantis, who is such a racist it borders on the criminal. You could go on and on: Donald Trump, Rudy Guiliani, and two-thirds of the Supreme Court who have lost most of their credibility among Americans, especially after reversing Roe v. Wade.

I don't think this is what James Madison had in mind for us 234 years ago.