It's Fozzie Bear, not Fuzzy Bear...

In fairness to Aaron Sorkin, writing
100 episodes of witty political drama
is really hard without cocaine. 

Look, I love me some The West Wing. If President Bartlett were real I'd totally vote for him. Hell, if Martin Sheen ran for office, I'd probably vote for him. But if there was a criticism to be leveled against Aaron Sorkin during his coke-fueled days writing for a fictional White House it's that his Republicans had a tendency to be a little too evil. Like they sometimes crossed over from regular real life flat tax, school-voucher, gun-lovers into the realm of mustache twirling puppy drowners. And that's ok, I mean, it's just a TV show, right?

"Ach! Defund PBS? That's a bonnie idea!"

-Scrooge McDuck, one of the people

But is anyone else starting to think that the GOP is turning into Sorkin's cartoonish right-wing caricatures? Take Mitt Romney for example, in an interview with Fortune Magazine (because he's one of the people) he laid out how he's going to cut spending so none of the one percents have to sell thier yachts. The plan: take funding away from Amtrak, because who takes trains these days? Cut the National Endowment for the Arts because, cough...queers...cough. Oh, and defund PBS because Mitt Romney hates Sesame Street.

Above: Republicans

Sound familiar? Yeah, because it totally happened on The West Wing. So a man famous for being cruel to furry animals has proposed looting the network that gave us Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch. He's a season three cliffhanger away from selling orphans to North Korea to close the budget gap. What the hell? Muppet mugging should be enough to sink any Presidential hopeful's chances but luckily for Mitt, the GOP has an ace up their sleeve.

Of course by 'ace up their sleeve' I mean a vast and coordinated effort to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of American voters who might vote for President Obama. By the time the GOP is finished disqualifying every registered voter who isn't a rich, white male named Mitt Romney, there's a decent chance this guy will be our next President.

"In 143 years, there has been a staggering one instance of voter fraud in Pennsylvania.
I can't let that happen again. Yes, it does mean a few hundred thousand poor and 
minority voters won't get a chance to vote for Obama, but that's a risk I'm willing to take."

-Republican Judge Robert Simpson, totally not being shady