The not-even-slightly-fabulous Mitch McConnell has shown the world just how far from fab he really is this time. Check out this doozy of a quote on the CBS News website.

"I don't think right after a major environmental catastrophe is a very good time to be making American domestic policy," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on "Fox News Sunday." "My thought about it is, we ought not to make American and domestic policy based upon an event that happened in Japan."

Talk about some of the most ridiculous spin so far this decade. Let's think about some of the flaws in this.

1) The laws of Physics don't vary from country to country.

2) Engineering principles have nothing to do with national borders.

3) Japan's government is as not as amazingly corrupt as the US government, meaning, in this case, that nuclear safeguards are stronger in Japan.

4) A major catastrophe is a really good time to think about how to prevent similar catastrophes in the future. Obviously, we can't prevent earthquakes. But, we certainly can prevent nuclear power plants.

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The Not-Even-Slightly-Fabulous Mitch McConnell sounds about as macho as Lada Gaga. Well, she's actually a lot tougher than he is.



That chest beating was weak, even for the Not-Even-Slightly-Fabulous Mitch McConnell. I think he is overcompensating.

Of course, the last time a Gopper tried too hard to sound tough, it had disastrous consequences. Remember when the elected Bush tried to get people to stop referring to him as a "wimp"? He started a bloody and senseless war in Iraq. (The son outdid even the father a few years later.)