Ebola was a horrible emergency, so the GOP response was to ban travel, arrest and hold travelers to this country, and to harass and embarrass medical workers who did their best to stop the pandemic.

With a few exceptions, the Democratic response, led by President Obama, was to work with other countries, apply the best science and medicine, and eventually stop the spread of this killer disease.

Because of the success, our budget still has $500,000,000 in contingency funding, ready to adapt to any future outbreak, and to insure that our country will not suffer the deadly scourge that is Ebola. Maintaining that fund is just good science, good medicine, and good public policy. Unless you are a member of the GOP. More on that later.

Zika, a disease mainly spread by mosquitos, is fairly innocuous to most people. A fever, some irritation, and an occasional bad reaction. Much like the flu. Oh, sex can also spread the disease. It can rarely lead to increased rate of Guillain-Barré syndrome. Unless you are a pregnant mom. Then, if infected, you have a high probability that your baby will suffer from Microencephaly, a miniaturized skull and brain.

The GOP's response to Ebola was pathetic. Fear mongering, idiotic proclamations and provocations, and a completely anti-scientific view of the problem and its solutions. They are repeating their ineffable stupidity with Zika.

First, they wanted to cut social services in order to have paid for our tardy, but eventual appropriate response to Ebola. Luckily, pressure, cooler heads, and some people based demands eventually prevailed.

Now, they want to take that funding away, destroying the only reasonable firewall against Ebola, and use it to fund a half-hearted measure against Zika. That is akin to robbing Peter to buy off Paul, when both Paul and Peter are deadly serial killers. The lack of logic and depth of the irrationality of their response is stunning.

For some reason, the GOP seems incapable of planning for the future. They deny a problem exists, and when the evidence is clear even to their puny minds, they react in bizarre ways, spouting off talking points from Rush, or Grover, or other Tea Buggered sources, and refusing to even consider a proper, rational, scientific and well thought out response. Putting a successful Ebola doctor in a cage? When every test was negative? When she saved countless lives and helped prevent the spread of that disease? Insanity. Sheer, utter, unbridled, and teeming insanity.

Let's take another issue, something seemingly mundane, yet critically important to the health and wealth of our nation - allegedly something that TeaBuggers, GOPers, and conservatives are trying to achieve (ahem) by cutting spending and cutting taxes for the rich.

Roads and bridges, sewers, water, and food supplies.

One reason why AI controlled cars, like Google's driverless car, have problems navigating, is because the roads are in such terrible condition, lane markings are almost invisible. This prevents an AI car from operating safely. (Not to mention you and me, or any truck driver)

Roads are so bad in many states that some drivers are now seeking alternate routes, for fear that the direct route will damage their car. Not only are there major potholes, but these have generated second and third generation baby potholes.

USA today reported in 2015 that 65,000 bridges in the US and A are in poor or critical condition. By "critical" they actually mean that collapse is a distinct possibility. We are not talking about a tiny bridge in Chappaquiddick, which has been actually near complete collapse for two decades, but the major highways crossing rivers across the country. It is no surprise that of the ten states with the most dangerous highway bridges in the country, six of them are run by Teabagger Governors. It is also no surprise that those states' US senators repeatedly refuse to properly fund road and bridge maintenance and construction.

Here is what happens when you properly fund bridge maintenance and repair.

A. You hire a shitload of people to do the work. This is a permanent boost to the Local economy.
B. They buy materials from local and regional sources, including steel, iron, copper, cement, asphalt, etc. I suspect that most suppliers, especially small and medium companies, may tell you that their companies' (and their employees') financial health is improved if they are selling more supplies.
C. The roads and bridges become far more efficient and safe, lowering death rates, accident rates, and damage to vehicles.
D. A penny invested in maintenance ad infrastructure ends up bringing back many, many times the cost of that penny in tax payments, etc. In short, you invest a penny, and you get a dollar back.

Here is what happens when you fail to properly fund road and bridge maintenance and repair:

I-40 bridge in Oklahoma
Kinzie bridge in Pennsylvania
C-470 collapse over I-70 in Colorado
I-35 bridge in Minnesota

Deaths, injury, loss of access to areas, delays. That is what happens when we adopt GOP ideas and fail to deal with our problems in a serious, rational manner.

This leads to one undeniable conclusion. The GOP either refuses, or more likely, is utterly incapable of planning for the future and applying professional responses to significant dangers and problems we face here and now.

What is it about the TeaBuggered class of the GOP that makes them climate change deniers? What possesses them to deny support and solutions to communities devastated by floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, or earthquakes? How can they in good conscience not adequately fund road, bridge, sewer, water, and food supply infrastructure (including FEDERAL, not company testing of food and food sources) that would provide jobs, increase productivity, save lives, and improve the quality of lives across this country?

I don't get it. I admit that I really cannot grasp the the TeaBuggerer mentality in Congress. Worst of all, a good percentage aren't simply pandering to their idiot base, many of them actually believe in their cut funding, cut taxes, cut deficits mantra that they screech at the top of their lungs.