Election News from Bubba, Texas

This just in.  You’re reading it here first, before CNN, ABC, or Fox News.

Bubba, Texas is a very small community in West Texas near the Gulf of Mexico and just had an election that reflects the current state of the Republican Party in the US.  They’ve just elected Chris Hysoscella mayor with a last minute write in campaign.

Chris is no ordinary mayor.   In fact, Chris is not a human.  Chrysaora hysoscella is the Latin name for the compass jellyfish.

One voter, who began the write in campaign and did not give us his/her name told us about the reasons for the write in campaign.

“A lot of us traditional Republicans here in Bubba kinda figure that since most of the Republicans in Congress are kinda spineless, we should have a spineless creature here in Bubba representing us.  We thought about electing a crayfish.  They don’t have spines, but do have an external skeleton.  That’s a lot more than our Congress Person has.  So we thought to have a write in campaign.  We did change his or her name.  It’s kinda hard to know with jellyfish.  With chickens, you can bring in a chicken sex expert to sort out the males and females.  Do jellyfish even have males and females?  But I digress.  Chris is living in the aquarium I got in the living room and I’m planning on bring Chris into town meetings is a special travel tank.  If only Republicans everywhere had this revelation, the country would be in a better place.”

Groucho Marx as Political Theorist

Groucho Marx is reported to have said:  “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”  We at the Bozosphere can relate to that.  We wouldn’t  want to have followers who waste spend their valuable time reading the Bozosphere blog.   But enough frivolity.

Lord Acton said:

“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

Recently as we have been surveying the political scene and it doesn’t look pretty.  We have no idea if Groucho knew the Acton quote, but it struck us that had he known it, Groucho might want to rise from the grave and say:   “I refuse to vote for anyone who choses to run for President of the US.”

Perhaps we’re a bit too negative here, but many of those who run for public office may begin with some degree of integrity, but the moneyed nature of American politics and the corruption of the soul that it begets changes individuals for the worse.