QI [: Questionable Intelligence] and the GOP

(M)an: Dude! Did you catch the moment where Peggy Noonan retracted her phraseology on Face The Nation with Bob Schieffer this past Sunday?

(D)ude: Man! I have the transcript right here! Would you like me to read the bogus she misspoke? If Bob Schieffer had not caught her deliberately faulty statement relishing about how the President of the United States and newly sworn in Mayor of New York were progressive and lefty and washed up like the former Sandinista. Who is Sandinista?

M: Dude! This time I want you to read exactly what Peggy Noonan stated before self-correcting herself due to her intellectual façade being caught off-guard by the always sharp Bob Schieffer.

D: Man! Eh-hem! The funny thing about inequality is it's as if everybody has just discovered this problem of the rich are really rich and the poor are really poor and the middle is not gaining. Yes. And normally this administration [President Obama’s] used to brag about how well the-- the-- the stock market was going and in a way it’s almost the negative side of-- of one argument. But the answer so far to inequality is being presented now even in New York, brand new mayor, progressive, lefty, former Sandinista [Bill de Blasio]-- what he’s saying essentially is the old answer. Sorry. Former-- I beg your pardon, that is not true, former enthusiast for Sandinista like political movement in Nicaragua. But what he’s saying, essentially, is the old playbook, not the new playbook. The old playbook is inequality, I will raise your taxes and I will raise spending. Well, there’s nothing revolutionary about that. That’s the old playbook.

M: Dude! Peggy Noonan may be with the Wall Street Journal and have been Ronald Reagan’s presidential speechwriter, but she is a foul trumpeter of supposedly political maladies befalling the Democratic Party. Instead, Peggy Noonan must be looked upon as a political malady herself for the fate of the United States of America.

D: Man! Who’s Sandinista? To what Sandinista-like political movement in Nicaragua is Peggy Noonan referring? And what about Manuel Noriega in Panama during Reagan and George H. W. Bush’s presidencies?

M: Dude! We’re talking about the South American country Nicaragua first and then I will address Noriega and Operation Just Cause, the code name for the United States’ invasion of Panama in December 1989 by the order of the George H. W. Bush Administration.

D: Man! Okay! Nicaragua? I know it is situated between Costa Rica and Honduras, making it a Central American nation, Mexico being a North American nation and Colombia being a South American nation.

M: Dude! Yeah, you’re on the right track thus far. The United States under the following presidents saw many hardships while the modern-day Republican Party took swift control of Congress and injected their tight-lipped and close-fisted mayhem upon the American people and the world: Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover, spanning approximately thirteen arduous years where the Commander in Chiefs were as effective as the obstructionists in today’s Congress under the equally contemptuous leadership of House Speaker Boehner and Senate Majority Leader McConnell.

D: Man! The Congressional Republicans are reacting through inaction upon President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s outlook of a calm and coordinated world with interlacing heartstrings of independency for peacetimes and of trust and assistance when needing restoratives and encouragement. Times like these will require military might on our part, but with our sons and daughters in uniform not fighting, but instructing and building.

M: Dude! Returning to Nicaragua, the Sandinistas are the equivalent of what is the Democratic Party in the United States. Their political party name acronym is FSLN, but that is due to the way it is said and spelled in Spanish and that is Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional, or The Sandinista National Liberation Front. The man who they named themselves after was Augusto Cesar Sandino, the leader of the revolutionaries who fought the United States occupying Nicaragua during that infamous Harding-Coolidge-Hoover time frame.

D: Man! So did the United States side against the revolutionaries?

M: Dude! Precisely. The United States intervened on behalf of the military dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza Garcia, the patriarch of the Somoza family who ordered the assassination of Augusto Cesar Sandino and the slaughter of hundreds of Sandino’s supporters and followers, including children, after the last of the United States Military exited Nicaragua, having established a National Guard under the direct order of Somoza.

D: Man! The National Guard under the direction of Somoza executed Sandino and his allies that included children?

M: Dude! Yeah, but keep in mind that during President Carter’s years in the White House, the Sandinistas reclaimed power after ousting the National Guard and the Somoza dictatorship that had embezzled all the foreign aide that was meant for reconstructing the capital city of Managua, Nicaragua after it was hit in 1972 by a massively devastating earthquake.

