John Kasich’s supremely dumb idea

Just when you think Republican presidential candidates have run out of really dumb ideas, one of them comes up with an idea that is colossally stupid.  In the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris, Ohio Governor John Kasich has proposed creating a new federal agency to promote Judeo-Christian values around the world.  You probably find that preposterous so go back and read it again.

Yes, a Republican is proposing to form a new government agency which is not exactly in line with the “small government” Gospel According to St. Ronald.  You will recall Ted Cruz, during the Republican debate, bragged that he would completely eliminate five agencies (although he could only remember four of them)—the IRS, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy and HUD, which put him in the lead for Republican dumb ideas.

But now Kasich really hit the top of the dumb-o-meter with the “purpose” of his new agency.   As he told NBC News, he wants to establish our Judeo-Christian values as the standard for the entire world.  "We need to beam messages around the world" about the freedoms Americans enjoy he said. “It means freedom, it means opportunity, it means respect for women, it means freedom to gather, it means so many things.”  Now I am not exactly sure how those things, for example “freedom to gather,” or “respect for women” are examples of Judeo-Christian values but Republicans have never impressed me with their grasp of logical, rational thought.

According to Kasich the new agency would promote our Jewish-Christian-based belief system to four regions of the world: China, Iran, Russia and the Middle East.  (Note for Governor Kasich: China has a rather well establish religious tradition dating before the Judeo/Christian--Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism; the Middle East actually includes Iran and is predominantly Muslim; and Russia’s major religion is Russian Orthodox Christian.)

By the way, the Republicans collectively added another dumb idea by insisting that America only accept Christian Syrian refugees.  If you really wanted to find the ideal way of pissing off ISIS and all the radical Muslim terrorists in the world and stirring up more religious hatred and disdain for America, Kasich and his Republican cronies have found it.  The Chinese might react, “Confucius say, Americans full of shit,” the Russians could say “Who needs your Pope anyway,” and you can almost see the ISIS recruiting posters, “Americans hate Islam, they want to impose Christianity on us! Kill Americans!” 

Kasich did not offer a name for his new government agency so I would like to propose one that would reflect the Republican presidential candidate’s foreign policy idea, Department of Offending Foes of the United States or, for short, DOOFUS.