D: Man! What about after the Carter Presidency in the United States? Was the Reagan Presidency supportive of the Sandinistas?

M: Dude! The FSLN won back power in 1979 and instituted a revolutionary spirit that embraced reviving Nicaragua’s infrastructure, giving workers unionizing rights, women equality, ending the death penalty alongside torture and the political assassination scheme that Somoza had utilized to kill Sandino. But their defining achievement was their campaign to lower the rate of illiteracy in Nicaragua by 38% in the span of six months via successful teacher recruitment and massive participation, almost half a million citizens being  gifted the chance to achieve literacy in order to be able to cast informed ballots in elections.

D: Man! Was Reagan’s Administration supportive of the Sandinistas?

M: Dude! No.

D: Man! Why not?

M: Dude! Upon assuming the United States presidency, Ronald Reagan sided with the rebels known simply as the Contras by instructing the CIA to back them financially at the same time providing them with the necessary weaponry to terrorize rural Nicaraguans as a means to end the social reforms being put into place all over the country by the Sandinistas.  

D: Man! So the methodology for modern terrorism practices around the world were put into place by President Reagan’s Administration?

M: Dude! Yes. Large-scale mayhem was carried out by the Contras under the watchful protection of the CIA ordered specifically by President Reagan.

D: Man! What happened to Nicaragua during the eight years President Reagan terrorized  its citizenry via the rebels, the Contras?

M: Dude! The United States Congress barred federal funding of the Contras in 1983, but President Reagan resorted to covert operations to continue to support the violence perpetrated upon the people of Nicaragua by the Contras. One means of going about this that the Reagan Administration pursued was by selling Iran arms underground and using the sales to fund the destructive rebels, the Contras.

D: Man! Iran and the Contras and the Reagan Administration? Sound very familiar, don’t they?

M: Dude! The Iran-Contra scandal! Remember?

D: Man! Yeah! Oliver North! I remember how our schoolteachers griped about having to watch his trial broadcast on all the major television networks just because North was a relatively attractive White guy that female audiences could tune into to swoon over. I think the National Inquirer and TV Guide made the same dingy observations as the American Press. I think Oliver North was purported to have been shampooing with Pert Plus in one of the op-ed drabs at that time.

M: Dude! Pert Plus is still around and so is Oliver North! He’s a Faux News commentator and has his own 501(c)3.

D: Man! What about Manuel Noriega and Panama?

M: Dude! Manuel Noriega’s history with the United States is more about the division between the modern Democratic Party of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton and the modern Republican Party of Reagan and Bush and W. Generally, the Democratic leadership always chooses to do the arduous homework needed to promote international tact and  tactics while the Republican leadership chooses to take on the role of the bully that plummets the world by all means necessary, especially war, blunting the effective intervention strategies of the previous Democratic Administrations.

D: Man! And the American Press sides with the bullying status quo/conservative party because it too doesn’t want, well, homework that involves embracing diversity and personal growth through tasting whatever the main dish of the host culture may be. It’s like the Republican Party would much rather reject the offerings of culinary exchanges between nations, like what’s happening in the Middle East and Asia right now because of Secretary Kerry’s sensitivity and etiquettes. I wholeheartedly believe that John McCain and Lindsey Graham and the Republican Party would begin to throw terms out in public like they do not believe such-and-such or so-and-so because such-and-such and so-and-so were not Kosher or Hilal according to their own individual standards, just another perpetuated biased nonsense reported by the malleable American Press Corps! Goodness, McCain and Graham probably would personally pardon pigs and all things pork so that they may enjoy their weekend hotdog picnics! Do they have the intelligence necessary to understand the difference between the two? There are Kosher and Hilal alternatives now available in select stores. I always found the song, “Do they even know it is Christmas?” insulting to the people of Africa that were the main focus of that song, a successful 1980s fundraiser. Likewise, I suspect the GOP obstructionists lack IQ but excel in QI.

M: Dude! QI?

D: Man! Questionable intelligence!